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  • The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941–42

    Japan's Quest for Oil

    Series Book 364 - Campaign
    A compact study of one of the less well-known campaigns of the Pacific War, which featured complex Japanese and Allied operations, and included the first use of airborne troops in the war.Imperial Japan's campaigns of conquest in late 1941/early 1942 were launched in order to achieve self-sufficiency for the Japanese people, chiefly in the precious commodity of oil. The Netherlands (or Dutch) East ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Dutch–Indonesian War 1945–49

    Armies of the Indonesian War of Independence

    Series Book 550 - Men-at-Arms
    Highly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in 1945.Following on from MAA 521 Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936–42 and completing the coverage of the post-World War II wars of decolonization, The Dutch–Indonesian War 1945–49 describes the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936–42

    Series Book 521 - Men-at-Arms
    Indonesia was a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East Indies until 1945, and a major oil exporter to Japan. Following Germany's occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, Japan decided to expand its influence in the Netherlands East Indies.Defending the colony was the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL). This force, designed primarily for colonial policing, underwent a series of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Pearl Harbour to the Fall of Okinawa

    On 7 December 1941, the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbour. Simultaneously, they launched all-out assaults on Malaya, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Japan's sphere of influence spread at a phenomenal rates and it seemed the their dream of empire was about to be realized.Featuring remarkable photographs and useful maps*, Victory in the Pacific* examines how the tide of Japanese victory was turned ... Read more

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  • The Australian Army in World War II

    by Mark Johnston ...
    Series Book 153 - Elite
    This book recounts the organization and deployment of one of the most important fighting armies of World War II.Australian divisions made a large and distinctive contribution to victory both in the deserts of the Middle East and the jungles of the South-West Pacific, earning for the second time a unique reputation for aggressiveness, endurance and independence of spirit.The text is illustrated ... Read more

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  • The Atlas of Special Operations of World War II

    by Alex Swanston ...
    As author Alex Swanston explains in his introduction, World War II was a truly global conflict, involving almost all nations in the struggle to stop the spread of totalitarianism. This meant that battles were fought in all climates and on all sorts of terrain. . . . Technology had also progressed, meaning that war could be fought under the surface of the sea or in the air 40,000 feet above. This ... Read more

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  • The Atlantic Wall (2)

    Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway

    Series Book 89 - Fortress
    A highly illustrated guide to some of the most impressive fortifications of World War II – the defences of the Atlantic Wall from Belgium to Norway.Following its conquest of Western Europe, Germany had to defend some 5,000km of Atlantic coastline from the Spanish border to the Arctic Circle - the most ambitious fortification program of World War II. The United States' entry into the war and the ... Read more

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  • The Path of Infinite Sorrow

    The story of the bloody Kokoda campaign, told for the first time through the personal experiences of the Japanese soldiers. 'We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back.' Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous spine of New Guinea. Few prisoners were taken, most were ... Read more

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  • German Machine Guns of the Second World War

    by Hans Seidler ...
    Series series Images of War
    This WWII pictorial history presents a chronological view of Nazi military weaponry over the entire conflict through rare wartime photographs.Arranged chronologically by theater of operations, this highly illustrated volume analyses the development of the German machine gun from 1939 to 1945. It describes how the Germans used weapons such as the MG34 and the vaunted MG42 into both offensive and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Staghound Armored Car 1942–62

    Series Book 159 - New Vanguard
    The Staghound was a unique World War II armored vehicle designed and manufactured in the US, but intended solely for the British army.Since its combat debut in Italy in 1943 until the end of the war it had performed particularly valuable service in a reconnaissance role where its speed and armor ensured that it was able to extricate itself from trouble as required without additional support.This ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • D-Day Fortifications in Normandy

    Series Book 37 - Fortress
    German defenses along the Normandy beaches were part of the larger Atlantic Wall fortifications designed to defend Fortress Europe.When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took command of the invasion front in late 1943, he began a program to enhance fortifications along the Normandy coast as he believed that any Allied assault had to be stopped on the invasion beaches themselves. His most important ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD