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  • The Allied Neutralisation of Rabaul

    Japan's Major South Pacific Base

    by Jon Diamond ...
    "This series is basically a photo compilation with brief historical sections for each batch of images so we have some idea of what these images are all about. I've always been interested in this part of the war and very much enjoyed this one. I'm sure you will find it just as nice." -ModelingMadness.Com Fierce Pacific ground, sea, and aerial combat raged between the Allies and Imperial Japan to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Rome to the Alps

    Across the Arno and Gothic Line, 1944–1945

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove across the Arno River, capturing Florence on 5 August. Once again The Wehrmachts Tenth and Fourteenth Armies eluded destruction, withdrawing into the Gothic Line in the Northern Apennines. The Eighth Army, advancing along the Adriatic coast and the ... Read more

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  • Burma Victory, 1944–1945

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    General Stilwell's ad hoc force of Merrill's Marauders, American-trained Chinese divisions, Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate's Chindits conducted a northern Burmese offensive that led to the coup de main seizure of Myitkyina's airfield in May 1944. In August 1944, after a protracted siege, Myitkyina town on the Irrawaddy River fell to the Allies. At the same time elements of General Slim's ... Read more

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  • On to Rome

    Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from the Adriatic, every effort to capture Monte Cassino failed.Fifth Armys VI Corps amphibious landing at Anzio in January, while initially successful stalled in the face of formidable German counter-attacks and the beach-head was effectively besieged.The ... Read more

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  • The Invasion of Sicily 1943

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    The decisive WWII campaign that brought Italy to its knees is vividly captured in this in-depth photographic history.With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross-channel attack from Britain on Northwest Europe. Churchill favored invading the soft underbelly of Italy to weaken the Axis forces and gain Italian surrender. With Eisenhower's army ... Read more

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  • Salerno to the Gustav Line, 1943–1944

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    In September 1943, shortly after the conquest of Sicily, the Allied armies made amphibious assaults on the Italian Mainland at Calabria, Taranto and along the Gulf of Salerno beaches. The Italian Government quickly capitulated but the Germans fought on. Although the British XIII Corps and 1st Airbornes attacks were largely uncontested in Calabria and Taranto, the Allied Fifth Armys beachheads at ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Okinawa 1945

    The Pacific War's Last Invasion

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    A pictorial history of one of World War II's most bitterly fought campaigns.The American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation Iceberg, was fought from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Three hundred and fifty miles from Japan, Okinawa was intended to be the staging area for the Allied invasion of the Japanese mainland. The Japanese Thirty-second Army defenders were on land and the Imperial Navy ... Read more

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  • The Three Battles of El Alamein

    Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    The 80th Anniversary of the historic final Battle of El Alamein is the ideal time to study the events leading up to General Bernard Montgomery's famous victory over Field Marshal Rommel's Panzerarmee Africa in Autumn 1942. Four months earlier after the loss of Tobruk , Rommel's forces were in the ascendancy. Prime Minister Winston Churchill removed General Auchinleck from Command of Eighth Army ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Malaya and Singapore

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    "This photo essay produces a very effective picture of the defeat of British forces in Malaya and Singapore by the Japanese . . . Highly recommended."—FiretrenchIn just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid-February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita.British units fought hard on the Malayan mainland, but the Japanese ... Read more

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  • Normandy Beyond The Beaches

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    This latest Images of War series book examines the controversial development of the Allied campaign in Normandy in the weeks after the D-Day landings. After overcoming Rommel’s beach obstacles and ‘Atlantic Wall’ fortifications, a secure Allied lodgment of the five beaches developed along the Caen-Bayeux-Carentan axis with a period of consolidation while reinforcements and supplies were built up ... Read more

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  • Allied Victory Over Japan 1945

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    "Jon Diamond is to be commended for his attention to detail, great use of maps and amazing photographs." — IPMS/USA In 1944 with the war in Europe turning in the Allies' favor, Japan still occupied vast swathes of South East Asia and the Pacific. In Burma, the seemly unstoppable Japanese advance was halted at Kohima and Imphal in June and July 1944. Six months later the advances made by British ... Read more

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  • Montgomery's Rhine River Crossing

    Operation Plunder

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    "Highly recommended . . . excellent maps, [a] large number of black and white images, and detailed coverage of the subject." — AMPSAfter the Normandy breakout, the Allies' headlong dash east came to a halt in the autumn with the ill-fated Market Garden operation and overextended supply lines short of the Rhineland. After repulsing the Nazis' daring Ardennes offensive, Montgomery's and Bradley's ... Read more

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