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  • DEFENDING THE DRINIUMOR: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944 [Illustrated Edition]

    par Dr. Edward J. Drea ...
    Illustrated with 32 maps, 8 Illustrations and 4 charts.On the night of 10-11 July 1944, several thousand Japanese infantrymen attacked and broke through U.S. Army covering force units defending the Driniumor River about twenty miles east of Aitape, New Guinea. For the next month U.S. Army troops were locked in a battle of attrition with the Japanese, as the Americans fought to restore the ... En savoir plus

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  • Japan's Imperial Army

    Its Rise and Fall

    par Edward J. Drea ...
    Collections series Modern War Studies
    Winner: Society for Military History Distinguished Book AwardPopular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor. Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how that army came to power and extended its influence at home and abroad to become one of the world’s ... En savoir plus

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  • NEW GUINEA - The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II

    par Edward J. Drea ...
    Collections series The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II

    $4.11 CAD

  • Spies in British Controlled Singapore

    Policing the Japanese, 1921-1941

    par Dr Edward J. Drea, PhD, Dr Dong Wang, PhD ...
    Collections series Asian Studies
    Imagine being Japanese, living in Singapore in the nineteen twenties and thirties, suspected by everyone around you of being a spy.Prior to December 1941, Singapore was the site of a major naval base for the occupying British. As tensions increased between the imperial powers of Japan and Britain, Japanese expatriates living in Singapore became the focus of both governments in the struggle for ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961-1965

    par Lawrence S. Kaplan, Ronald D. Landa, Edward J. Drea ...
    Collections series History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
    The McNamara Ascendancy, the first of two volumes in the History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense dealing with the tenure of Robert S. McNamara, examines the dynamic, sometimes turbulent early years of his secretaryship under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Few secretaries of defense before or since entered the Pentagon with such a commanding start or left behind a more ... En savoir plus

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  • Japan's Gestapo

    Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia

    par Mark Felton ...
    From the author of Children of the Camps, a look at the disturbing activities of the Kempeitai, Japan's feared military and secret police.The book opens by explaining the origins, organization, and roles of the Kempeitai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire. Author Mark Felton reveals their criminal and collaborationist networks that extorted huge ... En savoir plus

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  • Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943

    par Peter Harmsen ...
    Collections Livre 2 - War in the Far East
    The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931–1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fortune as Allied forces gained advantage during WWII.In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians ... En savoir plus

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  • The Burma Campaign

    Disaster into Triumph 1942-45

    par Frank McLynn ...
    The Burma Campaign was one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War Two. Impenetrable jungle, poor transport infrastructure, seasonal monsoon rains, as well as famine, disease, snakes and crocodiles all bore heavily on the troops.Against this extraordinary backdrop, Frank McLynn constructs the dramatic story of the four larger-than-life commanders directing the Allied ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Damned

    The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45

    par Nathan M. Greenfield ...
    The Damned tells the largely unknown saga of Canada’s first land battle of the Second World War—fought in the hills and valleys of Hong Kong in December 1941—and the terrible years the survivors of the battle spent as slave labourers for the Empire of Japan. Their story begins in the fall of 1941, when almost 2,000 members of the Royal Rifles and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were sent to bolster the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Singapore - The Battle that Changed the World

    par James Leasor ...
    When Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, it was a devastating blow to the Allies, the British Empire and signalled a significant turning point in history. James Leasors story begins as far back as the early nineteenth century, with imperialism and the settlement founded by Sir Stamford Raffles. He charts the years leading up to Singapores defeat and the realisation that the West ... En savoir plus

    $5.40 CAD

  • The Real Tenko

    Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese

    par Mark Felton ...
    The author of Children of the Camps delves into the harrowing true stories behind the TV drama: the fate of women held in Japanese captivity during WWII.This book details the treatment of Allied servicewomen, female civilians, and local women by the Japanese occupation forces, including the massacres of nurses (such as that at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore), disturbing atrocities on both Europeans ... En savoir plus

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  • Battle Story: Singapore 1942

    par Dr Chris Brown ...
    Collections series Battle Story
    The fall of Singapore 1942 was one of the most decisive defeats of British and Commonwealth troops in the Second World War, driven primarily by Allied complacency. If you want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story:Detailed profiles explore the military backgrounds of the Allied and Japanese leadersComprehensive maps bring you close to the action with informative details of ... En savoir plus

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