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  • The Cambodian Wars

    Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations

    par Kenneth Conboy ...
    Collections series Modern War Studies
    For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to center stage. Kenneth Conboy chronicles the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the twentieth century and peels back the layers of secrecy that surrounded the CIA’s covert assistance ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • The CIA's Secret War in Tibet

    par Kenneth Conboy, James Morrison ...
    Collections series Modern War Studies
    Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan resistance weaves a far richer tapestry than anyone might have imagined.Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison reveal how America’s Central Intelligence Agency encouraged Tibet’s revolt against China—and ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Spies in the Himalayas

    Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs

    par Mohan S. Kohli, Kenneth Conboy ...
    Collections series Modern War Studies
    In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage.After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbor, were both justifiably concerned. The CIA knew it needed more information on China’s growing nuclear capability but had few ways of peeking ... En savoir plus

    $37.59 CAD

  • The War in Cambodia 1970–75

    par Kenneth Conboy, Ken Bowra ...
    Collections series Men-at-Arms
    This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the troops that fought in Cambodia in the 1970s.Kenneth Conboy and Ken Bowra's detailed text discusses all the US and Cambodian forces, including Special Operations, and summarises the course of the war. Alongside the text, uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail, highlighting the varied range of military clothing used ... En savoir plus

    $17.29 CAD

  • The NVA and Viet Cong

    par Kenneth Conboy, Ken Bowra ...
    Collections Livre 38 - Elite
    In 1940 Japan placed Vietnam under military occupation, restricting the local French administration to a figurehead authority.Seizing the opportunity, the Communists organised a Vietnamese independence league, the Viet Minh, whose armed forces became known as the PAVN (more commonly known to the West as the Vietcong, or NVA) and prepared to launch an uprising against the French at the war's end ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The War in Cambodia 1970–75

    par Kenneth Conboy, Ken Bowra ...
    Collections series Men-at-Arms
    This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the troops that fought in Cambodia in the 1970s.Kenneth Conboy and Ken Bowra's detailed text discusses all the US and Cambodian forces, including Special Operations, and summarises the course of the war. Alongside the text, uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail, highlighting the varied range of military clothing used ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The War in Laos 1960–75

    par Kenneth Conboy ...
    Collections Livre 217 - Men-at-Arms
    As World War II drew to a close, the Imperial Japanese military seized control of Laos, a French protectorate, and encouraged nationalist movements to forestall the revival of French power in the region.Despite these efforts the French re-entered Indochina and methodically retook the protectorate. By 1957, the government of Laos and the core of the Communist Laotian forces, known as the Pathet Lao ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Elite Forces of India and Pakistan

    par Kenneth Conboy ...
    Collections Livre 41 - Elite
    Influenced by the German use of paratroopers early in World War Two, General Sir Robert Cassels, the Commander-in-Chief India, ordered the formation of an airborne cadre in October 1940.Thus marked the origins of India's first élite units. Pakistan can trace the origins of its own army airborne to the common parentage of British-raised forces. Following the partition from India in August 1947, it ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • South-East Asian Special Forces

    par Kenneth Conboy ...
    Collections Livre 33 - Elite
    Elite units have long been prominent in the armies of South-East Asia and, given the turmoil in the region after the 1960s, these forces have had ample opportunity to be tested in combat.Acknowledged expert on South-East Asia Ken Conboy outlines the history, organization and insignia of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Malaysian and various other South-East Asian special forces from their ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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    The Unknown Campaign on North America's West Coast

    par Brendan Coyle ...
    In June 1942, Japanese troops occupied the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska in Alaska, the first enemy occupation of US territory since the War of 1812. For the next year a bloody conflict raged that was nearly invisible to most North Americans as Canadian and American soldiers, airmen and sailors went north to hold the Japanese in check.This is the complete story of the war in the North Pacific ... En savoir plus

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  • The Mosquito Story

    par Martin W. Bowman ...
    Collections series The Story of
    When de Havilland proposed, in 1938, an unarmed bomber constructed almost entirely from wood, few would have thought it could become one of the most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. The Mosquito easily outran a Spitfire on its test flight and was ordered into mass production, soon proving itself a key weapon in the fight against the Luftwaffe by day and the Nachtjagd by night. ... En savoir plus

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  • Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe

    par Jean-Louis Roba ...
    This pictorial history shows the full extent of captured foreign aircraft used by Nazi Germany during WWII.No air force in the Second World War would make more use of captured planes than the Luftwaffe. With this in mind, military historian Jean-Louis Roba has tracked down hundreds of such aircraft with rare images that illustrate their uses, careers, and eventual fates. Foreign Planes in the ... En savoir plus

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