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  • The Forgotten Front in Northern Italy

    A World War II Cobat Photographer's Illustrated Memoir

    by Robert H Schmidt ...
    The untold story of the GI's who were used as pawns to draw the Germans away from the impending Normandy invasion. Written by the combat photographer who saw the action first hand and fought his way up the Italian landscape, into the cities and over the mountains with the Fifth Army. The photographs in this book, unless otherwise noted were taken by the author. Robert Schmidt died befor his book ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Ecology And Economic Development Of Ciudad Juarez

    by Gay Young, Robert H Schmidt, Oscar J Martinez, Kathleen A Staudt ...
    As the issue of immigration between Mexico and the United States becomes more critical, it is increasingly important that we understand the process of development in Mexico's northern border region. This collection of essays offers an empirical analysis of development in Ciudad Juárez, with an emphasis on the social and spatial contexts in which economic relations occur. The analyses are framed ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Ortona Street Fight

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Series series Rapid Reads
    December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Donovan's Devils

    OSS Commandos Behind Enemy Lines—Europe, World War II

    by Albert Lulushi ...
    The stirring, little-known story of the forerunners to today's Special Forces.The OSS-Office of Strategic Services-created under the command of William Donovan, has been celebrated for its cloak-and-dagger operations during World War II and as the precursor of the CIA. As the "Oh So Social," it has also been portrayed as a club for the well-connected before, during, and after the war. Donovan's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Steel Cavalry: The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Italian Campaign

    The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Italian Campaign

    by Lee Windsor ...
    Series Book 18 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    The story of the transformation from of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments. Twentieth century warfare is epitomized by the image of Allied tanks growling across the countryside, engaging their Nazi counterparts. One of the most storied of such regiments is the 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars. Founded in 1848 as the first volunteer cavalry regiment in British North ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Italy's Sorrow

    A Year of War, 1944-1945

    by James Holland ...
    In a chilling history, renowned historian James Holland deftly relates Italy's dark forgotten yearsDuring the Second World War, the campaign in Italy was the most destructive fought in Europe - a long, bitter and highly attritional conflict that raged up the country's mountainous leg. For frontline troops, casualty rates at Cassino and along the notorious Gothic Line were as high as they had been ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Battle of the Bulge

    by Andy Rawson ...
    Series series Images of War
    Dramatic photographs of Nazi Germany's shocking Ardennes Offensive that nearly turned the tide of World War II—from the author of In Pursuit of Hitler.Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944/45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. Their offensive through the Ardennes fell on the Americans and caught them totally by surprise. Unaccustomed to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eighth Army in Italy, 1943-45

    The Long Hard Slog

    by Richard Doherty ...
    Eighth Army, Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century, landed in Italy in September 1943 and fought continously until the defeat of the Germans in early-May 1945. This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting became much more a ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945

    by Alexander of Tunis ...
    After his first meeting with General Alexander in August 1942, Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks wrote that: By repute he was Winston Churchills fire brigade chief par excellence: the man who was always dispatched to retrieve the most desperate situations.Churchill was indeed in need of a fire brigade chief. Allied forces had been chased back across the desert by Rommel. Alexander bought a new ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Italian Army Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–43

    by Pier Paolo Battistelli ...
    Series Book 99 - Elite
    Italian military historian Pier Paolo Battistelli examines the elite and special-forces units of the Italian Army during World War II.This includes a vast array of troop types, including paratroopers, assault engineers, sea-landing and swimmer units, long-range recce and ski units, and even hand-picked Fascist 'Mussolini' units. It also delves into the specialist tank and armoured units that were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

    by Piero Crociani, Pier Paolo Battistelli ...
    Series Book 169 - Warrior
    Despite the attention paid to the Afrikakorps over the years, it was the numerically far superior forces of the Italian Army that held the line and formed the bulk of the fighting power available to the Axis powers during the War in the Desert from 1941 through to 1943. Their performance has been unfairly criticised over the years – the best units of the Italian Army were equal to those of the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

    by Piero Crociani, Pier Paolo Battistelli ...
    Series Book 191 - Elite
    This volume assesses the formidable Special Forces fielded by Italy's navy and air force in World War II.Italian Navy Special Forces were particularly active and respected in the Mediterranean, where 10th Motor-Torpedo Boat Flotilla used frogmen, 'two-man torpedoes' and explosive ram-boats. The Italian Air Force formed a special commando unit, ADRA, before the 1943 surrender; it was tasked with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD