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September 2004 New Title Information Highlights: |
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A War In Words |
Countdown to Victory |
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Desert Rats |
Europes Last Summer |
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Monte Cassino |
Poisoned Peace |
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The Real Cruel Sea |
Supreme Courage |
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The Victors |
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The
story of the First World War on a compelling, human scale through the
letters and diaries of its participants -- whether combatants,
eyewitnesses or victims. This was a young person's war and these people
record their experiences with all the immediacy and passion of youth.
In
standard histories of the Second World War, the last six months in the
western European arena invariably make a short epilogue. Drawing on
American, British, Canadian, German, Dutch and Scandinavian sources, most
of them previously unpublished, and starting with the Battle of the Bulge,
Countdown To Victory tells the little known story of those final months
through the eyes of ordinary people who had to live the trauma.
After
World War II the Desert Rats re-emerged as part of the NATO forces during
the Cold War years, and in other major deployments in the 1991 Gulf War,
Bosnia and Kosovo.
David
Fromkin has taken a new approach to the problem, which leads in unexpected
directions and reveals a new pattern in the happenings of that fateful
July and August. Rather than one war, starting with the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, he sees two conflicts, related but not
inseparably linked.
For
the British, the Battle of the Atlantic was a fight for survival, as they
depended entirely upon the safe transit of hundreds of convoys of merchant
ships laden with food, raw materials and munitions from America to feed
the country and to keep the war effort going. In this important,
moving and exciting book, drawing extensively on first-hand sources,
acclaimed historian Richard Woodman establishes the importance of the
British, and Allied merchant fleets.
What
sort of people are the bravest of the brave? Sir Peter focuses on the
unique contributions of the Gurkhas, Indians, New Zealanders, Australians,
Canadians and South Africans. Only 3 men have won the VC twice - two
doctors, one New Zealander. This moving book also draws on the author's
own death- defying experiences.
Stephen
E. Ambrose draws from and integrates in this one-volume history of the
Second World War his five acclaimed books about the conflict, making this
the definitive history of the war.
