Search Results: Titles starting with I from Military History Books

(Subject: Aviation - General) Scarce March 1954 edition. The author's life in the Third Reich from the "Jungfolk" to top fighter pilot. Heinz Knoke was one of the Luftwaffe's bravest and most skilful fighter Pilots of WWII. A survivor, he saw action over Russia and flew over 2000 missions until he was grounded by crippling injuries. He shot down 52 Allied aircraft during the desperate battles over the Reich in the face of the USAAF air campaign and was awarded the Knights Cross. (Published: 1953) (Publisher: Evans Brothers) (Pagination: 187pp, 37 illustrations) (Condition: No d/w, foxing on page edges. Good reading copy. ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Post World War II - Cold War, Eastern Bloc) Italian text. Essays and accounts of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on 21 August 1968 and the days and events which led up to it. Extensively illustrated with contemporary photographs. (Published: 1968) (Publisher: Rizzoli Editore S.p.A.) (Pagination: 127pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: World War II - General) A secret kept for 62 years by Clarence Wolfe, a 20 year old U.S. Army private stationed with the 134th AAA Battalion in Folkestone, Kent in September 1944. This was the only unit to fire on the day Glen Miller went missing. Their target was a small single engined aircraft heading for France which did not respond to their IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) signal. Later that day AFN radio carried the report that Major Miller's aircraft had gone missing over the channel. Wolfe believes it was him, as did his Captain. For some reason a previous owner of this book has decorated the cover and title page with metallic tape and letters. (Published: 2006) (Publisher: Authorhouse UK) (ISBN: 142596950X) (Pagination: 122pp, illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: The Bargain Basement) The revised edition with twelve extra chapters to bring it up to 1980. A comprehensive history of the IRA from their activities before Irish Independence to the terror campaigns in Northern Ireland, the last of which started in 1969. (Published: 1980) (Publisher: Fontana) (ISBN: 0006359329) (Pagination: 621pp, illustraions, map) (Condition: Good in worn card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: The Third Reich - General) 'Damaged' stamp on title page but apart from signs of use no obvious damage. Useful study copy. The author, a Polish Jew, had survived five concentration camps and the Sachsenhausn death march, when in 1943, posing as a mathematician he became a member of the "Chemiker Kommando", part of the special group recruited by the SS for the German war effort using "Jewish super brains". (Published: 1990) (Publisher: Oxford University Press) (ISBN: 0192852124) (Pagination: 275pp, illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Mass market paperback. Film lifting on bottom edge of back cover. Good. The story of the quest undertaken by Kavan Elliott's son to discover the truth about his father. From the torture chambers of Budapest to the classified archives of the British Secret Intelligence Service. Behind the cover of a seemingly respectable business career, Elliott was entangled in a complex web of deception, glamorous women, Communist double agents and interrogation at the hands of the Gestapo and Hungarian secret police. Was the man who dropped blind into Serbia in 1942 on a mission for SOE or a courageous daredevil. (Published: 1999) (Publisher: St. Ermin's Press) (ISBN: 0953615103) (Pagination: 283pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) The author was captured during the Battle of Shakargarh in 1971 during the Indo-Pakistan War, after being wounded. This is his story of the battle, capture and imprisonment. His wife and children were treated as outcasts during his ordeal. (Published: 1986) (Publisher: Lancer Press) (ISBN: 1851270515) (Pagination: 94pp, 3 illustrations, map) (Condition: Good in dw) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) Carre worked as a nurse and witnessed France's fall to the Germans. In 1940, she met a Polish Air Force Captain named Roman Czerniawski. Carré, who had contacts with the Vichy Second Bureau, joined the headquarters section of his Franco-Polish Interallié espionage network based in Paris under the cryptonym "Victoire". In November 1941, the Abwehr's Hugo Bleicher arrested Czerniawski, Carré and many other members of Interallié. She was interrogated, threatened with death and agreed to become a double agent. Pierre de Vomécourt, an agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) began to suspect her. When he confronted Carré, she confessed. She convinced Bleicher, and through him, his superiors, to send her to London to infiltrate the SOE. In London MI5 interrogated her about Abwehr techniques and played back her radio link for a period until her usefulness was… Read more

(Subject: World War II - General) In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. They set up a unit of men who would go in with the front-line troops and steal enemy intelligence. Known as '30 Assault Unit', they took part in the major campaigns of the Second World War, landing on the Normandy beaches and helping to liberate Paris. 30AU's final amazing coup was to seize the entire archives of the German Navy - thirty tons of documents. Ian Fleming flew out in person to get the loot back to Britain, where it was combed for evidence to use in the Nuremburg trials. (Published: 2011) (Publisher: Faber & Faber) (ISBN: 9780571250639) (Pagination: 397pp illustrations) (Condition: Good in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Aviation - General) The problem of identifying aircraft first became a problem in the First World War and greatly increased in complexity in the Second World War. A history of aircraft recognition, includes the use of restricted war-time publications and exposes the successes and disastrous errors that have coloured the problem. (Published: 1994) (Publisher: HM Stationary Office ) (ISBN: 0112904963) (Pagination: 140pp, 8 col plates, 85 photos, line drawings) (Condition: very good in card covers) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Military Modelling & Wargaming) Fighting vehicles of the Israeli Army in colour and scale. An exciting new series of modelling books for the military modeller and enthusiast. Each book concentrates on a particular subject, and contain some 22 builds, including ‘how-to’ guides, showcase features, and also include tips and techniques. They cover a variety of models in popular scales, with full kit builds, conversion projects and painting guides. Produced in full colour with concise text and clear photography with informative captions, these books will be one of the must have additions to any modeller’s armoury! (Published: 2020) (Publisher: MA Publications) (ISBN: 9781838045838) (Pagination: A4 format, 80pp, c300 colour illustrations) (Condition: new in card cover) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Post World War II - General) Mass market paperback 2 small pinpricks through front cover ow vg An account of a foot soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. from Basic training to the Front Line and home again. A personal vision of combat amid the foxholes and rice paddies of an alien country. (Published: 1985) (Publisher: Granada Publishing) (ISBN: 0586050825) (Pagination: 188pp) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: The Third Reich - General) What if Stalin had aligned with the West in 1939? What if the Allies had been repulsed on D-Day? And what if Hitler had won the war? In this expertly written book, historians suggest what might have been if key events during the war had gone differently, from the Munich Crisis to the dropping of the first atom bomb, including Hitler's declaration of war on the United States and the D-Day landings. The authors, writing as if these and other world-changing events had really happened, project realistic scenarios based on the true capabilities and circumstances of the opposing forces. (Published: 2010) (Publisher: Frontline Books) (ISBN: 9781848325661) (Pagination: 287pp. maps) (Condition: Fine in d/w) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946, one of the most astonishing aspects of Hesse's career is the consistency of his political views, his passionate pacifism and internationalism from the start of World War I to the end of his life. The earliest essay in this book was written in September 1914 and was followed by a stream of letters, essays, and pamphlets that reached its high point with Zarathustra's Return, in which Hesse exhorted German youth to shake off the false gods of nationalism and militarism that had led their country into the abyss. Such views earned him the labels "traitor" and "viper" in Germany. (Published: 1985) (Publisher: Triad/Panther) (ISBN: 0586062130) (Pagination: 156pp) (Condition: fair in card cover) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: The Third Reich - General) Mass market paperback. Covers rubbed. Good. A memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945. The Truce is the sequel and describes the author's experiences from the liberation of Auschwitz until he reaches home in Turin, Italy, after a long journey. He describes the situation in different displaced persons camps after the Second World War. (Published: 1987) (Publisher: Abacus) (ISBN: 0349100136) (Pagination: 398pp) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: World War II - General) World War II as seen in picture postcards. A fascinating look at the men, the personalities, the Home Front, POWs, Resistance, Humour, Propaganda, political satire, and much more. Draws on the publications of both The Allies and the Axis with more than 800 postcards from Britain, America, Germany, France, Italy, Holland and Belgium documenting every aspect of WWII. A military, political and social history of a dramatic period of the twentieth century. (Published: 1987) (Publisher: Moorland Publishing Co Lt) (ISBN: 0861902017) (Pagination: Large format, 192pp, 100 col & 723 b/w photos & ills ) (Condition: vg in worn d/w. Storage wear) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare) The double lives of the Cold War's most secret agents. From the archives of the KGB the author reveals who they were, the training they underwent, and how they ran their spy-rings in the west. A few, such as Colonel Abel, the Krogers and Gordon Lonsdale (aka Konon Molody) are household names, but West's meticulous research describes how the British and American Security Agencies identified them (Published: 1993) (Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton) (ISBN: 0340572477) (Pagination: 254pp, 20 b/w photos) (Condition: unread, very good in d/w) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) An illustrated guide to more than forty warship types of the US Fleet in the early '80s by John Jordan. (Published: 1982) (Publisher: Salamander Books) (ISBN: 0861011511) (Pagination: 159pp, 225 colour illustrations,) (Condition: Pictorial boards 12 x 22 cms, Very Good) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: The Third Reich - General) A very well illustrated record of the Third Reich. With chapters on "Hitler as Chancellor" , "Hitler as Statesman", "Bliztkrieg in the West", "On the Eastern Front" and more. (Published: 1978) (Publisher: Book Club Associates) (Pagination: Large Format, 255pp, 100 col & 250 b/w ills) (Condition: prev.owner sticker.good in dw) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Aviation - General) Concluding the description and analysis of the war against Japan. Including the early operations in the Pacific, the air battle for Burma, the campaign to return to the Phillippines, the Japanese Ground offensive vs the 14th Air Force and the Strategic Air Operations against Japan. (Published: 1966) (Pagination: iv + 89pp, 40 illustrations, maps) (Condition: Slight fading on d/w spine. Good) UL-XXXXXX