Search Results: Titles starting with I from Military History Books

(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: 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: 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: 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: The Bargain Basement) From a series written for young people. An account of the resistance movements in China, the Philippines, Indochina, Malaya, the East Indies, Thailand, and Burma and also In Hungary, Austria, Italy and Germany. (Published: 1965) (Publisher: Edmund Ward) (Pagination: vi + 88pp, illustrations) (Condition: Good in worn d/w) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) Some pen margin marks on a few pages. No dust jacket. A comprehensive study of naval operations throughout the war including the battle of the Atlantic and the Pacific War. With details of the strengths and principal vessels for the Royal Navy, French, Italian, German US and Japanese navies. (Published: 1985) (Publisher: Bison Books) (ISBN: 0861240715) (Pagination: 224pp. extensively illustrated.) (Condition: Rubbed blue boards, white mark on back cover. Some pen marks in text.) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Land Vehicles & Weapons - General) Includes Main Battle tanks and Self-propelled Artillery of the French, US, UK, German, Swedish, Israeli, Japanese, Chinese and Russian armies. Each entry includes development history and specifications. (Published: 1980) (Publisher: Salamander Books) (ISBN: 0861010574) (Pagination: 159pp, 120 col & b/w photos) (Condition: pictorial boards 12 x 22 cms,Very good) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Aviation - Post World War II ) By Bill Gunston. Sixty aircraft serving with the Italian, US, French, UK, Indian, Russian, Swedish military air arms in the early 1980s (Published: 1980) (Publisher: Salamander Books) (ISBN: 0861010558) (Pagination: 160pp, 120 col & b/w photos, 180 drawings, 34 col profiles) (Condition: pictorial boards 12 x 22 cms, vg) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Naval & Maritime: Ships, Submarines & Other Vessels - General) A one volume, profusely illustrated guide to the ships, shore establishments and weaponry of the United States Navy up to the end of the 1980's. (Published: 1991) (Publisher: Brian Trodd Publishing) (ISBN: 1853611654) (Pagination: 256pp, 300 col illustrations. Large format) (Condition: Good in d/w) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: Aviation - General) By David Hobbs. Includes military satellites, satellite warfare, ballistic missile defence systems, Space Shuttle technology and Space Stations. (Published: 1985) (Publisher: Salamander Books) (ISBN: 0861012046) (Pagination: 160pp, 120 illustrations) (Condition: pictorial boards 12 x 22 cms, vg) 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. Book Club edition. (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