The Divine Comedy - Inferno : 2 Volume Set by Dante Alighieri; Charles S. Singleton
$60.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Bollingen Ser.
The most famous of the three canticles that compose The Divine Comedy, "Inferno" describes Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonizing torture, Dante encounters doomed souls that include the pagan Aene ...Show more
Churchill and War by Geoffrey Best
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Winston Churchill saved Britain and Europe by his incomparable leadership in the Second World War. His involvement in war, however, stretched over a far longer period and was one of the main themes of his long life. Cavalryman at Omdurman, infantry colonel in the trenches, First Lord of the Admiralty, a ...Show more
Fighting for MacArthur : The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines by John Gordon
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* For the first time the story of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 1941-42 Philippine campaign is told in a single volume Drawing on a rich collection of both American and newly discovered Japanese sources as well as official records and wartime diaries, John Gordon chronicles the Americans' desperate d ...Show more
Racing the Sunrise - Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941 -1942 by Glen Williford
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Glen Williford lends new insight to the reasons for America's relatively quick comeback from the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the first time, he tells the complete story of American efforts to build and reinforce its Pacific garrisons in the Philippines and Hawaii during the six months prior to the war a ...Show more
British Battleships 1919-1945 by R. A. Burt
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This superb reference book achieved the status of classic soon after its first publication in 1993; it was soon out of print and is now one of the most sought-after naval reference books. And with good reason. Offering an unprecedented range of descriptive and illustrative detail, the author describes t ...Show more
Naval Firepower - Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era by Norman Friedman
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An in-depth history of naval battleship firepower from before World War I to the end of World War II, by America's leading naval analyst. For more than half a century, the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the ene ...Show more
Arnhem - Operation Market Garden, September 1944 by Lloyd Clark
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Sutton Ser.
Operation Market Garden was the largest airborne operation in history and its aim was to end the war in Europe by Christmas 1944. On 17 September, 20,000 men were dropped behind enemy lines to seize a number of vital Rhine bridges in the Netherlands over which the British Second Army would advance. But ...Show more
The Truth about the Truth Commission by Anthea Jeffery
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Spotlight Ser.
Unconditional Defeat - Japan, America, and the End of World War II by Thomas W. Zeiler
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: War and Society Ser.
Unconditional Defeat-the second book in a Pacific War trilogy that is part of SR Books' Total War series-examines the concluding stages of World War II in Asia and the Pacific, from November 1943 until September 1945. Thomas W. Zeiler argues that this 'war without mercy' could only come to one conclusio ...Show more