WORLD WAR II

U.S. NAVY UNIFORMS IN WORLD WAR II : U.S. Naval...
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U.S. NAVY UNIFORMS IN WORLD WAR II : U.S. Naval Amphibious Forces

L2022003
€74.88
This book is a detailed examination of the uniforms and equipment used by elite and specialist units of the United States Navy during the Second World War. Collectors and history specialists will marvel at the breadth of previously unpublished texts and images covering such rarely treated subjects as pre-war landing parties, Seabees, Naval beach...
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THE WAFFEN-SS - THE GRENADIERS - Uniforms & Equipment -... THE WAFFEN-SS - THE GRENADIERS - Uniforms & Equipment -... 2
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THE WAFFEN-SS - THE GRENADIERS - Uniforms & Equipment - Volume 1

L20220002
€53.08
This work traces the history, organisation, uniforms and equipment of the Waffen-SS infantrymen (Grenadiere) between 1939 and 1945. This encyclopaedia devoted to the uniforms and equipment of the Waffen-SS infantrymen — referred to as "Grenadiere" towards the end of the war — had become essential for researchers, historians, collectors, and the many...
DUNKIRK 1940 – Operation Dynamo DUNKIRK 1940 – Operation Dynamo 2
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DUNKIRK 1940 - Operation Dynamo

L20220001
€14.12
Four years before the Allied landings in Normandy, the French coastline was the scene of another major episode of the Second World War: Operation Dynamo, far less well known today than D-Day.
B-17 KILLER - Memoirs of an Ace with 33 Victories
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B-17 KILLER - Memoirs of an Ace with 33 Victories

L20210205
€23.60
Heinz Knoke enlisted in the Luftwaffe in 1939, driven by passion, a taste for adventure and a sense of duty. After a brief training period, he joined the day-fighter arm and flew the Messerschmitt Bf 109. He took part in the Battle of Britain, where he faced Spitfires, then in the war against the USSR, initially with great success. He escorted convoys in...
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DUELS UNDER THE STARS - Memoirs of a Nachtjagd Pilot
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DUELS UNDER THE STARS - Memoirs of a Nachtjagd Pilot

L20210204
€23.60
LAST COPY BEFORE PERMANENT OUT OF STOCK Credited with 34 victories between 1940 and 1945, Hauptmann Wilhelm Johnen was no ordinary ace: he belonged to the very exclusive circle of Nachtjagd aces, the German night-fighter arm. Tasked with defending German airspace against Allied — primarily British — nocturnal bombing raids, these pilots led extraordinary...
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INFOGRAPHICS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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INFOGRAPHICS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

L20210200
€28.44
A revised and updated edition of this immense bestseller, in a new, even more fitting large-format coffee-table book edition. The Second World War as you have never read it before. A world first. Directed by Jean Lopez, with the collaboration of Nicolas Aubin and Vincent Bernard, and superbly presented by data designer Nicolas Guillerat, this exceptional...
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F4U CORSAIR - The Terror of the Pacific
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F4U CORSAIR - The Terror of the Pacific

L20210198
€28.34
In roughly 120 pages, aviation expert Alex Euphrosine covers the full history of the most famous American fighter of the Second World War! He explains in detail the genesis of the aircraft, its design and flight testing, before presenting each of the many variants produced during and after the conflict for the United States and other nations (including...
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THE MESSERSCHMITT BF 109 - Identification Guide VOLUME 2
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THE MESSERSCHMITT BF 109 - Identification Guide VOLUME 2

L20210197
€37.82
OUT OF PRINT Volume 1 of Messerschmitt Bf 109 approached the aircraft primarily from a technical angle, with some details covering notable operational events. What followed was the entirely legitimate curiosity of readers who, through their feedback, called for even more detail concerning the identification of all variants of this legendary aircraft, its...
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TORPEDO LOS! U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic Volume...
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TORPEDO LOS! U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic Volume 2: 1942–1945

L20210196
€37.82
From December 1941, the German submarine arm saw its operational area in the Atlantic extend all the way to the American coastline. The convoy war took on a new scale, soon spreading to engulf the Arctic and the Indian Ocean as well. In the spring of 1943, American technological innovation and industrial might, combined with the British decryption of the...
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D2 TANKS IN COMBAT - Colonel De Gaulle's War Elephants D2 TANKS IN COMBAT - Colonel De Gaulle's War Elephants 2
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D2 TANKS IN COMBAT - Colonel De Gaulle's War Elephants

L20160322
€37.87
In 1937, Colonel de Gaulle moved from theory to practice. The man behind the "paper tank" — who in 1934 had written a veritable manifesto in favour of the armoured corps, Vers l'armée de métier, his most celebrated work — spent two years in Metz commanding a tank regiment, the 507e RCC. There, equipped with the powerful 20-tonne D 2 tanks built by...
THE 1ST DLM IN COMBAT: CAVALRY TANKS AND ARMORED VEHICLES, 1939-1940 THE 1ST DLM IN COMBAT: CAVALRY TANKS AND ARMORED VEHICLES, 1939-1940 2
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THE 1ST DLM IN COMBAT: CAVALRY TANKS AND ARMOURED VEHICLES, 1939-1940

L20160235
€37.87
The crucial question of armoured divisions, championed by Colonel de Gaulle in 1934 with his crusade for a professional army, had obscured from the general public a major element in the development of the French army during the rearmament period: yes, France possessed, even before the war, divisions légères mécaniques (DLM) that were light in name only....
CHARS B IN COMBAT: MEN AND MATERIEL OF THE 15TH BCC CHARS B IN COMBAT: MEN AND MATERIEL OF THE 15TH BCC 2
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CHARS B IN COMBAT: MEN AND MATERIEL OF THE 15TH BCC

L20160252
€37.87
On that afternoon of 16 May 1940, a group of around twenty Chars B belonging to the French Army — 32-tonne vehicles each armed with a 75 mm gun and a 47 mm gun, making them the most powerful armoured materiel in existence in the world in 1940 — approached a small town that was about to enter History: Montcornet. Since the day before yesterday, the enemy...
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