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A pictorial history of Allied forces making their way through Italy in the final years of World War II, featuring rare photos from wartime archives.The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of World War II, splitting the American and British a
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Simon Forty
A fully illustrated survey of the Soviet infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.The Soviet Army was ill-prepared for its ally's treacherous onslaught in 1941. Its officer corps decimated by Stalin's purges and its men less well-trained than
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Simon Forty, Richard Charlton Taylor
A fully illustrated survey of the German infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.The German Army was all-conquering until late 1941 when, only a few miles short of Moscow, it ran out of steam. Maniacal defense, the Russian winter and exhaust
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Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty
'...contains a plethora of after-action reports, diagrams and text which makes the work a thorough and engaging study of amphibious landings during the war.'—WWII History MagazineAmphibious operations have always been an important element of warfar
An illustrated history of how the Red Army pushed west and into Berlin in 1945 during World War II. The last year of the war saw Russian offensives that cleared the Germans out of their final strongholds in Finland and the Baltic states, before advan
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Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty
On 10 May 1940 German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit up and tak
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Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty
The borders of the Roman Empire were frontiers that were often wild and dangerous. The expansion of the empire after the Punic Wars saw the Roman Republic become the dominant force in the Mediterranean as it first took Carthaginian territories in Gau
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Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty
The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield. You may be able to crush an opponent with armour or artillery, but there's only one way to take and hold ground and that's with riflemen – the ‘poor bloody infantry'. And it is
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Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty
Packed with archival photos, a fascinating account of armored warfare in WWII—and how tank design and tactics were transformed during the period.On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War, tanks played a key role, an
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Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty
“From mountain warfare with guns on mules to V2 rockets and everything between makes it well worth a place on anyone's reference shelf.” —Clash of SteelIt is said that artillery won the Second World War for the Allies—that Soviet guns wore do