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Pictorial History of World War II
Sinopse: Here, then, is a comprehensive pictorial record of world conflict. The shock of Blitzkrieg wafare, the terrible winter war attrition in Russia in 1942-43, the stealthy war against the Japanese in the jungle, the fire bombing of Dresden, and the final collapse of the Axis powers in a shattered and exhausted world. Encadernação original com sobre capa. Usado em bom estado. Ilustrado. Página...
1975
1 usado
R$ 86,25
War - From Ancient Egypt to Iraq
Take a guided tour of every major conflict through the ages Trace the epic 5, 000-year story of warfare from the earliest battles to the War on Terror. Explore the campaigns and conflicts, the warriors and commanders and the tactics, weapons and technology that have shaped human warfare. With fascinating features on topics including; the role of infantry, siege warfare, military tactics and the tr...
2009
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R$ 258,75
The Uncensored War: the Media Vietnam
SInopse: This book was finished in the tenth year after the end of the Vietnam War. The year 1985 was also the year of Rambo, and of a number of other celebration of the Vietnam War in popular culture. It was the year Congress cut off aid to the "Contras" in Nicaragua, and then abruptly reversed itself and approved "humanitarian" aid to support the guerrilla war in that country. The "Vietnam Syndr...
1989
1 usado
R$ 143,75
Another Bowl of Kapusta: True Life Story of a World War ii Luftwaffe..
Título completo: Another bowl of kapusta: true life story of a World War II Luftwaffe fighter pilot and P. O. W. in Russia. Sinopse: The authors originally met via the Internet. His screen name was ME-109 and she didnt even have a clue as to what that meant. As his life story was revealed to her, she found out that he was a former Luftwaffe fighter pilot and prisioner of war in Russia, during Worl...
2004
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R$ 172,50
Circles of Hell: the War in Italy 1943-1945
Sinopse: In the critically acclaimed Circles of hell (Hutchinson, 1993), Morris wrote a challenging account of the war in Italy 1943-1945, shaped around a harsh indictment of the Allied generals. Watkins has commented, ‘Eric Morris reveals the war in Italy in all its glory and squalor, from high-level political machinations to the terrors and privations of the individual soldier, in a style of wri...
1993
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R$ 172,50
Wolf. U-boat Commanders in World War II
Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by films and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by many people is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks the innocents. Quite the opposite image is shared by U-boat veterans and others sympathetic to their work: the knight who endures unrivalled danger and fights nobly. Yet another popular image depicts the sub...
1997
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R$ 172,50
Leningrad - the Epic Siege of World War II , 1941-1944
Anna Reids Leningrad is a gripping, authoritative narrative history of this dramatic moment in the twentieth century, interwoven with indelible personal accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists on both sides. They reveal the Nazis deliberate decision to starve Leningrad into surrender and Hitlers messianic miscalculation, the incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet war leadership, the horro...
2011
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R$ 172,50
From the Fulda Gap to Kuwait. U. S. Army, Europe and the Guli War
23 cm. brochura. usado. sem grigos. com fotos. 377 páginas.L1E 47/4
1998
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R$ 143,75
Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich. a War Diary, 1942-45
This book is a detailed, comprehensive daily reference to the air operations flown by the Luftwaffe against the daylight strategic missions by the United States Army Air Force against the German Reich and the western zone occupied by Germany. It is a unique look at the German air defenses as they struggled to cope with the threat posed by the American 8th and 15th Air Forces, which were charged wi...
2011
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R$ 230,00
Why the North Won the Vietnam War
In this new collection of essays on the Vietnam War, eminent scholars of the Second Indo-china conflict consider several key factors that led to the defeat of the United States and its allies. The book adopts a candid and critical look at the United States stance and policies in Vietnam, and refuses to condemn, excuse, or apologize for Americas actions in the conflict. Rather, the contributors thi...
2002
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R$ 121,61
The Bomber Boys: Heroes Who Flew the B-17s in World War
Sinopse: In World War II, no theater of operations was more dangerous than the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe. This is a collection of previously untold personal accounts of combat and camaraderie aboard the B-17 bombers that flew countless sorties against the enemy, as related by the men who lived and fought in the air -- and survived. They are stories of heroism, sacrifice, miraculous survival...
2009
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R$ 97,75
Task Force. the Falklands War, 1982
Explains the causes of the Falkland Islands War, describes the strategy of the war, and discusses what was learned from the conflict. Brochura. Usado. 20 cm. 432 páginas amareladas pela qualidade do papel.Bordas da capa e lombada com pequenos desgastes. L 1 E 51/8
1985
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R$ 86,25
Time Life: the Civil War - 23 Volumes
Volumes disponíveis: Master index; The fight for chattanooga; Confederate ordeal; The struggle for Tennessee; Pursuit to appomattox; The road to Shiloh; First Blood; Battles for Atlanta; The Assassination; Brother against brother; Tenting tonight; The Blockade; The bloodiest day; The shenandoah in flames; Gettysburg; Sppies, scouts and raiders; War on the frontier; Shermans march; War on the Missi...
1983
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R$ 862,50
Task Force. the Illustrated History of the Falklands War
Twenty years have passed since the Falklands War. To mark the anniversary, former Royal Marine David Reynolds describes the build-up to the departure of the Task Force, and the training onboard the ships as they headed for the South Atlantic. This authoritative account looks at all the units that took part, describing the fierce battles to regain the islands, and the thoughts of men who were headi...
2002
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R$ 230,00
How to Lose Wwii Bad Mistakes of the Good War
How to Lose WWII is an engrossing, fact-filled collection from Bill Fawcett that sheds light on the biggest, and dumbest, screw-ups of the Great War. In the vein of his other phenomenal compendiums of amazing battlefield blunders, How to Lose a Battle and How to Lose a War, Fawcett focuses on some amazing catastrophic missteps of Axis and Allies alike. 21 cm. brochura. usado. sem grifos. 286 págin...
2010
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R$ 86,25
Very Short War - the Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang
On May 12, 1975, less than two weeks after the fall of Saigon, Khmer Rouge naval forces seized the SS Mayaguez , an American container ship, off the Cambodian coast in the Gulf of Siam.The swift military response ordered by President Gerald Ford was designed to recapture the Mayaguez , held at anchor off the island of Koh Tang, to liberate her crew, and to demonstrate US strength and resolve in th...
1995
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R$ 143,75
War Report: the War Correspondents View of Battle From The...
Título completo: War report: the war correspondents view of battle from the Crimea to the Falklands. Sinopse: This is a study of the war correspondents view of war tracing the story from Russells pioneering work for "The Times" in the Crimea to the assorted press, radio and television journalists who accompanied the British Task Force to the Falklands in 1982.;The book focuses in particular on the...
1987
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R$ 57,50
When We Were One. Stories of Worls War II
. No less an authority than Stephen E. Ambrose has said of Heinz that both he and Ernie Pyle were the two best journalists to cover World War II. Now for the first time ever, Heinzs finest reporting both during and after the war is collected in one volume. From a first-person account of the scene aboard the U.S.S. Nevada during D-Day (the very same ship that plied the waters at Pearl Harbor) to a ...
2002
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R$ 121,61
How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires and the American Way of War
Sinopse: How We Fight explores the extraordinary doublemindedness with which Americans approach war, and reveals the opposing mindsets that have governed our responses throughout history: the "crusade" tradition-our grand quests to defend democratic values and overthrow tyrants; and the "quagmire" tradition-our resistance to the work of nation-building and its inevitable cost in dollars and Americ...
2010
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R$ 143,75
Russias War
Sinopse: The Russian war effort to defeat invading Axis powers, an effort that assembled the largest military force in recorded history and that cost the lives of more than 25 million Soviet soldiers and civilians, was the decisive factor for securing an Allied victory. Now with access to the wealth of film archives and interview material from Russia used to produce the ten-hour television documen...
1999
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R$ 86,25
Above All, Courage. Pesonal Stories From the Falklands War
Max Arthur spent two years interviewing servicemen and women who took part in the Falklands campaign.He established an extraordinary rapport with them, and the result is one of the most remarkable collections of first-hand accounts of war ever published.The accounts cover the Argentinian invasion, the journey south with the fleet, the recapture of South Georgia, the sinking of HMS Ardent , the tra...
2002
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R$ 97,75
The Face of War
Martha Gellhorn was a fearless war correspondent for nearly fifty years and a leading journalistic voice of her generation.From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people no matter their political ideology, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience.Collecting the best of Gellhorn’s pie...
1988
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R$ 120,75
Anatomy of War
Vietnam, the United States and the modern historical experience. Sinopse: This is one of the most comprehensive examinations of the Vietnam War yet written. Gabriel Kolko has ggone far beyond the obvious military, political, and economic aspects of the war to explore in-depth causative factors leading to the end result. (Military Review). For those seriously interested in understanding the underly...
1994
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R$ 143,75
Backwater War: the Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943-45
Sinopse: A year before the much-heralded second front was opened in Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy - an assault that was marked by intra-Allied argument and dissent from beginning to end. This is the story of the "backwater war" that resulted: a fierce, drawn-out campaign that began with the invasion of Sicily, continued with the landings at Salerno and Anzio in ...
2002
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R$ 172,50
Second World War. a Peoples History
In The Second World War: A Peoples History, Joanna Bourke uncovers the grim stories of death and destruction lost behind those statistics. Using diary entries, oral histories, poetry and letters home, Bourke allows the people that lived and died in the global bloodletting to tell their own stories. Encadernação original com sobre capa. Usado. 20 cm. 270 páginas. L 1 50/8
2001
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R$ 97,75
Martyrs Day (chronicle of a Small War)
From the lethal fireworks that lit the sky over Baghdad on the wars first night to the elation with which Kuwaits citizens greeted therir liberators- and the horror with which they counted their dead - Michael Kelly managed to be present at every critical moment of the Gulf War. He also managed to see it with a sharpness and candor that escaped most other observers. In this award-winning book, Kel...
1994
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R$ 86,25
Sea Battles in Close-up. World War 2
Ten major naval engagements of the Second World War are thoroughly described and analyzed in this authoritative book by two respected British naval historians. This is a substantially revised compendium edition of a series with the same title published in the early 1970s and long out-of-print. Encadernado com sobre capa.Usado.24 cm.160 páginas. L 1 E 51/8
1993
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R$ 143,75
The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World...
Título completo: The future of war: power, technology and american world dominance in the 21st century. Sinopse: The Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that Americas global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose with the development of gunp...
1996
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R$ 172,50
Final Patrol. True Stories World War II Submarines.
But despite the odds, these underwater warriors accounted for almost 60 percent of Japanese shipping losses, and were a major factor in winning the war. 16 U.S. submarines - and one German U-Boat - that saw action during WWII are now open to the public. Most have been restored and authentically equipped. Final Patrol takes a fascinating look at these subs and the personal stories of the brave sail...
2006
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R$ 120,75
Condemned to Live. a Panzer Artillerymans Five -front War
Frisch, com o co-autor Wilbur D. Jones, Jr. (tradução) (Capitão, EUA) Reserva do Umbigo, ret.), publicada Condemned to Live; A Guerra das Cinco Calças do Panzer em 1999, suas memórias de seu tempo como soldado comum do exército alemão por sete anos durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ele passou dois anos em um campo de prisioneiros de guerra americano quando foi capturado na Itália em 1945. Apresent...
2000
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R$ 143,75
War in a Time of Peace
Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped Americas role in global events. He provides fascinating portraits of those in power--Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Kissinger, James Baker, Dick Cheney, Madeleine Albri...
2001
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R$ 97,75
Islands of the Damned: a Marine At War in the Pacific
Sinopse: In this remarkable memoir, Burgin reveals his life as a special breed of Marine. Schooled by veterans who had endured the cauldron of Guadalcanal, Burgin’s company soon confronted snipers, repulsed jungle ambushes, encountered abandoned corpses of hara-kiri victims, and warded off howling banzai attacks as they island-hopped from one bloody battle to the next. In his two years at war, Bur...
2010
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R$ 143,75
The American Civil War. a Military History
In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the American Civil War. Illuminated by Keegans knowledge of military history he provides a fascinating look at how command and the slow evolution of its strategic logic influenced the course of the war. Above all, The American Ci...
2009
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R$ 143,75
Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist...
Título completo: Common destiny: dictatorship, foreign policy, and war in fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Sinopse: This book offers a genuinely comparative analysis of the dictatorships that launched the Second World War: their origins, nature, dynamics, and common ruin. It provides an unconventional and compelling overview from territorial unification in the 1860s to national catastrophe in 1943/...
2000
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R$ 143,75
War. a Classical Collection Great War Stories of Our Time
A collection of noted war stories highlights the battles and periods of several wars and includes the writings of such authors as Norman Mailer, Alun Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, James A. Michener, Joseph Mailer, and Rudyard Kipling. Encadernação original com sobre capa. Usado em bom estado.23, 5 cm.575 páginas. L 1 E 47/6
1995
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R$ 97,75
The Third Reich At War (1939-1945)
Sinopse: Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. Interweaving a broad narrative of the wars progress from a wide range of people, Evans reveals the dynamics of a society plunged into war at every level. The great battles and events of the conflict are here, but just as tellin...
2008
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R$ 120,75
Sain in Our Hears. Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that was first published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on March 29, 2016. 1 2 The book is an account of the American volunteers who participated in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. The story centers around several American volunteer fighters and journalists, tracing their motivations ...
2016
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R$ 143,75
The Penguin Book of War: Great Military Writings
Sinopse: Soldiers, poets, novelists & journalists have always endeavoured to commit to paper the experience of war. Whether it is being used to transmit myth, to glorify personal or tribal heroism, to fix a version of events or personal achievements, or merely to entertain, there can be no doubt that war makes magnificent literature. In this comprehensive anthology, Keegan reaps his material from ...
1999
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R$ 172,50
Good-bye Dolly Gray: the Story of the Boer War
Sinopse: It was natural for the South African-born writer Rayne Kruger to choose the Boer War for a work of non-fiction. Settled in England, he returned to Johannesburg to interview survivors and consult written records, and Goodbye Dolly Gray, first published in 1959, went on to become the first modern one-volume distillation of existing knowledge on the South African War, concentrating on the ca...
1977
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R$ 86,25
Reporting Vietnam: Media & Military At War
Sinopse: Reporting Vietnam is an abridgment and updating of Hammond’s massive two-volume work issued by the Government Printing Office. Based on classified and recently declassified government documents—including Nixon’s national security files—as well as on extensive interviews and surveys of press war coverage, it tells how government and media first shared a common vision of American involvemen...
1998
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R$ 120,75
The Dictionary of War Quotations
Mais de 4000 citações sobre guerras. Citações de: Simônides de Ceos Kushinoki Masashige; Duke de Marlborough, Benjamin Franklin, Frederico o Grande, Thomas Paine, Talleyrand, Napoleon, Clausewitz, Theodore Roosevelt, T. E. Lawrence, Mao Tse-tung, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George S. Patton, John Kennedy, Erwin Rommel entre outros. Sinopse: The book comprises three parts: part 1 is m...
1989
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R$ 172,50
Experience of War(ver Descrição)
An antholog of articles from MHQ: the quartely journal of military history. Brochura. Usado.20 cm.574 páginas amareladas pela qualidade do papel. L 1 E 51/4
1992
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R$ 97,75
Call For Fire. Sea Combat in the Falklands and the Gulf War
A first-hand account of fighting in the Falklands and in the Gulf War by the only British senior naval officer who commanded in both of these wars. The author was captain of the frigate HMS "Alacrity" in the Falklands which saw severe action, and also was engaged in the Task Force in the Gulf. Encadernação original com sobre capa. Usado.24 cm.300 páginas amareladas pela qualidade do papel. L 1 E 5...
1995
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R$ 143,75
Shadows of War-a German Soldiers Lost Photographs of World War II
Shadows of War presents an astonishing collection of previously unpublished, unknown photographs of life at the front lines in the German war machine during World War II, taken by a common foot soldier. The work of a gifted amateur, Willi Roses images present a powerful vision of a largely suppressed aspect of the war. These fractured glimpses of the world at war, from quotidian tasks and moments ...
2004
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R$ 172,50