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  • The Three Battles of El Alamein

    Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    The 80th Anniversary of the historic final Battle of El Alamein is the ideal time to study the events leading up to General Bernard Montgomery's famous victory over Field Marshal Rommel's Panzerarmee Africa in Autumn 1942. Four months earlier after the loss of Tobruk , Rommel's forces were in the ascendancy. Prime Minister Winston Churchill removed General Auchinleck from Command of Eighth Army ... Leer más

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  • MacArthur's Papua New Guinea Offensive, 1942–1943

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    "A compelling chronicle of the Battle of Papua New Guinea with rarely viewed images from World War II . . . an excellent book." — Naval Historical FoundationThe Japanese seizure of Rabaul on New Britain in January 1942 directly threatened Northern Australia and, as a result, General Douglas MacArthur took command of the Southwest Pacific Area. In July 1942, the Japanese attacked south across the ... Leer más

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  • Allied Victory Over Japan 1945

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    "Jon Diamond is to be commended for his attention to detail, great use of maps and amazing photographs." — IPMS/USA In 1944 with the war in Europe turning in the Allies' favor, Japan still occupied vast swathes of South East Asia and the Pacific. In Burma, the seemly unstoppable Japanese advance was halted at Kohima and Imphal in June and July 1944. Six months later the advances made by British ... Leer más

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  • On to Rome

    Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from the Adriatic, every effort to capture Monte Cassino failed.Fifth Armys VI Corps amphibious landing at Anzio in January, while initially successful stalled in the face of formidable German counter-attacks and the beach-head was effectively besieged.The ... Leer más

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  • Salerno to the Gustav Line, 1943–1944

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    In September 1943, shortly after the conquest of Sicily, the Allied armies made amphibious assaults on the Italian Mainland at Calabria, Taranto and along the Gulf of Salerno beaches. The Italian Government quickly capitulated but the Germans fought on. Although the British XIII Corps and 1st Airbornes attacks were largely uncontested in Calabria and Taranto, the Allied Fifth Armys beachheads at ... Leer más

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  • Montgomery's Rhine River Crossing

    Operation Plunder

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    "Highly recommended . . . excellent maps, [a] large number of black and white images, and detailed coverage of the subject." — AMPSAfter the Normandy breakout, the Allies' headlong dash east came to a halt in the autumn with the ill-fated Market Garden operation and overextended supply lines short of the Rhineland. After repulsing the Nazis' daring Ardennes offensive, Montgomery's and Bradley's ... Leer más

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  • The Liberation of the Philippines

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. By late 1944, with the capture of New Guinea and surrounding islands, the US Sixth and Eighth Armies were poised for the challenge. American forces landed on Leyte on 20 October 1944 with the Leyte Gulf naval ... Leer más

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  • The Battle of Okinawa 1945

    The Pacific War's Last Invasion

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    A pictorial history of one of World War II's most bitterly fought campaigns.The American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation Iceberg, was fought from April 1 to June 22, 1945. Three hundred and fifty miles from Japan, Okinawa was intended to be the staging area for the Allied invasion of the Japanese mainland. The Japanese Thirty-second Army defenders were on land and the Imperial Navy ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of Malaya and Singapore

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    "This photo essay produces a very effective picture of the defeat of British forces in Malaya and Singapore by the Japanese . . . Highly recommended."—FiretrenchIn just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid-February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita.British units fought hard on the Malayan mainland, but the Japanese ... Leer más

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  • The Invasion of Sicily 1943

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    The decisive WWII campaign that brought Italy to its knees is vividly captured in this in-depth photographic history.With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross-channel attack from Britain on Northwest Europe. Churchill favored invading the soft underbelly of Italy to weaken the Axis forces and gain Italian surrender. With Eisenhower's army ... Leer más

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  • Hell in the Central Pacific 1944

    The Palau Islands

    de Jon Diamond ...
    This WWII pictorial history covers a little-known but hard-fought Pacific War campaign with striking combat images and expertly researched text.In September 1944, to prevent Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur's invasion of the Southern Philippines, the Americans attacked Peleliu and Angaur in the Palau group of the Western Caroline Islands. Admiral Halsey, commanding the US Third ... Leer más

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  • Normandy Beyond The Beaches

    de Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    This latest Images of War series book examines the controversial development of the Allied campaign in Normandy in the weeks after the D-Day landings. After overcoming Rommel’s beach obstacles and ‘Atlantic Wall’ fortifications, a secure Allied lodgment of the five beaches developed along the Caen-Bayeux-Carentan axis with a period of consolidation while reinforcements and supplies were built up ... Leer más

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