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Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 1948 by CHAPPELL
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
The modern wars of the Middle East began in 1947, when the Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians and Lebanese were unofficially at war with the Jewish settlers of Palestine. On May 15th, the day afer Israel was declared a sovreign state, the Arab invasion began. Between then and 1973 five wars occurred: those ...Show more
Armies of the Vietnam War 1962-75 by Philip R. N. Katcher; Mike Chappell
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
Philip Katcher provides an overview to the conflict that engulfed Vietnam following the division of the country into two along the 17th Parallel in 1954. The uniforms and insignia of the US forces, including the army, Special Forces, air force, navy and marine corps, are dealt with in detail, together w ...Show more
Armies of the Vietnam War (2) by Lee E. Russell; Mike Chappell
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Category: War/Military | Series: Men-at-Arms Ser.
On March 8th, 1965, some 3,500 US Marines, the first US combat troops to arrive in Vietnam, landed in Da Nang to defend the US air base there. On June 8th, following further reinforcements, General Westmoreland authorized his troops to begin "offensive patrolling." Lee Russell's follow-up to Men-at-Arms ...Show more
Army of the Republic of Vietnam, 1955-75 by Gordon L. Rottman; Ramiro Bujeiro (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
Evolved from the colonial units created by the French, this book discusses the original reorganization of these forces into the first national army. Complete with a detailed history of the command structure and orders of battle, the author also sheds light on the little known divisional histories of the ...Show more
Australian Bushrangers 1820-1880 by Ian Knight; Mark Stacey (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
Featuring rare period photos, this highly illustrated history tells the story of the frontier outlaws who defied the authorities on the wild Australian frontier in the Victorian era, and the Crown forces who eventually hunted them down. The first "bushrangers" or frontier outlaws were escaped or time- ...Show more
Chinese Civil War Armies 1911-49 by Philip Jowett; Stephen Andrew (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
The fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911 ended thousands of years of Imperial rule and ushered in almost 40 years of conflict in China. From the abdication of Pu-Yi, the last emperor, the invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese, and the 'long march', to the birth of the People's Republic of China in 1949, th ...Show more
Hitler's Blitzkrieg Enemies 1940 - Denmark, Norway, Netherlands and Belgium by Nigel Thomas; Johnny Shumate (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
The armies of Scandinavia and the Low Countries bore the first crushing impact of Hitler's mighty Blitzkrieg war machine in Western Europe, in campaigns that astonished and terrified the world. The German Wehrmacht was millions strong, equipped with the latest guns, tanks and aircraft, and had the pric ...Show more
Panzer Divisions by Hook
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
For the first three years of the Second World War the German Army's armoured formations dominated the world's battlefields. During this period the Panzerwaffe swept away all that was before them, achieving victories over numerically superior and sometimes better equipped opponents. This remarkable book ...Show more
The Algerian War 1954-62 by Martin Windrow; Mike Chappell (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria; yet in the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europe's media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup d'etat; it destroyed thousan ...Show more
The Australian Army at War 1976-2016 by Leigh Neville; Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
An illustrated study of the radical evolution of the Australian Army's capabilities, and its combat operations, that has taken place since the end of the Vietnam War.The Australian Army at War 1976-2016, written by an Australian author who has written extensively about modern warfare, traces the develop ...Show more
The German Army 1939-45 (2) - North Africa and Balkans by Nigel Thomas; Stephen Andrew (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
Hitler first considered an invasion of Great Britain in autumn 1940, then scheduled Operation Barbarossa, the conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union, for May 1941. Anxious to emulate Hitler's successes, the Italian dictator Mussolini embarked upon unnecessary military adventures in North Afri ...Show more
The German Army 1939-45 Western Front Vol 5 by Nigel Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
This book covers the high command, the developments in unit organisation, the campaigns and the uniforms and equipment of the German Army in the last two years of the war in North-West Europe and Italy. Despite the huge pressure of fighting on three fronts, ever-worsening shortages of manpower and equip ...Show more