The Battle of the River Plate : The First Naval Battle of the Second World War 9781473878976, 9781473878952

Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Largest Sea Battle of the Second World War (Images of War) 9781526770394, 1526770393

On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy's 3

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The Second Battle of Ypres: The History of the Notorious World War I Battle that Witnessed the First Mass Use of Poison Gas

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a tabl

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The Battle of the Somme: The History and Legacy of World War I’s Biggest Battle

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of soldiers' accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for furth

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The Battle of Britain. The Greatest Air Battle of World War II

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The Battle for the Buffalo River: The Story of America's First National River 9781610754880, 9781557289353

Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building

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The First Battle of the First World War: Alsace-Lorraine 0752460862, 9780752460864

Though not so famous as the battles of Tannenberg or the Marne, the fight between the French and German armies at Alsace

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El Alamein: The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Second World War 9781849086400, 9781472895851, 9781780964522

Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indee

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The First World War: A Captivating Guide to World War 1, The Battle of Verdun and the Battle of Somme 1198970978

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The Battle of White Mountain: The History and Legacy of the First Major Battle of the Thirty Years’ War

It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, but it was also not an empire i

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The Battle of Shanghai: The History and Legacy of the Battle that Started the Second Sino-Japanese War

*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents On October 29, 1937, a la

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