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  • BURMA VICTORY, 1944–1945
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    BURMA VICTORY, 1944–1945
    JON DIAMOND
    General Stilwell’s ad hoc force of Merrill’s Marauders, American-trained Chinese divisions, Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate’s Chindits conducted a northern Burmese offensive that led to the coup de main seizure of Myitkyina’s airfield in May 1944. In August 1944, after a protracted siege, Myitkyina town on the Irrawaddy River fell to the Allies. At the same time elements ...

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  • THE FALL OF MALAYA AND SINGAPORE
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    THE FALL OF MALAYA AND SINGAPORE
    JON DIAMOND
    “This photo essay produces a very effective picture of the defeat of British forces in Malaya and Singapore by the Japanese . . . Highly recommended.”—Firetrench   In 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 m...

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  • STILWELL AND THE CHINDITS
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    STILWELL AND THE CHINDITS
    JON DIAMOND
    This latest book in the highly successful Images of War series covers the dramatic events that saw ultimate Allied victory over the Japanese in remote Northern Burma on the Chinese border. The plan involved two separate but concurrent operations. US Army General Joseph Stilwell was ordered to train up two Chinese divisions and together with a US special force (Merrill's Maraude...

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  • ON TO ROME
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    ON TO ROME
    JON DIAMOND
    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 effecti...

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  • THE THREE BATTLES OF EL ALAMEIN
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    THE THREE BATTLES OF EL ALAMEIN
    JON DIAMOND
    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 Comma...

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  • MONTGOMERY'S RHINE RIVER CROSSING
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    MONTGOMERY'S RHINE RIVER CROSSING
    JON DIAMOND
    “Highly recommended . . . excellent maps, [a] large number of black and white images, and detailed coverage of the subject.” —AMPS   After 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, Montgom...

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  • HELL IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC 1944
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    HELL IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC 1944
    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, com...

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