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  • IWO JIMA: THE MARINE CORPS’ EPIC VICTORY
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    IWO JIMA: THE MARINE CORPS’ EPIC VICTORY
    JON DIAMOND
    The campaign for Iwo Jima (Operation Detachment) from 19 February–26 March 1945 pitted the USMC Fifth Amphibious Corps (VAC) and the USN’s Fifth Fleet against the IJA 109th Division and assorted IJN ground troops under the command of Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. After neutralizing Japanese air assets on Iwo Jima, the objective was to seize Iwo Jima’s two completed ...

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  • THE ALLIED NEUTRALISATION OF RABAUL
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    THE ALLIED NEUTRALISATION OF RABAUL
    JON DIAMOND
    “This series is basically a photo compilation with brief historical sections for each batch of images so we have some idea of what these images are all about. I've always been interested in this part of the war and very much enjoyed this one. I'm sure you will find it just as nice.” -ModelingMadness.Com Fierce Pacific ground, sea, and aerial combat raged between the Allies and ...

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  • NORMANDY BEYOND THE BEACHES
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    NORMANDY BEYOND THE BEACHES
    JON DIAMOND
    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 supp...

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  • ALLIED VICTORY OVER JAPAN 1945
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    ALLIED VICTORY OVER JAPAN 1945
    JON DIAMOND
    "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 advance...

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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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  • 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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  • 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 LIBERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
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    THE LIBERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES
    JON DIAMOND
    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 th...

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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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  • MACARTHUR'S PAPUA NEW GUINEA OFFENSIVE, 1942–1943
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    MACARTHUR'S PAPUA NEW GUINEA OFFENSIVE, 1942–1943
    JON DIAMOND
    "A compelling chronicle of the Battle of Papua New Guinea with rarely viewed images from World War II . . . an excellent book." — Naval Historical Foundation The 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 attack...

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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, Montgo...

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  • THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA 1945
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    THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA 1945
    JON DIAMOND
    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 lan...

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  • BEYOND ROME TO THE ALPS
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    BEYOND ROME TO THE ALPS
    JON DIAMOND
    Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove across the Arno River, capturing Florence on 5 August. Once again The Wehrmachts Tenth and Fourteenth Armies eluded destruction, withdrawing into the Gothic Line in the Northern Apennines. The Eighth Army, advancing along the Adriat...

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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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  • SALERNO TO THE GUSTAV LINE, 1943–1944
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    SALERNO TO THE GUSTAV LINE, 1943–1944
    JON DIAMOND
    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 A...

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  • THE INVASION OF SICILY 1943
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    THE INVASION OF SICILY 1943
    JON DIAMOND
    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. Wit...

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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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  • GUADALCANAL
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    GUADALCANAL
    JON DIAMOND
    After the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese quickly captured Hong Kong, Guam, Wake Island, the Gilbert Islands and Rabaul. Japanese conquests of Malaya and Singapore, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies and Burma followed into the spring of 1942. The Japanese juggernaut continued southwards with bases established at Salamaua and Lae in Northwest New Guinea followed by landin...

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  • ALLIED VICTORY OVER JAPAN 1945
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    ALLIED VICTORY OVER JAPAN 1945
    JON DIAMOND
    "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 advance...

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  • FIRST BLOOD IN NORTH AFRICA
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    FIRST BLOOD IN NORTH AFRICA
    JON DIAMOND
    A pictorial history of America's first major military campaign in Africa during WWII. In November 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. launched Operation Torch, a multipronged attack on French North Africa—a region controlled by Germany through Vichy France. Led by Generals Eisenhower and Patton, it was America's first major offensive against the Germans.  Through r...

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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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  • 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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