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(Subject: World War II - General) Reading copy. By 1942 the civilised world had been brought to the brink of ruin. At the height of their power the European dictators and the Japanese military autocracy ruled ruthlessly almost half the world. Standing alone, the British were bankrupt and the United States only driven from isolation by the humiliation at Pearl Harbour. Before the tide fully turned in 1943, the machinery of the holocaust was in place and nuclear devastation well on the way to become a reality. Fifty years on the lessons of the Second World War continue to reverberate unheeded. (Published: 1995) (Publisher: Pimlico Publications) (ISBN: 071266226X) (Pagination: 653pp,photos, maps and drawings) (Condition: Browning on page edges. Spine and cover creases. Reading copy.) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: World War II - General) Mass market paperback. Signs of use, previous owner name on endpaper. pages browning. These are the stories of the men who were dropped from the sky or were pitched ashore from a landing craft on that Day of Days, the 6th of June, 1944, the D-Day landings - the military operation that was "the most complicated and difficult that has ever been undertaken". Described through the experiences of British, American, French and German soldiers. (Published: 1961) (Publisher: Fontana) (Pagination: 256pp, maps) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX

(Subject: World War II - General) Mass market paperback. Fragile but complete. Pages browned. November 1940 - the night the Fleet Air Arm Swordfish attacked the Italian fleet in its harbour and crippled it (Published: 1974) (Publisher: New English Library) (ISBN: 0450019926) (Pagination: 173pp illustrations) (Condition: ) UL-XXXXXX