"[...]profusion of marvels as the eye, there is perhaps none which is marked with imperfections so striking. Many of its defects are the more striking because they are so obvious, being such as would never be tolerated in optical instruments of human manufacture. In any fairly good camera or telescope or microscope we should expect to find that the lenses were symmetrically figured, free from striæ and properly centred; also that they were achromatic and efficiently corrected for spherical aberration. In the eye not one of these elementary requirements is fulfilled.[...]".

Product Description: This is, without doubt, the finest book about the crucial role that artillery played in the two World Wars of the Twentieth century. The authors, both former artillery officers who saw action in Word War Two, describe the development of their neglected, inadequate and class-ridden arm through the battles of the First World War and the eventual war-winning role that artillery played, to the culmination of professional military deployment in the Second World War...read more

Product Description: When the Allies invaded mainland Italy in 1943 they intended only a clearing-up operation to knock Italy out of the war, but Hitler ordered the German armies to defend every foot of the country, which they did until May 1945 after a bloody and bitter struggle...read more

An authoritative analysis of the military records of Hitler's generals includes a discussion of military resistance to the Nazi regime, an overall assessment of German generalship, illustrations of the generals' regalia and uniforms, and more than 250 photographs.

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Product Description: The story of the 'Chindits', some twenty thousand elite troops, who invaded enemy-held Burma during the second world war.

Recounts the invasion of Italy during World War II, analyzes the strategies of Allied and German forces, and includes profiles of the military leaders on both sides

Product Description: World Politics

Previously unreleased papers, private testimony, and official records back up an authoritative account of the controversial campaign in which 20,000 crack Allied troops fought the entrenched Japanese in Burma