Product Description: Photo chronicle of Patton’s Americans versus Rommel’s Afrika Korps in World War IIIn November 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. launched Operation Torch, its first major offensive against the Germans. This photo chronicle covers the initial landings in Morocco and Algeria and the subsequent desert clashes in Tunisia as American forces under Eisenhower and Patton battled the German Afrika Korps of Erwin Rommel, the famous “Desert Fox...read more

Product Description: On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal, northeast of Australia, launching the first major Allied offensive against Japan. In one of the best-known campaigns of World War II's Pacific Theater, the Marines and then the U...read more

Product Description: Visual history of the Allied battles for New Guinea during 1942-44.Hundreds of photos of this important Pacific theater campaign showing soldiers, vehicles, weapons and equipment, terrain, living conditions, medical care, prisoners, and much moreCaptions expertly describe photos and narrate the major events of the campaignPerfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History SeriesIdeal reference for military history fans, scholars, modelers, and reenactor...read more

Product Description: This gripping study offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance and subsequent reputations of six representative Chindit and Japanese infantry units involved in three pivotal actions that hastened Japan's defeat in Burma during World War II...read more

Product Description: 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...read more