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Product Description: Jochen Peiper was one of the most colorful and ruthless of the unconventional type of leader thrown up by the SS in the Second World War. Notorious for his participation in the massacre of American soldiers at Malmedy in December 1944, he might have felt he had paid the price when he was released from prison in 1957...read more

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9781848848610 | Pen & Sword, July 19, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Jochen Peiper was one of the most colorful and ruthless of the unconventional type of leader thrown up by the SS in the Second World War.

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Product Description: The vast number of written accounts studying the British Special Forces in the Second World War overlook the fact that the Germans were actually the first to utilize this unconventional style of warfare. Indeed, two days before the official declaration of war German commando units disguised as Poles had already seized key positions along the frontier, and for three years after this Admiral Canaris’ Brandenburgers, formed long before the British Commandos or American Rangers were dreamed of, played a key role in Hitler’s military operations...read more

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9781848842755 | Reprint edition (Pen & Sword, April 19, 2010), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The vast number of written accounts studying the British Special Forces in the Second World War overlook the fact that the Germans were actually the first to utilize this unconventional style of warfare.

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9781848840324, titled "The Great German Escape: Uprising of Hitler's Nazis in Britain's POW Camps" | Pen & Sword, January 19, 2010, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: From the drama of D-Day to the grim push into Germany and on to Berlin, this study details the final efforts of the British infantry to free Europe from the grip of the Nazi army. The contribution of the British forces is sometimes downplayed, the common misconception being that it was after all the Russian winter and Americans that won the War...read more

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9781862274402 | History Pr Ltd, October 1, 2008, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: From the drama of D-Day to the grim push into Germany and on to Berlin, this study details the final efforts of the British infantry to free Europe from the grip of the Nazi army.

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Presents the portrait of the 'most flamboyant American soldier of World War II' and his commanding role in the Allied victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

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9781932033038, titled "Patton's Last Battle" | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, September 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: It was to be the last year in the life of General George Patton.
9780812831153, titled "Patton's Last Battle" | Stein & Day Pub, April 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Charles Whiting tells the dramatic story of General George Patton's final months, following him over the Rhine to help deliver the fatal blows to Hitler's Third Reich, to his death, in bed, in December 1945.

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9781862274006, titled "Patton's Last Battle" | History Pr Ltd, October 1, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Presents the portrait of the 'most flamboyant American soldier of World War II' and his commanding role in the Allied victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
9780515104776, titled "Patton's Last Battle" | Reprint edition (Jove Pubns, November 1, 1990), cover price $4.50 | also contains Landforms and Landscape Evolution of the Equatorial Margin of Northeast Brazil: An Overview | About this edition: It was to be the last year in the life of General George Patton.

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In September 1944, Field Marshal Montgomery predicted that his armies would easily 'bounce the Rhine' to strike a final, killing blow at the exposed heart of Hitler's Reich. This is a story of extraordinary courage and military folly, when strategic considerations took second place to the glory-seeking of top commanders.

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9781932033076 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, December 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Bounce the Rhine covers the British army's push for the Rhine and the total allied effort in breaching this last natural defensive feature on the western side of Germany.

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9781862274013 | History Pr Ltd, October 1, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In September 1944, Field Marshal Montgomery predicted that his armies would easily 'bounce the Rhine' to strike a final, killing blow at the exposed heart of Hitler's Reich.

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Describes the second Battle of the Bulge that almost destroyed the Alliance.

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9780971170971 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, June 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Operation Northwind, planned by the Fuhrer himself, hurled eight German divisions, three of them S.
9780812840049 | Scarborough House, December 1, 1990, cover price $19.95

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9781862273993 | Trafalgar Square, October 1, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Describes the second Battle of the Bulge that almost destroyed the Alliance.
9780380716289 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: This military history describes operation "Northwind", Hitler's assault against the thinly held American line in the Alsace-Lorraine region, which cost the Americans and French dearly in terms of casualties, and almost destroyed the alliance.

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Tells the story of the terror and chaos of battle, of men who fought until they died and others who quickly surrendered, of officers relieved of command and orders that bore no relation to reality. This narrative is suitable for those who have an interest in the Second World War.

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9780971170988 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, June 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Decision at St Vith tells the devastating story of how a quarter of a million of Hitler's men, 200,000 pieces of artillery and 980 tanks launched themselves at the inexperienced and unprepared US troops who were resting in the forests of the Ardennes.

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9781862273986 | History Pr Ltd, December 5, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of the terror and chaos of battle, of men who fought until they died and others who quickly surrendered, of officers relieved of command and orders that bore no relation to reality.

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Product Description: Following the greatest failure of Allied intelligence since Pearl Harbor, on the morning of December 16, 1944, a huge German army of 600,000 men smashed into the American troops who were holding the line in the snowbound hills of the Belgian Ardennes...read more

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9781862273979 | Trafalgar Square, September 1, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Following the greatest failure of Allied intelligence since Pearl Harbor, on the morning of December 16, 1944, a huge German army of 600,000 men smashed into the American troops who were holding the line in the snowbound hills of the Belgian Ardennes.
9780515104042 | Reprint edition (Jove Pubns, August 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | also contains Tools and Mathematics: Instruments for Learning | About this edition: The Allied advance on Germany's West Wall received its biggest setback from the German counter-offensive of December 16, 1944.
9780812882902 | Reprint edition (Stein & Day Paperback, August 1, 1986), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The Allied advance on Germany's West Wall received its biggest setback from the German counter-offensive of December 16, 1944.

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9781842626085 | Large print edition (Dales Large Print, August 30, 2008), cover price $23.99

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Product Description: General Patton is brooding after Washington took away his army. Languishing on Sicily the general starts to receive death threats which he thinks come from the British. Major McKenzie is called in to investigate links between the Mafia and the US Army establishment and soon realizes he knows way too much for his own safety...read more

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9781842626092 | Large print edition (Dales Large Print, June 1, 2008), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: General Patton is brooding after Washington took away his army.

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Product Description: Ultra, the handpicked elite of British Intelligence, have planted a German double agent in Switzerland to pass on signals to the Russians. However, when German High Command begins to suspect false play, they plant their own agent in Switzerland to investigate...read more

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9781842625705 | Large print edition (Dales Large Print, January 30, 2008), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Ultra, the handpicked elite of British Intelligence, have planted a German double agent in Switzerland to pass on signals to the Russians.

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Product Description: The carnage of World War II is over, but, with the threat of Communism looming, General Patton is determined to continue his war against the Russians. He sends in T-Force with orders to ignore the ceasefire and stop at nothing!

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9781842625712, titled "T-Force: The Last Mission" | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, December 30, 2007), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: The carnage of World War II is over, but, with the threat of Communism looming, General Patton is determined to continue his war against the Russians.

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Product Description: Russia, 1924. Lenin is dying. Soviet Russia is on the brink of an explosion... King George V decides he must help his one key relative in Russia to escape. In 1918 he had refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar - now the King orders that Serge, the Tsar's illegitimate son, be saved...read more

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9780750528092 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, October 30, 2007), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Russia, 1924.
9780727847836 | Severn House Pub Ltd, August 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book 4 of the COMMON SMITH V.

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Product Description: In December of 1944, during the final flush of the German breakout in the Bulge, several SS divisions led by Colonel Johann Peiper swarmed the American encampment at Malmedy, in the Ardennes. American prisoners, wounded and unwounded, were summarily executed, as were many Belgian civilians, under the charge that the village had harbored American troops...read more

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9780812880274 | Reprint edition (Stein & Day Paperback, March 1, 1984), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: In December of 1944, during the final flush of the German breakout in the Bulge, several SS divisions led by Colonel Johann Peiper swarmed the American encampment at Malmedy, in the Ardennes.

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Product Description: Victory in North Africa was a triumphant beginning but the Allies knew that there was no time to lose. ‘Festung Europa’ (Fortress Europe) had to be cracked and Operation HUSKY was the bold beginning. As well as a massive seaborne invasion, Roosevelt and Churchill ordered their military commanders Eisenhower, Alexander and Montgomery to initiate a major airborne assault...read more

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9781844153428 | Pen & Sword, June 20, 2006, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Victory in North Africa was a triumphant beginning but the Allies knew that there was no time to lose.

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Product Description: Survival or slaughter... Field-Marshal Eugen von Schwartau, the Caucasian Fox, led his Nazi stormtroopers to the very gates of Moscow, striking terror into the heartland of Russia. Now, with the fortunes of war temporarily going against the Germans, von Schwartau had his troops poised for a crippling attack on the Russian oilfields...read more

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9780750523745 | Large print edition (Magna Large Print Books, June 30, 2005), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Survival or slaughter.

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Product Description: It has generally been assumed by historians of the Second World War that the Americans were caught completely unawares by the last great German Offensive - the drive into the Ardenees in December, 1944, known as the Battle of the Bulge...read more

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9781885119001 | Sarpedon Pub, October 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An armored reconnaissance veteran of the campaign and prolific World War II author offers a major re-appraisal of the Bulge battle based on the theory that Allied leaders knew about the German attack in advance.

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9781844152223 | Pen & Sword, April 30, 2005, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: It has generally been assumed by historians of the Second World War that the Americans were caught completely unawares by the last great German Offensive - the drive into the Ardenees in December, 1944, known as the Battle of the Bulge.

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Product Description: This is an incisive exploration of the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States told from the perspective of the volatile, often fraught, alliance during World War Two. The spotlight falls on Monty and Ike, then takes in the ordinary "squaddie" who becomes a pawn in the game, and finally Montgomery's unsuccessful attempt to assert Britain's superiority in the closing months of the war...read more

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9781862272323 | Spellmount Ltd Pub, December 30, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This is an incisive exploration of the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States told from the perspective of the volatile, often fraught, alliance during World War Two.

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An unflinching true account follows Task Force Baum, as they cross enemy lines to infiltrate the Allied POW camp and rescue Colonel John Waters, General Patton's son-in-law--an assignment that became one of the most daring and violent missions during World War II. Reissue.

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9780743458177 | Reissue edition (Ibooks, January 1, 2003), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: An unflinching true account follows Task Force Baum, as they cross enemy lines to infiltrate the Allied POW camp and rescue Colonel John Waters, General Patton's son-in-law--an assignment that became one of the most daring and violent missions during World War II.
9780515077377 | Reissue edition (Jove Pubns, March 1, 1984), cover price $2.95 | also contains The Man With Six Typewriters: And Others Who Knew God | About this edition: On a dark night in March 1945, Task Force Baum dashed through a break in the German Army lines created by troops of the U.

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Product Description: The glory of the Leibstandarte SS Adolph Hitler was their ambition even if death was the price - and of the of the 30,000 SS soldiers who signed up with this elite force only thirty would survive the war. Some perished in the abortive push on Normandy directed by the Führer...read more

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9780953867769 | J Whiting Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The glory of the Leibstandarte SS Adolph Hitler was their ambition even if death was the price - and of the of the 30,000 SS soldiers who signed up with this elite force only thirty would survive the war.

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Product Description: Eddie Slovik was the most famous American soldier to come out of World War Two. Or was infamous a better description? For 24 year old Slovik, Polish-American, petty thief and ex-con, was the only Allied soldier to be shot for desertion in the course of that long conflict...read more

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9780953867738 | J Whiting Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $38.99 | About this edition: Eddie Slovik was the most famous American soldier to come out of World War Two.

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Product Description: The Battle of the Bulge, fought in the snows of the Ardennes forests in December 1944 and January 1945, was the greatest land battle waged by the US Army in the twentieth century. Official history remembers the victory as a solely American triumph, but Charles Whiting uncovers fresh new evidence to the contrary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780750918695 | Sutton Pub Ltd, July 1, 1999, cover price $34.95

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9780750931809 | Sutton Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Battle of the Bulge, fought in the snows of the Ardennes forests in December 1944 and January 1945, was the greatest land battle waged by the US Army in the twentieth century.

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