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9780533119738, titled "Northeast Passage" | Vantage Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | also contains Northeast Passage

Paperback:

9781511558433 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 6, 2015, cover price $12.99

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Product Description: This new book is the definitive reference on this little known subject. Starting with the first German uses of military armored trains in the early 1900s, the book continues through the World War I and Reichswehr periods, to World War II, the main focus of the book...read more

Hardcover:

9780764335235 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, July 28, 2010, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This new book is the definitive reference on this little known subject.

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Product Description: One of the great misconceptions about World War II is the notion that the German Army was a marvel of mechanical efficiency, combining lightning speed with awesome military power. However, despite the frightening strength of the panzer forces, about 75 percent of the German Army relied on horses for transport...read more

Hardcover:

9780313278105 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 1991, cover price $119.00

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9780811735032 | Stackpole Books, September 30, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: One of the great misconceptions about World War II is the notion that the German Army was a marvel of mechanical efficiency, combining lightning speed with awesome military power.

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Product Description: From the paratrooper's folding bicycle to the assault tank, The Allied Vehicles of the Liberation presents a living panorama of the vehicles that participated in the Normandy landings and the eventual liberation of Europe. The principal vehicles of the American, British and Canadian armies are shown here, each of them presented with precise technical details...read more

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9781932033762 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, March 19, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From the paratrooper's folding bicycle to the assault tank, The Allied Vehicles of the Liberation presents a living panorama of the vehicles that participated in the Normandy landings and the eventual liberation of Europe.

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Product Description: Sea Time recounts the early career of the author as Cadet-Midshipman and Deck Officer with the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and its aftermath, and his adventures as Ship s Medical Officer in the U.S. Navy in the 1950s...read more

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9780878501670 | Darwin Pr, November 1, 2006, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Sea Time recounts the early career of the author as Cadet-Midshipman and Deck Officer with the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and its aftermath, and his adventures as Ship s Medical Officer in the U.

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Product Description: The jeep was the most famous military vehicle of World War II, and its name has become synonymous with a whole class of military and civilian all-terrain vehicles. The jeep originated in a prewar US Army requirement for a simple, inexpensive, and robust vehicle for basic utility chores...read more
By Hugh Johnson (illustrator) and Steven J. Zaloga

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9781841768885 | Osprey Pub Co, November 30, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The jeep was the most famous military vehicle of World War II, and its name has become synonymous with a whole class of military and civilian all-terrain vehicles.

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A history of the U.S. Merchant Marines draws on a wide range of military records and personal documents, revealing that World War II losses were so numerous that casualty numbers were deliberately withheld and that surviving merchant marines were not granted the same recognition or benefits as were veterans of other military branches. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780765307064 | Forge, May 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Recounts the contributions of the U.

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9780765307071 | Reprint edition (Forge, May 1, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A history of the U.

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Product Description: Heroism, tragedy, devotion to duty, and scandal are just a few of the ingredients that make up this dramatic first-time account of troopship losses in wartime. International in scope, it offers a compilation of stories about historic troopship disasters caused by torpedoes, aerial attacks, mines, surface fire, foul weather, friendly fire, and poor planning by military decision makers...read more

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9781591149668 | Naval Inst Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Heroism, tragedy, devotion to duty, and scandal are just a few of the ingredients that make up this dramatic first-time account of troopship losses in wartime.

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Product Description: This is the dramatic story of the sinking of the HMT Rohna, which resulted in one of the greatest number of casualties suffered in WWII. The fact that the huge loss of life and the subsequent cover-up of the details surrounding it make for fascinating and disturbing reading...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9780806134185 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This is the dramatic story of the sinking of the HMT Rohna, which resulted in one of the greatest number of casualties suffered in WWII.

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A gripping true account brings to life the courageous unit, comprised of mostly African-American drivers, who ran the vital 'Red Ball Express,' a mission that took them across the battle lines to deliver fuel and supplies to the advancing American army after D-Day to help them annihilate the German Panzers, and details how they overcame many obstacles to become heros. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9781574881738 | 1 edition (Potomac Books Inc, February 1, 2000), cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9780446667685 | Grand Central Pub, August 1, 2001, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Chronicles the unit, comprised of mostly African-American drivers, who ran the vital Red Ball Express, a mission that took them across battle lines to deliver fuel and supplies to the advancing American Army, helping them to defeat the German Panzers.
9781574883022 | Potomac Books Inc, January 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This is the first full-length book about the Red Ball Express, a critical but unheralded part of the tidal wave of Allied arms, men, and machines that overwhelmed the German army during World War II.

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Product Description: World War II could not have been won without them. The Merchant Marine sailed into battle zones from Guadalcanal to Normandy; Murmansk to Okinawa carrying troops and ammo, food and jeeps, medicines and bullets for the Army, the Navy and our Allies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Gerald Reminick (editor)

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9781889901145 | Glencannon Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: World War II could not have been won without them.

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Product Description: Bluenose carried dangerous and essential war supplies, was stopped by Nazi Submarines and fired on by the U.S. Coast Guard! Ernest Hemingway, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, spies, gun battles in the streets, all intertwined in Bluenose war time struggles! This exciting story is only available in this book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780966307313 | Revised edition (West Indies Trading Co, December 1, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Bluenose carried dangerous and essential war supplies, was stopped by Nazi Submarines and fired on by the U.
9780966307306 | West Indies Trading Co, December 1, 1998, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Bluenose carried dangerous and essential war supplies, was stopped by Nazi Submarines and fired on by the U.

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Product Description: The medium PKW of the German Wehrmacht is described in both photographs and text.

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9780764305702 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, September 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The medium PKW of the German Wehrmacht is described in both photographs and text.

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Product Description: This book recounts for the first time the tragic loss of more than 1,000 American soldiers in 1943 when their troopship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

Hardcover:

9781557504029 | Naval Inst Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This book recounts for the first time the tragic loss of more than 1,000 American soldiers in 1943 when their troopship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

The author recalls his World War II service as a gunnery officer aboard the liberty ships Tampico and James Harrod

Hardcover:

9780873384209 | Kent State Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The author recalls his World War II service as a gunnery officer aboard the liberty ships Tampico and James Harrod

Paperback:

9781557503695 | Naval Inst Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

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