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  • af Michal Piegzik
    174,95 kr.

    Finally, the Americans, using their industrial capacity and taking advantage of the obvious Japanese mistakes, moved on to Kiska by landing on Adak and Amchitka. The Japanese plan to provide reinforcements and supplies to both garrisons in the Aleutians led to the naval battle of the Komandorski Islands (アッツ沖海戦, Attsu oki kaisen) in March 1943, which also marked the end of the era of the classic artillery clashes between warships without air support. The commander of the Fifth Fleet, Vice Admiral Hosogaya, failed to destroy Rear Admiral McMorris' task force and lost the unique chance to play for time in the North Pacific. After March 1943, Nippon Kaigun never risked a major naval battle with the US Navy to defend the Aleutians.Although the campaign was far from being over and Americans just began preparations to reconquer Attu, the period of balance between the US Navy and the Japanese Navy in the North Pacific had ended. The Japanese lost and the bloody toll of this defeat was the first 'honorable defeat' (玉砕, gyokusai) on Attu. However, the painful lesson was learned and soon after, despite all pessimistic predictions, the Kiska garrison of more than 5,000 men was evacuated without a single soul lost. The withdrawal operation deservedly got the name 'miracle at Kiska' (キスカの軌跡, Kisuka no kiseki) in Japanese historiography.Into the Endless Mist is an account of the forgotten struggle in the Aleutians, based on meticulous research of American and Japanese primary sources, testimonies, monographs, and papers. The book's goal is to present the most objective image of a campaign in which the weather decided victory and defeat or life and death.

  • af Usman Shabbir
    194,95 kr.

  • af Ken Conboy
    167,95 - 179,95 kr.

  • af Darren Poole
    179,95 - 194,95 kr.

  • af Benjamin Lai
    222,95 kr.

    This title in the popular Asia@War series is richly illustrated with photographs from the period of the Sino-Soviet confrontation as well as specially commissioned artworks.In March 1969 the two giants of the Communist world - the People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - came to blows over the control of a remote and uninhabited island on their mutual border in a conflict that risked barely controlled escalation, and in which the USSR gave consideration to the use of nuclear weapons.In 2021, Helion & Company published two books by Harold Orenstein and Dmitry Ryabushkin: The Sino-Soviet Border War of 1969 Volume 1: The Border Conflict that almost Sparked a Nuclear War and The Sino-Soviet Border War of 1969 Volume 2: Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol August 1969. These volumes relied largely on the Soviet accounts and presented the Soviet perspective on this confrontation.When Brothers Fight: Chinese Eyewitness Accounts of the Sino-Soviet Border Battles 1969 aims to fill the gap with accounts from Chinese veterans who took part in these border wars. The authors have selected two of the best-known incidents of the period, the Battle of Zhenbao (Damansky) Island (March-May 1969) and the Tielieketi (Lake Zhalanashkol) Incident (13 August 1969), as the focus for this book.This is an important episode of the Cold War that deserves greater exposure. This brief war marks a turning point between the two Communist giants and in one way or another, lay the foundation for international politics for the next 50 years. In 1972, China moved towards the US/Western camp by signing the Three Joint Communiqués, normalizing relations between the US and China and establishing a full diplomatic relationship in 1979.When Brothers Fight: Chinese Eyewitness Accounts of the Sino-Soviet Border Battles 1969 is richly illustrated with photographs and artworks from the period of the Sino-Soviet confrontation as well as specially commissioned artworks.

  • af Albert Grandolini
    194,95 kr.

  • af Dean Wilson
    179,95 kr.

    In 2005-2006, widespread public anger with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resulted in a crisis that formed the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD, so-called 'Yellow Shirts').

  • af Stephen Rookes
    196,95 kr.

    This first volume of a three-part series on the First Indochina War centered on the period between 1946-1949. A time when tensions between east and west were on the rise, the Indochina War was a colonial conflict that laid the foundations for America's war in Vietnam.

  • af Albert Grandolini
    196,95 kr.

    After the withdrawal of the USA and then the government and forces of the Kuomintang from the Mainland China, and the declaration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) led by Mao Tse Tung, it appeared that the times of the Civil Air Transport would find an end. However, immediately after, new wars erupted in Korea and in the French Indochina.

  • af Punyaphan Klykoom
    196,95 kr.

    No combatant nation of the Second World War has been more forgotten than Thailand. Ignored by most histories of the war, the Southeast Asian kingdom conducted campaigns outside its borders and kept an army in the field until after the surrender of Japan, longer than other minor belligerents such as Belgium, Norway, and Greece.

  • af Arrigo Velicogna
    167,95 kr.

    After an uneven start in 1966 by January 1967 General Westmoreland was finally ready to launch his own offensives in the area north of Saigon. What followed was a series of controversial battles. This book explores these battles and puts them in the larger context of US strategy in Vietnam.

  • af Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
    194,95 kr.

    For decades Pakistan has orchestrated a campaign of state-sponsored terrorism in India and elsewhere abroad. It bombed trains in Mumbai in 2006, conducted a series of outrageous attacks on the city in 2008, and has launched dozens of minor attacks on the Indian security services in Kahsmir and elsewhere.

  • af Adrien Fontanellaz
    165,95 kr.

    This book describes the so-called Eelam War III during which the war became an almost full-fledged conventional conflict, at least in the north of the country, where the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan armed forces waged a series of full-fledged battles on land and sea.

  • af Michal A Piegzik
    194,95 kr.

    This book presents the Japanese navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in March-April 1942. Its main goal was to destroy the Royal Navy in the Far East and achieve domination on the Eastern flank of the Pacific War on the eve of the battle of Midway.

  • af Adam Davis
    178,95 kr.

    The Borneo Confrontation (known as Konfrontasi in Indonesia) was a violent conflict lasting from 1963 until 1966, that stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of the Federation of Malaysia and the British crown colonies of North Borneo and Sarawak.

  • - China's Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles and Theatre of Operations in the Early 21st Century
    af Gerry Doyle
    196,95 kr.

    China's anti-ship ballistic missiles have been both mythologized and derided. Carrier Killer pulls apart the extremes to examine what these weapons can do, their historical and strategic origins, and how they affect the balance of power between the United States and the People's Republic of China.

  • - Volume 1 - Ground Forces
    af Stijn Mitzer
    197,95 kr.

    The most complete and up-to-date work on all there is to know about the Korean People's Army Ground Forces today. Sixteen unique artworks and well over 150 images that have been collected over a decade's work complement painstaking analysis describing every detail of the North's 'Military First' endeavors.

  • - Volume 1 - The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean
    af Michal A Piegzik
    194,95 kr.

    The book presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean in March-April 1942 and the British attempt to stop the enemy's advance towards India.

  • - The CIA Paramilitary Campaign in Laos, 1969-1974
    af Ken Conboy
    196,95 kr.

    This book details CIA-supported paramilitary operations in Laos during the height of the conflict in that kingdom, from late 1969 through the conclusion of agency participation in 1974.

  • - America's Secret Air Wars in Asia, 1945-1950
    af Albert Grandolini
    194,95 kr.

    This volume describes the circumstances of the creation of the Civil Air Transport company, a paramilitary airline owned by the CIA, its participation in the Chinese Civil War, and the story of its founder, General Claire Lee Chennault of the famed Flying Tigers.

  • - Present Capabilities and Future Prospects
    af Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
    194,95 kr.

    As the Indian Air Force turns 90, it is in the throes of a major modernization and expansion drive. This book details the current state of the IAF and its modernization plans and prospects.

  • - Indian Military Intervention in the Maldives, 1988
    af Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
    194,95 kr.

    The first detailed account of the Indian military intervention in the Maldives in 1988, an operation prepared quickly and under immense pressure, but concluded successfully.

  • - Volume 2: Confrontation at Lake Zhalanashkol, August 1969
    af Harold Orenstein & Dimitry Ryabushkin
    196,95 kr.

    This second volume is a detailed and unbiased study of the military, historical, and political circumstances of the 1969 Sino-Soviet border war.

  • - Military Assistance Command, Vietnam: Studies and Observations Group (Macv-Sog), 1964-1972
    af Shawn Fisher
    194,95 kr.

    A detailed and richly illustrated operational history of the highly classified, joint-service special operations command of the United States during the Vietnam War.

  • - Showdown in the West
    af Ravi Rikhye
    194,95 kr.

    A highly authoritative and richly illustrated account of the crucial conflict of the Indian Sub-continent, and the war during which Bangladesh was born as an independent state.

  • - India'S War in Siachen - 1984 to Present
    af Sanjay Badri-Maharaj
    194,95 kr.

    The first authoritative account of the Indo-Pakistani War fought on the Siachen Glacier - the highest battlefield in the world.

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