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Twelve Desperate Miles: The Epic WWII Voyage of the SS Contessa by Tim Brady Publisher Comments The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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Into Dust and Fire: Five Young Americans Who Went First to Fight the Nazi Army by Rachel S Cox Publisher Comments The untold story of five young American friends who left the ivory towers at Harvard and Dartmouth to take on the Nazi's… In the spring of 1941, with Europe consumed by war and occupation, Britain stood alone against the Nazi menace. The United... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives by Peter Caddick Adams Publisher Comments Two men came to personify Allied and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel. They fought a series of extraordinary battles across several theaters of war that established them as two of the greatest generals of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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Get Rommel the Secret British Mission To Kill Hitlers Greatest General by Michael Asher Synopsis How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert.... (read more) Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The War Against Rommel's Supply Lines, 1942-43 (Stackpole Military History) by Alan J Levine Publisher Comments Examines a critical but often overlooked aspect of the campaign for North Africa Reevaluates the development of Allied airpower This is an exciting account of a little known, yet vital part of World War II: the Allied effort to blockade Axis forces in... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Desert Hawk: The True Story of Stocky Edwards, World War II Flying Ace by Barbara Hehner Publisher Comments The Desert Hawk is the story of James F. "Stocky" Edwards, one of Canada’ s greatest WWII air aces, a fighter pilot who earned his nickname not because of his build, but because he would stand up to anything. A Saskatchewan farm boy whose bird-shooting... (read more) Your price: $4.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II #02: Operations in North African Waters, October 1942-June 1943 by Samuel Eliot Morison Synopsis Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1947-62.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alamein by Philip Warner Synopsis In July 1942, German and Italian forces seemed to be at the point of sweeping away British resistance in the Middle East and overrunning Egypt. But, Rommel's victorious army was checked on the Alamein line in what became the first battle of Alamein. Two... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943 (Cambridge Military Histories) by Martin Kitchen Publisher Comments At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army from defeat. Martin Kitchen's masterful new history of the Axis campaign provides a fundamental reassessment... (read more) Your price: $42.00 New - Hardcover
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Duel #38: P-40 Warhawk Vs Bf 109: Mto 1942-44 by Carl Molesworth Publisher Comments Although the P-40 and the Bf 109 both joined the air war over North Africa at nearly the same time in early 1941, the venerable German fighter was already fully sorted with a combat career dating back to 1937 in Spain, while the American fighter was... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson Publisher Comments The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of miscalculation and incomparable courage, of calamity and enduring triumph. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson focuses on 1942 and 1943, showing how... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Triumphant Fox: Erwin Rommel and the Rise of the Afrika Korps (Stackpole Military History) by Samuel W Jr Mitcham Publisher Comments Triumphant Fox traces Erwim Rommel's rise from obscurity to the vaunted position of Hitler's most able general.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rommel's Afrika Korps: El Agheila to El Alamein by George Bradford Publisher Comments Portrait of this famous World War II unit at the height of its success Completely illustrated with photos, maps, and diagrams--in color where available In the sands of the Western Desert in 1941-42, Erwin Rommel made history as the Desert Fox, waging a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rommel Papers by B H Liddell Hart Publisher Comments When Erwin Rommel died—by forced suicide at Hitlers command—he left behind in various ingenious hiding places the papers that recorded the story of his dramatic career and the exact details of his masterly campaigns. It was his custom to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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El Alamein by Michael Carver Synopsis In early 1942, the Axis powers dominated the Allied forces. Tobruk fell to Rommell in June and the Allies prepared to retreat to the Suez Canal. Disaster seemed immininent. But then began the battles that turned the tide against the Germans, the battles... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Desert Fox in Normandy: Rommel's Defense of Fortress Europe by Samuel W Mitcham Publisher Comments Perhaps the most famous and admired soldier to fight in World War II was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who achieved immortality as the Desert Fox. Rommel's first field command during the war was the 7th Panzer Division-also known as the Ghost Division... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $3.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Lost Oasis: The Desert War and the Hunt for Zerzura the True Story Behind the English Patient by Saul Kelly Publisher Comments The Lost Oasis tells the true story behind The English Patient. An extraordinary episode in World War II, it describes the Zerzura Club, a group of desert explorers and adventurers who indulged in desert travel by early-model-motor cars and airplanes... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Desert Generals (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Correll Barnett Publisher Comments Reissue of the classic account of the Desert Campaign of 1940-43 from renowned military historian.llus.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-43 (Stackpole Military History) by Bruce Allen Watson Publisher Comments In the sands of North Africa during the early years of World War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel burnished his reputation as the "Desert Fox." After a string of successes, Rommel's fortunes began to sour with the battles of El Alamein, where the... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Assignment Algiers: With the OSS in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations by Erasmus H Kloman Publisher Comments Princeton grad Erasmus Kloman was undergoing Army training at Fort Bragg in 1943 when, due to his passing knowledge of French, he was interviewed for potential involvement in "a highly confidential activity." The interview culminated in the question... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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