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War Against Japan
Determined to match the conquests of its German ally, a militarist Japan launched a surprise air attack on the US Fleet at its main Pacific base, Pearl Harbour in Hawaii on December 6th 1941. Recovering from the blow, the US hit back at the Battle of Midway, destroying Japan's aircraft carrier fleet. Meanwhile, Japan's army had overurn Indo-China and Hong Kong, seized Singapore ( and with it thousands of Australian and British prisoners); taken Burma and menaced India, the jewel in Brtitain's Imperial Crown. Despite these humiliating defeats, British General Bill Slim's 14th Army, helped by General Orde WIngate's Chindit guerillas, struck back and pushed the Japanese back from Burma. US General 'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell helped China's CHiang Kai-Shek galvanise Chinese counter-attacks and in a series of gruelling island-hops Japan's Pacific conquests were reversed by the US. Still Japan refused to surrnder, until the dropping of two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 proved that further resistance would be useless.
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STILWELL THE PATRIOT:
Vinegar Joe, the Brits and Chiang Kai-Shek
Product Code: 8888
This new and meticulously researched biography of the controversial American commander Joe Stilwell presents an admirably lucid account of his career and the complex story of the Burma campaign.Stilwell spent most of World War II as Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff in China.He was often at odds w...
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JAPANESE HEAVY CRUISERS
Myoko and Takao classes
Product Code: 12700
This volume is devoted to the largest, fastest and most powerful heavy cruisers of their era. Japanese striving for superiority in individual ships produced designs whose unusual lines, massive superstructure and heavy armament have made them a challenge to modelmakers ever since. Combined with a...
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SLAUGHTER AT SEA
THE STORY OF JAPAN'S NAVAL WAR CRIMES
Product Code: 12645
A serious and in-depth study of a little known and dark aspect of Naval warfare, the author has uncovered numerous atrocities committed against civilians and sailors alike by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Second World War. He examines the outrages and the culture that made them possible in a ...
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SLIM
The Standard bearer
Product Code: 2728
Field Marshal the Viscount Slim (1891-197O) was blessed with none of the advantages of wealth and social position that eased the progress of many army officers. With no armoury apart from his integrity, his personality and his intellect, he rose to the pinnacle of his profession as one of the f...
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DVD - Secret Japanese Aircraft of WWII
Product Code: D83015
This programme charts the progress that the Japanese aircraft designers made during the 1930's and World War II, resulting in the development of helicopters, rocket fighters and long range aircraft designed to strike at the US West Coast armed with biological weapons.
Using specially commissioned...
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DVD - The Last Axis of Evil
Product Code: D83024
A Fascinating look at the remarkable historical confluence that led to the rise of the German – Japanese alliance during World War 2.
On September 27th 1940, Hitler's Nazi Germany, Mussolini's fascist Italy and the empire of Japan signed a pact that was intended to see them dominate the world; it...
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