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Free Download Philip Kaplan – Merchant Sailors at War 1943-1945: Beating the U-Boat (Images of War)
Pen & Sword | 2015 | ISBN: 1783463058 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 162.23 MB
"The Battle of the Atlantic was the dominating factor all through the war. Never for one moment could we forget that everything happening elsewhere, on land, at sea, or in the air, depended ultimately on its outcome." – Winston Churchill

Free Download Enzo Angelucci, Paolo Matricardi – Combat Aircraft of World War II: 1943-1944
Salamander Books | 1988 | ISBN: 0861014170 | English | 72 pages | PDF | 55.97 MB
Full and double page 3-view drawings and photographs with a brief history and specification of each aircraft. This volume includes Nakajima Ki-84; Yokosuka D4Y; Mitsubishi J2M; Mitsubishi Ki-67; Nakajima B6N; Grumman F6F; Douglas A-26; Vought F4U-1; Curtiss SB2C; North American B-25; Bell P-63; Lavochkin La-5; Northrop P-61; Ilyushin ll-2/10; Focke Wulf Fw.190 D; Junkers Ju.88 C/G; Messerschmitt Me.163; Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XIV ; Avro Lancaster Mk.II; Hawker Tempest; Fairey Barracuda; Bristol Beaufighter Mk.X.

Free Download A. D. Baker III – US Naval Vessels 1943
Arms & Armour Press | 1986 | ISBN: 0853687862 | English | 288 pages | PDF | 220.65 MB
Photographs and illustrations depicting the might of the US Navy at the height of the Second Wrld War.

Free Download M24 Chaffee Light Tank 1943-85 (New Vanguard) by Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Laurier
English | June 20, 2003 | ISBN: 9781841765402 | 48 pages | MOBI | 33 Mb
The history of US light tanks during World War II is a chequered one. The Light Battalions of US Armored Divisions were initially filled with M3A1 and M5 Stuart tanks, however, on the battlefields of North Africa it was realised that these were disastrously under armoured and gunned, and a replacement, or the abandonment of light tank doctrine, was desperately needed. It wasn’t until the last few months of WWII that the M24 Chaffee came into service and it was extensively used in combat from the Battle of the Bulge to the final campaigns in Germany. This book will trace the history of this design, its combat record in World War II, its many variants, and its extensive combat record post 1945.

Free Download The Winter Campaign in Italy 1943
by Battistelli, Pier-Paolo;Shumate, Johnny;, Johnny Shumate
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1472855698 | 97 pages | True PDF EPUB | 44.92 MB

Free Download Operation Ro-Go 1943
by Claringbould, Michael John;Laurier, Jim;, Jim Laurier
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1472855574 | 97 pages | True PDF EPUB | 29.67 MB

Free Download The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJTSF96 | 2023 | 18 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 1 GB
Author: James Holland
Narrator: Al Murray
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war. Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely resisted, and the hoped-for quick victory descended into one of the most challenging and protracted battles of the entire war. James Holland’s The Savage Storm, chronicling the dramatic opening months of the Italian Campaign in unflinching and insightful detail, is unlike any campaign history yet written. Holland has always narrated war at ground level but here goes further by chronicling events almost entirely through the contemporary eyes of those who were there on all sides and at all levels-Allied, Axis, civilians alike.

Free Download The Ruhr 1943: The RAF’s brutal fight for Germany’s industrial heartland (Air Campaign) by Richard Worrall, Graham Turner
English | October 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1472846567 | 96 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF’s first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany – the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler’s war machine running.

Free Download Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Laurier, "M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer 1943-97"
English | 2004 | pages: 52 | ISBN: 1841766879 | PDF | 19,2 mb
The M18 76mm Gun Motor Carriage was developed for the US Army’s Tank Destroyer Command. It was the only tank destroyer deployed during World War II actually based on their requirements for speed and firepower. This book examines the development of this vehicle, the controversies over the need for high-speed tank destroyers, and its actual performance during World War II. Special emphasis is placed on examining its performance in its intended mission. Coverage also includes derivative vehicles of the M18 such as the M39 armored utility vehicle.

Free Download Simon Dunstan, Peter Sarson, "Centurion Universal Tank 1943-2003"
English | 2003 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 184176387X | PDF | 22,4 mb
From 1943 the British began the design of a tank that bore distinct similarities to the German Panther tank. Designed as a Universal Tank, the design emerged in mid-1945 as the Centurion. It was last used in action by the British Army in 1991 during the Gulf War. It has also seen action with the Israeli Defence Forces, the Indian Army in the wars with Pakistan and the Australian Army in Vietnam. This book details all the variants of the Centurion used in these conflicts as well as covering the specialised variants last used by the British in the Gulf War.