P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 14)

Jackals’ Revenge (Peter Lamb, Book 2)

The sequel to The Black Jackals is decided within the turmoil of the jap Mediterranean in 1941, with the Brits suffering to carry their line in Greece opposed to the strong German and Italian forces.

Peter Lamb and his males are halted of their retreat to England and compelled to affix the British forces retaining the cross at Thermopylae. yet their tricky reviews in France haven't ready the Jackals for the savage hand handy scuffling with in the course of the mountains. Lamb’s constrained wisdom of command leaves him not sure approximately find out how to organise the hot Zealand and Greek partisan squaddies who're extra to his troop.

When they land in Crete, Lamb turns into suspicious of a few of the civilians who, on fleeing from Greece, have taken conceal with the Jackals. but he is aware that dealing with the impressive German paratroopers for the 1st time, mixed with the determined conflict to carry Crete in any respect bills, will strength him to discover how to paintings along any aid he's provided. His new troop may be made of partisans, allied irregulars – together with Evelyn Waugh – and Spanish volunteers.

Jackals’ Revenge paints an excellent photo of the turbulent theatre of war.

Eastern Approaches (Penguin World War II Collection)

Fitztroy Maclean was once one of many real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia earlier than the conflict, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialized in hair-raising commando raids in the back of enemy strains, together with the bold and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq.

Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics)

“Age can by no means uninteresting this sort of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from global battle II, filed for the recent York usher in Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human facet of struggle. Writing from England in the course of the London blitz, North Africa, and Italy, Steinbeck specializes in the folks in place of the battles, portraying each person from the fellows within the bomber group to Bob wish on his USO travel.

The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler

While Adolf Hitler seized Vienna within the Anschluss of 1938, he known as the town "a pearl to which he might supply a formal environment. " however the atmosphere he left in the back of seven years later used to be one among break and destruction--a actual, religious, and highbrow desolate tract. here's a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of 1 of Europe's nice towns.