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The Merriam Press publishes a wide variety of books on military history with a special emphasis on World War II. Veterans memoirs and histories of units, weapons, aircraft, warships, military vehicles, uniforms, insignia, medals, are some of the subjects covered in the ever-growing range of books published by the Merriam Press.
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Print: $24.95 Download: $10.00 Presents 25 articles on the units, weapons, equipment, uniforms and insignia, awards, operations, references. Also includes the complete U.S. War Dept. Military Intelligence Service publication, Special Series 28: German Mountain Troops, published in December 1944. 328 pages, 316 photos, 42 illustrations, 4 maps, 17 tables.
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Hardcover Print: $44.94 Hardcover. Robinson's memoir of his wartime service as a Naval officer on PT boats and LSTs, including his part in rescuing John F. Kennedy after PT 109 was sunk, which is the first true account told by an eyewitness, as Robinson was on one of the boats patrolling the same area as JFK's. Kennedy was Robinson's tent mate and as a result his work provides details never published before. See the contents pages in the preview for more details. Photos, maps.
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Print: $19.95 Download: $10.00 Presents 22 articles by historians and veterans on many different aspects of the war in the east on the Russian Front. 2 illustrations, 11 maps, 1 chart, 12 tables.
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Print: $19.95 Download: $10.00 British Volunteers of the Waffen-SS, 1943-1945. The story of the British volunteers of the Waffen-SS has long been treated with scorn and derision by the establishment media. After all there weren’t many of them and their small unit, the British Free Corps, was somewhat comic-opera in nature. This work tries to change that perception. The hard core nucleus of the BFC consisted of serious, committed individuals who deeply believed in what they were doing and stayed on until the end. Therefore they deserve to be treated with respect; they were a part, however minuscule, of the vast Pan-European Army that was the Waffen-SS and no one can take that away from them. 132 pages, 40 photos and illustrations.
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $37.95 British Volunteers of the Waffen-SS, 1943-1945. The story of the British volunteers of the Waffen-SS has long been treated with scorn and derision by the establishment media. After all there weren’t many of them and their small unit, the British Free Corps, was somewhat comic-opera in nature. This work tries to change that perception. The hard core nucleus of the BFC consisted of serious, committed individuals who deeply believed in what they were doing and stayed on until the end. Therefore they deserve to be treated with respect; they were a part, however minuscule, of the vast Pan-European Army that was the Waffen-SS and no one can take that away from them. 132 pages, 40 photos and illustrations.
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $45.00 Waffen-SS history journal with articles on Swiss Volunteers, Germanic Volunteers, Latvian Border Guard Regiments, Waffen-Untersturmführer der SS Janis Dzenis, VI. SS Army Corps (Latvian) and the Third Battle for Kurland, Waffen-SS Personalities, Waffen-SS Marriage in Prague, The Leather Jacket: An Incident in the History of the 24.Waffen-Gebirgs (Karstjäger) Division der SS, Cherkassy Pocket: The Final Figures, Reassembly Area of the 33.SS-Volunteer Grenadier Division “Charlemagne”, Waffen-SS Miscellany, SS Special Staff Rode, SS-VT Armored Car Reconnaissance Troops in 1938, More Dutch Knight’s Cross Holders, Bulgarian Volunteer, Oldest Swedish Volunteer. 166 pages, 87 photos and illustrations.
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Print: $27.00 Download: $10.00 Waffen-SS history journal with articles on Swiss Volunteers, Germanic Volunteers, Latvian Border Guard Regiments, Waffen-Untersturmführer der SS Janis Dzenis, VI. SS Army Corps (Latvian) and the Third Battle for Kurland, Waffen-SS Personalities, Waffen-SS Marriage in Prague, The Leather Jacket: An Incident in the History of the 24.Waffen-Gebirgs (Karstjäger) Division der SS, Cherkassy Pocket: The Final Figures, Reassembly Area of the 33.SS-Volunteer Grenadier Division “Charlemagne”, Waffen-SS Miscellany, SS Special Staff Rode, SS-VT Armored Car Reconnaissance Troops in 1938, More Dutch Knight’s Cross Holders, Bulgarian Volunteer, Oldest Swedish Volunteer. 166 pages, 87 photos and illustrations.
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $34.95 Hardcover. On 15 April 1945, 1st Lt Bill Flynn completed his 25th bombing mission flying a B-17 with the 346th Bomb Sqdn, 99th Bomb Group. On 25 May 1945, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for “extraordinary achievement" in combat. In July of that same year, at a General Court Martial, he was accused of “buzzing,” convicted of manslaughter and the destruction of government property. People were intimidated and encouraged to lie and 20-year-old Lt Flynn was stripped of his rank and benefits, dishonorably discharged, and sentenced to hard labor at a Federal Prison in New York. This book was written by Lt Flynn's radio gunner, Al Kotler, and Bill's brother, Jack Flynn. You will meet Bill, Al, and the rest of their crew, and fly with them on missions out of Foggia, Italy. Bill is no longer here to defend himself, so Al and Jack combined forces to present the full story of what really happened and to right a terrible wrong. 33 photos.
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Print: $20.00 Download: $10.00 The military leadership of Japan, dominated by the ages-old clans of the samurai class, embarked on a war in 1941 believing that the Americans and British wouldn’t fight, but they also knew that Japan could not win a prolonged war. If the West didn't quit, well, the Japanese had no contingency for that. So why did Japan start a war at all? This and other questions are addressed in this new book. Other topics include: With a few exceptions, the Japanese Army was not well equipped, but was trained to attack even if the situation was hopeless; the Japanese Navy was never adequate to the task required of it in the Pacific War and the merchant fleet was even wors; the Japanese air forces suffered from acute shortages throughout the conflict that were often the result of their industrial shortcomings. Beatty and Rochwerger discuss these and many other issues in this provocative and imaginative inquiry into Japan in World War II. Photos, index.
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $36.95 Hardcover. Memoir by a Marine who served in Vietnam with the 27th and 7th Marines from May 1968 through June 1969. His book is not so much about the Vietnam War but about the experiences, horror, and tragedy of war, based on his experience, so that others will see the futility of it, unless there is absolutely no other way. He hopes that what he has written will be the next best thing to actually being there, and that it will give a taste of what it is like to go through it, and his hope that it will change the way people look at war as a viable solution. He wants people to see it from the less privileged viewpoint and get a taste of real war. The title, The Mailman Went UA, came from their little song and dance routine that they performed when they didn’t receive any mail. Strong language, racial and sexual references. 18 photos, glossary.
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