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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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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $29.95 Hardcover. The first extensive history of this highly unusual but fascinating and very collectible area of militaria, by a premier collector/historian of these items. Much detailed info not available elsewhere. Provides background, coverage of the cloth maps and charts of Great Britain, Germany, the U.S., plus U.S. handkerchief charts, rubber life raft charts, production techniques, and blood chits. The appendix provides data in tabular form of known U.S. fabric maps, charts, and blood chits of World War II. 7 photos/illustration, 13 charts.
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Print: $24.95 Download: $10.00 Pictorial of Italian tanks, tankettes, self-propelled guns, armored cars, and other vehicles, from the 1930s through the end of World War II. 229 photos, one per page.
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Print: $17.95 Download: $10.00 Subtitled: The Soviet Airborne Forces, 1928-1945. First history in English on Soviet airborne troops in World War II. Comprehensive history of weapons, equipment, aircraft, gliders, training, and combat operations against Germany and Japan. Contents: Introduction; Acknowledgments; Training; Uniforms, Equipment and Parachutes; Weapons; The Planes; Gliders; The Partisans; From The Beginnings to BARBAROSSA; The First Six Months of War and the Near Annihilation of the Soviet Airborne; 1942: The First Large Soviet Airborne Operation and the Conversion of the Airborne Corps to Rifle Divisions; 1943: The Last Major Airborne Assault; The Defeat of the Reich and the Soviet War Against Japan; Conclusion; Bibliography. 21 photos, 6 illustrations, 2 maps, 4 organization charts.
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $34.95 Subtitled: The Soviet Airborne Forces, 1928-1945. First history in English on Soviet airborne troops in World War II. Comprehensive history of weapons, equipment, aircraft, gliders, training, and combat operations against Germany and Japan. Contents: Introduction; Acknowledgments; Training; Uniforms, Equipment and Parachutes; Weapons; The Planes; Gliders; The Partisans; From The Beginnings to BARBAROSSA; The First Six Months of War and the Near Annihilation of the Soviet Airborne; 1942: The First Large Soviet Airborne Operation and the Conversion of the Airborne Corps to Rifle Divisions; 1943: The Last Major Airborne Assault; The Defeat of the Reich and the Soviet War Against Japan; Conclusion; Bibliography. 21 photos, 6 illustrations, 2 maps, 4 organization charts.
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Print: $18.95 Download: $10.00 Paperback. 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: $19.95 Download: $10.00 Paperback. 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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Print: $19.95 A collection of 224 photos (two per page) of American, British, Canadian, Soviet, German, and French tanks (Sherman, Churchill, Tiger I/II, PzKpfw III, Char B, KV II, T-34 and more), halftracks, armored cars, trucks, jeeps, self-propelled guns, amphibious vehicles, tractors, carriers, tank transporters, and more.
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Print: $18.00 Download: $10.00 Paperback. Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1914. This is the story of the last battlecruiser, the SMS Goeben and its operations in the Mediterranean. The Goeben is considered to be the longest commissioned dreadnought of all time finally being paid off in the early 1960s. The impact of the Goeben odyssey during the early months of World War I reverberates throughout the world today. Illustrated, appendices. More details can be found in the book preview.
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $35.00 Hardcover. Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1914. This is the story of the last battlecruiser, the SMS Goeben and its operations in the Mediterranean. The Goeben is considered to be the longest commissioned dreadnought of all time finally being paid off in the early 1960s. The impact of the Goeben odyssey during the early months of World War I reverberates throughout the world today. Illustrated, appendices. More details are in the book preview.
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Print: $25.00 Download: $10.00 Paperback. Collection of 36 articles on various aspects of WWII naval history, particularly U.S. and Japanese warships, naval actions, combat, and more. 200 photos and illustrations. See preview for full listing of contents.
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