Amber Books imprint: 107 books
Gettysburg
The Turning Point in the Struggle between North and South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In June 1863, General Robert E. Lee and the 75,000-strong Army of Northern Virginia launched a second invasion of the North, crossing into Maryland and Pennsylvania to try to win a decisive victory over Federal forces. On July 1, Lees army encountered Major General Meades 90,000 strong Army of the Potamac...
by Butler, Rupert
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
From its creation in 1933 until Hitler's death in May 1945, anyone living in Nazi-controlled territory lived in fear of a visit from the Gestapo an abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei or secret state police. Young or old, rich or poor, nobody was beyond the attentions of a brutally efficient organization...
SS-Wiking
The History of the Fifth SS Division 1941–45
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The 5th SS Division Wiking was the first 'international' – i.e. largely non-German – Waffen-SS division and the only German panzer division comprised largely of foreign troops. Approximately 75 per cent of the division's strength were non-German nationals, all volunteers, and the majority from occupied...
SS-Totenkopf
The History of the 'Death's Head' Division 1940–45
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This illustrated history explores the SS-Totenkopfs formation, the men it recruited, key leaders, and its organization, as well as specialized training, uniforms, and insignia. Completely illustrated with photos from European archives, the book also provides full combat and casualty records for the division, which fought on both of the Eastern and Western Fronts.
by Ralph Lewis, Brenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Few statesmen have received so many honours as he did over the course of his career. Although several have received the Nobel Peace Prize, none save Churchill have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His was a career that had few parallels in British history for richness, range, length and achievement....
The Illustrated History of World War I
The Battles, Personalities, Events and Key Weapons From All Fronts In The First World War 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The first truly total war, the ‘war to end all wars’, shocked the world with its scale and brutality. Men from both sides went to war in August 1914 expecting to be home by Christmas, but on the Western and Italian Fronts troops became locked in a grim stalemate of trench warfare. For the first time,...
by Bishop, Chris
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitlers armies in World War II, but the most fanatical of them were not even German. The book offers a comprehensive examination of every foreign Waffen-SS formation, including well-known divisions such as Wiking, Nord, and Prinz Eugen, notoriously brutal...
by Duncan Anderson, Lloyd Clark, Stephen Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The conflict on the Eastern Front in World War II was colossal in both scale and intensity, as the two infamous dictators of the twentieth century Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin vied for supremacy in Eastern Europe. On 22 June 1941 it was Hitler's fateful decision to launch the largest invasion ever...
by Wiest, Andrew and McNab, Chris
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The Vietnam War is a timely account of the 6,000-day conflict in Southeast Asia. The book begins with the history of South East Asia during World War II, before discussing the French involvement in the First Indochina War, and the subsequent drawing-in of the United States and its allies, Australia and...
History of World War I: The Western Front 1917–1918
From Vimy Ridge to Amiens and the Armistice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the...
Rommel
In his own words
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“One loses all sense of time here. The battles for the last positions before Alexandria are hard. I was several days in the front line and lived in the car or a hole in the ground.”Erwin RommelCombining private letters to his wife, orders, his daily accounts of battle written during World War II...
Encyclopedia of the World's Special Forces
Tactics - Strategy - History - Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the advent of special forces units in World War II, governments and armies have trained small, elite teams of soldiers to perform operations deemed too risky or demanding for regular troops. Training to enter the special forces is harsh in the extreme, and the few who enter the ranks of the...
History of World War I: The Western Front 1914–1916
From the Schlieffen Plan to Verdun and the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns of the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns...
Stalin's Secret Police
A history of the CHEKA, OGPU,NKVD, SMERSH & KGB: 19171991
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The KGB of Cold War renown was the successor to a series of equally infamous and lethal state security agencies that date from the early days of the Russian Revolution: Cheka, OGPU, GUGB, NKVD, NKGB and MVD. Beginning with the Cheka, the organisation for combating counter-revolution and sabotage, Stalin’s...