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Accidental Agent
Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
John Goldsmith’s wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being over 30. Not easily deterred he eventually became a tank driving instructor in the ranks.
In 1942 accidental circumstances saw his recruitment into...
Into the Gates of Hell: Stug Command '41
A Novel Based on a True Story of Combat on the Russian Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
03:15, 22nd June 1941 - Barbarossa is unleashed and Kampfgruppe von Schroif are right there at the cutting edge of the battle for Russia. Thrown into action against the fortress of Brest-Litovsk, von Schroif and his crew drive a new weapon into battle - the legendary Sturmgeschütz. However, even...
Siege of Kustrin 1945
Gateway to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
The unexpected arrival of Soviet troops at the end of January 1945 at the ancient fortress and garrison town of Küstrin came as a tremendous shock to the German High Command-the Soviets were now only 50 miles from Berlin itself. The Red Army needed the vital road and rail bridges passing through...
Prussian Apocalypse
The Fall of Danzig 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Egbert Kieser’s graphic account of the Red Army’s assault on East Prussia in 1945 is one of the classic histories of the destruction of Hitler’s Germany, and it has never before been available in English. Using extensive, firsthand, unforgettable eyewitness testimony, he documents in riveting...
by Richard Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action.
In 1940 only 1st Armoured Division faced the German blitzkrieg and it was in the North African desert that armoured divisions came into their...
Stalingrad
Victory on the Volga
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
The Soviet victory over the Germans at Stalingrad was decisive for the war on the Eastern Front and for the Second World War as a whole, and the story of the long, bitter battle on the banks of the Volga has fascinated historians ever since. While it has been the subject of countless histories, memoirs...
Operation Dragoon
The Liberation of Southern France 1944
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in the south of France in August 1944, is often seen as a sideshow supporting Operation Overlord, the crucial D-Day landings in Normandy. And often the operation is criticized as an expensive diversion of men and equipment from the struggle against the German...
Hitler’s Boy Soldiers
The Hitler Jugend Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Founded in 1922 the Hitler Youth movement was the second oldest Nazi group. Comprising male youths aged 14 – 18, by December 1936 membership stood at over 5 million. During the Second World War, the role of Hitlerjugend evolved from assisting with the postal, train and fire services into full war...
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945
Red Steamroller
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht’s panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
On the Eastern Front during the Second World War massive Soviet and German tank armies clashed in a series of battles that were unmatched in their scale and ferocity. Several of them have attained almost legendary status. But epic encounters such as these were only part of a broader story, as Anthony...
The Crushing of Army Group North 1944–1945 on the Eastern Front
Images of War Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The Crushing of Army Group North 1944-45 on the Eastern Front tells the story in words and images of the last bitter months fought on Russian soil and the battle of the Baltic States that ensued. Drawing on rare and unpublished photos it reveals in detail how remnants of Army Group North were driven...
Hitler's Arctic War
The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
‘In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern Karelia and on the Murmansk coast.’ (Lieutenant-General...
Lifeline in Helmand
RAF Front-Line Air Supply in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Lifeline in Helmand tells the story of the Royal Air Force tactical transport force operating in one of the most dangerous regions in the Afghanistan campaign Helmand province. The Chinook helicopters of 1310 Flight fly heavy-lift and trooping missions to remote Forward Operating Bases and in direct...
Magnum! The Wild Weasels in Desert Storm
The Elimination of Iraq's Air Defence
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
his book is based upon a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. Building upon that record and the recollections of other F-4G Wild Weasel aircrew, the authors show a slice of what life and war was like during that...