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by Vassili Subbotin, Tony Le Tissier
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
In 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union Vassili Subbotin was caught up as an ordinary soldier in the Red Army’s great retreat. In 1945, during the final days of the war, as a war correspondent, he went into Berlin with the troops who fought the ferocious final battles in the streets and sealed...
Hitler versus Stalin
The Eastern Front 1944–1945 - Warsaw to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In the fourth and final volume of Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front the defeat of the German army, the destruction and occupation of the cities in eastern Germany and the humiliation of the German people are shown in over 150 mostly unpublished wartime...
Operation Fall Weiss
German Paratroopers in the Poland Campaign, 1939
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
While the fledgling German paratroop operations in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in 1941, attracted worldwide attention, what is not as well known is that the use of paratroopers was planned for the invasion of Poland in 1939, in an act that began the Second World War. This has...
Eighth Army in Italy 1943-45
The Long Hard Slog
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Eighth Army, Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century, landed in Italy in September 1943 and fought continously until the defeat of the Germans in early-May 1945. This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open...
The Great War Illustrated 1917
Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Fourth in a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become...
Victory in Italy
15th Army Group's Final Campaign 1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to The Fatherland, 15 Army Group's 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable results in Northern Italy.
Superb generalship (Truscott – 5th Army and McCreery – 8th Army under General
by The Earl of Rosse, Colonel ER Hill, Marshal Lord Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Formed in June 1941, the Guards Armoured Division proved that Household Troops could adapt their legendary high standards to a totally new role. Deploying to Normandy in 1944 under Major General Sir Allan Adair, the Division acquitted itself with distinction in the costly Operation GOODWOOD.
After...
Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
At 21:00 on 9 May 1940 Codeword Danzig was issued alerting Adolf Hitler's airborne troops that they were about to spearhead an attack on Belgium and the Netherlands. The following day his blitzkrieg rolled forward striking the British Expeditionary Force and the French armies in Belgium and in northern...
German Army on the Eastern Front - The Retreat 1943-1945
Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army’s front lines were slowly smashed to pieces by the growing might of the Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to fight gallantly. Even after the failed battle of the Kursk in the summer of 1943, and then a year later when the Russians...
The Panther Tank
Hitler’s T-34 Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Along with the Tiger, Sherman and T-34, the Panther ranks as one of the most famous tanks of the Second World War. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this comprehensive new study of a remarkable fighting vehicle, uses over 100 archive photographs, along with a selection of colour profiles, to describe its design,...
by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944. It was a result of the extraordinary recovery of Hitler’s panzer divisions following crushing defeats on the Eastern and Western fronts. In a daring offensive he hoped his panzers would unhinge the American and British push on the...
The Iraq War
Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the American and British armed forces in a lightning campaign...
The Panzer IV
Hitler's Rock
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The Panzerkampfwagen Mk IV proved to be the one constant in Hitler's Panzerwaffe throughout the Second World War - the German equivalent of the American Sherman and the Soviet T-34\. In this companion volume to his best-selling visual histories of the Tiger and Panther tanks, Anthony Tucker-Jones...
The Battle for the Caucasus 1942–1943
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
In late 1942 Hitler's forces advanced far into the Caucasus in the southern Soviet Union in one of the most ambitious offensives of the Second World War, but this extraordinary episode is often forgotten-it is overshadowed by the disastrous German attack on Stalingrad which took place at the same...