Hitler's Paratroopers in Normandy: The German II Parachute Corps in the Battle for France, 1944 (Villahermosa Gilberto)(Pevná vazba)

Hitler's Paratroopers in Normandy: The German II Parachute Corps in the Battle for France, 1944 (Villahermosa Gilberto)(Pevná vazba)

In June 1944, Allied forces fighting desperately to establish a foothold in Normandy and then breakout of the confining bocage found themselves opposed by a bewildering array of formations of the German Wehrmacht. Among them were the newly formed German II Parachute Corps.This gripping new account

Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific (Gilbert Oscar E.)(Pevná vazba)

No previous book has been devoted to Marine Corps armor in World War II. Gilbert's gripping narrative combines exhaustive detail on Marine armor and combat with moving eyewitness accounts, never before published, of what it was actually like to be a Marine tanker in action in the

The German Army Medical Corps in World War II (Fleischer Wolfgang)(Pevná vazba)

This is the only book in English to present a detailed look at the German medical corps in World War II. Among the topics covered are training, structure of the corps, equipment, transport, medical care in a variety of combat zones, and a selection of personal memoirs from

The Falaise Gap Battles: Normandy 1944 (Forty Simon)(Paperback)

The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944 and the pursuit of the retreating German armies to the Seine provided the Allies with an immense victory. After ten weeks of hard attritional fighting, the Allies had broken loose from the bocage and

Hitler's Sky Warriors: German Paratroopers in Action 1939-1945 (Ailsby Christopher)(Paperback)

During the Second World War, the German Fallschirmjger (paratroopers) carried out many successful and daring operations, such as the capture of the Belgian fortress at Eben Emael in 1940 and the invasion of Crete in 1941. Hitler's Sky Warriors is a detailed examination of all the battles and

German Ground Forces of World War II: Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen Ss (McCroden William)(Pevná vazba)

German Ground Forces of World War II offers the first comprehensive order of battle for German ground troops throughout the Second World War, from the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the destruction of the last remnants of Germany's Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in Berlin in 1945. Unlike

Monte Cassino: Amoured Forces in the Battle for the Gustav Line (Plowman Jeffrey)(Paperback)

The battles fought between the Allied armies and the German Wehrmacht at Monte Cassino in 1944 were key episodes in the protracted Italian campaign, and the eventual Allied victory was a decisive step in the wider war to liberate Europe from German occupation. Much has been written about Cassino,

Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 (Bodleian Library)(Pevná vazba)

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. This book is an irresistible insight into British attitudes towards the French and an interesting, timeless commentary on Anglo-French

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Toll Ian W.)(Pevná vazba)

In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in the Pacific War. No tactical masterstroke or blunder could

Alarmstart South and Final Defeat: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Mediterranean Theatre 1941-44 and Normandy, Norway and Germany 1944-45 (Eriksson Patrick G.)(Pevná vazba)

Alarmstart South completes Patrick Eriksson's Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Mediterranean theatre (1941‒1944), and during the closing stages of the war over Normandy, Norway and Germany (1944‒1945). He utilises extensive

Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front. Volume II: Russia, Hungary, Lithuania, and the Battle for East Prussia (Rehfeldt Hans Heinz)(Pevná vazba)

Returning to his old unit, the grenade launcher, in May 1944, he experienced the heavy defensive battles in Romania as a platoon commander and from August 1944 in East Prussia and Lithuania. After being transferred by ship from Memel to K nigsberg in late 1944, he took part in the battles for

The RAF in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain: A Reappraisal of Army and Air Policy 1938-1940 (Baughen Greg)(Pevná vazba)

In May 1940, the German Army and the Allied forces they faced were fairly evenly matched. Two months later Britain was on her own, hopelessly outnumbered and facing imminent defeat. Should the RAF have done more to support the Allied armies in France? Could the RAF have protected the British Army

Operation Totalize (Saunders Tim)(Paperback)

By early August 1944 the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American breakout was finally gaining momentum. Now was the time to launch II Canadian Corps south towards Falaise. With much of the German armor having been stripped away for

Tiger I & Tiger II Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign 1944 (Oliver Dennis)(Paperback)

In his latest book in the TankCraft series, Dennis Oliver uses archive photographs and painstakingly researched, exquisitely presented color illustrations to examine the part these powerful tanks played in the Normandy battles and also the units that operated them.In spite of the relatively small

Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg: The Southern Flank - Dec. 1944 - Jan. 1945 Vol I The Germans (Gaul Roland)(Pevná vazba)

Narvik: The Struggle of Battle Group Dietl in the Spring of 1940 (Buchner Alex)(Pevná vazba)

The first English translation of this German account of the battle of Narvik.Published for the first time in English, this is a German account of the German invasion of Norway in the spring of 1940. It focuses on the efforts of Group '1' led by Eduard Dietl. This group of Gebirgstruppen was landed

A History of Twentieth-Century Germany (Herbert Ulrich)(Pevná vazba)

Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years after World War II. But it has also boasted a strong welfare state, affluence, liberalization and globalization, a successful democracy, and the longest

German Tanks in Normandy 1944: The Panzer, Sturmgeschtz and Panzerjger Forces That Faced the D-Day Invasion (Zaloga Steven J.)(Paperback)

Fighting Through to Hitler's Germany: Personal Accounts of the Men of 1 Suffolk 1944-45 (Forsdike Mark)(Pevná vazba)

After landing on D-Day, 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment fought through France, Holland and into Germany as part of the 3rd (British) Infantry Division. Ever cheerful, the Battalion were opposed by an increasingly ruthless enemy determined to deny the invader their homeland.As the campaign

Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945 (Willems Bastiaan)(Pevná vazba)

In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in

The Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg: The Southern Flank - Dec. 1944 - Jan. 1945 Vol.II the Americans (Gaul Roland)(Pevná vazba)

These two new volumes offer new insights into the events of one of the fiercest battles of World War II. Volume I covers the events from the German

From Leningrad to Narva: An Illustrated Study of the Battles in the Northern Baltic Area, January-September 1944 (Nevenkin Kamen)(Pevná vazba)

In January 1944 the Red Army at last succeeded in putting to an end one of the most dramatic sieges in the history of warfare, that of Leningrad. The Soviet spearheads quickly expelled the Wehrmacht from the vicinity of the city, but once they reached the prewar border with Estonia, they were

Battle of Cotentin - 9 - 19 June 1944 (Bernage Georges)(Pevná vazba)

In June 1944, the Americans left the Sainte-M re-Eglise and Utah Beach bridgehead and crossed the Merderet river to the Chauss e de la Fiere, taking Picauville on 10 June. Their advance was slowed following the failure of the 90th Infantry Division, but they were able to take Pont-l'Abbe on 12 June

Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows (Forty Simon)(Paperback)

Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army labored to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode in the Normandy campaign, and this photographic