The Crushing of Army Group North 1944-1945 on the Eastern Front (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The Crushing of Army Group North 1944-1945 on the Eastern Front (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

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 Drawing on rare and unpublished photos it reveals in detail how remnants of Army Group North were

German Army on the Eastern Front: The Advance (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

German Army on the Eastern Front - The Advance is a highly illustrated record of the extraordinary feat of arms that saw the Nazi armies drive deep into the vast terrain of the Soviet Union, to the gates of Stalingrad and Moscow. It traces the campaign from these hopeful beginnings until, on the

Operation Bagration: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group Center, 1944 (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

An illustrated account of the battle of Bagration, 1944.Bagration was the code word that the Soviet Army gave for their summer offensive in 1944. This massive offensive led to the destruction of the German Army Group Center and was the greatest military defeat ever experienced by the German Army

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

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

The Nazis' Winter Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

Hitler's shock decision to launch the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 was arguably the turning point of the Second World War. Spectacular early victories saw the Nazis close in on Moscow but the Soviet 1941/42 winter counter offensive changed the odds entirely.Without doubt

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

Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front, 1944-1945 (Seidler Hans)(Paperback)

Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945 is a compelling account of the Nazis' ten month struggle against the overwhelming Allied military might on the Western Front.Thanks to the successful Images of War format of authoritative text supported by copious, well captioned contemporary images,

Marching from Defeat: Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union, 1944 (Neuber Claus)(Paperback)

In June 1944, in Belarus on the Eastern Front, the Red Army launched Operation Bagration, the massive offensive that crushed Hitler's Army Group Centre. German soldiers who weren't encircled and captured had to fight their way back towards their own lines across hundreds of miles of enemy

Tank Wrecks of the Eastern Front 1941-1945 (Tucker-Jones Anthony)(Paperback)

Four years of armored battle on the Eastern Front in the Second World War littered the battlefields with the wrecks of destroyed and disabled tanks, and Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history is a fascinating guide to them. It provides a graphic record of the various types of tank deployed by

SS Das Reich at War 1939-1945: A History of the Division on the Western and Eastern Fronts (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

Between 1933 and 1939, the strength and influence of the SS grew considerably with thousands of men being recruited into the new ideological armed formation, many into units known as the SS-Verfgungstruppe (Special Disposal Troop). These troops saw action in Poland before switching to the Western

Hetzer - Jagdpanzer 38 Tank Destroyer: German Army and Waffen-SS Western Front, 1944-1945 (Oliver Dennis)(Paperback)

By 1944 the German army was on the defensive on all fronts and Allied bombing was putting increasing pressure on the nation's industrial output. Since the earliest days of the war the Germans had experimented with mounting anti-tank weapons on obsolete chassis and one of the most successful of

Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945 (Raus Erhard)(Paperback)

German general Erhard Raus was one of the most talented commanders to fight on the Eastern Front in Russia, where he was eventually appointed to army group command in early 1945. By the time the war ended, Raus had established a reputation as one of the German army's foremost tacticians of armored

The German Army on the Eastern Front: An Inner View of the Ostheer's Experiences of War (Rutherford Jeff Rutherford)(Pevná vazba)

Histories of the German army on the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on the war as it was fought in the front line. They tend to neglect other aspects of the army's experience, particularly its participation in the racial war demanded by the leadership of the Reich. This

Under Himmler's Command: The Personal Recollections of Oberst Hans-Georg Eismann, Operations Officer, Army Group Vistula, Eastern Front 1945 (Eismann Hans-Georg)(Paperback)

Under Himmler's Command addresses two areas of WWII hitherto neglected - Heinrich Himmler as a military commander, and the German staff officer corps during the last months of the war on the Eastern Front. The author, Hans-Georg Eismann, was the Operations Officer for Heeresgruppe 'Weichsel' (Army

Panzergrenadiers 1942-1945 (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The term Panzergrenadier was introduced in 1942 and applied equally to the infantry component of Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and later Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiere divisions.As this classic new Images of War book describes, these elite divisions fought as mechanized infantry and escort for and in close

Hitler Versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1943 - 1944: Kursk to Bagration (Cornish Nik)(Paperback)

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (Applebaum Anne)(Paperback)

National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer In the much-anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist

Red Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Joseph Pilyushin (Pilyushin Joseph)(Paperback)

Joseph Pilyushin, a top Red Army sniper in the ruthless fight against the Germans on the Eastern Front, was an exceptional soldier and he has a remarkable story to tell. His first-hand account of his wartime service gives a graphic insight into his lethal skill with a rifle and into the desperate

Himmler's Death Squad: Einsatzgruppen in Action, 1939-1944 (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The murderous activities of Himmler's Einsatzgruppen - or death squads - rank high among the horrors of the Nazi regime during the Second World War. These hand-picked groups followed in the wake of Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht units advancing intro Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia.Their mass murder of

Panther Tanks - German Army Panzer Brigades: Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944-1945 (Oliver Dennis)(Paperback)

Uses archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations to examine the Panther battalions of the Panzer brigades.In July 1944, with the Eastern Front crumbling and the first cracks appearing in the Normandy defenses, Hitler ordered the creation of a new type of unit based on the ad-hoc

Beetles of Eastern North America (Evans Arthur V.)(Paperback)

The most comprehensive full-color guide to the beetles of eastern North America Beetles of Eastern North America is a landmark book--the most comprehensive full-color guide to the remarkably diverse and beautiful beetles of the United States and Canada east of the Mississippi River. It is the first

7th SS Mountain Division Prinz Eugen at War 1941-1945: A History of the Division (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen 1941 - 1945 is the 7th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series written by Ian Baxter. The book tells the story of the 7th SS Mountain Division was formed in 1941 from the

5th SS Wiking at War 1941-1945: History of the Division (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The Wiking SS Division was one of the most ruthless fighting formations of WW2. This is the fifth in the author's Waffen SS Division Images of War

Men of Steel: the Ardennes & Eastern Front 1944-45 (Reynolds Michael)(Paperback / softback)

In March 1943 the three senior Divisions of the Waffen-SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (Bodyguard), Das Reich (Empire) and Totenkopf (Death s Head) were fighting against Stalin s armies in the Ukraine under the command of SS Lieutenant General Paul Hausser. Aware of the need to create more divisions