In this dramatic account of the last days of peace in 1939, Richard Overy re-creates hour by hour the unfolding story in the capitals of Europe as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war that they feared might spell the end ...
Captain Phillips was leading us. The platoons were well deployed. We pushed our way through whatever Germans were in front of us to a drawbridge at the canal and anchored ourselves in position.' Radio operator Private Haller, ...
I bogen beskrives den vildledningsvirksomhed, som under 2. verdenskrig udførtes af et hold specialister, incl. forfatteren, under ledelse af den nærmest legendariske brigadegeneral Dudley Clarke.
By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to the gates of Moscow. Yet, less than four...
Featuring 250 previously unpublished action photographs, this work offers a highly illustrated study of the Waffen SS throughout Europe.
This is the entire story of the Third Reich at war, covering all the Wehrmacht's major battles and campaigns of World War II, among them Barbarossa, Stalingrad, the Battle of...
This study picks up where D-Day leaves off. From Normandy through the breakout in France to the German Army's last gasp in the Battle of the Bulge, Michael Doubler deals...
The orders came from Patton himself: Take a strike force behind enemy lines--with no air or ground support--and liberate a POW camp at Hammelburg, where Patton's son-in-law was held. Captain...
Uses interviews with ordinary citizens to recount what life was like in Nazi Germany, discusses work, family life, blind loyalty, and secret opposition, and describes the author's own experiences
Partisanvirksomheden i 2. VK i Italien fra juli 1943 - Mussolinis fald - til krigens afslutning i maj 1945. Tillige en selvbiografi af Pesce, der træner GAP (Gruppi di Azione...
Mission Marcel-Proust: The Story of an Unusual OSS Undertaking
Profiles the virtually unknown 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, an elite, thousand-man "ghost army" that helped win the Battle of Europe and fought in more campaigns than any other unit in the European Theater of Operations. 30,000 first ...
The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler's armies in World War II, but some of the most fanatical of these were not even German. SS: Hitler's Foreign...
From the opening shots of World War II in Poland in September 1939, through the blitzkrieg to the fall of France and the Low Countries, the German Army was at...
On August 2, 1914, Reverend Andrew Clark of rural Essex began to keep a diary of everything--news, views, gossip, letters, and circulars--pertaining to World War I. His vast compilation, here...
The Battle of Britain
Krinkelt-Rocherath: The Battle for the Twin Villages
German Order of Battle, 1944: The Regiments, Formations and Units of the German Ground Forces
This book presents the final phase of the war as seen daily by a young officer of the German general staff. The reader is a witness to the dramatic events...
An examination of Hitler's special commando forces in the Second World War, led by Admiral Canaris, head of the German Secret Service, looking a operations which ranged over a dozen...