Looks at the crucial period after the Red Army's success at Moscow when Germany was preparing for all-out attack across the entire Russian front, which was to end with disaster at Stalingrad.
This volume in the Pocket Manuals series is based on The Partisan's Companion, the Red Army manual used to train partisans to fight the Nazi invader
Photographs old and new reconstruct the battles of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte in 1944, providing a vivid comparison between then and now.
An accessible and entertaining new history of the Long Range Desert Group, forerunner of the SAS, famous for their exploits in the Desert War, and full of memorable characters and archetypal British heroes.
The true story of an American paratrooper who had a unique encounter during Operation Market Garden and his experiences as a POW.
The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939–45 provides an unusually detailed insight into what it took to make a military paratrooper and how he was then utilized as part of wider operations.
An account of the IV SS-Panzerkorps, an SS corps that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of the war.
An entirely new appraisal of the Anglo-French naval war of 1793–1814: the longest sea war in modern history, and the admirals who fought it for Napoleon.
The vivid and engaging memoir of a CIA case officer.
Stories from a medic serving with the highly classified SOG U.S. Special Forces unit in Vietnam.
A fully illustrated and detailed account of the 1 1/2-ton Chevy truck and its use by the U.S. Army during World War II.