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 D-Day
to Berlin : The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944-45
This study describes not only what happened from the D-Day
landings in June 1944 to the surrender of Germany eleven months later, but
why it happened. While an enormous amount has been written about this
campaign, most of it focuses on a single army or an individual battle.
Levine stresses a truly integrated approach that combines both strategy and
tactics and covers the land, sea, and air efforts of both Allies and Axis.
Levine deals extensively with the German side, particularly morale issues,
and he includes the role played by Canadian forces - a topic usually
neglected in American accounts. |
Alan J Levine
9780811733861
20 b&w photos and 5 maps
155x230mm, paperback
240 pages
Stackpole Books
£10.50 |
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Desert War in North Africa
The struggle for the North African coast of the Mediterranean was unlike any
other campaign of World War II. Because it was fought like a tournament in
an empty arena, with no one but the contestants getting hurt and with few of
the distractions of politics or large civilian populations, the desert was a
true test of generalship. Men including Germany's General Rommel and
Britain's General Montgomery dominated the battle with a brilliance that
established their reputations on the world stage. |
Stephen W Sears
9781596873018
b/w photos
140x215mm
168 pages
Brick Tower Press (ibooks)
£7.99 pb |
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Discovering the Rommel Murder :
The Life & Death of the Desert Fox
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's heroic opposition to Hitler in 1944 cost him
his life. In this intriguing, well-paced tale of a journalistic coup,
Marshall, the first to discover the real events behind Rommel's death, tells
how he learned the facts from Rommel's widow and delves into the great
general's background and death. He arrived at his conclusions based on his
intimate knowledge of men on Rommel's staff and his access to Rommel's
papers, including letters from the general to his wife. Here, for the first
time in paperback, is the exciting story of how the world learned about the
way the 'Desert Fox' met his death. |
Charles F Marshall
9780811724722
b/w photos
155x230mm
267 pages
Stackpole Books
£12.50 pb |
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Dunkirk - Anatomy of Disaster
The author takes a professional military historian's view of the ten months
from the declaration of war to what he considers to be the defeat of
Dunkirk. It is enhanced by the vivid and poignant memories of day-to-day
sufferings endured by the men involved as well the courage and despair
shown. His account of those months does not make for comfortable history but
it does shed a sane light on what has become folk mythology -- a confused
and painful part of history. |
Patrick Turnbull
9780841903968
b/w photos
160x240mm
186 pages
Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
£24.95 hb |
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Eagles
of the Third Reich : Men of the Luftwaffe in WWII
(Stackpole Military History Series)
From its secret post-World War I beginnings to its virtual destruction by
the Allied air forces, the story of the German air force is best told by
examining its leaders -- brilliant, ambitious, ruthless, and deceitful men
like Hermann Goering, the drug-addicted Luftwaffe commander; Erhard Milch,
the half-Jewish head of aircraft production; and Adolf Galland, the general
of fighters who often clashed with Goering. Mitcham profiles them and others
while describing the Luftwaffe's battles -- both in the skies and behind the
scenes -- and explaining why it was so decisively defeated.
The Secret Air Force; Command Fragmentation; Spain: The First Battle; The
Build-up and the Outbreak of the War; Blitzkrieg; The Air War Against
Britain, 1939-42; The Balkans Campaign; Russia, 1941: The Last Blitzkrieg;
The Fall of Ernst Udet; The Russian Front, 1942-43; The Bombings Begin,
1942; The Tide Turns, 1943; Defeat on All Fronts; Ritter von Greim: The Last
Field Marshall; Index. |
Samuel W Mitcham Jr
9780811734059
51 b/w photos & 8 maps
155x230mm
346 pages
Stackpole Books
£12.50 pb |
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Either Way Dead
The embryo for Operation Konigin was not dreamt up by
admirals surrounded by staff officers in some beautifully panelled room of
an occupied French Chateau. Instead it began in a glorified whore-house in
Lorient in a smoke filled room stinking of spilt beer, over-perfumed women
and the body odour of men who knew that their lives could be very short. One
of those men, the captain of a U-boat, made a drunken remark about 'Putting
one up the Queen' which grew to become a ribald cartoon on the notice board
in naval Headquarters in Berlin. There it caught the eye of an admiral who
detailed a commander to find out what was behind it. This is the chronicle
of the conception, gestation and final birth, in the distant unforgiving
cold waters off Iceland, of 'Operation Konigin'. Had it succeeded it would
have totally devastated the allied cause. That it did not was in no way due
to bad planning or lack of physical courage. |
Tony Gyles
9780953173754
110x180mm, paperback
309 pages
Brick Tower Press
£6.95 |
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Enigma : How the
Poles Broke the Nazi Code
In 1933, three Polish mathematicians led by Marian Rejewski succeeded in
breaking the German Enigma cipher, which the Germans considered unbreakable.
In 1939, just before the outbreak of war, the Poles shared their knowledge
with French and British intelligence services. This led to the powerful
British decoding operation at Bletchley Park, which supplied vital
intelligence known as Ultra to the allied forces. Yet, only recently have
the Polish codebreakers received international recognition. This text offers
a concise, up-to-date history of the Enigma decryption in Poland and the use
of this achievement in Poland and England. |
Wladyslaw Kozaczuk & Jerzy Straszak
9780781809412
60 b/w photos
140x215mm
164 pages
Hippocrene Books
£19.50 |
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Enigma of General Blaskowitz
On 5 February 1948, General Johannes Blaskowitz died under
mysterious circumstances while awaiting trial as a war criminal in Nürnberg.
Was it suicide or murder at the hands of the other prisoners? What was there
about Blaskowitz's career that diehard Nazis among the prisoners would want
to kill him? Dr Giziowski uses the enigma of General Blaskowitz's last days
as a starting point to examine one of the most remarkable military careers
of the Third Reich. At the end of the war Blaskowitz was in command of
German forces cut off in the Netherlands by the advancing Allies, probably
written off by the more realistic German leaders. Given his record, it is
ironic that Blaskowitz was under indictment for war crimes at the time of
his still-unexplained death.
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Richard Giziowski
9780781805032
b&w photos
155x235mm, hardback
532 pages
Hippocrene Books
£25.99 |
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Escape Via Siberia
: A Jewish Child's Odyssey of Survival
Whiteman presents a compelling story of survival. Through the story of one
boy -- Eliott 'Lonek' Jaroslawicz -- she conveys the tale of the dramatic
escape of thousands of Polish Jews from the encroaching Nazi menace. With
the crack of a Nazi whip on his father's head, the world that Lonek knows is
gone forever. Lonek and his family are forced to join the tide of refugees
fleeing eastward. In the course of their flight they are imprisoned in a
Siberian labour camp. A short-lived treaty between the Polish
Government-in-Exile and the Soviet Government allows for the miraculous
release of approximately one hundred thousand Polish citizens, including
Lonek's family. They make their way to Tashkent, only to find that life
there is harsh-hunger and sickness abound. When his father falls ill,
Lonek's mother is driven to despair and leaves her ten-year-old son on the
doorstep of an orphanage. Lonek is then swept up in another miraculous
rescue. He joins the more than 900 Jewish children known as the "Teheran
Children," who depart on the only kindertransport that emanates from Russia.
After an arduous journey, the children are stranded in Iran due to the
vagaries of war and failed diplomacy. Their plight is championed by
Henrietta Szold while the leadership of Hadassah relentlessly pressures the
American and British governments to assure the children's safe passage.
Finally, eight months after they leave Tashkent and after a route that takes
them through India and Egypt, Lonek and the other children safely reach
Palestine. In ESCAPE VIA SIBERIA, Whiteman has crafted an elegy to the human
spirit while emphasizing the tremendous international forces which affected
the Polish Jewish escapees' lives and their persistent, heroic struggle in
the face of tremendous odds. |
Dorit Bader Whiteman
9780841914032
Illustrated
160x235mm
219 pages
Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
£22.95 hb |
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European Home Fronts, 1939-1945
In a book arranged in chapters which deal separately with the Home Fronts of
each country, Beck is able to provide a comprehensive picture of the effects
of the world's only 'total war' upon the civilians who often faced
bewilderment, fear, death, and destruction all around them. Beck considers
the effects of bombing and sometimes actual fighting in the streets and
towns in which people lived, and the policies of individual governments that
attempted to encourage and retain support for the war effort in varying
ways. |
Earl R Beck
9780882959061
Harlan Davidson
£9.99 pb |
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Exit Rommel :
The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-43
In the sands of North Africa during the early years of World
War II, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel burnished his reputation as the
Desert Fox. After a string of successes, Rommel's fortunes began to sour
with the battles of El Alamein, where the British under Bernard Montgomery
halted Axis expansion in the fall of 1942, followed days later by the
Americans' Torch landings in Morocco and Algeria. As the Americans drove the
Germans into Tunisia from the west and the British from the east, Rommel
routed U.S. forces at Kasserine Pass, but logistical difficulties and the
erosion of weapons quality ultimately proved too much to overcome. After his
last-ditch attack at Medenine was repulsed, the Desert Fox was forced to
evacuate, leaving much of his fabled force to Allied captivity. |
Bruce Allen Watson
9780811733816
15 b&w photos and 10 maps
155x230mm, paperback
240 pages
Stackpole Books
£10.50 |
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The Fall of Crete
This is the epic story of one of the most bitter and exciting
battles fought between German and Allied forces during the whole of the
Second World War. With its vivid and compelling description of the battle
for Crete, this book must claim an important place in
the historiography of WWII."Describing the
operation to take the island from the ANZAC garrison and the recently
evacuated forces from the Greek debacle. Although it is generally well known
that it was ‘a close-run thing’, it wasn’t until I read this book that I
became aware just how close the Commonwealth forces came to pushing the
Fallschirmjager off the island. But in a few days of bitter fighting the
paratroopers had captured the island from a numerically superior but
ill-prepared and disorganised enemy.
An excellent read - I could not put this book down."
Amazon review
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Alan Clark
9789602260906
Paperback
Efstathiadis Group
£5.99 |
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Fortress France
: The Maginot Line & French Defenses in World War II
(Stackpole
Military History Series)
Between the world wars, France constructed a vast and complex
array of defences designed to prevent German forces from penetrating the
French heartland as they had during World War I. Among these was the famous
Maginot Line, the last of the great gun-bearing fortifications, but France
also built defences along its coasts and in its territories in North Africa.
Fully illustrated with photos, maps, and drawings, Fortress France describes
the design and construction of these fortifications, discusses French
defensive doctrine and strategy, and explains why these efforts proved
unable to stop the German attack in the spring of 1940. Includes finely
detailed plans, diagrams, and schematics of forts, blockhouses, turrets,
artillery pieces, tanks, and more.
Marching to the Wrong Tune; The Maginot Line; Closing the Gaps from the
North Sea to the Mediterranean; Sea and Air Defences; The March to Defeat;
The French Army and the Maginot Line at War; Conclusion. |
J E Kaufmann & H W Kaufmann
9780811733953
b/w photos & illus
155x230mm
200 pages
Stackpole Books
£10.50 |
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From Leningrad to Berlin :
Dutch Volunteers in The
German Waffen SS, 1941-1945
In February 1945 the German front at Stettin made one final
offensive. What make this extraordinary is the fact that the last desperate
push was mounted by non-German volunteers serving in the Waffen-SS. The main
body of the division was composed of Scandinavian volunteers, Belgians and
Dutchmen. This text presents a history of the Dutch volunteers of the Waffen-SS
from 1941 to 1945. |
Perry Pierik
9789059110045
b&w photos and tables
155x230mm, paperback
288 pages
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV
£15.95 |
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The Generals : The
Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War
Originally published in 1993, The Generals has received resounding
praise for its relevance, depth, and scholarship. A detailed account of
Canada's military at a crucial time in history, the book focuses on the
personalities, politics and pressures that define Canada's involvement in
WW2. It is the only book of its kind on this subject and remains an
invaluable resource for academics, policy makers and anyone interested in
Canada's military history.
Introduction: The Old Army; The Old Brigade; McNaughton: The God That
Failed; Crerar: Ambition Realised; Tommy Burns: Problems of Personality;
Simonds: Master of the Battlefield; Matthews and Hoffmeister: Militia
Successes; Pope and Stuart: Soldiers and Politicians; The Absence of
Francophone Generals; Conclusion. |
J L Granatstein
9781552381762
155x235mm
370 pages
University of Calgary Press
£16.50 pb |
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German Defeat
in the East, 1944-45
The last place a German soldier wanted to be in 1944 was the
Russian front. That summer, Stalin hurled more than 6 million men, 9,000
tanks, 16,000 aircraft, and 12,800 guns and rocket launchers against German
forces. Despite this gigantic effort and the resulting decimation of German
forces, events on the Eastern Front are largely neglected by historians who
focus instead on German defeats in Normandy and the Ardennes. This account
details the massive battles on the Eastern Front from the summer of 1944
until the fall of Budapest in early 1945, a period when Hitler lost the
majority of his conquered eastern territories and many of his best remaining
divisions. |
Samuel W Mitcham Jr
9780811733717
20 b&w photos and 10 maps
155x230mm, paperback
336 pages
Stackpole Books
£12.50 |
