Sa Press: 35 books

MIDWAY: The Battle of Midway is generally considered to be the crucial turning point in the Pacific theater of the Second World War. In a matter of minutes, an apparent Japanese victory turned into a stunning defeat for the forces of Japan, as four of the Emperor’s mightiest aircraft carriers were...

AFRIKA KORPS: When the Italian Dictator Mussolini’s forces were chased across the North African desert into Libya by inferior British forces, Hitler decided to halt the route by sending a few “light” divisions into Africa to stem another Italian defeat. “The Afrika Korps,” as this force...

There were several attempts to assassinate the Brutal Dictator Adolph Hitler, some came very close, but they all failed to kill him. In this series we look at the ones that came the closest. First the plots: all initiated separately from each other, and by unsuspected, disparate individuals from...

Tarawa: The Island of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands was defended by 2,600 well trained Japanese troops. Its Commander, Rear Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that a million Marines could not take Tarawa even if they had a hundred years to do it. A thousand yards off shore, a bow shaped coral reef assured...

EMP… Electromagnetic Pulse. When it happened it came fast; most people figured it was just a local outage, a minor problem, and oh, the power will come back on shortly… it didn’t. Hours passed, then days and finally weeks, then panic. The government tried to calm the masses by saying that the...

EASTERN FRONT: The strategic movement into the Crimea and the battle of Sevastopol was another one of Hitler’s grand schemes into which he bullied the German General Staff. At its center were the oil fields in the Caucasus, but it was a plan that should have waited until the Russian Forces were...

The Roman Empire has just collapsed, and the Dark Ages are descending across Europe. It is the time when legends and myths are born. Some say Elves and Dwarfs lived alongside men and practiced magic and wizardry and other arts long forgotten. Dark Arts were also practiced by the evil powers that...