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Hitler’s Last Levy in East Prussia
Volkssturm Einsatz Bataillon Goldap (25/235) 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
On 16 October, 1944, the 3rd White Russian Front launched its massive offensive against Heeresgruppe Mitte. The German 4th Armee, whose line of defense stretched from Nowograd on the Narew to Memel, was quickly broken through.
This is the very personal war-diary of the adjutant of Volkssturm...
Blood in the Forest
The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Blood in the Forest tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of fields and forests in Western Latvia known as the...
by Bavarian General Staff
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Bavarian army, which fought the War of 1866, was not greatly distinguished for its performance, but a translation of the Bavarian general staff history of the war is a document, which should be available in English, since it gives an official analysis of the conflict. The narrative presents a...
The Easter Offensive, Vietnam 1972. Volume 2
Tanks in the streets
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
On 30 March 1972, while peace negotiations had been dragging on for four years in Paris, the North Vietnamese launched a wide scale offensive in order to break the stalemate. At that date, practically no American ground forces remained in South Vietnam where a limited offensive was expected in the...
by Frank Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
When competition at a British dog show turns deadly, it’s up to Inspector Yale to sniff out a killer in this whodunit perfect for Agatha Christie fans.
For professional dog breeders across the United Kingdom, competition is everything. If your prized pooch wins Best in Show, you can fetch...
On the Devil's Tail
In Combat with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1945, and with the French in Indochina 1951-54
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a fifteen-year-old German-Italian, who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" and, later, as a soldier with French forces during three years (1951-1954) in...
The Battle of Worth
August 6th 1870
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This is a companion volume - and a much less well-known study - to the same author's classic, The Battle of Spicheren August 6th 1870, providing an account of the 'other' battle fought that day, at Woerth, in Alsace. The Battle of Woerth was, like Spicheren, an encounter battle during the opening...
by Alexander Hold
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This is a translation of the 1867 work by Alexander Hold, Geschichte der Feldzugs in Italien 1866, which describes in detail the campaign of the previous year, fought between the armed forces of the Austrian empire and the kingdom of Italy in the Austrian province of Venetia and the southern Tyrol...
The Easter Offensive, Vietnam 1972. Volume 1
Invasion across the DMZ
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from South Vietnam were suddenly shelled by hundreds of heavy guns and multiple rocket launchers. Caught in a series of outposts of what was the former ‘McNamara Line’, the shocked defenders...
by Kerrin Cocks
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime as Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA armies commenced their armed struggle, the Chimurenga,...
Twilight of the Gods: A Swedish Waffen-SS Volunteer's Experiences with the 11th SS-Panzergrenadier Division 'Nordland', Eastern Front 1944-45
A Swedish Waffen-SS Volunteer's Experiences with the 11th SS-Panzergrenadier Division 'Nordland', Eastern Front 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Few new personal accounts by Waffen-SS soldiers appear in English; even fewer originate from the multitude of non-German European volunteers who formed such an important proportion of this service's manpower. Twilight of the Gods was originally written in Swedish, and published in Buenos Aires shortly...
In the Fire of the Eastern Front: The Experiences of a Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteer on the Eastern Front 1941-45
The Experiences Of A Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteer On The Eastern Front 1941-45
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Dutch SS accounts are very rare, particularly ones such as this, covering recruitment, training, and front-line service first with 5th SS Panzer Division 'Wiking', then later with SS Regiment Besslein. He not only informs and illustrates the general politics of the time, but also explains how Dutch...
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 1. The German Advance The Encirclement Battle and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives 10 July-24 August 1941
The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle, and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
At dawn on 10 July 1941 massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers beginning what Adolf Hitler the Führer of Germany's Third Reich and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march...
Fall of the Red Baron: World War I Aerial Tactics and the Death of Richthofen
World War I Aerial Tactics and the Death of Richthofen
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
Fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) lacked innate aerobatic ability. As a tyro, he attempted to solve this problem through denial, going so far as to sneer at stunting as pointless. Great War air combat experience proved quite the reverse, and so we would anticipate a short and sad...