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 Grey Wolf: Axis Forces on the Eastern Front, January 1944-February 1945 
 Grey Wolf: Axis Forces on the Eastern Front, January 1944-February 1945 Battlefront Miniatures Author: Peter Simunovich, John-Paul Brisigotti Flames of War ISBN: 978 0986466144 2011 Language: English Pages: 272 Format: PDF Size: 88,2 MB Grey Wolf contains all the Germans, Hungarians and Finnish forces you will be familiar with from Stalin's Onslaught, Hammer and Sickle, River of Heroes and Stalin's Europe. We've also added our most popular PDF Intelligence Briefings as well as some new Briefings and some forces from Fortress Europe.
Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II
 Author: John C. McManus Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II Presidio Press, Inc. 2000 Format: PDF Pages: 472 Language: English Size: 73.4 MB Deadly Sky is one of the most compelling books about men at war that you can ever read. It combines superb analysis of the World War II air war around the world with riveting, often heartbreaking eyewitness testimony from the participants. This book makes you feel you are there with those young men in their propellor driven planes, with the Messerschmitts and Zeros diving on them and the flak gouging their wings.
A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
 Author: Carl Shilleto, Mike Tolhurst A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy Interlink Pub Group ISBN: 1566565553 2014 Format: EPUB Size: 5,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 192
Beaumont Hamel (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Nigel Cave Serre (Battleground Europe) Pen and Sword Military 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 185 Size: 27 Mb Language: English Designed to act as a diversion to the 'big push', Gommecourt was an attempt to force the Germans to commit their reserves to the front line before the main battle took place. This Battlefield Guide tells the reader what happened and relates it to the ground as it now stands today.
When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940
 Author: Robin Prior When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940 Yale University Press ISBN: 0300166621 2015 Format: EPUB Size: 3,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 320
The Ardennes, 1944-1945: Hitler's Winter Offensive
 The Ardennes, 1944-1945: Hitler's Winter Offensive Author: Christer Bergstrom Casemate 2014 ISBN: 1612002773 Pages: 508 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 15 MB In December 1944, just as World War II appeared to be winding down, Hitler shocked the world with a powerful German counteroffensive that cracked the center of the American front. The attack came through the Ardennes, the hilly and forested area in eastern Belgium and Luxembourg that the Allies had considered a “quiet” sector. Instead, for the second time in the war, the Germans used it as a stealthy avenue of approach for their panzers. Much of U.S. First Army was overrun, and thousands of prisoners were taken as the Germans forged a 50-mile “bulge” into the Allied front. But in one small town, Bastogne, American paratroopers, together with remnants of tank units, offered dogged resistance. Meanwhile the rest of Eisenhower’s “broad front” strategy came to a halt as Patton, from the south, and Hodges, from the north, converged on the enemy incursion. Yet it would take an epic, six-week-long winter battle, the bloodiest in the history of the U.S. Army, before the Germans were finally pushed back.
Aviation of World War II
 Aviation of World War II Author: composite authors Archives Pages: 122 Format: JPG Size: 21 mb Quality: Good
The Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945
 Author: Alan J. Levine The Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 Praeger Publishers 1992 248 Format: Pdf Size: 13 MB Language: English his book is the only full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany published in the last twenty years, and is the only one that treats the British and the Americans with parity. Much of what Levine writes about British operations will be unfamiliar to American readers. He has stressed the importance of winning air superiority and the role of escort fighters in strategic bombing, and has given more attention to the German side than most writers on air warfare have. Levine gets past a simple account of "what we did to them" and describes the target systems and German countermeasures in detail, providing exact yet dramatic accounts of the great bomber operations the Ruhr dams, Ploesti, and Regensburg and Schweinfurt.
Operation Plunder: The British & Canadian Rhine Crossing
 Author: Tim Saunders Operation Plunder: The British & Canadian Rhine Crossing Pen and Sword Battleground Europe ISBN: 1844152219 2006 Format: EPUB Pages: 192 Size: 12 Mb Language: English Operation Plunder was the overall name for 21st Army Group's crossing of the Rhine but each of the major elements was known by its own codeword, TURNSCREW and TORCHLIGHT, the British assault river crossing; WIDGEON, FLASHLIGHT, the crossing by XVI US Corps.Operation Plunder joins over 100 previously published titles in the acclaimed Battleground series. These well written and highly illustrated guide books not only bring the battlefields alive for visitors, they also entertain readers at home.
Images of War: Hitler's Mountain Troops 1939-1945
 Author: Ian Baxter Images of War: Hitler's Mountain Troops 1939-1945 Pen & Sword 2011 Format: ePub (e-book) Pages: 176 Language: English Size: 13 MB Hitler's mountain troops or Gebirgsjager were a group of elite soldiers ready for battle, whatever the conditions. These mountain men were trained to ski, climb and endure long marches, survive appalling conditions and were given a role as crack shock troops. Yet many of the campaigns in which the Gebirgsjager fought were on level ground where they had little opportunity to demonstrate their unique skills. Instead, they were invariably employed as assault infantry in conventional battle, a role in which every individual trooper excelled, but not one for which they had been trained. They fought in virtually all theatres of World War, notably on the Eastern Front, where operations took them into the Caucasus. The Gebirgsjager were proud to wear the Edelweiss, the famous badge that set them apart and distinguished them as Hitler's mountain men.
The Kaiten Weapon
 Author: Yutaka Yokota The Kaiten Weapon Ballantine Books 1962 Format: PDF Pages: 268 Language: English Size: 39 MB Japan's suicide torpedo pilots-underwater counterpart of the deadly and fanatic Kamikaze..In this book Yutaka Yokota who miraculously survived the war, tells how he learned to operate his suicide torpedo and describes the farewell ceremony in which a man is dedicated to death. Most important, he succeeds in conveying to readers an understanding of men like himself who deliberately accepted annihilation in the hope of defeating in World War II.
German Light and Medium Tanks (Hitler's War Machine)
 Author: Bob Carruthers German Light and Medium Tanks (Hitler's War Machine) Coda Books Ltd 2012 Format: EPUB Size: 3,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 192 This comprehensive overview of the light and medium Panzers in action was compiled by Emmy Award winning historian Bob Carruthers. It draws heavily on war-time intelligence reports to produce a fascinating insight into the development and combat history of the Panzer I, II, III and IV at the tactical and operational level. Also featured are rare developments such as the flame thrower variant alongside unpublished photographs and illustrations which provide an absorbing study, from an array of primary sources, of the world of the Panzers and their crews from contemporary Allied sources, which conveys to the modern reader a vivid sense of how they were viewed at the time. This book is part of the 'Hitler's War Machine' series, a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on primary sources and contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of Hitler's Wehrmacht. The series consultant is David Mcwhinnie creator of the award winning PBS series 'Battlefield'.
Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC
 Author: William J. Hamblin Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC (Warfare and History) Routledge 2006 ISBN: 0415255899 Format: DJVU Size: 9,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 544 The only book available that covers this subject, Warfare in the Ancient Near East is a groundbreaking and fascinating study of ancient near Eastern military history from the Neolithic era to the middle Bronze Ages. Drawing on an extensive range of textual, artistic and archaeological data, William J. Hamblin synthesizes current knowledge and offers a detailed analysis of the military technology, ideology and practices of Near Eastern warfare.
Normandy Battles: Wargaming D-Day and Beyond
 Normandy Battles: Wargaming D-Day and Beyond Battlefront Miniatures Author: Casey Davies, Wayne Turner, Andrew Haught and Mike Haught Flames of War ISBN: 978 0987660947 2012 Language: English Pages: 116 Format: PDF Size: 92,3 MB In the early morning darkness of 6 June 1944, the largest armada of ships the world has ever seen heaves to off the Normandy coastline. Aboard, thousands of Allied soldiers wait in readiness for their date with destiny. Months of planning, training and preparation are now behind them. On this day they will undertake the greatest amphibious assault in history, and on their success or failure hangs the very fate of the liberation of Europe from the jackboot of Nazi domination. D-Day is finally here!
Battle of Kursk 1943 (Images of War)
 Author: Hans Seidler Battle of Kursk 1943 (Images of War) Pen and Sword Military 2011 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 7 Mb The greatest tank battle in world history, known as Operation CITADEL, opened during the early hours of 5 July 1943, and its outcome was to decide the eventual outcome of the war on the Eastern Front. Images of War - Battle of Kursk 1943, is an illustrated account of this pivotal battle of the war on the Eastern Front, when the Germans threw 900,000 men and 2,500 tanks against 1,300,000 soldiers and 3,000 tanks of the Red Army in a savage battle of attrition.
June 1944
 Author: H.P.Willmott June 1944 Blandford Press 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 230 Language: English Size: 28.8 MB In June 1944 the fate of all the nations involved in World War II hung in the balance. Normandy was only one site of the momentous battles which in this crucial month decided the outcome of the war and the political geography of the post-war world. In Italy, on the Eastern Front and in the Pacific, pivotal and closely interwoven battles took place.
Fighter! Fighter! Corkscrew Port!: Vivid Memories of Bomber Aircrew in World War Two
 Author: Pat Cunningham Fighter! Fighter! Corkscrew Port!: Vivid Memories of Bomber Aircrew in World War Two Pen and Sword ISBN: 184884655X 2012 Format: EPUB + PDF (conv) Size: 6,4 МБ + 6,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 256 The young men who flew with RAF Bomber Command in World War Two were a complex mixture of individuals but they all shared the gift of teamwork. A crew of seven may have comprised all non-commissioned men and some crews included commissioned officers but not always flying as pilots. The outstanding fact was that each man relied on every other member of his crew to return from each mission safely.This book contains ten intriguing reminiscences of bomber aircrew; some were pilots, others navigators, flight engineers, bomb-aimers or gunners. They flew as both commissioned or NCO airmen. Understandably, a common problem was that of coping with fear. Many former aircrew hold that anyone who claims to have felt no fear on operations is either lying or has allowed the years to blank out that fear. But there are a few who do maintain that they never felt afraid. For the majority, though, handling fear was something to be worked out by the individual. Some hit the bottle, others womanized to excess; others tightened the gut and bit the lip; or drew the curtain and focused upon the plotting table or the wireless set. The passing years may have silvered what hair remains, dulled the eye that formerly registered on the merest speck; lent a quiver to the hand that once controlled the stick, penciled in the track, manipulated the tuning dial, set the bombsight, tapped the gauge, or rotated the turret. And yet for all the attributes of age their irrepressible youthfulness shines through.
Pearl Harbor
 Author: G. C. Skipper Pearl Harbor (World at War) Childrens Press 1983 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 41.5 MB The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
The Southern Front
 Author: Collective Conquest of the Balkans (The Third Reich Series) Time-Life Books 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 200 Language: English Size: 33 MB A book in the Time-Life series about the Third Reich. A comprehensive description of the Southern Front with essays.
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