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Der anglo-amerikanische Kampf im November 1944 um die Geilenkirchener Landzunge war Infanterie-Krieg der schlimmsten Art. Er wird von Ken Ford in dieser neuen Ausgabe seiner klassischen Studien in lebendigen Details beschrieben. Der von der Normandie ausgehende Vormarsch der Alliierten (Juni 1944) wird durch den Wintereinbruch an der Schwelle zu Deutschland gestoppt. Das Buch stellt die Uhren zurück auf die Tage des Zweiten Weltkrieges im Nove...

Expertly fortified and stubbornly defended by some of Germany's finest troops, the Cassino massif and the devastated town at its foot defied assault by Allied troops from January until May 1944. The grim story of the Four Battles of Cassino is told here in detail.

D-Day Commando

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This key title in the acclaimed Battle Zone Normandy series, takes the reader back to the battlefields of June 1944 and remembers the young men who fell in the service of Canada and the Allied cause.

Covering both the triumph of the Sword Beach landings and the disappointment of the failure to capitalize on that early success, this text allows the reader to stand on the spot where momentous decisions were made and see how and why the battle lost its momentum.

48 Royal Marine Commando began its life in March 1944 and was disbanded in the UK less than two years later in January 1946. In its short but active life it always seemed to be in the thick of the fighting. Based on eyewitness accounts, this is an authoritative history of an elite formation.

Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history. At the heart of the invasion and key to its success were the landings of British 50th Division on Gold Beach and Canadian 3rd Division on Juno Beach. Not only did they provide the vital link between the landings of British 3rd Division on Sword Beach and the Americans to the west on Omaha, they would be crucial to the securing of the ...

ARE YOU HAVING DIFFICULTY MAKING SENSE OF THIS THING CALLED - LIFE? In a Process With God doesn't propose to answer all of life's questions. However, it does present a perspective that can maybe help you start to piece seasons of your life together. Life isn't a string of unattached moments and experiences haphazardly falling in your path. In God's unique plan for your life, He's taking you on a journey that leads to one ultimate destination -...

Osprey's trilogy on Operation Market-Garden continues with this fascinating and detailed account of the doomed British airborne assault on the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem.

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Operation 'Husky' was the only action in WWII where the whole Allied war effort was brought to bear on a single objective, with one army commanded by Patton and another by Montgomery. The seeds of rivalry between these two commanders that were sown in the Sicily campaign eventually grew to fruition in the battles for Normandy and the Ardennes.

On 18 November 1941, the British launched Operation Crusader against the Axis positions in Africa. This title tells the story of the British victory that demonstrated their ability to fight head-to-head against the Germans in Africa.

The battle around Falaise in Normandy during August 1944 saw the destruction of the German Seventh army. This book details the chain of events which led to the German retreat and the ensuing liberation of France. The British and American breakout battles had released motorised units to wage a more mobile war against the German static defensive tactics. At Falaise, the armoured units of US Third Army encircled the German Seventh Army, squeezed ...

The battle of El Alamein marked the turning point in Britain's fortunes in the Second World War. There were three separate battles between July and November 1942, all of which were fought to halt the advance of Rommel's army towards the Suez Canal. This final battle at El Alamein, fought in October and November, saw the continuous bombardment of the German line that Rommel was instructed to hold at all costs by Hitler himself. The Allies shatt...

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The third title in Osprey's survey of the D-Day landings of World War II (1939-1945). At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had begun. Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistreham as British 3rd Divisi...

The last great heave of war, ' according to Churchill, took place with the crossing of the Rhine in 1945. No invading army had crossed this great river since Napoleon's in 1805, and the task fell to Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Army Group. Opposing them were the forces of a failing fascist regime, including battalions of old men and boys, strengthened by several formations of crack troops, including paratroopers and Panzer Grenadiers.This b...