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A vivid re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through detailed maps, authoritative text by a noted military historian and contemporary photographs. This powerful study chronicles the evolution of the invasion plan and culminates in a day-by-day account of the landings by sea and by air on the Normandy beaches, followed by the grim six-week struggle to break through the German defences. An important feature is the space devo...

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Der Zweite Weltkrieg - bemerkenswert aufwendig dokumentiert.  Zum 80. Jahrestag des Kriegsausbruchs am 1. September 1939 präsentiert dieser hochkarätige Bildband eine Gesamtdarstellung der schwierigen Epoche und ihrer Hintergründe von 1914 bis 1951. Das beeindruckende Nachschlagewerk visualisiert in über 1.200 Fotografien, Illustrationen, präzisen Karten, Zeittafeln, Biografien, Zeitzeugenberichten und historischen Dokumenten detailgenau die...

Photographic history of the Prisoner of War camp which served as the inspiration for "The Great Escape", providing a graphic impression of the prison's conditions and an insight into the incarcerated experience.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

How the German field marshals failed to stand up to Hitler.

The Royal Tank Regiment through the last third of the Cold War, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, the two Gulf Wars, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Explores the tumultuous life of General Frank Crozier, a controversial British General. Focuses on Crozier's three years as a senior commander on the Western Front and asks whether he was really a rogue, or a man of honour?

Charles Messenger spent nineteen years in the Royal Tank Regiment before pursuing a career as a military historian and defence analyst. He is the author of over forty books, including The Art of Blitzkrieg, The Commandos 1940 ¿ 1946 and The Second World War in the West. Messenger has also written biographies of three of the major German players in Normandy ¿ von Rundstedt, Rommel and Sepp Dietrich ¿ and has written and co-directed major televi...

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The definitive and thrilling history of those who wore the famous green beret.

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Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of the foremost German commanders of the Second World War. After service on both the Western and Eastern Fronts during 1914-1918 he rose steadily through the ranks before retiring in 1938. Recalled to plan the attack on Poland, he played a leading part in this and the invasion of France in 1940.

Complemented by an authoritative text by respected historian Charles Messenger and interviews with eye-witness survivors, the book traces in chronological order the development of the war, from the seeds of conflict and the opening shots to the way in which it was fought, whether in the trenches, at sea or in the air.

A charismatic yet notorious character, Sepp Dietrich the man is impossible to separate from Sepp Dietrich the General, who was awarded twenty-four different honors during his service to the Nazi party and was known for his devotion to his men as he led them through some of the fiercest fighting in the war. In this extensively researched book, historian Charles Messenger attempts to discover the truth about this sparsely documented man, paintin...