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The Battle of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War.

In July 1943 a series of heavy bombing raids virtually destroyed the North German city of Hamburg. In one night alone some 40, 000 people were killed largely as a result of the terrible firestorm. To this day controversy rages as to the morality of these attacks and their consequences.

Covers a 24 hour period of Allied Strategic Bombing Offensive in meticulous detail.

This book consists of interviews, research of British and Polish airborne forces involved in Arnhem, German forces and Dutch civilians caught up in the battle. It covers the wider scene of the American airborne landings and the attempt by ground forces to reach Arnhem.

The gradual erosion of hopes that the battle of Arnhem would win the war in Europe for the allies is documented detail by detail in this return from the author of "The Nuremburg Raid".

De Slag aan de Somme vormt een van de meest dramatische gebeurtenissen uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Samen met de Slag bij Verdun vormt de Somme het symbool van de wreedheid van de Eerste Wereldoorlog en de loopgraven. De auteur Martin Middlebrook heeft deze even beroemde als beruchte slag met dit boek werderom tot leven gewekt. Als geen ander is hij er in geslaagd zowel de grote lijnen en strategie in beeld te brengen, als ook de belevingswerel...

Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of many important books on military history including The Kaiser's Battle and The Falklands War 1982.

A memorable account of the 1980s campaign, coinciding with its 30th anniversary.

Enthralling eye witness histories" John Keegan On the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenemunde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket whose destructive powers could have swung the course of the War. The raid was meticulously planned and hopes were high. But the night sky was so cloudless that the Br...

A comprehensive account of the most controversial Allied bombing offensive of WW2. Written by the foremost military/aviation historian. Superbly researched and objectively written giving all points of view. Loss of life was unprecedented due to the firestorm phenomenon.

Originally published: Great Britain: Allen Lane, 1983.

Martin Middlebrook is the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War. It ranks with Liddell Hart's 'The Other Side of the Hill' in analysing and understanding the military thinking and strategies of Britain's sometime enemy.

At 9.30am on 21 March 1918, the last great battle of the First World War commenced when three German armies struck a massive blow against the weak divisions of the British Third and Fifth Armies. It was the first day of what the Germans called the Kaiserschlacht ('the Kaiser's Battle'), the series of attacks that were intended to break the deadlock on the Western Front, knock the British Army out of the war, and finally bring victory to German...

Winston Churchill wrote, The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. Had the convoy link between North America and Britain been broken, the course of World War II would have been different. As it was, there was a period during the winter of 1942-43 when the Germans came close to cutting the North Atlantic lifeline. In the first twenty days of March, 1943, the Germans sank ninety-seven Allied merchant ship...

In the early years of the Great War, the inadequacy of Britain's Army in quantitative and qualitative terms led to an urgency for expansion. As the title of this latest work by Martin Middlebrook demonstrates, a ten fold increase in divisions was achieved.

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The First Day on the Somme covers in depth the most tragic and significant 24 hours of British military history.

Full of useful information and points of interest the book covers not just the WW1 battles but the full span of history.

Op 21 maart 1918 startte het Duitse leger de laatste wanhoopsoffensieven van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Na een lange periode van voorbereiding en een mislukte duikbootoorlog tegen de Entente probeerde het Duitse keizerrijk door middel van een enorm landoffensief de beslissende overwinning in het veld af te dwingen. Onder de naam de Keizerslag ging het inferno de geschiedenis in. Hoewel het Duitse leidersduo Ludendorff en Von Hindenburg de operati...