Modern warfare

"e;This is a great work on a small slice of operations on the Eastern Front during the first two years of the [second world] war.

This major history documents the German invasion of Norway, focusing on the events at sea.

This illustrated military history reveals the untold story of WWII snipers, from training and firearms to combat and field operations.

This volume completes the reissue of R.

The USS Bullhead was the last American naval vessel lost in World War II.

The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Admiral Chester Nimitz unleashed a relentless 18-month, 4,000-mile offensive across the Central Pacific, spearheaded by fast carrier task forces and U.

In 1940, the U.

"Sonnenrad und Hakenkreuz" begibt sich auf die Spuren eines dramatischen und von Mythen umsponnenen Themas aus der Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs: das Schicksal jener 4.

"e;Author James Mills presents an amazing, detailed history review of the German surface-to-air guided missile technology development.

When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War.

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.

This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare.

A compilation of information presented in United States Army World War II training manuals and tactical documents.

A complete history of naval combat in the Mediterranean and North African campaigns throughout WWII.

Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944.

Detailed analysis of WWII operations undertaken by Germany's armed forces on the Eastern Front, with illustrative case studies, maps, and diagrams.

A fully illustrated account of the Soviet offensive in the Baltics and the desperate German attempts to hold back the Red Army.

A German perspective of D-Day, written by an Army Corps intelligence officer in Normandy when the Allies invaded, published in English for the first time.

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch-a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assaults, and the Atlantic's biggest naval battle, fought across a two thousand mile span of coastline in French North Africa.

In a wartime Navy of giant carriers and battleships, tiny wooden subchasers did not command much attention.

Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941.

This is a superb survey of the fierce naval struggles, from 1939 up to the invasion of the Norway in April 1940.

A comprehensive account of the development of American aircraft carriers up to and during World War II.

"e;The authors do a good job using the diaries, interviews, and books written by group members to convey a vivid-sometimes too vivid-picture of war at its most elemental.

Coauthor Erich Friedrich won the Iron Cross fighting the Soviets.

A detailed summary of all types of Diamond T vehicles used by the U.

Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II examines the rise of autonomy in air warfare from the inception of powered flight through the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War II.

The first English translation of a German account of the attempt to relieve the Nazis' Sixth Army at Stalingrad during World War II.

Maine-born Dr.

The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.

Learning War examines the U.

Within this fascinating new book, Barbara Morrill analyses the journal writings of Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman in the 1940s, as she began analysis with a Jungian oriented practitioner in 1941.

Few American presidents have exercised their constitutional authority as commander in chief with more determination than Franklin D.

When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer’s account a revealing picture of the German Navy’s training and methods.

This book documents the case that World War II happened in such a different world that it has little relevance to todays foreign policy, as well as the case that U.

The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea is a collection of fascinating accounts written by German military officers – both Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe – about the naval war in the air in the North Atlantic and around Great Britain.

From the Magna Carta to the Falklands, the years that have made Britain, for better and for worseDid the longbow secure victory at Agincourt or are the English just better in mud?

By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler's forces.

A US Army historian chronicles a vital zone of conflict within The Battle of the Bulge in this authoritative and detailed account of WWII combat.

For as long as generalship in war is studied, there is certain to be controversy over the qualities, achievements and treatment of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck.

On 6th June 1944 there took place the greatest seaborne invasion in the history of mankind.

Often described as Britain's answer to Rommel, the charismatic and courageous Sir Brian Horrocks was one of the most successful field commanders of the Second World War, much of which he spent working with Montgomery.

This history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'.

This book focuses on the aural and musical sphere of fictional audio-visual reconstructions of the Holocaust, a defining event in the history of the 20th century.

In July 1942 German and Italian forces were on the point of sweeping away the remainder of the British resistance in the Middle East and triumphantly overrunning Egypt.

Featuring the art and images from World of Tanks, plus additional illustrations, the story of the SU-152 is told in graphic form along with tips on how to play with the SU-152 in the multi-player online game World of Tanks.

"Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945" is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources.

Using the Russian Ministry of Defense’s archives and Western sources, the author has produced a companion work to his masterful study of II SS Panzer Corps’ offensive and the culminating clash at Prokhorovka.