The story of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1944--the turning point year in Bomber Command's war against Germany.
The story of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1944--the turning point year in Bomber Command's war against Germany.
The story of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1944--the turning point year in Bomber Command's war against Germany.
The story of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1944--the turning point year in Bomber Command's war against Germany.
Thousands of Frenchmen volunteered to provide military help to the Nazis during World War II, fighting in such places as Belorussia, Galicia, Pomerania, and Berlin. Utilizing these soldiers' memoirs, The French who fought for Hitler examines how these volunteers describe their e…
Details the history of the Dirlewanger Brigade, an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army tasked with capturing partisan fighters, and recounts the atrocities the brigade executed and the repercussions of its actions.
Details the history of the Dirlewanger Brigade, an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army tasked with capturing partisan fighters, and recounts the atrocities the brigade executed and the repercussions of its actions.
"This book presents ... personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before ... In these journals, attacks and counterattacks a…
Recounts how two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment fought--sometimes hand-to-hand--against German troops for the small Italian port of Ortona in December of 1943, one of the most notable battles ever waged by the Canadians.
This book is a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: march thirty miles in an at…