The outcome of the Second World War was decided on the Eastern Front. Denied a swift victory over Stalin’s Red Army, Hitler’s Wehrmacht found itself in a bloody, protracted struggle from late 1941 that it was ill-prepared to fight.
Although many...
A selection of the Military Book Club.
This book describes the odd coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II, and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. This is a topic often missing in English, though in stark contrast...
"Foreign Legions of the Third Reich" Volumes 1-4 by David Littlejohn was the benchmark on the subject of foreigners fighting for the Nazis in WWII during the 1980s. However, today some of the material is somewhat dated, but has stood the test of...
"Foreign Legions of the Third Reich" Volumes 1-4 by David Littlejohn was the benchmark on the subject of foreigners fighting for the Nazis in WWII during the 1980s. However, today some of the material is somewhat dated, but has stood the test of...
"Foreign Legions of the Third Reich" Volumes 1-4 by David Littlejohn was the benchmark on the subject of foreigners fighting for the Nazis in WWII during the 1980s. However, today some of the material is somewhat dated, but has stood the test of...
The final volume of this series deals with Germany's eastern allies, her Russian mercenaries and the peoples of the Baltic states. ~ The addendum at the end of this work covers additional material relating to all three previous volumes of the...
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez’s groundbreaking history of the Six-Day War in 1967 radically changes our understanding of that conflict, casting it as a crucial arena of Cold War intrigue that has shaped the Middle East to this day. The authors,...
Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot “the actions of simple soldiers…. I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life.”
In exploring the reality of the Landser, the...
A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the...
A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the...