The 12-SS Panzer Division 'Hitlerjugend' in Normandy
A detailed history of the 12.SS-Panzer Division 'Hitlerjugend' during the Normandy campaign, based on the original war diaries and personal accounts. Being in constant action from June to early September 1944, the division experienced some of the most ferocious fighting of the entire campaign losing 60% of its original force in the process
In August 1942, Wigand Wuster was a twenty-two-year-old officer in the German Wehrmacht. The short life expectancies of the Eastern Front made him a veteran commander even at that age. He led a battery in an artillery regiment as it approached Stalingrad for a World War II-defining clash with the Soviet Red Army. For Wuster, the preceding months ......
This rare memoir is the gripping account of a foreigner who served with the Germans on the Eastern Front and provides a vivid, firsthand description of World War II combat. Sigmund Heinz Landau, a Romanian fighting with the Waffen SS, was a participant at the siege of Budapest and the final battle for Berlin in 1945.
The German 10th SS Panzer Division from the Eastern Front to Normandy
Organized in 1943, the 10th SS Panzer Division participated in battles throughout the Eastern Front and France before surrendering to the U.S. Army. This combat history of a German armored division in World War II draws from impressive sources, including division after-action reports, unit diaries, interviews with veterans, and unpublished ......
Largely overshadowed by Bismarck and Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were Germany's most successful battleships of the Second World War. This is the story of the two ships from their conception through to their involvement in the invasion of Norway, raids against Allied merchant shipping, Allied attempts to sink them, and their respective ends.
In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration of the causes and consequences of the
Holocaust in Lithuania provides the first overview for general readers that considers the perspectives of all the central groups involved—Jews, ......
A comprehensive and meticulously researched landmark work charting the construction, operational history and post-war use of the airfields of the RAF and USAAF in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Supported by a wealth of 690 photographs and airfield plans providing a unique illustration into the life of each wartime airfield.
Focusing on Northwest Europe, this book follows the Sherman into action on D-Day, among the Normandy hedgerows, during Patton's race across France, in the great tank battle at Arracourt in September 1944, at the Battle of the Bulge, across the Rhine, and in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.
