Following the successful Allied landings in Normandy in
June 1944 German forces battled for two months to contain
the bridgehead, but their last-ditch attempt to recover the
initiative with Operation Luttich, the counter-attack from
Mortain on August 7, failed. From that starting point the
author follows the footsteps of the German retreat across
France. Although nearly 300,000 men were either killed,
wounded, missing, or taken prisoner, by the beginning of
September German forces were once more standing firm along
the 650 kilometres between Switzerland and the North Sea.
This, is that story told through hundreds of ‘then and now’
comparison photographs.
New in d/w -
Large format, 376pp, 1000 + photos & ills
In September 2017, the Iron
Brigade of the 4th (US) Infantry Division handed over
command to the relieving 2nd Brigade Combat Team Dagger of
the 1st (US) Infantry Division. The unit rotated for a
nine-month-long period which included the exercises Allied
Spirit VII, Allied Spirit VIII, Combined Resolve X and the
SETC. Thus, the continuous deployment and permanent presence
of a heavy American armoured brigade, under the term Army
Rotational Force, continued in Europe with the second
Atlantic Resolve rotation, a sign of NATO’s resolve to
defend its members.
New in
card cover - A4 format, 64pp, 124 colour photos and 12
graphics
The
Occupation and Denazification of Germany. Germany had
entered the twentieth century prosperous and strong. During
the 1930s, embittered by a lost war and scarred by mass
unemployment, Germany embraced the dark cult of National
Socialism. Within less than a generation, its great cities
lay in ruins and its shattered industries and its cultural
heritage seemed beyond salvation. This is the story of
Germany’s year zero, telling of the final Allied
campaign, the hunting down of the Nazi resistance, the vast
displacement of peoples, the competition between Soviet
Russia and the West and the hunger and near starvation of a
once proud people.
The
Panzerwrecks series features destroyed, surrendered and
abandoned German armour of 1944-45. Each landscape volume
contains numerous large format, rare black and white
photographs. This volume includes: What was the ‘circle of
death’? Whose Panther was found at a railway station? Can a
37mm Sturmovik cannon destroy a Panther? Which new tank
round was tested by the Russians in 1945? What aircraft
weapon scored the most Panzer kills in Hungary? The book
includes specially commissioned colour artwork by Felipe
Rodna and 98 photographs from an album produced by the 17th
Air Army during their evaluation of the effects of aircraft
weapons on German and Hungarian tanks in the field.
New in card cover
- Landscape format, 96pp,
100 b/w photos, 6 colour plates, 1 map
A comprehensive pictorial record of the Allied air
assault against Germany in WWII taken from official and
private photographic archives. It was the first time in the
history of warfare that military forces had been able to
wreak such destruction in the enemy heartland and the
photographic record was limited to what could be acomplished
in the frenzy of war. Nevertheless this book contains a huge
selection of graphic and exciting images.
Very good in d/w - Large format, 160pp, 260 photos, map
