17.SS-PANZER-GRENADIER-DIVISION
GOTZ VON BERLICHINGEN: VOLUME 3
by Helmut Gunther
This volume documents
the final combats of the 17. SS Panzer-Grenadier-Division
Gotz von Berlichingen from mid-March to beginning of May
1945. Decimated and exhausted, outnumbered and outgunned,
and always under Allied air attacks, its soldiers fought and
retreated repeatedly to the next defensive position. The
desolate trail led through the Saar into the Westwall, which
was penetrated easily. They defended at the Gemersheim
Bridgehead, in the Oden Forest, and in The Crailsheim
Pocket, and finally resisted bitterly in the street of
Nurnberg. The remnants retreated southeast to the Tyrol,
where they surrendered to US troops at Lake Achen.
New in illustrated boards - 480pp, 167
photos. 14 maps, 20 documents
A Pictorial
History of Biggin Hill Aerodrome through Two World Wars and
Beyond. It was established during the latter part of the
First World War, when the Royal Flying Corps defended the
skies in basic wood and fabric aeroplanes, then afterwards
the aerodrome was built up during the 1920s and 1930s,
seeing advances in technology and aircraft. During the five
years of the Second World War Biggin Hill played a
significant role during the Dunkirk evacuation, the Battle
of Britain and the fight back across the Channel, finally
helping to bring freedom to occupied Europe. Post-war saw
the arrival of the jet age and the RAF Aircrew Selection
Centre which was based there. Annual air shows became the
norm during the 1950s and still continue today.
Histories of the German army on
the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on
the war as it was fought in the front line. They tend to
neglect other aspects of the army's experience, particularly
its participation in the racial war demanded by the
leadership of the Reich. Using a selection of revealing
extracts from a wide range of wartime documents, the book
looks at the totality of the Wehrmachts war in the East.
Combat is covered, and complicity in Hitlers war of
annihilation against the Soviet Union. There are sections on
the conduct of the war in the rear areas logistics, medical,
judicial and the army's tactics, motivation and leadership.
Ranging from 18th-century India to
21st-century Afghanistan, this new, highly illustrated
history of the Brigade of Gurkhas is destined to become the
definitive work on the subject. In this account, the whole
panorama of the Brigade’s unique story is covered from the
early 19th Century to the present day, including the tense
moments when the continued existence of the Brigade hung by
a thread. The book is lavishly illustrated with pictures,
photographs and maps, many never before seen in print. With
a foreword by the Colonel Commandant Brigade of Gurkhas,
General Sir David Richards, KCB CBE DSO ADC.
The Nivelle Offensive of 1917. In December 1916 General
Robert Nivelle was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the
French armies fighting the Germans on the Western Front. He
had enjoyed a meteoric rise to high command and public
acclaim since the beginning of the war - he was a national
hero. In return, he proclaimed he 'had the formula' that
would ensure victory and end the conflict in 1917. But his
offensive was a bloody and humiliating failure for France,
one that could have opened the way for French defeat.
