Heinz Knocke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classi…
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The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943, was a war …
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Prior to the outbreak of war in September 1939, the German Army had focused exclusively on the operational, organisational and training preparations …
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OPERATIONS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST 1939-1942
Tobruk, Crete, Syria and East Africa<br>Despatches in this volume include that on opera…
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How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World War, 70 years after his death on 14 …
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Tasked with storming mountain strongholds in the desert.
Trained to hunt down the world's most wanted terrorists.
This is the extraordinary story of 22…
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Throughout World War II, German snipers were obliged to carry a Scharfshtzen Buch which recorded every kill. Each success noted had to be verified by…
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Seventy five years ago, the Nuremberg Trials were in full swing in Germany. In the dock were the leaders of the Nazi regime and most eventually recei…
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Paratroopers or Fallschirmjaeger as they are known in German, were the elite parachute troops (Fallschirmtruppe) of the Luftwaffe during the Second W…
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Working in four-man patrols, the SAS teams first made friends with the head-hunting border tribes and even trained some of them as an irregular milit…
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During the two-and-a-half years' fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and end…
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Becoming Minister of Defence as well as Prime Minister in May 1940, Winston Churchill was ready to get his hands dirty and take personal control of m…
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A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength.
B…
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This is a comprehensive reference to the structure, operation, aircraft and men of the 1st Tactical Air Force, or Desert Air Force as it became known…
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