In this provocative and entertaining study, Bruce Allen Watson examines seven sieges while providing commentary on the nature and evolution of combat across the centuries.
A Swedish Volunteer in the 11th Ss Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" on the Eastern Front
This is the exciting true story of Erik Wallin, a Swedish soldier who volunteered for the Waffen-SS during World War II. Wallin served in the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion of the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland," a unit composed largely of men from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Bluegrass State
Horses graze peacefully in the bucolic pastures of the Bluegrass State, but this surface beauty is offset by a violent past of Indian wars and Civil War battles. This book includes stories about the headless ghost of Old Fort Herrod, the vanishing hitchhiker of Meshack Road, and the Great Meat Storm of 1876.
Destination Normandy follows the men of three American regiments on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Widely scattered, the 82nd Airborne Division's 507th Parachute Infantry halted the advance of an SS division. The untested 116th Infantry of the 29th Division landed on bloody Omaha Beach and took more casualties that day than any other regiment.
In the spirit of Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers and Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far, J. E. Kaufmann and H. W. Kaufmann weave together firsthand accounts of American soldiers to capture the complete experience of the individual GI in World War II, from stateside training to overseas combat.
Describes at multiple levels the soldiers and marines who were expendable in the American political chaos of Vietnam, 1968. Not just an analysis of the battle, this title also ponders the question of how to win an unpopular war on foreign soil, linking battlefield events to political reality.
The Catskills region of the eastern US was the birthplace for a uniquely American style of fly that continues to grace the bins of fly shops around the world. This book explores the essence of Catskill flies, delving into the history of the region's rivers, fly fishers, and fly tiers and blending their histories with step-by-step tying methods.
Gen. Erwin Rommel arrived in Africa's Western Desert in February 1941 to lead the elite German Afrika Korps in its efforts to support the battered Italians. Disobeying orders to remain on the defensive, Rommel attacked, nearly pushed the numerically superior British out of Libya, and besieged the critical port of Tobruk.
General Hans Eberbach and the German Defense of France, 1944
In July 1944, after fighting in Poland, the invasion of France, and Russia and then serving as Heinz Guderian's troubleshooter, General of Panzer Troops Heinrich "Hans" Eberbach took command of Panzer Group West near the vital city of Caen in Normandy.
