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.
Truppenf++Hrung: German Army Manual for Unit Command in World War II
Truppenfuhrung ('unit command') served as the basic manual for the German Army from 1934 until the end of World War II and laid the doctrinal groundwork for blitzkrieg and the early victories of Hitler's armies. Reading it is as close to getting inside the minds behind the Third Reich's war machine as you are likely to get.
This work is an operational critique of the art of war as practiced by U.S. and Canadian tank commanders in France in 1944, it also traces the evolution of North American armoured doctrine. Battle performance reviews, interrogation reports, diaries and technical evaluations are all drawn upon.
Guerrilla Warfare covers a century of unconventional fighters at war, including the American hunt for Pancho Villa, Lawrence of Arabia's exploits during World War I, the showdown at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, France's long war in Algeria, the siege of Khe Sanh in the Vietnam War, the Afghan-Soviet War from 1979 to 1989, and more.
Now that Gen. David Petraeus's troop surge has gained the U.S. much-needed breathing room in Iraq, what should come next? The answer, according to Iraq War combat veterans of the famed 101st Airborne Division Col. Dominic J. Caraccilo and Lt. Col. Andrea L. Thompson, is to turn the fight over to the Iraqis.
The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to Berlin
In these firsthand accounts--never before published in English--German soldiers describe the horrors of combat on the Eastern Front during World War II. A panzer crewman holds out to the bitter end at Stalingrad, fighting the Soviets as well as cold and hunger. An assault gun commander seeks out and destroys enemy tanks in Poland.
Although naval development before World War II focused on aircraft carriers, the British nevertheless had seventy battleships--larger and more powerful than ever before--under construction when war broke out in 1939.
During the summer of 1943, Germany unleashed its last major offensive on the Eastern Front and sparked the epic battle of Kursk, which included the largest tank engagement in history.
More than 250 million people cross the U.S.- Mexican border legally each year, and as many as 10 million do so illegally, making the border--la frontera to Mexicans--the most traversed national boundary on the planet.
