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74 THE GERMAN WEHRMACHT IN WWII: OPERATIONAL HISTORIES & BATTLES German Panzers on the Offensive: Russian Front, North Africa 1941-42 R. H. S. Stolfi. The acknowledged superiority of the German Army in battle fighting is exemplified by the offensives of 1939-42, and this book combines description and interpretation of the advances of nine German panzer divisions to reveal extraordinary details of the great victories. Size:6”x9”•8bwphotos/maps•224pp. ISBN:0-7643-1770-9•hard•$35.00 LastVictory in Russia:The SS-Panzerkorps and Manstein’s Kharkov Counteroffensive - February-March 1943 George M. Nipe.The first detailed and comprehensive account of the Kharkov counteroffensive, the operations of the SS divisions and the supporting actions of Armeeabteilung Fretter-Pico and 1.Panzerarmee. Size:8.5”x11”•210bwphotos•368pp. ISBN:0-7643-1186-7•hard•$59.95 Waffen-SS Tiger Crews at Kursk: The Men of SS Panzer Regiments 1, 2, and 3 in Operation Citadel, July 5–15, 1943. Col. French L. MacLean, United States Army (Ret.). By examining a focused group of men in great detail, specifically the 226 Tiger crewmen at Kursk, the author provides an insight into the sprawling and enigmatic organization that was the Waffen-SS. This project aims to scrape away the mythology surrounding the most-feared soldiers. Size:7”x10”•120b/wphotosandmaps•288pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-6047-3•hard•$29.99 German Battle Tactics on the Russian Front 1941-45 Steven Newton. The tenacity of the Ger- man Army in Russia from 1941-45, fighting against overwhelming odds but refusing to disintegrate, has fascinated readers for decades. Newton has retrieved, retranslated, and annotated the detailed tactical accounts of combat in Russia that German officers provided their American captors after the war. Size:6”x9”•maps•320pp. ISBN:0-88740-582-7•hard•$24.95 Retreat from Leningrad: Army Group North 1944-45 StevenNewton.Mosthistoriesof thenorthern sector of the Russian front concentrate on the siege of Leningrad, and focus little attention on the heavy fighting during the Wehrmacht’s withdrawl into the Baltic countries. Retreat from Leningrad begins where those books end, with the massive January 1944 Soviet offensive that was designed not only to break the siege completely but also to destroy Army Group North. Size:6”x9”•maps•328pp. ISBN:0-88740-806-0•hard•$24.95 Assault on Moscow 1941: The Offensive, the Battle, the Set-Back Werner Haupt. Detailed unit operations and individual accounts make for absorbing reading, and a rare chance for the reader to examine an early, yet very important, Russian front battle. Size:6”x9”•140color/bwphotos•304pp.ISBN:0-7643- 0127-6•hard•$35.00 Deadlock before Moscow Franz Kurowski. Study of ArmyGroupCenterduring the1942/43Sovietcampaign and the bitter defensive battles that ensued. Never before has such detail on this aspect of the Russian front campaign been available in English. First-person accounts, and never before published documentation to present this, the turning point of the war in Russia. Size:6”x9”•70bwphotos•412pp. ISBN:0-88740-412-X•hard•$34.95 Invasion! They’re Coming! The German Account of the D-day Landings and the 80 Days’ Battle for France PaulCarell.ArevisedandupdatededitionofCarell’s greatclassic.Carelltakes intoaccountthemostrecentresults ofhistoricalresearch,especiallythesuccessfulallieddeception effort achieved by agents, phoney radio transmissions and sophisticateddisinformationoperations,detailsofwhichhave only recently been revealed, and which led to fateful false estimationsbyHitlerand theGermangenerals. Size:6”x9”•70bwphotos/maps•320pp. ISBN:978-0-88740-716-1•hard•$35.00 German Defensive Batteries and Gun Em- placements on the Normandy Beaches Karl Hienz & Michael Schmeelke. Extensive coverage of the German defensive batteries all along the Normandy front including details of weapons and implacements Size:8.5”x11”•80bwphotos/drawings•48pp. ISBN:0-88740-755-2•soft•$9.95 Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitz- krieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow June-December 1941 CraigW.H.Luther. TheadvanceofGerman forcesthroughcentralRussia in the summer of 1941,with brief accounts of the Battle of Moscow and winter battles into early 1942. Based on hundreds of veterans’ accounts, archival documentsandkey literature,this isthemostdetailed account to date of the German soldiers’ experiences in Russia in 1941. Size:7”x10”•220bwphotos/maps•808pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-4376-6•hard•$59.99 Knights of the Skull, Vol. 1: Germany’s Panzer Forces in WWII, Blitzkrieg: Poland, France, North Africa, 1939–41 Wayne Van- sant. Knights of the Skull is a full-color, graphic non-fiction series chronicling the development of the German Panzer (armored) forces in World War II. This first volume features the unleashing of Blitzkrieg in Poland, the incredible defeat of the western Allies in France, and Rommel’s initial North African campaigns Size:8.5”x11”•338color illustrations•80pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-5377-2•soft•$16.99 Knights of the Skull, Vol. 2: Germany’s Panzer Forces in WWII, Barbarossa: The In- vasion of Russia, 1941 Wayne Vansant. Knights of the Skull is a full-color, graphic non-fiction series chronicling the development of the German Panzer (armored) forces in World War II. Volume 2 starts with the April 1941 Balkans and Greece campaigns, then moves into the planning and early months of Operation Barbarossa. Size:8.5”x11”•329color illustrations•80pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-5378-9•soft•$16.99 Stalingrad: The Death of the German Sixth Army on the Volga, 1942-1943, Vol. 1: The Bloody Fall & Vol. 2: The Brutal Winter Col. French L. MacLean. The first published work to detail the situation of every German corps and division for every day of the six-month Stalingrad campaign. This two-volume set derives from the Sixth Army daily operation reports and the German Army High Command (OKH) situation maps (Lage Ost). Size:7”x10”•510photos•640pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-4343-8•hard•$69.99 Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army Paul Carell. Carell sets his talents to discussing the operations of the 6th Army from the 1942 German summer offensive, through the fighting in the streets of Stalingrad, to the final defeat in January 1943. Size:7”x10”•190color/bwphotos•352pp. ISBN:978-0-88740-469-6•hard•$39.99 Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-45 Werner Haupt. After long years of studying sources and literature, Haupt presents the military history of one of the larger theaters of WWII. The completion of the history of Army Group North, Center, and South is the result of the author’s utilization of all German and Russian literature, as well as those combat diaries and documents of the committed troop units that are available in German archives. Size:6”x9”•70bwphotos/maps•416pp. ISBN:0-7643-0182-9•hard•$39.95 Army Group Center: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-45 Size:6”x9”•80bwphotos/maps•400pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-0266-4•hard•$35.00 Army Group South: The Wehrmacht i n Russia 1941-45 Size:6”x9”•80bwphotos/maps•480pp. ISBN:0-7643-0385-6•hard•$39.95 The Ghetto Men: The SS Destruction of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto . April–May 1943 French MacLean. The 28-day siege of the Warsaw Ghetto was one of the most protracted large-scale urban battles in WWII. OHere is every fact concerning who, when, what and how the SS troops razed the Warsaw Ghetto. Men and officers of the Security Service and Gestapo are here as well as the units, weapons and tactics, and a day-by-day analysis of the fighting. Size:8.5”x11”•110bwphotos•224pp. ISBN:0-7643-1285-5•hard•$59.95 Tigers in the Ardennes: The 501st Heavy SS Tank Battalion in the Battle of the Bulge Gregory A. Walden.Thisbookprovidesadetailed lookattheactions of a German tank battalion in the Ardennes Offensive. It is the product of research in archives, conversations with veterans, and examination of the battlefields. The author’s experience as a tank unit commander provides unique insight. Includes over 100 images, many of them photographs never before published. Size:6”x9”•105bwphotos•144pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-4790-0•hard•$35.00 Ostfront 1944: The German Defensive Battles on the Russian Front 1944 Alex Buchner. In 1944, when the entire Russo-German front was “ablaze” under continual Soviet attacks, wrong estimations by the highest German command led to critical decisions with grave consequences. The Red Army was growing increasingly stronger, and launched a major offensive. This in-depth study uses presently available sources and the reports of still-living participants, to document the events on the Eastern Front of 1944. Size:6”x9”•60bwphotos•336pp. ISBN:0-88740-282-8•hard•$29.95 Hitler’s Last Bastion: The Final Battles for the Reich 1944-45 Franz Kurowski. The final stage of WWII, with the enemy across the Reich’s borders, saw final desperate battles for numerous fortified places and blocking positions. Hitler ordered the defense of these fortified places such as Königsberg and Breslau, Wesel and Kolberg, Danzig, Posen and many others. Size:6”x9”•110bwphotos/maps•432pp. ISBN:0-7643-0548-4•hard•$35.00 Operation Drvar: A Facsimile of Official Kriegsberichter Reports on the Attack by SS-Fallschirmjäger on Tito’s Headquarters May25,1944 EditedbyBranislavRadovic.Photo facsimile of two very rare after action reports by Luftwaffe kriegsberichter chronicling Operation “Drvar” where German airborne and land forces attempted to capture or kill Yugoslav communist partisan leader Tito in his HQ in Drvar, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Includes text inEnglishandGerman. Size:8.5”x11”•40bwphotos•64pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-3060-5•soft•$29.99