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74 THE GERMAN WEHRMACHT IN WWII: OPERATIONAL HISTORIES & BATTLES 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 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 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 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 German Paratroops in Scandinavia: Fall-schirm- jäger in Denmark and Norway April-June 1940 Óscar González. The German conquest of Denmark and Norway in spring 1940 presents an interesting study of joint strategy between ground, air, and sea forces. Among the topics discussed are German paratroop operations against the main Danish and Norwegian bridges and aerodromes, the jump on Dombås, behind enemy lines, and also their tenacious resistance on the snow-covered grounds of Narvik. Size:6”x9”•160color/bwphotos•192pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-3241-8•hard•$45.00 German Anti-partisan Warfare in Europe 1939- 45 Colin Heaton. The German invasion, conquest, and occupation of Europe sparked a civilian insurgency response never before witnessed in history. This new book uses exclusive interviews with German and Allied soldiers and commanders as well as civilian irregulars who participated in irregular warfare, either as partisans or guerrillas during WWII. Size:6”x9”•100bwphotos•480pp. ISBN:0-7643-1395-9•hard•$29.95 Rommel in the Desert: Victories and De- feat of the Afrikakorps 1941-43 Volkmar Kühn. The complete story of Rommel in North Africa is told in this detailed volume. The reader is taken through the initial formation of the Afrikakorps, the stunning early victories, the battles throughoutCyrenaica,andtheraceacrossLibya.Then thedefeatatElAlameinandthelongretreatstoTripoli andTunisareexplored.EverytacticalaspectoftheNorth Africancampaign isexamined,withdetailedmaps . Size:8.5”x11”•200bwphotos•224pp. ISBN:978-0-88740-292-0•hard•$49.99 Rommel and the Secret War in North Africa: Secret Intelligence in the North African Campaign 1941-43 Janusz Piekalk- iewicz. Piekalkiewicz chronicles the British Secret Inteligence Service (SIS) and the “Ultra” secret, and its effect on the campaign in North Africa during WWII. On the German side, Rommel also knew the use of intercepted enemy messages – an awareness that the British were able to gain only much too late and after many sacrifices. Size:7”x10”•220photos/maps•240pp. ISBN:0-88740-340-9•hard•$29.95 Summer of ’42: A Study of German-Arme- nian Relations during the SecondWorldWar Levon Thomassian. Despite the overwhelming contributions made by the Armenians to the Allied war effort, at least 18,000 served under the Third Reich. After the war, these so-called collaborators were labeled as traitors by those unable to grasp the complexity of their circumstances. Largely based on archival research, this book attempts to separate fact from fallacy by examining the motives, treatment, and history of these Armenians. Size:6”x9”•40color/bwphotos•216pp. ISBN:978-0-7643-4045-1•hardcover•$29.99 Tank Combat in North Africa: The Opening Rounds - Operations Sonnenblume, Brevity, Skorpion and Battleaxe Thomas L. Jentz. Covered here are the tank battles fought during the opening phase of the war in North Africa. This book is compiled from original records for over thirty years in an attempt to find data that would aid in assessing and understanding the tank battles that took place in North Africa. Size:8.5”x11”•130bwphotos•256pp. ISBN:0-7643-0226-4•hard•$49.95 Germany’s First Ally: Armed Forces of the Slovak State 1939-45 Kliment & Nakládal. Though hampered by a shortage of specialists in its air force, armored units and artillery, the Slovak Army managed to field several division-sized units and sustain them during the initial three years of combat on the Eastern front. This book describes the composition, dislocation and equipment of all branches of the Slovak army and its operational history through the war years. Size:8.5”x11”•250photos/maps•208pp. ISBN:0-7643-0589-1•hard•$39.95