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82 GERMANY IN WWII: OPERATIONAL HISTORIES & BATTLES Book 3: Dr. Günter Polzin – Schwere Panzer (Tiger) Abteilung 503 Dale Richard Ritter. This third book in the seriescovers the story of a tank soldier, fromGermany’sWehrmacht of the Second World War. Size: 8.5"x11" • 178 color/bw photos • 144pp. • ISBN: 978-0-7643-4638-5 • hard • $49.99 2000Quotes fromHitler’s 1000-Year Reich French L.MacLean. Quotations from289men and fivewomen in the Third Reich. All quoted in the work are described in concise biographies. With all quotations documented and footnoted, andmany put into historical context, this isaneasy tousevaluable resource for all studentsofWWII history, writers and researchers of military, political and Holocaust subjects. Size: 6"x9" • 100 bw photos • 480pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-2786-5 • hard • $29.95 OPERATIONAL HISTORIES & BATTLES Abyssinian Conquest: The Illustrated History of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935–36 Philip Jowett. In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), one of just two independent states in Africa at the time. In 1935, the defensive effort would be led by Emperor Haile Selassie I. Benito Mussolini (the Italian “Duce”) claimed victory in 1936, but the strug- gle of Selassie and his people against impossible odds won worldwide admiration. This work contains concise narrative and more than 600 photos, including detailed coverage of both armies. • Size 8 1/2" x 11" (280 x 215mm) • 620 c/w and color photos • 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-6531-7 • hard • $60.00 US/£54.99 GBP/$86.00 CAD Scorched Earth: The Russian-German War 1943–44 Paul Carell. Carrell’s eastern front study picks up where Hitler Moves East left off. Beginning with the battle of Kursk in July 1943, Carell traverses the vast expanse of the Russian War, from the siege of Leningrad and the fierce battles of the northern front, to the fourth battle of Kharkov, and the evacuation of the Crimea, a withdrawal forbidden by Hitler. The book ends in June of 1944 when the Soviet Armies reach the East Prussian frontier. Size: 6"x9" • 70 bw photos/maps • 600pp. ISBN: 0-88740-598-3 • hard • $39.99 Foxes of the Desert: The Story of the Afrikakorps Paul Carell. Here for the first time from the German viewpoint and with a great deal of hitherto unpublished material is the complete story of one of the most bitterly fought, exciting campaigns in modern warfare. As a result of personal interviews with over a thousand combatants, tireless reading, and painstaking research, Carell has skillfully blended a mass of new and exciting information into a dramatic and completely authentic narrative. Size: 5.75"x8.5" • 70 bw photos/maps • 370pp. ISBN: 0-88740-659-9 • hard • $29.95 Invasion! They’re Coming! The German Account of the D-day Landings and the 80 Days’ Battle for France Paul Carell. A revisedandupdatededitionof Carell’s great classic. Carell takes intoaccount themost recent results of historical research, especially the successful allieddeception effort achieved by agents, phoney radio transmissions and sophisticateddisinformationoperations, detailsofwhichhave only recently been revealed, and which led to fateful false estimations by Hitler and the German generals. Size: 6"x9" • 70 bw photos/maps • 320pp. ISBN: 978-0-88740-716-1 • hard • $35.00 German Defensive Batteries and Gun Emplace- ments 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" • 80 bw photos/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 Craig W. H. Luther. The advance of German forces through central Russia 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 documents and key literature, this is the most detailed account to date of the German soldiers’ experiences in Russia in 1941. Size: 7"x10" • 220 bw photos/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 nonfiction 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" • 338 color 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 Invasion 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" • 329 color 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" • 510 photos • 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" • 190 color/bw photos • 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" • 8 bw photos/maps • 224pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1770-9 • hard • $35.00 Last Victory 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" • 210 bw photos • 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" • 120 b/w photos andmaps • 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 Steven Newton. Most histories of the northern 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" • 140 color/bw photos • 304pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0127-6 • hard • $35.00 Deadlock before Moscow Franz Kurowski. Study of Army Group Center during the 1942–43 Soviet campaign 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" • 70 bw photos • 412pp. ISBN: 0-88740-412-X • hard • $34.95 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" • 70 bw photos/maps • 416pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0182-9 • hard • $39.95 Army Group Center: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941–45 Size: 6"x9" • 80 bw photos/maps • 400pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-0266-4 • hard • $35.00 Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-45 Size: 6"x9" • 80 bw photos/maps • 480pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0385-6 • hard • $39.95