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Sort by:          Product     Price      Default     see details .DAS Reich Volume V 1943-1945: The final volume Otto Weidinger Das Reich V is the final volume, and covers its actions from the end of 1943 until the end of WW II in May 1945. Following the battles and retreats during the summer and fall of 1943, in December Das Reich was withdrawn for refitting and reorganization in the west. However, it left a sizeable kampfgruppe to support the defence of the Eastern Front. The Kampfgruppe Das Reich fought in southern Russia until April 1944, when it rejoined the division in southern France, it fought hard around Caen and later held the exit for retreating German units from the Falaise Pocket. The division retreated toward the German border and its elements defended in the Westwall during September and October. After refitting once more, in December 1944 Das Reich participated in the Ardennes Offensive until mid-January 1945. In February and March 1945 one of its elements fought at the Remagen Bridgehead. February 1945 the division was transferred to Hungary. In March it participated in the three efforts to relieve Budapest. Following that failed attempt, Das Reich fell back toward Austria in late March. It defended Vienna for approximately 2 weeks and then it was broken up, its units fighting in Austria and Czechoslovakia. 440pp. 74 photos. 24 maps. Due middle February Price: £54.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details .Panther in Normandy Didier Lodieu New title by the author of Dying For Saint-Lo. During the night of 19-20 July 1944, the I./Pz.Rgt. 24’s 76 Panthers set off in a one kilometre column, with four yards between each tank. This book traces the 1st Battalion of Panthers of the 24th Regiment of the 116. Panzer Division, just back from the East, from the first engagements in July to the crossing of the Seine at the end of August; a day by day account of the terrible fighting during the “hedgerow” war. 128pp. 200 photos. Large format. English text. Copies expected February Price: £30.00 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details .Pz.Kpfw.VI Tiger Ausf.E TECHNICAL & OPERATIONAL HISTORY Volume 2 1944-1945 Waldemar Trojca This long awaited Volume 2 will have 480 pages. 88 pages colour and many previously unpublished photos. English edition. Large format I have now been told by the publishers that the book will now be available around the end of February Price: £79.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details American PT Boats in World War II Volume 2 Victor Chun This illustrated volume is the companion to Victor Chun’s definitive history of American PT boats in the Second World War. Chun presents all new information gleaned since the previous book’s publication and includes never before published drawings of PT 809, as well as details on the use of Elcoplane as used by Elco PT boats to increase running speed, described here for the first time. 216pp. 700 b/w & colour images. NOW AVAILBLE Price: £55.00 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Barbarossa Derailed The Battle for Smolensk July-September 1941 Volume 2 David M. Glantz This second volume covers The German Offensives on the Flanks & the Third Soviet Counter offensive, 25 August-10 September 1941. This study restores to the pages of history two major military operations which, for political and military reasons, Soviet historians concealed from view, largely because both offensives failed. Includes The Northern Flank, Group Stumme's (Third Panzer Group) Advance to Velikie Luki, Toropets, and Zapadnaia Dvina, 22 August-9 September 1941; German Strategic Planning, the Tilt toward Kiev, and Second Panzer Group's Advance Across the Desna River, 22-28 August 1941; The Third Soviet Counteroffensive, including the Western Front's Dukhovshchina Offensive, 26 August-6 September1941, the Reserve Front's El'nia Offensive. 456pp. c40 b/w photos, 50 maps Delayed untl late January Price: £34.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Bayerlein: The Denazification Trial of Rommel's Chief-of-Staff, and Panzer Lehr Division Commander Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein P.A. Spayd This is the fourth and final book in the complete series on the life of Rommel’s former Chief-of-Staff Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein. Bayerlein faced obstacles in attempting to get his life back to normal after six years of fighting and two years as a prisoner of war. This unique book about Bayerlein covers his trial by the Denazification Tribunal conducted in September 1947. Bayerlein’s German trial is extensively documented including details of his testimony regarding his actions as a commander during World War II. 224pp. 200 colour/bw images. NOW AVAILABLE Price: £32.50 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Besieged The Epic Battle for Cholm: 608 pages 328 photos Jason D. Mark. Leaping Horseman Books Kampfgruppe Scherer’s outstanding feat of arms was one of Germany’s most famous military achievements during the Second World War. With only a few thousand men from all branches of the service, including mountain troopers, elderly reservists, police officers, navy drivers, SS partisan hunters and supply troops, Generalmajor Theodor Scherer was ordered to hold Cholm in the face of a superior enemy force. That Scherer and his men prevailed is now an historical fact but analysis of daily radio traffic and combat reports reveals that the pocket’s survival was precarious; at times, even senior commanders doubted if it could be saved. On several occasions the Soviet onslaught looked poised to inflict the death blow but somehow the exhausted men of Cholm grimly clung to a few resistance nests upon which a new line was anchored. Eventually, a relief force forged a permanent link and freed the exhausted survivors. Primary sources have been utilised for the first time to present this battle in a detailed day-by-day format. 608pp. 328 photos. 22 maps & sketches. 22 aerial photos. Limited number of copies will be available. Due middle February Price: £69.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Duel in the Mist 2 The Leibstandarte During the Ardennes Offensive Timm Haasler, Roddy MacDougall, Hans Weber, Simon Vosters Duel in the Mist 2 is the very long awaited second volume on the actions of Kampfgruppe Peiper during the Ardennes offensive in December 1944 and the American units that opposed them. This volume gives in depth coverage of the events during the 20th and 21st December 1944 in Stoumont, Cheneux, La Gleize and the surrounding areas. It also includes a chapter on the refitting of the Panzer Grenadiers after their odyssey during the Normandy landings and the subsequent Allied advance through France. Large colour maps allow you to see the opposing forces moving towards each other and easily locate landmarks mentioned in the text. A huge selection of mostly unpublished photographs depicts the savage fighting and damage done to masonry, men and machines in these two days of intense combat. For instance, there are two dozen consecutive pages of knocked out Panzers in La Gleize alone. Colour profiles illustrate German camouflage patterns and detailed Orders of Battle help you visualize comparative unit strengths at different phases of the battle 233pp. 114 large format photos. 14 maps. 1 drawing and 10 profiles. NOW AVAILABLE Price: £32.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Feldgrau 1915-16: The War and Peace Time Uniforms of the German Army - The Official Regulations of 1915-1916 Charles Woolley From 1907-15 the uniforms of the German Army went through dramatic changes when Prussian blue was transformed into the new ‘feldgrau’, or field gray. The next change came in 1915 with the introduction of the new field gray wartime and peacetime uniforms. This volume combines three period volumes and each is illustrated in color and refer only to the 1915 wartime and peacetime uniforms: 1. Deutchlands Armee in feldgrauer Kriegs-und-Friedens-Uniform; 2. Feldgrau in Krieg und Frieden, Berlin 1916; 3. Die Feldgrau Friedens-und Kriegs-Bekleiding der K. Bayerischen Armee, Munich 1916. 240pp. 200 colour images. NOW AVAILABLE Price: £55.00 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details German Combat Knives 1914-1945 Christian Méry A fascinating, study of daggers and dagger-bayonets from both world wars. The extraordinary variety of World War I German daggers and dagger-bayonets which have been discovered have led Histoire & Collections to publish a book that is easy to use, relying on photographs of both the knives and their owners, and completed by short texts. More than 140 colour pictures show the weapons used during both world wars, both in their entire length, as well as with their scabbards; with the addition, when needed, of close-ups of their maker’s marks and markings. 80pp. over 140 colour photos. Card covers. NOW AVAILABLE Price: £14.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Grabenkrieg German Trench Warfare Vol.1 Tanograd Tankograd Special Series 1005 The stalemate in the trenches is for many the very definition of warfare in World War One. Only months after the hostilities had started the opposing armies began to dig in along the Western Front. Thus began a type of warfare completely unexpected by those in command. Chapters Volume 1: 01. Digging the Trenches.02.Trench Systems 1914-1803. Life in the Trenches. 04. Body Armour. 05. Trench Warfare Evolution. 06. Summary. 07. Trench Warfare in Colour. 96pp. approx 180 photos. 50 colour images. Large format. NOW AVAILABLE Price: £21.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Grabenkrieg German Trench Warfare Vol.2 Tanograd Tankograd Special Series 1006 The stalemate in the trenches is for many the very definition of warfare in World War One. Only months after the hostilities had started the opposing armies began to dig in along the Western Front. Thus began a type of warfare completely unexpected by those in command. Chapters Volume 2: 08. Close Combat Weapons. 09. Pistols and Revolvers. 10. Rifles. 11. Snipers and Sniper Rifles. 12. Rifle Grenades. 13. Bergman Submachine Gun. 14. Machine Guns. 15. Mine Launchers. 16. Infantry Guns / Assault Accompanying Guns. 17. Flame Throwers. 18. Gas Warfare. 19. Mining Warfare. 20. Anti-Tank Weapons. 21. Summary. 22. Trench Warfare in Colour. 100pp. approx 180 photos. 50 colour images. large format. NOW AVAILABLE Price: £21.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Jagdtiger Design Production & operations Christopher Meadows The Jagdtiger was the next logical extension of the creation of Jagdpanzer designs after the success of the Jagdpanther from the Panther tank. The Jagdtiger used a boxy superstructure on top of a lengthened Tiger II chassis. The resulting vehicle featured very heavy armour and the powerful 128 mm PaK 44 L/55 gun capable of defeating any tank fielded in World War II, even at long ranges (+3,500m) The only complete guide to the biggest tank destroyer put into operational use during the Second World War. Complete technical description, complete design history, complete coverage of all units using it and a complete coverage of all vehicles ever produced, of this monster tank. 368pp. 48 colour profiles. Over 250 photos. 12 maps. NOW AVAILABLE Price: £39.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Normandy 44 German Helmets Dan Tylisz This book from Histoire covers wide array of more than 150 original German helmets shown is only a glimpse of their huge variety, but it captures the general trends in WW2 German equipment camouflage. From the crude and elementary mottling with issue or civilian paints to the imaginative and complicated patterns evolved within sedentary units, the veteran soldier also completed his work by adding various texturing elements. Most of these helmets originate from private collections and were found on the Normandy battlefield. The majority were photographed in natural light, to enhance the actual efficiency of their camouflage finish. 84pp. 250 full colour photos. Large format. NOW AVAILABLE Price: £17.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Panzer Vor! 5 Concord series Concord series Continuing the author's series of books on German armored vehicles, Panzer Vor! 5 contains many fascinating new photographs. The range of vehicles is extraordinary - including the Sd.Kfz.222, Sd.Kfz.231, Sd.Kfz.232, Sd.Kfz.234, Hetzer, Panzer I, Panzer II, Panzer III, StuG III, Panzer IV, Jagdpanzer IV, Panther, Jagdpanther, Tiger I and Elefant. This list is not exhaustive but it does indicate the gamut of vehicle types featured in these pages. Each photo is accompanied by a detailed caption providing pertinent information regarding vehicle types, units and locations. 72pp. 16 colour plates. 176 photos. Still delayed. Now due late December Price: £12.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Soldiers of the White Sun: The Chinese Army at War 1931-1949 Philip Jowett The Chinese Nationalist Army was at war almost continuously from 1931 until 1949 fighting first against the invading Japanese Imperial Army until 1945. This was followed by a four year civil war in which the Nationalist Army fought the Chinese Communists until its final defeat in 1949. Millions of Chinese soldiers fought and died during this eighteen years of conflict and their sacrifice has been largely overshadowed by the events of the Second World War. This new book presents in a large number of period images the history of the Chinese Nationalist Army and its campaigns. 208pp. 500 colour/bw images. Large format. NOW AVAILABLE Price: £49.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details SS Armour in Normandy The Combat History of SS Panzer Regiment 12 and SS Panzerjäger Abteilung 12, Normandy 1944 Norbert Számvéber SS Armour in Normandy presents the combat history of SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 and SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 12 in the Battle for France from June to the end of August 1944 based on transcriptions of their original unit war diaries from the Military Historical Archive in Prague. Both armoured units belonged to the 12th SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend". The SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 was fully-equipped with Panzer IV and Panther tanks. The main AFV of the SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 12 was the Jagdpanzer IV L/48 tank-destroyer The structure of the volume is partly source publication (documents of the SS-Panzer-Regiment 12) and partly study (the deployment of the SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 12). The text was written and footnoted by the author based upon original wartime files in Prague that have remained almost unknown. 160pp 48 photos. 10 documents. 13 maps (some colour) Delayed late December Price: £34.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart  see details Tiger Project The Research Squad This is a complete photo study of Tiger Fahrgestell No. 250031 currently located at the Wheatcroft Collection. The Research Squad has been given special permission by the collection to fully document this important vehicle. This therefore presents a unique opportunity to create a full photographic record before, during and after the restoration process. To this end the book will document the vehicle in its current state. This will include a full exterior walk-around, a complete documentation of the interior and also a detailed study of the engine compartment. All accessible areas of the vehicle are examined including: Full exterior. Turret and Fighting Compartment. Engine Compartment. In addition there will be a history of the vehicle from capture to present date. A Pantone examination of the paint layer history. 20+ technical drawings of specific items of interest. Original Internal images of the transmission and gearbox. 160pp. over 450 full colour photos. Card covers. Large format. Publication delayed Price: £24.95 Quantity   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50  Add to cart