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 Modelling the Early Panzerkampfwagen IV (Osprey Modelling №26) 
 Author: Tom Cockle Modelling the Early Panzerkampfwagen IV Osprey Publishing Osprey Modelling №26 2005 Format: EPUB Pages: 80 Size: 15 Mb Language: English The Panzerkampfwagen IV has often been referred to as the 'workhorse' of the German Army in World War II. This important weapon went through several upgrades and improvements and was the only German tank to have been produced continuously throughout the entire war. This book specifically deals with the short-barrelled Panzer IV, built until February 1942, which saw service from the invasion of Poland, through the fall of Western Europe and the campaigns of North Africa to the steppes of the Soviet Union. This book takes on a series of increasingly complex construction projects covering all the major Panzer IV types, including the rare multi-turreted Neubau-Panzerkampfwagen IV.
Tigers of the Death's Head
 Author: Michael Wood Tigers of the Death's Head: SS Totenkopf Division's Tiger Company Stackpole Books 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 304 Size: 15 Mb Language: English Detailed history of the Tiger company of Nazi Germany's notorious "Death's Head" panzer division of the Waffen-SS
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
 Author: John Cornwell Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact Viking 2003 Format: PDF Pages: 584 Language: English Size: 70.2 MB Nazi Germany had a head start in the science and technologies that dramatically transformed armed conflict in the twentieth century, leading to ultimate weapons of mass destruction, and the means of delivering them, ballistic missiles. John Cornwell's powerful history tells the story of Germany's scientists, from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to his fall in 1945. He describes the behaviour of researchers in the huge span of scientific disciplines in which Germany excelled and led the world. Some were Nazi enthusiasts, many more were fellow travellers. Few resisted or rebelled and their efforts prolonged the war. Their failure to translate leading-edge expertise into military success is a crucial feature of world history. Their degenerate exploitation of death-camp victims and slave labour brought lasting shame on the entire German scientific community. Cornwell's disturbing book, however, raises questions about the conduct of all scientists whatever their nationality or ideology. Cornwell vividly describes how Adolf Hitler used and abused science to his own ends, borrowing from pseudo-biology to develop his murderous racist theories, seizing on rocket science and jet propulsion as desperate last bids to terrify his enemies and stave off defeat. He explores the German quest for an atomic bomb, resolving the intriguing story of Werner Heisenberg and his trip to Copenhagen: the final truth about the failure of Germany's nuclear research. Cornwell sets the genius and the eventual corruption of German scientists against the background of Germany's emergence as the technological powerhouse of Europe by the first decade of the century. In the final stages of his story he explores the record of scientists, East and West, since Hitler's fall. Have scientists behaved any better in the course of the Cold War and beyond?
Modelling Scale Figures (Osprey Modelling №42)
 Author: Mark Bannerman Modelling Scale Figures (Osprey Modelling №42) Osprey Publishing 2006 Format: EPUB Pages: 80 Size: 13 Mb Language: English This book equips the beginner and intermediate modellers with the techniques required to successfully complete a figure from start to finish, and provides clear and easy-to-follow instructions on how to select, prepare, assemble, modify and paint realistic figures. It also offers a round-up of the range of figures available, a discussion of scale and how to work in differing scales as well as detailing the tools and materials you will need to get going. Modelling expert Mark Bannerman then provides an insight into construction and painting techniques, in clear, step-by-step tutorials that will increase confidence and develop better technique.
The Fall of Malaya and Singapore (Images of War)
 Author: Jon Diamond The Fall of Malaya and Singapore (Images of War) Pen and Sword 2015 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 28 Mb In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita.
The Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front (Images of War)
 Author: Bob Carruthers The Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front Pen and Sword Military Images of War 2015 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 9 Mb Language: English This is the illustrated history of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front. The life and death of the Waffen SS can be traced in the surviving photographs, and the brooding saga of the decline from triumph into disaster is told through these powerful images which clearly document the reality of combat on the Russian Front.
Drive North: U.S. Marines at the Punchbowl
 Author: Allan Reed Millett Drive North: U.S. Marines at the Punchbowl Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 148207110X 2013 Format: PDF Size: 11,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 68 Includes over 30 maps, photos and illustrations The Battle of the Punchbowl, was one of the last battles of the movement phase of the Korean War. Following the breakdown of armistice negotiations in August 1951, the United Nations Command decided to launch a limited offensive in the late summer/early autumn to shorten and straighten sections of their lines, acquire better defensive terrain, and deny the enemy key vantage points from which they could observe and target UN positions. The Battle of Bloody Ridge took place west of the Punchbowl from August–September 1951 and this was followed by the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge northwest of the Punchbowl from September–October 1951. At the end of the UN offensive in October 1951, UN Forces controlled the line of hills north of the Punchbowl.
Nimitz
 Author: E.B. Potter Nimitz Naval Institute Press 1976 Format: PDF Pages: 550 Language: English Size: 77.2 MB Fully covers Nimitz's naval career in addition to delving into his rural childhood and roles as husband and father.
Kamikaze
 Author: Yasuo Kuwahara, Gordon T. Ailred Kamikaze Ballantine Books 1957 Format: PDF Pages: 196 Language: English Size: 14 MB The powerful life-story of a young Japanese who was trained as a last-ditch suicide pilot and escaped death only by one of the most ironic miracles in the history of war.
Bomber Command: Reflections of War: Volume 4 - The Tide Turns 1943 -1944
 Author: Martin Bowman Bomber Command: Reflections of War: Volume 4 - The Tide Turns 1943 -1944 Pen and Sword ISBN: 1848844956 2012 Format: PDF (conv) Size: 11,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 256 This, the fourth and penultimate volume in the Bomber Command series, continues with the pace and quality we have come to expect from Martin Bowman. It adds itself to the volume of work published in the previous three volumes by Pen and Sword, and provides a comprehensive insight in to the experiences of Bomber Command's pilots and aircrew throughout World War Two.From the early wartime years when the RAF's first attempts to avenge Germany's onslaught were bedeviled by poor navigation and inaccurate bombing, to the final winning onslaught that finally tamed Hitler in his Berlin lair, these volumes trace the true experiences of the men who flew the bombers. Hundreds of firsthand accounts are punctuated by the author's background information that puts each narrative into wartime perspective. Every aspect of Bomber Commands operational duties are covered; day and night bombing, precision low-level strikes, mass raids and operations throughout all wartime theaters. Contributions are from RAF personnel who flew the command's different aircraft from the early Blenheims and Stirlings to the later Lancasters and Mosquitoes. Each volume is full of accounts that tell of the camaraderie amongst the crews, moments of sheer terror and the stoic humor that provided the critical bond. The five volumes of this work provide the most vivid and comprehensive work on the outstanding part played by RAF Bomber Command in their vital role in the destruction of the Third Reich.
Singapore 1942 (Battle Story)
 Author: Chris Brown Singapore 1942 The History Press Battle Story 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 158 Size: 4 Mb Language: English The Fall of Singapore remains a crushing defeat that sent shockwaves around the British Empire during the Second World War. Singapore had always been seen as an impenetrable fortress that would protect the British Empire's stake in the Far East - a legacy of the great days of global dominion. The British Army were aware of the threat to Singapore and Malaya from the first days after Pearl Harbor, but they viewed the Japanese Army as an inferior fighting force, incapable of standing up to the defences and trained troops of the British. Yet, in December 1941 the Japanese launched a swift attack on the Singapore airfields, nearly wiping out the entire fleet of RAF frontline aeroplanes.
American Intelligence And The German Resistance: A Documentary History
 Author: Jurgen Heideking, Christoph Mauch American Intelligence And The German Resistance: A Documentary History Westview Press 1998 ISBN: 0813336368 Format: PDF Size: 43,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 580 Even paranoids have enemies. Hitler’s most powerful foes were the Allied powers, but he also feared internal conspiracies bent on overthrowing his malevolent regime. In fact, there was a small but significant internal resistance to the Nazi regime, and it did receive help from the outside world. Through recently declassified intelligence documents, this book reveals for the first time the complete story of America’s wartime knowledge about, encouragement of, and secret collaboration with the German resistance to Hitler—including the famous July 20th plot to assassinate the Fuehrer.The U.S. government’s secret contacts with the anti-Nazi resistance were conducted by the OSS, the World War II predecessor to the CIA. Highly sensitive intelligence reports recently released by the CIA make it evident that the U.S. government had vast knowledge of what was going on inside the Third Reich. For example, a capitulation offer to the western Allies under consideration by Count von Moltke in 1943 was thoroughly discussed within the U.S. government.
The SS
 Author: Collective The SS (The Third Reich Series) Time-Life Books 1988 Format: PDF Pages: 200 Language: English Size: 42.7 MB This Time-Life work is an excellent historical overview of the SS. Good introduction for the casual historian. The illustrations and photos are just great.
D-Day: Intelligence and Deception
 Author: Jock Haswell D-Day: Intelligence and Deception Times Books 1980 Format: PDF Pages: 230 Language: English Size: 30 MB In D-Day: Intelligence and Deception, Jock Haswell provides a unique account of the intelligence work carried out on both sides of the English Channel during the period leading up to the D-Day landings. The book covers four main aspects of the story. The first, the operational aspect, concerns the problems of landing a huge invasion force on the beaches of a heavily-defended coast, by far the most difficult operation of war, and is discussed with reference to a selection of historical examples. The second, the intelligence aspect, deals with the collection and collation of information relating to both the preparation for attack and the defense of Eastern Europe. The third, the deception aspect, covers the immensely complex task of planting snippets of information and rumor in different parts of the world in order to build up a misleading picture of Allied plans in the mind of the enemy. The fourth aspect describes the actual result of the operation, and shows, in an account of the invasion, how far it was successful.
Hitler: A Life in Pictures (Images of War Special)
 Author: Bob Carrtuhers Hitler: A Life in Pictures (Images of War Special) Pen and Sword Military 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 232 Size: 9 Mb This exceptional source is probably the best of the contemporary accounts of Hitler in power, albeit from a heavily pro-Nazi stance. The testimonies collected together were based on interviews conducted by Heinz A. Heinz in 1933 and 1934, shortly after Hitler had taken power.
Fallschirmjager: Elite German Paratroops in World War II
 Author: Diane Canwell, Jon Sutherland Fallschirmjager: Elite German Paratroops in World War II Pen and Sword Aviation Images of War 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 176 Size: 11 Mb Language: English The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7, which suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete, then saw bloody conflict as Hitler's "Fire-fighters" on the Russian Front and later put up fierce resistance in places such as Monte Casino. The revealing images that Jon Sutherland has compiled for us depict these struggles in dramatic detail, ranging from photographs taken en route to Crete of the paratroopers in a JU52 to 20 May 1941, when Plieschen was dropped over Crete. Some show other paratroopers drifting down and others feature formations of German aircraft amidst flak.
Road to Huertgen Forest In Hell [Illustrated Edition]
![Road to Huertgen Forest In Hell [Illustrated Edition]](https://www.worldhistory.biz/uploads/posts/2015-05/1432477693_1428700369_00344902_medium.jpeg "Road to Huertgen Forest In Hell [Illustrated Edition]") Author: Lt. Paul Boesch Road to Huertgen Forest In Hell [Illustrated Edition] Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1497434475 2014 Format: EPUB Size: 7,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 246 Road to Huertgen—Forest in Hell, originally published in 1962, chronicles the 1944 combat experiences of U.S. Army Lieutenant Paul Boesch. The setting is the Huertgen Forest, a 1,300 square mile, densely wooded, hilly region along the German-Belgian border south and southeast of Aachen. From mid-September to mid-December 1944, six American infantry divisions—the 1st, 4th, 8th, 9th, 28th, and 83d—and part of the 5th Armored Division fought at one time or another in the Huertgen Forest. These divisions incurred 28,000 casualties, including 8,000 due to combat exhaustion and rain, mud, sleet, and cold. The forest lay across the path the First U.S. Army had to take to reach the Rhine River, and thus American commanders considered it essential to conquer it. German troops had prepared an elaborate defense of Huertgen, resulting in a struggle where tanks, infantry, and artillery dueled at close range. The battle for the forest ended in December, when a sudden German offensive through the Ardennes to the south forced the Allied armies to fall back, regroup, and renew their attack. By the time both American and German artillery had done with it, the setting would resemble the Argonne battlefield of World War One—a bleak scene of near total devastation. Included are 16 pages of maps and photographs.
Panzer III at War 1939-1945 (Images of War)
 Author: Paul Thomas Panzer III at War 1939-1945 (Images of War) Pen and Sword Military 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 7 Mb With comprehensive captions and text, this superb book is the latest in the bestselling Images of War Series and the second installment of the Author's pictorial history of the German Panzers in the Second World War. The Panzer III saw almost continuous action from the annexation of Czechoslakia, the invasion of Poland and then France and the Low countries, in North Africa, Italy, the Eastern Front and, finally, the retreat back into Germany.
Jets at Sea: Naval Aviation in Transition 1945-1955
 Author: Leo Marriott Jets at Sea: Naval Aviation in Transition 1945-1955 Pen and Sword Aviation ISBN: 1844157423 2008 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 2 Mb Language: English As World War Two drew to a close, jet-powered aircraft were beginning to be introduced into service. To take advantage of this major development it was necessary for all the world's air powers to rethink combat tactics and develop the means of handling these faster and generally larger aircraft in the air, on land and especially at sea. As this modern breed approached and finally broke the sound barrier, so did landing and takeoff speeds. The decade after the war saw rapid developments in the design of both naval aircraft and their seaborne bases - the aircraft carrier.
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