TWELVE YEARS WITH HITLER:
A
HISTORY OF 1.KOMPANIE LEIBSTANDARTE SS ADOLF HITLER
Edited by Hans Quassowski
A magnificent Schiffer publication produced by the LAH Veterans
Association and many years in preparation. This is the history of
1.Kompanie Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. The
original cadre of the later Waffen-SS was formed in March 1933 as
the "SS Headquarters Guard Berlin". From the first 117 volunteers
there emerged more than fifty senior SS officers, to serve in the
38 Waffen-SS divisions that were later formed. Twenty former
members won the Knight's Cross having served om almost every front
during WWII.
New in d/w - Large format, 383pp,
over 460 photos, 30 maps
On the Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden Adolf Hitler had rented a
small house in 1927, which he expanded into the pompous "Berghof" in
1936. The immediate surroundings became a restricted zone. In April
1945 an allied air raid destroyed a great part of the buildings.
Since 1999 the Obersalzberg Documentation Centre has provided
information about the dark past of this idyllic site. This compact,
pocket sized guide to the area provides full historical and
geographical data for the visitor.
New in card cover - Small
format,
62pp, numerous maps, plans,
photos & illustrations
This is the first
truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has
done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of
its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and
their focus was primarily on military events. More recent
approaches have embraced cultural, diplomatic, economic, and
social history. In Hew Strachan's authoritative and readable
history these fresh perspectives are incorporated with the
military and strategic narrative. The result is an account that
breaks the bounds of national preoccupations to become both global
and comparative.
For Hitler and the
German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as
an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant
victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic
retreats. In this major re-evaluation of that crucial year, Robert
Citino shows that the German army’s emerging woes were rooted as
much in its addiction to the “war of movement”—attempts to smash
the enemy in “short and lively” campaigns — as they were in
Hitler’s deeply flawed management of the war.
New in d/w - 431pp, 15 maps,
40 b/w photos
University Press of Kansas,
2007
ISBN 9780700615315
South African Recce Operations, 1969 - 1994. The ultimate book on
South African military operations during the apartheid years. It
deals with all the top secret raids by Special Forces into
surrounding African states, the political dynamics which led to
them, and the turbulent history of the times.
New in card cover - 608pp,
19 colour
& 42 b/w photos + numerous other maps
& illustrations.
