In March 1945 the Wehrmacht undertook a final attempt to change
the course of the war by launching a counter-offensive in the
area of Lake Balaton, Hungary. Here, the elite of the
Panzerwaffe were assembled including Pz divisions SS
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Das Reich, Totenkopf, Wiking and
others, armed with up to 900 tanks and self-propelled guns.
Troops of the Red Army's 3rd Ukrainian Front were pitted to
repel the counteroffensive and could not call upon
reinforcements from the Stavka Reserve, which were needed for
the storming of Berlin. That they defeated the Sixth SS Panzer
Army became a catastrophe for Germany. The book is lavishly
illustrated with hundreds of rare photographs and color maps.
New in d/w - 184pp, numerous b/w photos, illustrations & maps
The end of the Great War did not bring peace to Russia - civil
war developed between the Bolsheviks and the 'White Russians'
who represented the old Czarist order. A 'coalition' of 16
nations including Britain, America and France became involved on
numerous fronts in support of the Whites. The result was defeat
and failure for the coalition forces. This little known and
ill-fated enterprise was surprisingly costly in political and
military terms, indeed the intervention lead to precisely the
opposite result to that intended.
On 7 September 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the
armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of the
climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. The survival of the
Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in Napoleon's
eventual defeat and the utter destruction of the French army of
1812. This new study retells the terrible story of Borodino seen
from the Russian point of view, providing a fresh perspective on
the battle and a broader understanding of the reasons for the
eventual Russian triumph.
New in card cover - 276pp, 18 maps & diagrams, 62 b/w
illustrations
After weeks of bitter fighting there was a desperate need to
break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In late July 1944
Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey’s Second Army moved two
entire corps from the Caen sector to the countryside around
Caumont. Here, British XXX Corps prepared to give battle, with VII
Corps advancing in support between XXX Corps and the American
first Army. While the XXX Corps attack stalled, VIII Corps surged
ahead and a deep penetration was made. The author examines Monty’s
refusal to seize Vire, the disputed Anglo-American border and the
Operation’s impact on the German Mortain offensive.
ATOMIC: THE FIRST WAR OF PHYSICS AND
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ATOM BOMB - 1939-49
by Jim Baggott
A popular account of the race to build humankind's most
destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such
as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by
American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations
by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives. This is
an epic story of science and technology at the very limits of
human understanding - a tale barely believable as fiction, which
just happens to be historical fact.
