A Photo Study of SS-PanzerGrenadier Division Leibstandarte-SS
"Adolf Hitler" and the battle for Kharkov, January to March, 1943.
During the initial fighting the division held its sector for two
weeks against the full weight of the Soviet 3rd Tank Army and,
after the city fell, they withdrew to protect Krasnograd, an
important rail center. With SS-Divisions "Das Reich" and "Totenkopf"
counterattacking, The Leibstandarte, led by dynamic young officers
such as Kurt Meyer, Max Wunsche and Jochen Peiper, once again
advanced toward the city.
New in d/w - Large format, 250pp,
420 photos, 8 maps, 8 color pages
The fall of Baghdad in April 2003 opened one of the most
secretive and brutal governments in history to outside scrutiny. For
the first time analysts did not have to guess what had happened on
the other side of a conflict but could actually read the defeated
enemy's documents and interrogate its leading figures. This Pentagon
study takes advantage of this opportunity to delve into Saddam's
decision-making processes. A declassified version of a secret U.S.
Joint Forces Command report, the work is based on thousands of
captured documents and dozens of interviews with senior Iraqi
military and political leaders. The report shows just how
dysfunctional and twisted the regime's internal workings had become.
The culture of fear was so complete that Saddam's underlings
routinely lied to him about almost everything, including the
capabilities of his own military forces
New in card cover - 205pp,
numerous b/w ills, maps & graphics
An extensively
illustrated account of Somerset's airfields during the last war,
the planes, the pilots who flew them and the local civilians who
worked alongside them.
Munich was the
birthplace of National Socialism and held a privileged position in
the Third Reich as the capital of the movement. It was the seat of
the NSDAP administrative machinery, and was planned to be totally
reconstructed to reflect the might of the German state. It was the
city which saw the rise of Hitler, who ascended from humble
beginnings to become the dictator of more than half of Europe. But
today many of the historically significant places are hardly
recognisable. This new Past Finder presents all the important
scenes of Munich’s Third Reich history by means of clear, detailed
text, and colour maps and graphics.
New in card cover - 10.5 x 23.5cm, numerous colour maps, plans,
graphics & photos
John S. “Slew” McCain was an old-school sailor and a pioneer in
the hard-hitting naval tactics that brought Imperial Japan to its
knees. He graduated from Annapolis in 1906 serving aboard a cruiser
in World War I, and earning his aviation wings in 1936. By 1939 was
commander of the aircraft carrier Ranger, and in 1942 he took
command of all land-based aircraft during the campaign for
Guadalcanal. Throughout the war, McCain prioritized fighters and
single-seat dive-bombers as the best weapons to directly attack the
enemy.At the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and finally up to the
very coastline of Japan, McCain’s carrier group destroyed thousands
of enemy planes and hundreds of ships. After Japan surrendered on
September 2, 1945, McCain flew back to his home in the US, and died
in his bed the very next day.
New in d/w - 274pp, 33 b/w photos,
4 maps, biblio, index
