Graphic account of a bloody battle on the Eastern Front in the final months of World War II The Germans defended Kustrin tenaciously--with high-school students and old men Events brought to life by pe
Personal accounts by top Red Army commanders of the attack on Berlin in 1945. First publication in English of memoirs long banned in the Soviet Union provide insight into the workings of the Soviet hi
"Tony Le Tissier's classic account of the battle for Berlin dispels the myths created by Soviet propaganda and describes in graphic detail the Red Army's final offensive against Nazi Germany -- the ra
The 94th US Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from
In May 1945, as the triumphant Red Army crushed the last pockets of German resistance in central Berlin, French soldiers fought back. They were the last surviving members of SS Charlemagne, the Waffen
Definitive guide to the 1945 battle for Berlin which includes walking and driving tours of the battlefield. Features the battle for the Seelow Heights and the final assault on the Reichstag
'Through his daily involvement with them, Wilhelm Adam is able to perfectly describe the characters involved, the tensions and despair amongst them and the pressure Paulus and his staff found themselv
The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. But most of these accounts finish at the en
In 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union Vassili Subbotin was caught up as an ordinary soldier in the Red Army’s great retreat. In 1945, during the final days of the war, as a war correspondent,
Hans Schäufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945. Then, as an infantryman, he took part in the doomed defense of
