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This book covers the high command the developments in unit organisation the campaigns & the uniforms & equipment of the German Army in the last two years of the war in North-West Europe & Italy. Despite the huge pressure of fighting on three fronts ever-worsening shortages of manpower & equipment & Allied command of the skies Germanys decimated divisions fought on with impressive skill & determination. This period of World War II (1939-1945) also saw a fascinating mixture of obsolescent newly designed & field-made combat clothing which gave the German soldier a radically different appearance from his predecessor of just five years before. ...

The first of a series of five books on the German army of World War II. This volume focuses on their achievements from 1935 to 1940 & how the military traditions of Germany were used by Hitler to dominate Europe. Nigel Thomas examines the ways in which this army was trained & organized to allow them to dominate large areas of Europe so successfully. He looks at the campaigns & uniforms during the Polish Danish Norwegian Belgian Dutch & French campaigns between September 1939 & June 1940 & also considers the pre-war campaigns in Rhineland Spain Austria & Czechoslovakia from between 1936 & 1939. ...

This book will be the first complete account of the operations of the German army in the battles north of Lille in the late autumn of 1914. The main emphasis will be placed on the battles around Ypres against the Old Contemptibles of the BEF but the fighting against the French & Belgian armies will also be featured thus providing fresh broader insights into a campaign. There are those who consider that the BEF was all that saved world civilisation as the first year of the Great War drew to its end. The book uses the comprehensive histories of the participating German regiments found in the Kriegsarchiv in Munich & the Hauptstaatsarchiv in Stuttgart. Their use adds authority & authenticity to the book. The narrative adopts a chronological approach. The book focuses on some of the most bitterly disputed battles of the first three months of the war when the Germans strained to achieve a breakthrough & the BEF resisted heroically at the price of its own destruction. The book employs a similar format to the authors previous works; that is to say the greater part of the text uses the words of the German participants themselves & the primary focus of the book covers the experiences of the fighting troops at regimental level & below. Linking paragraphs provide historical context & commentary & evidence from senior commanders will be introduced as necessary. Jack Sheldon is now firmly established as the leading authority on the German Army in the First World War. A retired soldier he lives in France & is fully engaged researching & writing. His German Army on the Somme was a run-away success & he has built on his reputation with The German Army At Passchendael the German Army at Cambrai & The German Army on Vimy Ridge all with Pen & Sword Books. He lives in France. Foreword: Hew Strachan. Professor of the History of War All Souls College University of Oxford. ...

With the Central Powers holding the initiative throughout 1915 was the year that largely determined the way the remainder of the war would be fought. Constantly on the offensive in the vast open spaces of the Eastern Front the German Army stood on the strategic defensive in the West. There with minimal ground-holding forces & thanks to skilful deployment of limited reserves of men & guns it repulsed with bloody losses every attempt by the Western Allies to drive it from occupied France & Belgium. Shortages of weapons equipment & ammunition forced both sides to tool up for what was clearly becoming a long war of attrition. Although the Western Front had stabilized by the end of 1914 this did not mean that tactical thinking & developments also stood still. Every Allied attempt to break the deadlock elicited a response from the German defenders who brought the tactics of positional warfare to a high state of refinement. Trench systems increased in depth & complexity. The machine gun proved its lethality & the result for the Western Allies was one costly setback after another with French losses reaching a staggering 1 000 000 fatalities by the end of the year. This superbly researched book provides the clearest & most comprehensive German perspective yet on this period of the War. It covers such well-known actions as Neuve Chapelle Ypres where gas was used on a large scale for the first time Aubers Ridge & Loos as well as the appalling clashes in Champagne & the Argonne Forest. The latest in the Authors acclaimed series The German Army on the Western Front 1915 will be welcomed as essential reading by all with a close interest in the First World War. ...

The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge & the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring & autumn 1915 is described as is the twelve month period from late autumn 1915 when British forces occupied the lines on the western Ridge. The period from late autumn 1916 onwards when the Canadian Corps was preparing for the April 1917 assault on the ridge is given detailed treatment with special emphasis (based on original Germanintelligence & interrogation files) on how the defenders built up a detailed picture of Allied plans & how they intended to counter them. The battle (9
- 14 April 1917) is described in detail & the conclusion summarises the aftermath of the battle & its consequences for the way the German army prepared for the Third Battle of Ypres. The book employs a similar format to The German Army on the Somme 1914
- 1916 & The German Army at Passchendaele; the greater part of the text is based on the words of the German participants themselves. Commentary & evidence from senior commanders is introduced as necessary; the aim once more being to produce a work of popular history which nevertheless provides an important contribution to the overall historiography of the Great War.

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This book explores the origins development combat use & lasting influence of Nazi Germany's automatic rifles focusing on the Gew 41 (W) Gew 43/ Kar 43 FG 42 & MP 43/ St G 44. The Blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939-40 convinced many observers that most infantry combat took place at closer ranges than the 750-1 000m. From 1941 Germany's arms designers took note & produced a new series of infantry firearms. This study not only provides a detailed technical description of each weapon but also explores how the firearms performed on the battlefields of World War II. The combat takes us from the FG 42 in the hands of Fallschirmjager at Monte Cassino through to St G 44s being used by Waffen-SS soldiers on both the Eastern & Western Fronts. Postwar service is also studied such as the Gew 43's adoption by the Czech Army & the St G 44's use by the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War. Setting each firearm in its tactical & historical context & employing striking photographs & full-colour artwork firearms expert Chris Mc Nab sets out the absorbing story of this distinctive & influential series of weapons. ...

A moving inter-war family saga The German Boy" from Patricia Wastvedt the Orange Prize Longlisted author of " The River". In 1947 Elisabeth Manders German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau her dead sisters teenage son whom she hates & loves before shes even set eyes on him. Orphaned by the war & traumatised by the last vicious battles of the Hitler Youth Stefan brings with him to England only a few meagre possessions. Among them a portrait of a girl with long copper hair by a young painter called Michael Ross
- & with it the memory both painful & precious of her life & that time between the wars. Spanning decades & generations " The German Boy" tells the moving story of two families entangled by love & friendship divided by prejudice & war & of a brief encounter between a woman & a man that touched each of their lives forever. " An absorbing literary saga.. .a sophisticated & subtly woven story". (" Daily Mail"). " Hypnotic atmospheric & exquisitely written. A novel I wont forget". (Lucinda Riley author of " Hothouse Flower"). "A love story at its centre which will make your heart ache". (Julia Green author of " Blue Moon"). "A heart-rending story of epic proportions thrilling & utterly captivating. I am haunted by it still"). (Suzannah Dunn author of " The Confession of Katherine"). Howard Born in 1954 Patricia Wastvedt grew up in Blackheath south London & spent her summers in Kent. She has a degree in Creative Arts & an MA in Creative Writing & her first novel " The River" written in her late forties was long-listed for the Orange Prize. She teaches at Bath Spa University & is also a manuscript editor. She lives & writes in a cottage in Somerset."
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The last place a German soldier wanted to be in 1944 was the Russian front. That summer Stalin hurled more than 6 million men 9 000 tanks 16 000 aircraft & 12 800 guns & rocket launchers against German forces. Despite this gigantic effort & the resulting decimation of German forces events on the Eastern Front are largely neglected by historians who focus instead on German defeats in Normandy & the Ardennes. This account details the massive battles on the Eastern Front from the summer of 1944 until the fall of Budapest in early 1945 a period when Hitler lost the majority of his conquered eastern territories & many of his best remaining divisions. ...