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Mapping the First World War: Battlefields of the Great Conflict from Above by Simon Forty
Category: History
This title features over 120 large-format illustrations present detailed and fascinating wartime cartography. Key battles such as the Somme, Mons, Gallipoli, Jutland and Ypres are given extensive coverage alongside fascinating detail pieces such as airship raids and stations, communication systems, Orde ...Show more
Photographic History of Airborne Warfare, 1939-1945 by SIMON FORTY
Category: Military
On 10 May 1940 German Fallschirmjager stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit up and take notice. Improved parachutes and the creation of glide ...Show more
Red Army into the Reich by Simon Forty; Patrick Hook; Nik Cornish
Category: Military
A detailed narrative of how the Red Army pushed west and into Berlin in 1945.The last year of the war saw Russian offensives that cleared the Germans out of their final strongholds in Finland and the Baltic states, before advancing into Finnmark in Norway and the east European states that bordered Germa ...Show more
The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front by Simon Forty; Richard Charlton Taylor
Category: Military History | Series: Casemate Illustrated Ser.
A fully illustrated survey of the German infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.The German Army was all-conquering until late 1941 when, only a few miles short of Moscow, it ran out of steam. Maniacal defense, the Russian winter and exhaustion all played their part and, although they didn't re ...Show more
The Soviet Infantryman on the Eastern Front by Simon Forty
Category: Military History | Series: Casemate Illustrated Ser.
A fully illustrated survey of the Soviet infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.The Soviet Army was ill-prepared for its ally's treacherous onslaught in 1941. Its officer corps decimated by Stalin's purges and its men less well-trained than the Germans, the Red Army was poorly led, hampered by ...Show more
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