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Battle of the Bulge by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West and the largest and most costly battle fought by the US Army in World War II. Resulting in over 100,000 German and 80,000 American casualties, it turned an apparent defeat into what British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called 'a ...Show more
Battleground: The Greatest Tank Duels in History by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military | Series: General Military
The tank came of age during World War II at the cutting edge of Hitler's Blitzkrieg and became the most powerful machine on the twentieth-century battlefield. But what was it like to be a driver or gunner in the Battle of the Bulge, on the Eastern Front, the deserts of North Africa or the dusty plains o ...Show more
British Battle Tanks - US-Made Tanks of World War II by David Fletcher; Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military
The idea of British soldiers using American tanks was not viewed with a great deal of enthusiasm by the British Army. They perceived American tanks as being crudely made, mechanically unsophisticated and impossible to fight in. However, once British crews got used to them and learned to cope with some o ...Show more
Brittany 1944: Hitler's Final Defenses in France by Steven J. Zaloga (Author)
Category: Military | Series: Campaign
One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. This included the major ports at Brest and ...Show more
Cherbourg 1944 - The First Allied Victory in Normandy by Steven J. Zaloga; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Steven Zaloga offers up a rigorous and absorbing study of the first major Allied operation in Normandy after the D-Day landings - the capture of Cherbourg. Blending expert analysis, specially commissioned artwork and illustrative maps, this book tells the story of the bitter struggle to capture this vit ...Show more
D-Day Fortifications in Normandy by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military
The coastal defenses in Normandy along the D-Day beaches were less thorough than other Atlantic Wall defenses, such as the Pas de Calais, where the Germans expected the main attack. However, they still proved to be formidable obstacles for the Allied invasion force. Rommel stressed the need to defeat th ...Show more
Early US Armor by Zaloga Steven J.
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The first American armoured cars began to emerge around the turn of the century, seeing their first military use in 1916 during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa. When the United States entered World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces used some armoured cars in France, and American armo ...Show more
George S. Patton by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: History
George S. Patton Jr. was the iconic American field commander of World War II, and widely regarded as the US Army's finest practitioner of mechanized warfare. This title examines Patton's colorful life and leadership in three wars, with a concentration on his command in World War II. Despite his ability, ...Show more
German Field Artillery of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodriguez (Illustrator)
Category: Military History | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army - the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in military history by the tanks and aircraft of Blitzkrieg, Germany's artillery was key to its methods of waging war throug ...Show more
German Tanks in Normandy 1946 by Steven J. Zaloga
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
German Tanks In Normandy 1944, The Panzer, Sturmgeschütz and Panzerjäger forces that faced the D-Day invasion. The German tank forces in Normandy in June-August 1944 had the advantage of fighting on the defensive side, as well as fielding some of the most powerful tanks used by any army in the war. Yet ...Show more