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Achtung Panzer! by Heinz Guderian
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937, the result ...Show more
Cass.mil: Officer Factory by Kirst Hans Helmut
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The unfolding drama at the officers' training school is an incomparable picture of a conflict between honourable men and a barbaric regime in wartime Germany. THE OFFICER FACTORY is where the cream of Germany's youth are moulded into soldiers ready to fight for the Fatherland. But the training is not o ...Show more
Churchill's Generals by John Keegan
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War.Churchill's reputation as prime minister during the Second World War fluctuated according to the successes and failures of his generals. Most of them were ho ...Show more
Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, Das Boot is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of World War II and an acclaimed film and TV drama. Das Boot is the thrilling story of a U-boat commander and his crew during World War II. It is autumn 1941 and a German U-b ...Show more
Fortress Malta: An Island under seige 1940-1943 by James Holland
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In just two months in 1942 - March and April - more explosives were dropped on this 17 x 9-mile Mediterranean island than on the whole of Britain during the entire first year of the Blitz. In 1942 Malta was the most important strategic piece of land in the w ...Show more
Sea Harrier Over the Falklands by Sharkey Ward
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The controversial account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all his instructions to the letter, Britain might ...Show more
The Dambusters Raid by John Sweetman
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. For the loss of 11 aircraft, the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany's industrial heartland were breached, and a ...Show more
The Fall of Carthage:The Punic Wars 265-146BC by Adrian Goldsworthy
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage. The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than i ...Show more
The Kappillan of Malta by Nicholas Monsarrat
Category: Fiction | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
Father Salvatore was a simple, lumbering priest, a kappillan serving the poor Valetta, when war came out of the blue skies to pound the island to dust. Now amid the catacombs discovered by a chance bomb, he cared for the flood of homeless, starving, frightened people who sought shelter from the death th ...Show more
The Last Post by Max Arthur
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
FORGOTTEN VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR was the surprise best-seller at Christmas 2002, selling over 60,000 copies in hardback alone. The formula was simple: Max Arthur interviewed some of the 30 surviving British soldiers from the First World War and combined their stories with other interviews in the Imperi ...Show more
The Road to Berlin: Stalin's War with Germany Vol 2 by John Erickson
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
The follow-up to the acclaimed The Road to Stalingrad tells the compelling story of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans out of Russia and back to Berlin. Using Soviet, German, and Eastern European primary sources, John Erickson describes fi
The Road to Stalingrad by John Erickson
Category: History | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks Ser.
A new paperback version of the first volume in John Erickson's monumental, critically acclaimed history of the Soviet-German war.In fascinating detail, The Road to Stalingrad takes us from the inept command structures and strategic delusions of the pre-i