GERMANY AND THE SECOND WORLD
WAR: VOLUME IX PART I
Edited by Karl-Heinz Frieser
The German Wartime Society
1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle
for Survival. This Ninth volume in the magisterial series is
written by a team of distinguished German historians: Ralf
Blank, Jörg Echternkamp, Karola Fings, Jürgen Förster,
Winfried Heinemann, Tobias Jersak, Armin Nolzen, and
Christoph Rass. Translated by Derry Cook-Radmore. The war
affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of
individuals in Germany. This volume examines how the minds
and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as
the Reich took the road to Total War. The huge numbers of
German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced
with forced foreign workers and slave labourers and
concentration camp prisoners. The interaction in everyday
life between German civilian society and these coerced
groups is explored, as is that society's relationship to the
Holocaust. The role of the Party, administration, police,
and courts in providing for the vast numbers of those
rendered homeless by air attack, in bolstering civilian
morale with 'miracle revenge weapons' propaganda, and in
maintaining order in a society in disintegration is reviewed
in detail. The volume concludes with an account of the
various forms of resistance to Hitler's regime, in society
and the military, culminating in the failed attempt on his
life in July 1944.
An action-packed account of how intricate Allied
deception plans totally misled Hitler and German Military
Intelligence as to the location and date of the Invasion of
Normandy. The chicanery included electronic spoofing, the
activity of double agents, diplomatic deceit, camouflage,
strategic feints, phony military installations, sabotage,
propoganda and fake codes.
Fine in d/w - 2xii + 263pp, 32 illustrations, maps
The final years of World War II saw
the legendary Panzerwaffe face its most difficult
challenges, with Allied troops landing at Normandy and
storming across the continent and the Russians gaining the
upper hand on the Eastern Front. Germany fought fiercely to
hold on to the advantages gained in the early years, and
relied heavily on the Panzer IV, the Panzer V Panther and
the StuG III - the backbone of their infamous armoured
divisions. This second volume offers a comprehensive guide
to the final years of Germany's most famous fighting force,
covering the further use of the Panzer IV, the role played
by the StuG III assault gun and the battlefield debut of the
formidable Panther. Combat reports and archive photographs
uncover the final years of the Panzers, from their defence
against the D-Day landings and the role they played in the
Ardennes Offensive to their valiant last stand in Berlin.
New in d/w -
224pp, c250 b/w photos & illustrations
LAST LAURELS: THE GERMAN
DEFENCE OF
UPPER SILESIA JANUARY-MAY 1945
by Georg
Gunter
By January 1945, Upper Silesia had
become Germany's key industrial region, with its coal mines,
blast furnaces, arms factories and hydrogenation plants. Not
surprisingly, when the Soviets launched a series of powerful
offensives aimed at capturing the region, the German defence
was bitter, bordering on the suicidal. Soviet reactions were
brutal, the Red Army committing widespread atrocities, which
have received little coverage until now. In this readable
and fast-paced translation from the German edition, the
author presents a penetrating description of the events
which occurred in Silesia during the first five months of
1945 - from the massive Soviet offensive on 12th January,
through to the final German defensive actions around Ratibor
five months later.
Fine in illustrated boards - Large Format, 309pp,
illustrations, maps
July 1943, The Decisive Battle of World War II,
"Zitadelle" was the last chance for the German forces in the
east to wrest supremacy from the Red Army in the Kursk
salient. The battle developed into a titanic struggle,
culminating in a large armored engagement at Prochorowka on
12/13 July. The book covers all aspects of the battle
(including air operations) and includes the Soviet
counteroffensive against the Orel salient, where they
attempted to cut off a large German force. Kurowski’s
exciting account is based on numerous previously unpublished
personal accounts by veterans.
Like
new
in decorative boards - 442pp, 44pp b/w photos, 22
full-page maps & 18pp of appendices
