The second volume of David M Glantz's account of The
Battle for Smolensk, 10th July to 10th September 1941.
Volume 2 describes the Red Army's attempts to thwart
German offensive plans by defeating Army Group Center in
the Smolensk region with a general counter offensive by
three Red Army fronts. It includes The Northern Flank:
Group Stumme's (Third Panzer Group) Advance to Velikie
Luki, Toropets, and Zapadnaia Dvina, 22 August-9
September 1941: German Strategic Planning, the Tilt
toward Kiev, and Second Panzer Group's Advance Across
the Desna River, 22-28 August 1941: The Third Soviet
Counter offensive, including the Western Front's
Dukhovshchina Offensive, 26 August-6 September 1941, the
Reserve Front's El'nia Offensive, 30 August-10 September
1941, and the Briansk Front's Roslavl' to Novozybkov
Offensive, 29 August-14 September 1941
New in d/w - 624pp, 19 b/w photos, 94 maps, 32 tables
RAF Torpedo-Bombers in WWII. Low-level strikes against enemy
shipping by torpedo-carrying aircraft were perhaps the most
dangerous forms of air attack developed during WWII. This book
tells the stories of the men involved, from early attacks by
single Beauforts off the Dutch and Norwegian coasts to the massed
assaults of later years. It includes many historic actions such as
the lone moonlight attack on the pocket-battleship Lützow and the
heroic Swordfish attacks on the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz
Eugen during 'the Channel Dash'.
A PRECARIOUS EXISTENCE:
BRITISH SUBMARINERS IN WORLD WAR ONE
by Richard Mackay
This book examines the social history of those in the submarine
service during World War One. It examines why men become
submariners, the paucity of the training and the monotony of the
patrols and highlights the acute lack of rescue procedures and the
development of the justifiable belief among submariners that they
were the elite.
The Carpathian winter campaign of 1915, described by some as the
“Stalingrad of the First World War”, drove the million-man armies
of Austria-Hungary and Russia to the brink of annihilation.
Habsburg forces fought to rescue 130,000 Austro-Hungarian troops
trapped by the Russians in Fortress Przemysl, but the campaign
produced six times as many casualties as the number besieged. It
remains one of the least understood and most devastating chapters
of the war. Tunstall shows that the roots of the Habsburg collapse
in Russia in 1916 lay squarely in the winter campaign of 1915.
New - 320pp, 20 b/w photos
University Press of Kansas, 2010
ISBN 9780700617203
When the Wehrmacht swarmed across Eastern Europe the
Ordnungspolizei, or Uniformed Police, played a central role in the
genocide which followed. They were tasked to curb resistance,
pacify the countryside, patrol Jewish ghettos, and generally
maintain order in the conquered territories. The author reveals
how the institutional mindset of these "ordinary policeman"
allowed them to commit atrocities without a second thought. He
examines cooperation between the Ordnungspolizei, the SS and
Gestapo, and the Wehrmacht in the conduct of the Nazi
anti-partisan campaigns.
New in card cover - 330pp, 20 b/w illustrations, index
University Press of Kansas, 2010
ISBN 9780700617241
