By Walter J Spielberger

This quantity within the sequence provides the Wehrmacht's heavy tank destroyers: Ferdinand, Jagdpanther and Jagdtiger with formerly unpublished photographs and motion experiences.

By Bruce Quarrie

An elite unit which took half in numerous an important battles, in addition to guarding Hitler's headquarters.

By Tim Brady

By Martin Brayley, Malcolm McGregor

The inhabitants of england was once mobilized to help the struggle attempt on a scale unseen in the other Western democracy â€" or in Nazi Germany. They persevered lengthy operating shifts, shortages of meals and all different items, and whole govt regulate in their day-by-day lives. such a lot women and men have been conscripted or volunteered for added projects outdoor their formal operating hours. lower than the air raids that destroyed the centres of many cities and made approximately 2 million homeless, greater than 60,000 civilians have been killed and 86,000 heavily injured. This interesting illustrated precis of wartime lifestyles, and the businesses that served at the domestic entrance, is a notable list of patience and sacrifice.

By Heinz Schäffer

    U-boat 977 used to be the German submarine that escaped to Argentina on the finish of global conflict . This epic trip all started from Bergen in Norway, the place in April 1945 it used to be briefly dependent, and took 3 and a part months to accomplish. due to carrying on with allied naval job the commander determined to make the 1st a part of the adventure underwater. earlier than surfacing close to the west coast of Africa U-977 had spent a impressive sixty-six days submerged! It was once inevitable that once U-977’s trip and break out to Argentina and its port of Mar del Plata turned identified it'd be the guts of rumor and conception. Why did U-977 make this lengthy trip of break out whilst, for Germany, the warfare was once over? was once it since it used to be sporting Nazi gold to proceed the struggle? have been escaping Nazi leaders on board? used to be Hitler on board? The tales have been many and for years, after the top of WWII, supplied fabric for novelists, film-makers and historians alike.   Heinz Schaeffer, the commander of U-977, has written a whole account of his past profession that culminated during this final command. It depicts the grueling features of a submariner’s lifestyles aboard a vessel that used to be subjected to the tough stipulations of the seas and oceans. As an skilled commander Schaeffer took half in lots of of the decisive U-boat operations within the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. within the ultimate months of the conflict, and in universal with so much surviving U-boat commanders, Schaeffer and his group got here lower than consistent assaults from Allied plane and floor ships.   the ultimate a part of U-boat 977 is Schaeffer’s account of the adventure to Argentina and ‘lays to relaxation’ a few of the extra ‘fanciful’ tales that its arrival.     

By Gerald Astor

The best battle is an American-combat background of what Studs Turkel dubbed the "good war," global warfare II, instructed principally within the phrases of the yankee infantrymen, sailors, airmen, and marines who have been there.

By Morten Jessen

The Ju fifty two used to be a necessary a part of the Luftwaffe and it proved itself a flexible and trustworthy airplane in nearly six years of clash. The Ju fifty two first observed carrier as a civil airliner within the Thirties, yet at the outbreak of warfare in 1939, it chanced on a tough position because the Luftwaffe's fundamental delivery plane, deployed within the transportation of provides and body of workers and, on celebration, flying paratroopers to their aim vacation spot or evacuating wounded from remoted wallet. this significant contribution to the Luftwaffe at warfare sequence highlights the contribution made by means of the JU fifty two and covers all of the significant kinds and versions of this rugged plane. Morten Jessen comprises infrequent and unpublished photos taken on approximately each entrance of the warfare and ably demonstrates why Luftwaffe team of workers seen the Ju fifty two with such affection. certainly, it was once identified all through the conflict as Tante Ju (Auntie Ju).

By John Weal

This quantity is the 1st of its kind to be dedicated completely to the Zerstörer day fighter aces, spanning the battle years from Poland to the defence of the Reich. even though Messerschmitt's single-engined Bf 109 has acquired many of the plaudits for attaining digital air superiority over Europe in 1939-40, the exploits of the manufacturer's twin-engined Bf one hundred ten, the Ju 88 and the Me 410 Zerstörer within the first 12 months of the conflict additionally make for extraordinarily amazing analyzing. certainly, at the eve of worldwide conflict 2 a posting to a Bf one hundred ten unit was once thought of to be the easiest occupation flow to be had within the Luftwaffe.

By Bruce Quarrie

Offers with the German panzers in North Africa in the course of WW2

By Margaret McRae (auth.)