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Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII
Flying American Combat Aircraft: The Cold War
Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and the Summer of Victory in the East
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Stackpole Military History Series

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  • Succinct accounts of 21 guerrilla conflicts in the twentieth century
  • Wars covered include the Boer War, the Philippine War, World War I, the Russian Revolution, World War II, Vietnam, the Algerian War, the Afghan-Soviet War, and more
  • The exploits of men like Lawrence of Arabia, Orde Wingate, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevera

    In war, whenever one side outnumbers and outguns the other, the outnumbered and outgunned side often resorts to guerrilla warfare to address the asymmetry and frequently achieves victory. The twentieth century produced scores of such conflicts, whether as sideshows of the world wars or as the main events in wars of revolution or liberation. Guerrilla Warfare examines twenty-one of these conflicts, shedding light on the remarkable capabilities of unconventional fighters to outlast and defeat their enemies.

  • LanguageEnglish
    Release dateAug 25, 2006
    Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII
    Flying American Combat Aircraft: The Cold War
    Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and the Summer of Victory in the East

    Titles in the series (59)

    • Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and the Summer of Victory in the East

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      Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and the Summer of Victory in the East
      Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and the Summer of Victory in the East

      How the exploits of German panzers were reported to the home front.

    • Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII

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      Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII
      Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII

      The story of one of the most successful and decorated tank commanders of all time. Contains maps, official documents, newspaper clippings, and orders of battle.

    • Flying American Combat Aircraft: The Cold War

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      Flying American Combat Aircraft: The Cold War
      Flying American Combat Aircraft: The Cold War

      Riveting accounts from the pilots who flew such planes as the F-15, B-52, C-130, and many more. Dozens of in-the-cockpit photos.

    • The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division

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      The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division
      The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division

      Part two of the defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers continues with the survivors of the bloody fighting in France regrouping to make a final stand in the Ardennes and Hungary before Germany was overcome by the Allies. A detailed and gripping account of the most famous, and infamous, division to fight in World War II for any side.

    • The Battalion: The Dramatic Story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in WWII

      The Battalion: The Dramatic Story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in WWII
      The Battalion: The Dramatic Story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in WWII

      Follows a legendary unit of American fighting men from D-Day through the end of World War II.

    • Eagles of the Third Reich: Men of the Luftwaffe in WWII

      Eagles of the Third Reich: Men of the Luftwaffe in WWII
      Eagles of the Third Reich: Men of the Luftwaffe in WWII

      Character-based study of why the German air force was defeated. Recounts the Luftwaffe in combat from the blitzkrieg of 1939-40 and the Battle of Britain to the Eastern Front and the Normandy campaign.

    • Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to Berlin

      Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to Berlin
      Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to Berlin

      First-person German accounts of bloody combat. Includes never-before-seen photos.

    • Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII

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      Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII
      Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII

      German Panzer ace Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank commander on any side in World War II, destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns with his Tiger. In this continuation of his story, Volume Two follows Wittmann and his unit into Normandy to defend against the Allied invasion and provides maps, official documents, newspaper clippings, and orders of battle. A week after D-Day, Wittmann achieved his greatest success. On June 13, 1944, near Villers Bocage, the panzer ace and his crew attacked a British armored unit, single-handedly destroying more than a dozen tanks and preventing an enemy breakthrough. The exploit made Wittmann a national hero in Germany and a legend in the annals of war. He was killed two months later while attempting to repulse an Allied assault, but the book continues beyond his death until the Leibstandarte's surrender.

    • War in the Aegean: The Campaign for the Eastern Mediterranean in World War II

      War in the Aegean: The Campaign for the Eastern Mediterranean in World War II
      War in the Aegean: The Campaign for the Eastern Mediterranean in World War II

      First complete retelling of an important but little-known campaign. Eyewitness accounts from a colorful cast of German SS troops, British commandos, partisans, spies, Greek pirates, and more.

    • The Battle of the Bulge: The Losheim Gap/Holding the Line

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      The Battle of the Bulge: The Losheim Gap/Holding the Line
      The Battle of the Bulge: The Losheim Gap/Holding the Line

      The U.S. Army's bloodiest battle of World War II. From-the-foxhole stories of American soldiers in combat. Based on official U.S. Army documents and after-action reports.

    • The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division

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      The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division
      The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division

      The defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers. Written by the division's former chief of staff.

    • Surviving Bataan and Beyond: Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War

      Surviving Bataan and Beyond: Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War
      Surviving Bataan and Beyond: Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War

      Deeply moving, intensely graphic account of World War II prisoners of war. Includes a gut-wrenching description of the Bataan Death March.

    • Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and Barbarossa's Failure at the Gates of Moscow

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      Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and Barbarossa's Failure at the Gates of Moscow
      Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and Barbarossa's Failure at the Gates of Moscow

      How the exploits of panzer troops were reported on the German home front.

    • Battle of the Bulge: The 3rd Fallschirmjager Division in Action, December 1944-January 1945

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      Battle of the Bulge: The 3rd Fallschirmjager Division in Action, December 1944-January 1945
      Battle of the Bulge: The 3rd Fallschirmjager Division in Action, December 1944-January 1945

      This is the story of their bitter combat--in the words of German and American soldiers who were there.

    • The Brigade: The Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade in World War II

      The Brigade: The Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade in World War II
      The Brigade: The Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade in World War II

      Battalion- and company-level account of the vital contributions of Canadian soldiers to victory in Europe in World War II. Based on war diaries, casualty reports, and after-action interviews. The author is one of Canada's preeminent military historians.

    • Army of the West: The Weekly Reports of German Army Group B from Normandy to the West Wall

      Army of the West: The Weekly Reports of German Army Group B from Normandy to the West Wall
      Army of the West: The Weekly Reports of German Army Group B from Normandy to the West Wall

      • Essential primary source on the German defense of Western Europe in World War II • Concise chapter introductions provide historical context for the reports In May 1944 German Army Group B, headquartered in France, requested weekly reports from its commanders. These accounts included assessments of the general situation, estimates of the Allies' situation, casualty figures, equipment losses, and descriptions of resistance activities. Commanded successively by Erwin Rommel, Günther von Kluge, and Walter Model, Army Group B bore the brunt of the Allied assault--D-Day, the Normandy campaign, and Operation Market-Garden--and these reports reveal what the German Army was thinking as it confronted the invasion.

    • Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.S. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II

      Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.S. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II
      Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.S. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II

      Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater. Firsthand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopers. Detailed maps illustrate battles.

    • Cavalry Raids of the Civil War

      Cavalry Raids of the Civil War
      Cavalry Raids of the Civil War

      Covers raids from J. E. B. Stuart's 1862 ride around McClellan's army to James Wilson's crashing raids in Alabama and Georgia in 1865.

    • Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defense of the Homeland

      Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defense of the Homeland
      Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defense of the Homeland

      Action-packed memoir of aerial combat. Inside the cockpits of Bf 109, Fw 190, and Me 262 fighters. Candid photos taken by the author himself.

    • The Battle of the Bulge: Hell at Bütgenbach / Seize the Bridges

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      The Battle of the Bulge: Hell at Bütgenbach / Seize the Bridges
      The Battle of the Bulge: Hell at Bütgenbach / Seize the Bridges

      Against-all-odds actions by the 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Firsthand accounts from American and German soldiers. Details on Jochen Peiper and the notorious Malmedy Massacre.

    • Panzers in Normandy: General Hans Eberbach and the German Defense of France, 1944

      Panzers in Normandy: General Hans Eberbach and the German Defense of France, 1944
      Panzers in Normandy: General Hans Eberbach and the German Defense of France, 1944

      The story of one of Germany's most renowned panzer commanders. Based on Eberbach's own papers and writings. Details on the armored opponent the Allies faced after D-Day.

    • Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard: Mosby, Morgan, and Forrest in the Civil War

      Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard: Mosby, Morgan, and Forrest in the Civil War
      Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard: Mosby, Morgan, and Forrest in the Civil War

      Noted Ranger historian Robert W. Black turns his attention to a trio of the Confederacy's--and America's--most infamous raiders and cavalrymen: John Singleton Mosby, John Hunt Morgan, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Combining speed, mobility, and boldness, these three soldiers struck critical blows against the Union during the Civil War, including Morgan's notorious 1863 raid that penetrated farther north than any other uniformed Confederate force. While not overlooking their flaws, Black believes these men revolutionized warfare and sees them as forerunners of the Rangers and Special Forces of the modern era.

    • Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps

      Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps
      Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps

      The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary commanders. Told largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and letters.

    • The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940

      The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940
      The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940

      An engaging narrative of the small-unit actions near Sedan during the 1940 campaign for France.

    • Mission 85: The U.S. Eighth Air Force's Battle over Holland, August 19, 1943

      Mission 85: The U.S. Eighth Air Force's Battle over Holland, August 19, 1943
      Mission 85: The U.S. Eighth Air Force's Battle over Holland, August 19, 1943

      Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's bombing mission against German airfields in Holland.

    • Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer

      Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer
      Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer

      • Reprint of the classic World War II memoir German General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer's autobiography is a fascinating insight into the mind of one of Germany's most highly decorated and successful soldiers of World War II. If you love small-unit actions, this is the book for you. Follow Meyer with the 1st SS-Panzer Division "Leibstandarte" and the 12th SS-Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend," from the first day of the war in Poland, through service in France, Russia, and Greece, up until his capture in Normandy in 1944 and his postwar trials and tribulations.

    • In the Lion's Mouth: Hood's Tragic Retreat from Nashville, 1864

      In the Lion's Mouth: Hood's Tragic Retreat from Nashville, 1864
      In the Lion's Mouth: Hood's Tragic Retreat from Nashville, 1864

      Spellbinding account of the Confederates' retreat after their crushing defeat at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864.

    • Dive Bomber!: Aircraft, Technology, and Tactics in World War II

      Dive Bomber!: Aircraft, Technology, and Tactics in World War II
      Dive Bomber!: Aircraft, Technology, and Tactics in World War II

      Details on planes like the German Stuka, the American Dauntless, the Japanese Aichi D3A1 "Val," the Soviet PE-2, and numerous others. Riveting accounts of aerial combat. Includes maps, diagrams, tables, and photos.

    • The Battle of Sicily: How the Allies Lost Their Chance for Total Victory

      The Battle of Sicily: How the Allies Lost Their Chance for Total Victory
      The Battle of Sicily: How the Allies Lost Their Chance for Total Victory

      The campaign for Sicily from the Axis point of view. Reassesses the German Army's performance. Details about German commanders who have been neglected by historians.

    • Here There are Tigers: The Secret Air War in Laos and North Vietnam, 1968-69

      Here There are Tigers: The Secret Air War in Laos and North Vietnam, 1968-69
      Here There are Tigers: The Secret Air War in Laos and North Vietnam, 1968-69

      In-the-cockpit perspective on aerial warfare during the Vietnam War. Many never-before-heard stories--some of them tragic, others humorous.

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