An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episode?the failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and beyond
Winston Churchill called it one of his biggest wartime failures?the shift of British and U.S. support from Yugoslavia's Dra?a Mihailović and his royalist resistance movement to Tito and his communist Partisans. This book illuminates the complex reasons behind that failure through the incredible story of what has been called the greatest rescue of Allied airmen from behind enemy lines in World War II history, a rescue executed, incredibly, with minimal official support from the United States and none such support from Great Britain.
Recounts an unknown chapter of World War II history and the single largest rescue operation of the war
Starting with Serbia's tragedy and triumph in World War II through civil war in Yugoslavia during World War I, focuses on the history of the Balkans, a tragically misunderstood part of the world
Sheds new light on the OSS-SOE relationship and manipulations of intelligence that profoundly altered policy decision making
Reveals how failed Allied policy set the stage for Yugoslavia's breakup in the 1990s
Details the wartime camaraderie of unlikely warriors who became fast friends, outcasts, and heroes in executing the rescue
Written with the drama of a novel and the insight of serious history, Shadows on the Mountain is essential reading for anyone interested in World War II, European history, and the Balkans.

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Marcia Kurapovna - Shadows on the Mountain, The Al lies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries that Doome d WWII Yugoslavia (2009).pdf

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Geroge Forty - Fortress Europe, Hitler's Atlantic Wall (2002).jpg

Once it became apparent that German military ambitions in the west were to be thwarted by British resistance and Hitler's attention turned to the greater goal of the defeat of Stalin's Russia, the need to shore up the defense of Europe against any possible attack from the British Isles became imperative. Although earlier phases of the war had proved the ineffectiveness of fixed defensive lines- most notably in the failure of the French Maginot Line -the concept of an Atlantic Wall was central to German defensive plans in the west. Stretching along the Atlantic and Channel coasts, a complex network of fortifications was constructed, a network that was to have a dramatic impact on the Allied strategic planning for D-Day in June 1944.
Although the Atlantic Wall was to fail its ultimate test, along certain sections of the coast the German defenses were able to impose massive casualties on the invasion force; if the German support forces had been able to reach the Allied beachhead more rapidly, the history of the war might have been fundamentally different.
A book devoted to the construction, manning and defence of Hitler's Atlantic Wall, largely from the German viewpoint, and covering such issues as how far the French resistance stifled construction and sabotaged materials.

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Geroge Forty - Fortress Europe, Hitler's Atlantic Wall (2002).pdf

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Osprey - Fortress 89 - Steven J Zaloga - The Atla ntic Wall (2), Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark a nd Norway (2009).jpg

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Germany's Atlantic Wall was the most ambitious military fortification program of World War II. Following its conquest of Western Europe, Germany had to defend some 5,000km of Atlantic coastline from the Spanish border to the Arctic Circle. The United States' entry into the war and the inevitability of an Anglo-American landing in Western Europe resulted in the fortification of this coastline along its entire length. Focusing on the northern Atlantic Wall in the Low Countries and Scandinavia, this title addresses the special defensive features and unique aspects of fortification in these countries, such as the early focus on fortifying Norway, due to early British commando raids; the greater use of turreted naval guns; and, the establishment of first-line Flak defences in the Low Countries to counter the Allied strategic bombing campaign.

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Osprey - Fortress. 41 - Charles Stephenson - Forti fications of the Channel Islands 1941-45, Hitler's Impregnable Fortress (2006).jpg

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During World War II, the Germans occupied the undefended Channel Islands from the end of June 1940 until the end of the war, creating a series of defensive positions that was considered the strongest stretch of the Atlantic Wall. The Channel Islands fortifications can be seen as the pinnacle of German engineering during the war. This book describes the design, construction and manning of these defensive positions, as well as the occupation of the Channel Islands by the Germans. It also explores the living conditions on the islands, the only part of Great Britain to be occupied by the Nazis, through to the liberation of the Islands by the Allies.

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Guy Richards - World War II Troop Type Parachutes. Volume One. Axis, Germany, Italy, Japan. An Illus trated Study (2000).jpg

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World War II Troop Type Parachutes is uniquely suited for anyone interested in the history of airborne troops, and is profusely illustrated with unpublished period and contemporary photographs. Collectors, modelers and history researchers will be able to identify all of the troop parachutes used by the Axis powers in World War II. Additionally technical data, drawings and packing instructions are included for those who own or find a vintage parachute. The narrative describes the developmental history of the equipment and employment technique. Incidentals such as aircraft, tactical use, uniforms and even insignia are mentioned if they alter or refute what has previously been accepted as fact. This initial volume is devoted to the three Axis nations that formed paratroop units: Germany, Italy and Japan.

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Guy Richards - World War II Troop Type Parachutes. Volume One. Axis, Germany, Italy, Japan. An Illus trated Study (2000).pdf

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Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett - A War To Be Won, Fighting the Second World War (2000).jpg

The authors present incisive portraits of the military leaders, on both sides of the struggle, demonstrating the ambiguities they faced, the opportunities they took, and those they missed. Throughout, we see the relationship between the actual operations of the war and their political and moral implications.

In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. A War To Be Won is a unique and powerful operational history of the Second World War which tells the full story of battle on land, on sea, and in the air. Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett analyze the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of the war in both the European and Pacific Theaters. Moving between the war room and the battlefield, we see how strategies were crafted and revised, and how the multitudes of combat troops struggled to discharge their orders.

A War To Be Won is the culmination of decades of research by two of America's premier military historians. It avoids a celebratory view of the war but preserves a profound respect for the problems the Allies faced and overcame as well as a realistic assessment of the Axis accomplishments and failures. It is the essential military history of World War II--from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945--for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

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Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett - A War To Be Won, Fighting the Second World War (2000).pdf

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Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.- Rommel's Desert Commanders, The Men Who Served the Desert Fox, North Africa, 1941-1942 (2007).jpg

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Perhaps the most famous and admired soldier to fight in World War II was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who achieved immortality as the Desert Fox. Rommel's first field command during the war was the 7th Panzer Division—also known as the Ghost Division—which he led in France in 1940. During this campaign, the 7th Panzer suffered more casualties than any other division in the German Army, at the same time inflicting a disproportionate number of casualties upon the enemy. It took 97,486 prisoners, captured 458 tanks and armored vehicles, 277 field guns, 64 anti-tank guns and 4,000 to 5,000 trucks.It captured or destroyed hundreds of tons of other military equipment, shot down 52 aircraft, destroyed 15 more aircraft on the ground, and captured 12 additional planes. It destroyed the French 1st Armored Division and the 4th North African Division, punched through the Maginot Line extension near Sivry, and checked the largest Allied counteroffensive of the campaign at Arras. When France surrendered, the Ghost Division was within 200 miles of the Spanish border. No doubt about it—Rommel had proven himself a great military leader who was capable of greater things. His next command, in fact, would be the Afrika Korps, where the legend of the Desert Fox was born.

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Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.- Rommel's Desert Commanders, The Men Who Served the Desert Fox, North Africa, 1941-1942 (2007).pdf

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Ian Baxter - Images of War- The U-Boat War 1939-19 45, Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (2008).jpg

The U-Boat war is a unique visual record of Hitler`s infamous submarine fleet and a grim account of those that lived, worked and risked their lives stalking the depths of the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas.
The book analyses the development of the U-boat, the recruitment and training, and reveals how the crews tried to destroy essential Allied supplies across the Atlantic and bring Britain to its knees. Using some 250 rare and unpublished photographs together with detailed captions and accompanying text, the book provides an outstanding insight into the various operations and the claustrophobic existence of the crew, where they lived in cramped and often deplorable conditions. It depicts how this potent force became one of the most dominant German fighting units during World War Two, and became such a worry to Allied shipping that even Winston Churchill himself claimed that the `U-boat peril` was the only thing that ever really frightened him during the war.
On their defeat hung the outcome of the war, and through courageous and determined resistance against overwhelming odds the Allies eventually inflicted such catastrophic damage on the U-boats that its losses were too great to continue. Of the 38,000 men that went to sea onboard these deadly vessels, only 8,000 were to survive to tell the tale.

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Ian Baxter - Images of War- The U-Boat War 1939-19 45, Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (2008).pdf

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Fausto Sparacino - R.S.I. Badges and Medals 1943-4 5 - Italian SS Legion, Vol. 2 (1988).jpg

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Fausto Sparacino - R.S.I. Badges and Medals 1943-4 5 - Italian SS Legion, Vol. 2 (1988).pdf

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Osprey - Warrior 142 - Carlos Caballero Jurado - B lue Division Soldier 1941-45, Spanish Volunteer on the Eastern Front (2009).jpg

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The all-volunteer 'Blue Division' was a formation that allowed Franco's technically neutral Spain to support Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia. Following initial training in Germany, the Blue Division's units were sent to the Eastern Front in August 1941, where, after a 40-day march to the front, the Division fought in several major battles including Leningrad. In 1943, with the tide turning against the Axis forces in Russia, the Division was ordered to be withdrawn, yet many men chose to stay on and serve with the Volunteer Legion. Even after the collapse in the East, some volunteered to serve with Waffen-SS units through to the fall of Berlin in 1945. This book narrates the experiences of the common soldier, exploring his motivation for serving the Wehrmacht, and detailing his dramatic experiences in a brutal and hostile theater of World War II.

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Douglas E. Nash - Hell's Gate, The Battle of the C herkassy Pocket January-February 1944 (2002).jpg

Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, the Battle of Cherkassy (also known as the Korsun Pocket) still stirs controversy in both the former Soviet Union and in Germany.
It was at Cherkassy where the last German offensive strength in the Ukraine was drained away, creating the conditions for the victorious Soviet advance into Poland, Rumania, and the Balkans during the summer and autumn of 1944. Eclipsed by a war of such gigantic proportions that saw battles of over one million men or more as commonplace, the events which occurred along the banks of the Gniloy Tickich river should have faded into obscurity. However, to the 60,000 German soldiers who were encircled there at the end of January 1944, this was perhaps one of the most brutal, physically exhausting, and morally demanding battles they had ever experienced. Thirty-four percent of them would not escape.
The culmination of years of research and survivor interviews, Hell's Gate is a riveting hour by hour and day by day account of this desperate struggle analyzed on a tactical level through maps and military transcripts, as well as on a personal level, through the words of the enlisted men and officers who risked the roaring waters of the Gniloy Tickich to avoid certain death at the hands of their Soviet foe.

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Douglas E. Nash - Hell's Gate, The Battle of the C herkassy Pocket January-February 1944 (2002).pdf

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David C. Earhart - Certain Victory, Images of Worl d War II in the Japanese Media (2008).jpg

This unique window on history employs hundreds of images and written records from Japanese periodicals during World War II to trace the nation's transformation from a colorful, cosmopolitan empire in 1937 to a bleak "total war" society facing imminent destruction in 1945. The author draws upon his extensive collection of Japanese wartime publications to reconstruct the government-controlled media's narrative of the war's goals and progress - thus providing a close-up look at how the war was shown to Japanese on the home front. Many of these visual and written sources are rare in Japan and were previously unavailable in the West. Strikingly, the narrative remains consistent and convincing from victory to retreat, and even as defeat looms large. Earhart's nuanced reading of Japan's wartime media depicts a nation waging war against the world and a government terrorizing its own people. At once informed, scholarly, and readily accessible, this lavishly illustrated volume offers an accurate representation of the official Japanese narrative of the war in contemporary terms. The images are fresh and compelling, revealing a forgotten world by turns familiar and alien, beautiful and stark, poignant and terrifying.

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David C. Earhart - Certain Victory, Images of Worl d War II in the Japanese Media (2008).pdf

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US Naval Intelligence - Uniforms and Insignia of t he Navies of World War II (1991).jpg

Uniforms and Insignia of the Navies of World War II is based upon JAN1, Joint Army and Navy Publications, Uniforms and Insignia (Washington, DC, 1943-5). All the plates in this volume are from JAN1, and the plates relating to the United States originated with and were included in JAN1 by permission of the National Geographic. For this facsimile reproduction of the plates a new Introduction has been written by Andrew Mollow. Uniforms and Insignia of the Navies of World War II reproduces the plates in facsimile to the originals, and in five cases this shows lettering that has holes punched through, due to the loose-leaf nature of JAN1.

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US Naval Intelligence - Uniforms and Insignia of t he Navies of World War II (1991).pdf

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Nik Cornish - Images of Kursk. History's greatest tank battle July 1943 (2002).jpg

Trying to gain the initiative in the East, in July 1943 the German Army unleashed a new offensive against the front of Kurks. The area was highly defended by the Soviets and the greatest tank battle stopped the war's tide and change the fate of the East front. Due the hight losses, the Wermacht never regain the initiative, sealing the fate of the war.

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Nik Cornish - Images of Kursk. History's greatest tank battle July 1943 (2002).pdf

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Roger Ford - Germany's Secret Weapons in World War II (2000).jpg

During the course of war, man's ingenuity inevitably results in the development of new tools of destruction. At no time and place in history has this been more true than World War II Germany, when scientists and engineers of the Third Reich mounted a campaign intended to change the face of warfare itself. Superbly illustrated with full-color drawings and specially commissioned cutaways, this study provides a wealth of information on all of Germany's secret weapons programs during World War II, offering an in-depth look at Germany's successes and failures with rocketry and jets, helicopters, submarines and torpedoes, armored fighting vehicles, artillery, anti-tank armaments, and surface-to-surface missiles. Each piece of artwork is accompanied by a comprehensive specification table.

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Warship Profile 31 - Dr. G. Hummelchen - German Sc hnellboote (E-Boats) (1973).jpg

The German Schnellboote or S-Boat was known to the British as the E-Boat. Although initially their hunting ground was the English Channel and the North Sea as the war progressed the S-Boat flotillas were sent to the Baltic, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, and this Profile Touches on all the operational theatres.

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Warship Profile 31 - Dr. G. Hummelchen - German Sc hnellboote (E-Boats) (1973).pdf

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