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is uniquely suited for anyone interested in the history of airborne troops, and is profusely illustrated with unpublished period and contemporary photographs.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

World War II3 - Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.- Rommels Desert Commanders, Th... Served the Desert Fox, North Africa, 1941-1942 2007.jpg

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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Fausto Sparacino - R.S.I. Badges and Medals, 1943- 45 (1988).jpg

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Fausto Sparacino - R.S.I. Badges and Medals, 1943- 45 (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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Geoffrey Roberts - Victory at Stalingrad, The Batt le That Changed History (2002).jpg

Victory at Stalingrad tells the gripping strategic and military story of that battle. The hard-won Soviet victory prevented Hitler from waging the Second World War for another ten years and set the Germans on the road to defeat. The Soviet victory also prevented the Nazis from completing the Final Solution, the wholesale destruction of European Jewry, which began with Hitler's "War of Annihilation" against the Soviets on the Eastern Front. Geoffrey Roberts places the conflict in the context of the clash between two mighty powers:their world views and their leaders. He presents a great human drama, highlighting the contribution made by political and military leaders on both sides. He shows that the real story of the battle was the Soviets' failure to achieve their greatest ambition: to deliver an immediate, war-winning knockout blow to the Germans. This provocative reassessment presents new evidence and challenges the myths and legends that surround both the battle and the key personalities who led and planned it.

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Geoffrey Roberts - Victory at Stalingrad, The Batt le That Changed History (2002).pdf

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Nicholas Rankin - A Genius for Deception, How Cunn ing Helped the British Win Two World Wars (2009).jpg

In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick, writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception that he was carrying out a deception, Jones made a weak point look like a trap.

In A Genius for Deception, Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory in two world wars. As he shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting on the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All forms of deception found an avid sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the creation of dummy airfields for the Germans to bomb during the Blitz, and the fabrication of an army that would supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception would be key to a number of WWII battles, culminating in the massive misdirection that proved critical to the success of the D-Day invasion in 1944.

Deeply researched and written with an eye for telling detail, A Genius for Deception shows how British used craft and cunning to help win the most devastating wars in human history.

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Eugenio Corti - The Last Soldiers of the King, War time Italy, 1943-1945 (2003).jpg

In this unforgettable narrative, Corti depicts the war from the perspective of the average Italian soldier, capturing its boredom and absurdity along with brief periods of savagery, terror, and death. Painting vivid pictures of the sights, sounds, and smells of war, he shows how these men fought alongside the Allies against the Germans. They fought without hatred, driven by a sense of duty and love for their country and a desire to quickly put an end to a war that was destroying so many lives. Corti superbly relates the wandering of the remnant of Italian officers and men as they sought to reestablish themselves as Italian soldiers. The Last Soldiers of the King tells the story of a proud people forced to endure death, poverty and the virtual destruction of their nation.

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Eugenio Corti - The Last Soldiers of the King, War time Italy, 1943-1945 (2003).pdf

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David M. Glantz - Kharkov 1942, Anatomy of a Milit ary Disaster (1998).jpg

The book attempts to describe the battle of Kharkov by using both Soviet and Germans sources. Particularly interesting is the use of a hitherto-classified Soviet study of the battle, written a few years after the war. Both what the study says and what it ommits are very revealing. This book is a masterpiece in its genre and recommended to anyone with an interest in the Eastern Front, but I confess I would like both a more thorough OB, like the one in "Operation Mars", his other book, and better maps.

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