Warfare in the mountains--with its extremes of temperature and treacherous terrain--is unique and difficult. Hitler's Gebirgsjaeger, specially chosen troops of men who usually came from the Alpine regions, frequently succeeded in winning (or at least escaping) where others would have failed. Using anecdotes from surviving veterans, and photographs of men, landscape, and weapons, follow the troops from Poland down to Tunisia, chronicling their excellence, dedication, and esprit de corps.

Hitler's Mountain Troops: Fighting at the Extremes (Cassell Military Classics)

History

Lucas, James Sidney

Military

Cassell

Out of disparate military units soldiers came together to form single, unified "shock troops," ready to take on a specific operation: those were the battle groups. The Wehrmacht particularly excelled in using mass and aggressive tactics in conjunction with these new formations to achieve success in combat. This is their story, from every theater of the war, from groups large and small, revealing how men of low rank had unusual autonomy--sometimes enough to assure a glorious career later on.

BATTLE GROUP!: German Kampfgruppen Action of World War Two

UNKNO

The daring and skill of the highly trained men who spearheaded the German assaults in the blitzkrieg of 1940 proved to an alarmed world a new dimension had opened in the science of warfare. They dropped from the air, seizing and overwhelming key invasion points--most spectacularly during the invasion of Crete in 1941. Through interviews with many of the leading members of the Fallschirmjaeger units and formations that survived the war, a well-known military historian offers a fascinating and dramatic account of these elite forces.

Cassell Military Classics: Storming Eagles: German Airborne Forces in World War II

Without these secret agents paving the way, Germany would have found it far more difficult to invade Czechoslovakia and Poland. Kommando details the stunning achievement of Nazi operatives in naval warfare, including suicide pilots, human torpedoes, and the young people of the Werewolf, trained in partisan warfare.

Kommando: German special forces of World War Two

Europe

St.Martin's Press

Here, for the first time in the English language, is the desert war from the German viewpoint. From the victorious advances leading up to the point where the armoured might of the panzer divisions stood only a few hours' drive from Alexandria, the story takes us through the bitterness of retreat to Tunisia where battles for isolated mountain peaks and little villages replaced the panzer thrusts and dramatic advances which had once characterised military operations in what the Germans described as the gentlemen's war. The author has made extensive use of material from original German sources and interviews with many men who took part in the campaign. Thus this highly readable account, fully illustrated with photographs and maps, provides a fascinating insight into the struggles which Rommel and the commanders on the spot fought not only against the British and Commonwealth troops together with their American and French allies, but also against their own High Commands. For these latter completely misunderstood the problems facing the armies in Africa and starved them of the men, equipment, and supplies which, had they been available at the time, might have brought victory to the Axis in the African desert and made the Panzer Army. part of a strategic pincer operation which would eventually seize the whole of the Middle East and thus take control of the Suez Canal.

Panzer Army Africa

Macdonald and Jane's

Panzer grenadiers (Macdonald illustrated war study)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Germany's elite panzer force: Grossdeutschland

Hitler's elite: Leibstandarte SS, 1933-45 (Macdonald illustrated war studies)

Based on hundreds of interviews, this book is an eyewitness account of the revenge taken by the citizens of liberated Hungary, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia on the surrendered German army

Last Days of the Third Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945

Americas

William Morrow & Co.

From the opening shots of World War II in Poland in September 1939, through the blitzkrieg to the fall of France and the Low Countries, the German Army was at the forefront of battle. It remained in the thick of the action right up until the last desperate shots were fired over the ruins of a crumbling Third Reich in May 1945. The German Army was at the cutting edge of 20th-century military technology. Before the emergence of the US Army as a force to be reckoned with later in World War II, the German Army was the most powerful, efficient and well-equipped fighting force in the world. This text takes a look at the German Army, as it origins in the post-Versailles Treaty era and its resurgence under the Nazi regime; training and organization during the war years; equipment, vehicles and weapons; uniforms, rank and insignia.

The German Army Handbook, 1939-1945

Sutton Pub Ltd

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