Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's army has undergone a turbulent transformation, from the scattered left-overs of the old Soviet military, through a period of shocking decay and demoralization, to the disciplined force and...
The Schutzstaffel-SS-(Protection Squad) were the black uniformed elite corps of the Nazi Party. Founded by Adolf Hitler in April 1925 as a small personal bodyguard, the SS grew with the success of the Nazi movement and, gathering immense police and...
The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz—a fortress town—meaning that it must...
The author gives equally good treatment to the other types of German midget subs, explosive boats and frogmen of the K-verband naval units. This book is recommended by the specialists in WW 2 history as a good introduction to the history of the...
A collection of unpublished archive photographs portraying the development, testing and deployment of this invention, which served both military and civilian aviation...