Christopher Ailsby Bücher

This chronology examines the Nazi regime's tenure from the Night of Long Knives in 1934 through the fall of Berlin in May 1945. Each month is covered in a compelling narrative style that reveals the growth of anti-Semitism and other grim realities of everyday life under Hitler. Illustrated with maps and archival photographs, the book also relates the stories behind military action like the invasion of Poland, Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk and D-Day, as well as touchstone events like the 1942 Wannsee Conference and the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

This title is a record of Hitler's Praetorian Guard before and during World War II. It recreates in pictorial form all aspects of the Waffen SS's war, and includes a chapter on the war crimes and atrocities of the Waffen SS as part of an insight into a notorious military formation.

Nazi Germany's Waffen SS was one of the most brutal, fanatical and feared military organizations in history. This is a pictorial record of Hitler's Praetorian Guard before and during World War II.

During the Second World War, the German Fallschirmjger (paratroopers) carried out many successful and daring operations, such as the capture of the Belgian fortress at Eben Emael in 1940 and the invasion of Crete in 1941. Hitler's Sky Warriors is a detailed examination of all the battles and campaigns of the Third Reich's airborne forces, illustrated throughout by many previously unpublished photographs. Hitler's Sky Warriors includes detailed accounts of all the ground campaigns of the parachute divisions, especially in Italy, where their epic defenses of Monte Cassino entered military legend. As well as being a comprehensive account of Fallschirmjger battles and campaigns, Hitler's Sky Warriors includes information on the specialist weapons and equipment developed for Germany's airborne forces. These include the paratrooper helmet, the FG 42 automatic rifle, the so-called 'gravity knife', the different jump smocks, parachutes and harnesses, transport aircraft and gliders. Hitler's Sky Warriors also contains biographical details on all the main parachute commanders, such as Kurt Student, Bernhard Herman Ramcke and Richard Heidrich, and includes appendices that contain information about divisional orders of battle and Knight's Cross winners. In this way Hitler's Sky Warriors builds into an extensive and exciting account of one of the elite formations of military history.

Gives an account of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front, its battles, organisation, tactics and equipment.

- Follow the SS from the first unit formation to the end of the war on the Western Front. - Hardcover book with rare action photography. - Learn about SS ideology, expansion, recruitment and details of the organizational structure. - Battle plan maps of the attacks on the Low Countries, Dunkirk, the Fall of France, the Balkans, Allied landings in Normandy, Arnhen and the Ardennes.