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Condition: New. 2003 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. v + 39pp .1 map.Published Price £5.50 This publication was prepared by a number of German officers after the end of World War II. There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.Although not a long pamphlet, this is a description of how the Germans tried to maintain security behind the front line in the campaign in Russia. It should be read in conjunction with the Soviet Partisan Movement (also in the German Report Series).Rear area security is important, because it is in these areas that partisans, saboteurs and spies operate, away from the front line where security is much more stringent. It gives details of what the Germans planned, and how the Russians so often frustrated those plans, especially with attacks on rail and road communication networks, absolutely essential for the German Army supply and resupply function.

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Condition: New. 2018 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. v + 79pp 4 mapsPublished Price £6.99 The reader of a pre-war German Army operation manual, upon reaching to the chapter heading âNight Combatâ, found that the subject was covered very succinctly and somewhat superficially. The content failed to reveal the tremendous importance that night combat and night movements were to assume in modern warfare. During two world wars, night and other periods of poor visibility, such as fog and snowstorms or rainstorms, gradually came to be considered the ideal time for action. Interference from the air reduces fighting and paralysed movements in daylight hours, with the result that the space between the front and the most remote corner of the rear areas was often empty and deserted. During the hours of darkness combat and movements resumed with new intensity. After a while, the German soldier considered this mole like existence as normal, but the conclusion that should have been drawn from this undeniable fact was that the setting up training schedules was completely inadequate. In Russia more and more action occurred at night. Once this was widely recognised during the later years of war, much of the individual unit training took time during darkness and other periods of poor visibility.

Condition: New. 2018 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. iv + 60 pp mapPublished Price £6.99 This publication was prepared by German officers after the end of World War II. There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.

Condition: New. Softback Published Price £6.99 This publication was prepared by a number of German officers after the end of World War II. There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.

Condition: New. 2003 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. vi + 82pp mapsPublished Price £9.50 This slim volume, originally published soon after the Second World War, was, like others in the âGerman Reportâ series, drawn from official German military records captured and taken to the US for analysis. Once the Balkans had been occupied in early 1941, the Germans and their allies were soon faced with a guerrilla opposition which sucked more and more troops into the area simply to attempt to control the civilian population. Sandwiched between British and Allied operations in the Mediterranean and the campaign in Russia to the east, the Balkan conflict achieved a momentum of its own, and the Germans were never left to indulge in the relative peace that reigned elsewhere in the parts of Europe that they occupied.There is an analysis of the situation in the area after the German invasion was completed, together with comments on the rise of the partisan movements in both Yugoslavia and Greece. The Germansâ allies are also discussed, including the Italians, Bulgarians and Hungarians, together with comments on the puppet governments installed by the Nazis.The Germans undertook a succession of large-scale operations against resistance in the Balkans, especially against Titoâs Yugoslav Communist Partisans, and these are treated in detail in the book. The situation after the withdrawal from the war of Italy in 1943 is treated as well. Much of the book looks at the actual guerrilla movements in Greece, Yugoslavia and Albania, and the operations against them in 1943 and 1944. The detail is supported by a series of maps showing especially Operations Gemsbock and Steinadler.

Condition: New. 2018 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. v + 24pp mapPublished Price £6.99 This pamphlet was prepared by DR. Waldemar Erfurth at the EUCOM Historical Division Interrogation enclosure, Neustadt, Germany, late in 1947. Dr. Erfurth represented the German Armed Forces High Command at Finnish Headquarters from June 1941 until the Finnish surrender in September 1944. He attained the rank of lieutenant general (General der Infanterie) in the German Army, and was a United States prisoner of war when this study was written.There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.

Condition: New. 2018 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. v + 56pp Published Price £6.99 This publication was prepared by German officers after the end of World War II. There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.

Condition: New. 2018 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. vii + 39pp mapPublished Price £6.99 This publication was prepared by a number of German officers after the end of World War II. There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.

Condition: New. 2018 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. v + 80pp mapsPublished Price £6.99 This pamphlet was prepared for the Historical Division, EUCOM, by a group of former German generals and general staff officers. The names of the contributors were not announced at the time. The principal author, who by the end of the war had attained the rank of general (Generaloberst), served on the Eastern Front throughout the Russian campaign and the subsequent retreat into the plains of northern Germany. He was successively commander of an infantry brigade, a panzer division (November 1941 to February 1943), and two different corps in the battles for Kharkov and Belgorod. Appointed commander of a panzer army on 1 December 1943, he participated in the withdrawal across southern Russia until the Germans reached the Carpathians. In August 1944 he was transferred to Army Group Center, and his last assignment was with Army Group Weichsel. During this final phase of his military career, he played an important part in the retreat from Lithuania, East Prussia, and Pomerania.By means of short narratives based on actual experiences, this study endeavors to describe the characteristics of Russian Breakthroughs and the countermeasures employed by the Germans. A few combat narratives contain other than strictly tactical details in an effort to convey some of the emotional factors which affected the actions of troop commanders and their men in different situations. Each of the chapters deals with one of the more frequently employed tactics to prevent or contain breakthroughs. It should be pointed out, however, that only in rare instances was one single method used. Most often one tactical measure predominated in an operation, with two or three others, or even more, complementing it. During extended defensive operations even the predominant method changed occasionally. The use of combination of defense tactics without preponderance of any one often proved effective. On many occasions the parent unit employed one specific defense method while its subordinate unit had to use other tactics. No two situations were alike, and each had to be treated on its own merits. The selection of the type of defensive tactics depended on the intuitive perception of the commander in the field as well as upon the circumstances.

Condition: New. 2014 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. v + 74pp 10 mapsPublished Price £6.99 This pamphlet was prepared by a committee of former German officers under the supervision of the Historical Division, EUCOM. Among the contributors were former corps commanders and general staff officers at corps, army, and army group level, who had extensive experience on the Russian front during the period 1944-1945. The main author, for instance, saw action before Leningrad, near Voronezh, and later at Stalingrad. Towards the end of the war, he served successively as chief of staff of Army Groups North and Centre, during their withdrawal from Russia. In addition to discussing the tactical and logistical problems peculiar to operations of encircled forces, the authors take issue with Hitlerâs conviction that significant advantage can be gained by leaving isolated forces behind the advancing enemy lines. it was this notion, expressed in numerous specific orders, that made the desperate stand of encircled German troops a frequent occurrence during the Russian campaign. The problems of air support for encircled ground troops are described in a separate appendix which deals with tactical air support, air reconnaissance, supply by air, and the employment of antiaircraft units. Based on the experiences of the German Air Force in Russia and presented by a former Luftwaffe officer, the views expressed are necessarily coloured by the organisational peculiarities of the Luftwaffe and its relations to the German Army.There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.

Condition: New. 2003 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. ix + 161pp mapsPublished Price £9.50 This publication, one of a series written by German officers in American captivity and produced after the Second World War by US military intelligence, studies the German operations to conquer Yugoslavia and Greece and the invasion of Crete. It also looks at the effect of these operations on the subsequent invasion of Russia. The German attack on Yugoslavia was carried out in conjunction with Italian and Hungarian troops, and a section of the report examines such co-operation. It also looks at the logistics of the campaign and the problems that arose The invasion of Greece follows, together with an analysis of the use of tanks in mountain country, air support and mountain warfare training and equipment. The final section of the battle reports considers the successful airborne attack on Crete, followed by the seaborne landings on the island.The campaigns are treated chronologically and in great detail. Problems are clearly stated and the solutions explained. There is also an analysis of the relevant enemy forces within the narrative. This is a first-class report which gathers all the relevant information into one book, so that the whole German eastern Mediterranean strategy in 1941 can be examined, and it puts this into the context of the coming larger undertaking against Russia, which, some say, was fatally flawed by the delay imposed by these smaller operations in the Balkans. There are seven detailed maps .

Condition: New. 2003 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. vii + 187pp mapsPublished Price £9.50 This American Department of the Army publication is important to any study of the German campaign in Russia because it is one of the German Report Series which was issued after the Second World War, written by the German officers who had the most knowledge of the campaign. The publication looks above all at the planning for Operation Barbarossa in detail. The first discussions of July 1940, when Hitler ordered the German General Staff to prepare plans for the operation was followed by the genesis of a number of ideas for its execution. The Operations Order of February 1941 was followed by a number of changes. This led to the movement of the necessary troops to the east, and the strategic concentration of air and land elements prior to the attack. All of this is described in detail in the book.Operations are then shown in detail, with supporting maps, and the treatment is chronological. The halt before Moscow, and the indecision of 1942 is shown to have been the basis for the subsequent failure of the whole war against Russia. The effects of the Russian winter counter attack in 1942, the German summer offensive, the stagnation in the autumn of 1942 and the lead up to the Stalingrad debacle are all described in detail. The book is illustrated with a number of charts and 17 situation and planning maps. This publication is fundamental to a study of Operation Barbarossa partly because it sets the scene so well, and also because the failings of 1941 and 1942 are shown to be building into a cumulative disaster from which the German Army was unable to recover.

Condition: New. 2003 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. xii + 141pp mapsPublished Price £9.50 This volume is one of a series produced by the American intelligence services after the Second World War, and written by captive German officers who had detailed knowledge of the operation. It looks at the political situation before the outbreak of war on 1 September 1939, as well as examining, in some detail, German military developments up to the start of the war The Polish military situation is included, together with the actual German plans for the invasion. Operations are reported in great detail, accompanied by maps. Operations by Army Groups North and South receive separate treatment, but are always linked at the strategic level. There is a chronological treatment of the first battles, and of the subsequent destruction of the Polish Armed Forces, as well as the intervention by Russian forces (under the terms of the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement of August, 1939, which freed Hitler from the fear of a two-front war). There are ten maps of the developing military campaign.As the campaign which started the Second World War POland in 1939 deserves study, especially the German reactions to the lessons learned during the campaign, the solutions to which were in effect by May 1940 when the invasion of France and the Low Countries took place.

Condition: New. 2003 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. vi + 110pp .6 maps.Published Price £9.50 This publication was prepared by a number of German officers after the end of World War II. There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.This publication deals with improvisations. 157 of which are described. They range from tactical improvisations such as coping with mud, those imposed in desperation and those demanded by special situations, such as during Operation Citadel. Both offensive and defensive operations are covered, as well as troop movements, and all arms are included.Supply and transport also appear, together with technical improvisation (particularly the pamje wagons and the corduroy road), bridging. deception and movement across frozen lakes. Technical improvisation includes training for arctic conditions, and weapon and equipment ad hoc modifications. Special units and the Luftwaffe Field Divisions are also included, as well as some of the last ditch expedients forced on the Germans at the end of the war.There are 6 black and white maps to illustrate salient points.

Condition: New. 2003 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. vi + 116pp .9 maps.(black& red)Published Price £11.50 This publication was prepared by a number of German officers after the end of World War II. There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.This publication looks at the Russian method of waging war, which was not always to use the unsubtle steamroller attack. The pamphlet shows how the Russian was different in outlook to the German soldier, and the role of the Commissar. Each arm is examined in some detail, before the discussion turns to the peculiarities of Russian tactics. Winter warfare was the preferred season for war for the Russians, and the mass attacks of 1941 eventually gave way to much more scientific tank/infantry/air/artillery combined attacks, using the weight of manpower to flatten German defenders where they stood.There is also discussion of the importance of the Red Air Force in he war, and of the partisan movement, which was always a thorn in the Germanâs side.This publication should be read in conjunction with the Soviet Partisan Movement and Small Unit Actions (both in the German Report Series).

Condition: New. 2003 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. x + 217pp 4 charts and 10 maps.Published Price £9.50 This publication was prepared by a number of German officers after the end of World War II. There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.The book looks at the early successes of the Germans, and the slow build up of anti-Germnan partisan units. These were formed from men left behind as the Russians were forced to retreat, and later from parachutists dropped to form or reinforce local bands. Other units were formed by communist led civilians, all of whom were eventually controlled from Moscow. They were a significant part of the Russian war effort, and killed many thousands of German soldiers, as well as disrupting supply lines and rest areas in the rear of the German army. As the campaign wore on, and the Stalingrad battle showed that the tide had turned against the Germans, the importance of the partisans faded, but it was never insignificant. The partisans at the end of the war were of army strength, and were present wherever there were Germans.This book is of great value, and should be read in conjunction with Rear Area Security during the Russian Campaign and Small Unit Actions, both in the German Report Series.

Condition: New. 2003 N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. xi + 342pp mapsPublished Price £14.50 This book, written by German Officers in American captivity and produced by the US muilitary intelligence services, looks at two Second World War campaigns which are often forgotten amidst the great battles of Russia and Normandy: operations against Norway in 1940 and the German operations launched from Finland against the Soviet Union from June 1941 to the winter of 1944-45. Part One gives significant details of the planning and execution of the invasion of Norway, and discusses naval participation in the operation. The campaign itself is detailed chronologically, and problems are discussed as well as solutions. The whole campaign in subject to a detailed analysis, and for this reason alone the book needs to be available to any student of the Second World War.What makes the book even more valuable however is its evaluation in Part Two of German-Finnish co-operation from 1941-44. Planning and preparation are shown in detail, as well as Operations Silberfuchs, Platinfuchs and Polarfuchs. The German mountain troops operating in the area were constantly in danger from the weather and the Russians, and conditions are commented upon in detail. There are also notes on rank distinctions (German and Finnish), a chronology and a list of major participants, together with a glossary. Accompanied by 23 maps, nine of which relate to the campaign in Norway.

Condition: New. N & M Press reprint of original Edition . SB. xi + 289pp .photographs . line drawings. and 51 maps.Published Price £14.50 This publication was prepared by a number of German officers after the end of World War II. There were a number of these publications, many of which are in publication in the German Report Series by Naval and Military Press. They are all of significant importance in understanding the way in which the war was fought, particularly on the eastern front.This particular publication is perhaps the best known of all the German Report Series, and deals with combat at battalion, company, platoon and even individual level. It is full of small actions that are not reported anywhere else, and the whole book is well illustrated with a series of maps showing the situation of the units and the actions described in such detail.The book starts with a look at the Russian soldier and how the Germans learned to adapt to warfare in Russia. It then looks at operations by infantry, tanks and field engineers, and there are many extremely interesting operations described. Special operations are also included, and a number of âbehind the linesâ operations receive treatment. It also deals with fighting in the various topographies and vegetation zones of Russia, as well as the differences between the summer, mud and snow periods.This is a fundamental book for anyone looking at German warfare in the Russian campaign, and the way in which so much had to be altered, relearned or improvised by the German forces in this deadly campaign.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 164 pages. Illustrated. Jacket has light shelf wear and edge creases. Interior contents clean. The majority of the book covers the biography and Indian captivity of Hannah Dustin. Random illustrations include early Native Americans; the execution of Lady Jane Grey; photograph of Jesse James (dead); John Wilkes Booth; sinking of the Lusitania; etc. From wikipedia: Hannah Duston (also spelled Dustin, Dustan, Durstan, Dustun, Dunstun, or Durstun) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 March 6, 1736,[1] 1737 or 1738[2]) was a colonial Massachusetts Puritan woman who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William's War, with her first newborn daughter, during the 1697 raid on Haverhill, in which 27 colonists, 15 of them children, were killed. In her account she stated that the Abenakis killed her newborn baby soon after they were captured. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped ten of the Abenaki family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives.

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