German Headgear in World War II, Volume 1: Army/Luftwaffe/Kriegsmarine: A Photographic Study of German Hats and Helmets

Jackals’ Revenge (Peter Lamb, Book 2)

The sequel to The Black Jackals is determined within the turmoil of the jap Mediterranean in 1941, with the Brits suffering to carry their line in Greece opposed to the robust German and Italian forces.

Peter Lamb and his males are halted of their retreat to England and compelled to affix the British forces preserving the move at Thermopylae. yet their tricky studies in France haven't ready the Jackals for the savage hand at hand battling in the course of the mountains. Lamb’s restricted wisdom of command leaves him uncertain approximately find out how to organise the hot Zealand and Greek partisan infantrymen who're extra to his troop.

When they land in Crete, Lamb turns into suspicious of a few of the civilians who, on fleeing from Greece, have taken hide with the Jackals. but he is aware that dealing with the outstanding German paratroopers for the 1st time, mixed with the determined conflict to carry Crete in any respect charges, will strength him to discover how to paintings along any aid he's provided. His new troop could be made from partisans, allied irregulars – together with Evelyn Waugh – and Spanish volunteers.

Jackals’ Revenge paints a super photo of the turbulent theatre of war.

Eastern Approaches (Penguin World War II Collection)

Fitztroy Maclean used to be one of many real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia sooner than the battle, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialized in hair-raising commando raids in the back of enemy traces, together with the bold and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq.

Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics)

“Age can by no means uninteresting this type of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from international battle II, filed for the recent York usher in Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human aspect of struggle. Writing from England in the middle of the London blitz, North Africa, and Italy, Steinbeck makes a speciality of the folks in place of the battles, portraying each person from the blokes within the bomber group to Bob desire on his USO journey.

The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler

While Adolf Hitler seized Vienna within the Anschluss of 1938, he referred to as the town "a pearl to which he could supply a formal environment. " however the atmosphere he left in the back of seven years later used to be one in every of spoil and destruction--a actual, non secular, and highbrow wilderness. here's a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of 1 of Europe's nice towns.