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  • Tank Commander

    From the Fall of France to the Defeat of Germany: The Memoirs of Bill Close

    de Bill Close ...
    A remarkable World War II survival story and combat memoir by "an indestructible wartime tank commander" ( The Telegraph).In campaign after campaign, from the defense of Calais in 1940 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, Bill Close served as a tank commander in Britain's Royal Tank Regiment—and he survived.His tanks were hit eleven times by enemy shellfire and he bailed out. He was wounded three ... Leer más

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  • Tank Action

    An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944–45

    A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander.In 1944, David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the combat-hardened men he was sent to command did not expect him to last long. However, in the following weeks of ... Leer más

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  • Triumphant Warrior

    The Legend of the Navy's Most Daring Helicopter Pilot

    de Peter D. Shay ...
    The true story of Bronze Star recipient Allen Weseleskey and his high-risk rescue mission, carried out under heavy fire in Vietnam. Includes photos.When the going is fast and rough, I will not falter. I will be uncompromising in every blow I strike. I will be humble in victory. I am a United States Navy Flyer. —from "A Navy Flyer's Creed"Barely a month after the start of the Tet Offensive in 1968, ... Leer más

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  • Tiger Battalion 507

    Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment

    A personal history of a Nazi battalion's experiences on the Eastern and Western fronts of WWII, told through the vivid accounts of the soldiers themselves.This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer (Tiger) Battalion 507. Helmut Schneider, himself a veteran of the battalion, sought out as many survivors of the unit as possible and gather their reminiscences. The resulting account is a treasure ... Leer más

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  • Take These Men

    Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats

    de Cyril Joly ...
    A 1955 military memoir offering a first-hand account of life in the British 7th Armoured Division during World War II.Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly's classic account Take These Men. In such inhospitable conditions, this was armoured warfare of a particularly difficult and dangerous kind.From 1940 ... Leer más

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  • Panzer Ace

    The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

    A richly illustrated memoir by highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier—"recommended to anyone with an interest in the Panzerwaffe in the Second World War" (Recollections of WWII ).After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, Richard Freiherr von Rosen led a Company of Tigers at Kursk. Later he led a company of King Tiger panzers at Normandy and in late 1944 commanded a battle group ... Leer más

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  • By Tank into Normandy

    de Stuart Hills ...
    'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they ... Leer más

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  • Red Army Tank Commander

    At War in a T-34 on the Eastern Front

    A vivid firsthand account of armored warfare by a WWII Soviet tank commander.What was it like to command a T-34 tank on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? How were tank operations organized and carried out, what was the actual experience of combat, and what were the qualities that made the difference between success and failure? And what were the chances of survival?Vasiliy Pavlovich ... Leer más

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  • The Saga of a Canadian Typhoon Fighter Pilot

    de Jack Hilton ...
    The Hawker Typhoon despite numerous technical flaws, was the finest ground support aircraft in Europe during World War II. At the same time the stories of the brave men who flew this difficult aircraft remain untold and unacknowledged. From his enlistment in Toronto through the final flights over Germany, this is the memoir of Jack Hilton, an RCAF fighter pilot, who successfully flew this ... Leer más

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  • We Will Not Go to Tuapse

    From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade 'Wallonien' 1942–45

    A soldier with the German Army's Wallonian Legion chronicles his experience as a foreign volunteer for the Nazi war machine during WWII.A french-speaking Belgian, Fernand Kaisergruber volunteered to fight with the military force that occupied his country. His detailed chronicle of that time reads like a travelogue of the Eastern Front campaign. Until recently, very little was known of the tens of ... Leer más

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  • Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941–1942

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    The author of Case White: The Invasion of Poland delves into the strategy and weaponry of armored warfare during the early years of the Russo-German War.The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. The Germans focused their panzers and tactical air support at points on the battlefield ... Leer más

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  • Alamein to Zem Zem

    de Keith Douglas ...
    In October 1942, Keith Douglas — a twenty-two-year-old poet serving as a tank commander with the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry — drove against orders to rejoin his regiment at El Alamein. What he found there, and in the weeks that followed as the Eighth Army pursued Rommel across the North African desert, became Alamein to Zem Zem: a prose memoir as vivid, unsparing, and strangely beautiful as ... Leer más

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