The Campaign in the Hurtgen Forest

The Green Hell: The Hurtgen Campaign | PDF | 128 Pages | 30 Mb The Green Hell (2e) (Right click to save) In the summer of 1944, as the Allied armies swept out of Normandy and Western France, the end of the war seemed within their grasp. But then American troops from the First Army reached [...]

Peleliu 1944

(LEFT) The Palau Islands chain which contained Peleliu. (RIGHT) The Peleliu Island group on the day of the assault. The impetus for this Peleliu section came out out of a recent talk with an interesting older fellow who had recently met Joseph Mazzello (of HBO’s The Pacific fame) on 49th Street in NYC. Somehow this [...]

Stalingrad

Stalingrad Pocket | PDF | 100 Pages | 15 Mb Stalingrad Pocket (Right click to save) In the summer of 1941, the might of German military adventurism rolled east into the Soviet Union, catching the Russians completely by surprise. Entire swathes of territory fell to the Nazis. The Russians lost 3,000 planes on the very [...]

Tobruk 1941

Road to Tobruk | PDF | 41 Pages | 16 Megabytes Tobruk 1941-42 (3e) When the German General, Erwin Rommel, landed in Libya during the Second World War he found a strange land almost devoid of life. The majority of the population lived in small towns along the coast where the land was green and [...]

Dresden 1945

Dresden 1945 | PDF | 16 Pages | 3.6 Megabytes The Bombing of Dresden (Right click to save) The Allied attack on Dresden in February 1945 is arguable one of the most destructive events of the Second World War barring the atomic strikes. This short study analyzes the allied air raids, discovering the true extent [...]

The Chindits – In 1943

In 1943 – The First Expedition The 77th Indian Infantry Brigade Commander – Brigadier Charles Orde Wingate, DSO Brigade Major – Maj. R.B.G. Bromhead (replaced by Maj. G.M. Anderson) Staff Captain – Captain H.J. Lord 13th King’s Regiment (Liverpool) 3/2nd Gurkha Rifles 2nd Burma Rifles 142nd Commando Company Staff, The Bush Warfare School Eight Royal [...]