"The Last Battle" tells the true story of a group of French political prisoners, some American tankers with a single tank, two Austrian resistance fighters, an SS colonel, and a Werhmacht unit fighting together to stave off repeated SS assaults.
Read MoreThe author of "Wargaming World War II" doesn't lack for enthusiasm about both WW2 and wargaming, and parts of the book are useful even for grognards, but it suffers from too much generality.
Read More"The Guns at Last Light" concludes Rick Atkinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II trilogy. It will appeal to anyone looking to understand not just the grand advances of the Allied forces, but the human side of war.
Read More"Lee's Army during the Overland Campaign: A Numerical Study" by Alfred C. Young III taps previously unused period sources to re-examine the strength of Lee's army in the summer of 1864 and finds that some long-accepted numbers are seriously skewed.
Read More"Civil War Battlegrounds – The Illustrated History of the War’s Pivotal Battles and Campaigns" covers 18 key battles. Clearly written and easy to follow, t is a good starting point for readers just beginning to study the war, but serious Civil War historians are unlikely to find new information here.
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