Stackpole Military History Series
By Alan J. Levine, Philip Warner, Martin Bowman and
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About this series
In war, whenever one side outnumbers and outguns the other, the outnumbered and outgunned side often resorts to guerrilla warfare to address the asymmetry and frequently achieves victory. The twentieth century produced scores of such conflicts, whether as sideshows of the world wars or as the main events in wars of revolution or liberation. Guerrilla Warfare examines twenty-one of these conflicts, shedding light on the remarkable capabilities of unconventional fighters to outlast and defeat their enemies.
Titles in the series (59)
- Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and Barbarossa's Failure at the Gates of Moscow
2
How the exploits of panzer troops were reported on the German home front.
- Panzer Wedge: The German 3rd Panzer Division and the Summer of Victory in the East
1
How the exploits of German panzers were reported to the home front.
- The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division
2
Part two of the defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers continues with the survivors of the bloody fighting in France regrouping to make a final stand in the Ardennes and Hungary before Germany was overcome by the Allies. A detailed and gripping account of the most famous, and infamous, division to fight in World War II for any side.
- The Battle of the Bulge: The Losheim Gap/Holding the Line
1
The U.S. Army's bloodiest battle of World War II. From-the-foxhole stories of American soldiers in combat. Based on official U.S. Army documents and after-action reports.
- Flying American Combat Aircraft: The Cold War
2
Riveting accounts from the pilots who flew such planes as the F-15, B-52, C-130, and many more. Dozens of in-the-cockpit photos.
- Eagles of the Third Reich: Men of the Luftwaffe in WWII
Character-based study of why the German air force was defeated. Recounts the Luftwaffe in combat from the blitzkrieg of 1939-40 and the Battle of Britain to the Eastern Front and the Normandy campaign.
- Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII
2
German Panzer ace Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank commander on any side in World War II, destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns with his Tiger. In this continuation of his story, Volume Two follows Wittmann and his unit into Normandy to defend against the Allied invasion and provides maps, official documents, newspaper clippings, and orders of battle. A week after D-Day, Wittmann achieved his greatest success. On June 13, 1944, near Villers Bocage, the panzer ace and his crew attacked a British armored unit, single-handedly destroying more than a dozen tanks and preventing an enemy breakthrough. The exploit made Wittmann a national hero in Germany and a legend in the annals of war. He was killed two months later while attempting to repulse an Allied assault, but the book continues beyond his death until the Leibstandarte's surrender.
- Battle of the Bulge: The 3rd Fallschirmjager Division in Action, December 1944-January 1945
3
This is the story of their bitter combat--in the words of German and American soldiers who were there.
- Luftwaffe Fighter Ace: From the Eastern Front to the Defense of the Homeland
Action-packed memoir of aerial combat. Inside the cockpits of Bf 109, Fw 190, and Me 262 fighters. Candid photos taken by the author himself.
- Michael Wittmann & the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII
1
The story of one of the most successful and decorated tank commanders of all time. Contains maps, official documents, newspaper clippings, and orders of battle.
- Army of the West: The Weekly Reports of German Army Group B from Normandy to the West Wall
• Essential primary source on the German defense of Western Europe in World War II • Concise chapter introductions provide historical context for the reports In May 1944 German Army Group B, headquartered in France, requested weekly reports from its commanders. These accounts included assessments of the general situation, estimates of the Allies' situation, casualty figures, equipment losses, and descriptions of resistance activities. Commanded successively by Erwin Rommel, Günther von Kluge, and Walter Model, Army Group B bore the brunt of the Allied assault--D-Day, the Normandy campaign, and Operation Market-Garden--and these reports reveal what the German Army was thinking as it confronted the invasion.
- The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division
1
The defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers. Written by the division's former chief of staff.
- The Battle of the Bulge: Hell at Bütgenbach / Seize the Bridges
2
Against-all-odds actions by the 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Firsthand accounts from American and German soldiers. Details on Jochen Peiper and the notorious Malmedy Massacre.
- Ghost, Thunderbolt, and Wizard: Mosby, Morgan, and Forrest in the Civil War
Noted Ranger historian Robert W. Black turns his attention to a trio of the Confederacy's--and America's--most infamous raiders and cavalrymen: John Singleton Mosby, John Hunt Morgan, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Combining speed, mobility, and boldness, these three soldiers struck critical blows against the Union during the Civil War, including Morgan's notorious 1863 raid that penetrated farther north than any other uniformed Confederate force. While not overlooking their flaws, Black believes these men revolutionized warfare and sees them as forerunners of the Rangers and Special Forces of the modern era.
- War in the Aegean: The Campaign for the Eastern Mediterranean in World War II
First complete retelling of an important but little-known campaign. Eyewitness accounts from a colorful cast of German SS troops, British commandos, partisans, spies, Greek pirates, and more.
- Panzers in Normandy: General Hans Eberbach and the German Defense of France, 1944
The story of one of Germany's most renowned panzer commanders. Based on Eberbach's own papers and writings. Details on the armored opponent the Allies faced after D-Day.
- Infantry Aces: The German Soldier in Combat in WWII
Combat stories of eight German infantry soldiers: one paratrooper, two members of the Waffen-SS, and five members of the Wehrmacht. A concluding chapter examines infantry tactics.
- Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.S. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II
Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater. Firsthand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopers. Detailed maps illustrate battles.
- The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940
An engaging narrative of the small-unit actions near Sedan during the 1940 campaign for France.
- The Brigade: The Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade in World War II
Battalion- and company-level account of the vital contributions of Canadian soldiers to victory in Europe in World War II. Based on war diaries, casualty reports, and after-action interviews. The author is one of Canada's preeminent military historians.
- Surviving Bataan and Beyond: Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War
Deeply moving, intensely graphic account of World War II prisoners of war. Includes a gut-wrenching description of the Bataan Death March.
- The Battle of Sicily: How the Allies Lost Their Chance for Total Victory
The campaign for Sicily from the Axis point of view. Reassesses the German Army's performance. Details about German commanders who have been neglected by historians.
- Decision in the Ukraine: German Panzer Operations on the Eastern Front, Summer 1943
Myth-busting account of the summer of 1943 on the Eastern Front, one of World War II's turning points.
- Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to Berlin
First-person German accounts of bloody combat. Includes never-before-seen photos.
- In the Fire of the Eastern Front: The Experiences of a Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteer, 1941-45
Extraordinary story of a Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS. Vivid details on SS training and combat on the Eastern Front. Account of the little-known siege of Breslau in early 1945.
- Cavalry Raids of the Civil War
Covers raids from J. E. B. Stuart's 1862 ride around McClellan's army to James Wilson's crashing raids in Alabama and Georgia in 1865.
- Mission 85: The U.S. Eighth Air Force's Battle over Holland, August 19, 1943
Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's bombing mission against German airfields in Holland.
- Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps
The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary commanders. Told largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and letters.
- Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer
• Reprint of the classic World War II memoir German General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer's autobiography is a fascinating insight into the mind of one of Germany's most highly decorated and successful soldiers of World War II. If you love small-unit actions, this is the book for you. Follow Meyer with the 1st SS-Panzer Division "Leibstandarte" and the 12th SS-Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend," from the first day of the war in Poland, through service in France, Russia, and Greece, up until his capture in Normandy in 1944 and his postwar trials and tribulations.
- Tours of Duty: Vietnam War Stories
These are the stories Vietnam vets tell each other at reunions and over beers.
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