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Illustrierte Geschichte des Truppenübungsplatzes Münsingen, der Herzog-Albrecht-Kaserne, des Alten und Neuen Lagers, des Lagers Gänsewag und Feldstetten, der Standortverwaltung, des Remontamtes und des Gerätehauptdepots.
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Erich, the father of the author Gerd Häsler, and his uncle Josef joined the Foreign Legion in 1950/51 because of the difficult economic conditions in post-war Germany. Erich kept a diary and also photographed. Many records and photos have survived, have been arranged, edited, commented on and compiled into this impressive book by the author.
The brothers knew that the other was also in the legion, but at first not the unit or the field post number. Later, they had correspondence and accidentally crossed paths in the jungle fortress of Dien Bien Phu. The author’s father survived the destruction of the French forces in the jungle of Tonkin, but did not know if his brother had also escaped.
After weeks, a piece of paper in an envelope arrived at home in the Black Forest. In it, he told the family that the Viet Minh’s storming of the base was imminent, that they had nothing more to oppose, and that therefore anyone who wanted to could send a final greeting to their loved ones. These last greetings were collected and flown out by a daring helicopter pilot.
Erich Häsler’s photos, medals, documents and diary came to Germany from Dien Bien Phu in a similar way.
132 photos colored illustrations 12 colored sections of contemporary topographic maps 1:100,000 of the operational areas.
For the present book, the extensive original material of the tank soldier Joachim Senholdt, who was a private at the beginning of the war and experienced the end of the Third Reich as a first lieutenant in 1945, was evaluated. The authentic material was provided by the son and has rarity value due to its completeness. For that reason it is possible to draw a line from the invasion of the Sudetenland at the end of 1938 to the end of the war in the Halbe cauldron in April 1945 and the subsequent flight to the west. It becomes unmistakably clear how the war became more and more brutalized as the duration progressed, costing more and more victims and becoming more and more hopeless.
As a reader, one follows Joachim Senholdt as he invades the Sudetenland, takes part in the attack on Poland, rolls across the Belgian border in the Ardennes on 10 May 1940 and fights against the Soviets with Senholdt’s tank regiment in the desolate, flat steppe landscape of the Kerch peninsula.
One experiences the summer offensive of 1942 in the southern section of the Eastern Front, the breakthrough of the Soviet front in December 1942, which leads to the encirclement of Stalingrad, and the destruction of Senholdt’s division in the winter of 1942/43.
In the end, Senholdt fought as head of the Sturmgeschütz Company of the I./Panzer-Regiment Brandenburg in April 1945 on the Oder front and in the cauldron of Halbe. His weeks-long escape from the cauldron to the West, continuously persecuted by the Soviets and constantly in mortal danger, represents the last part of the book.
280 photos, many of them unknown, as well as 35 colored cards support the text.
Fast, strong and almost invisible: military special forces have a special nimbus. This book deals with modern units whose roots partly go back to the Second World War or even further.
Some are still actively in use, others are already joining history.
Alexander Losert, military historian and weapons expert, brings together well-known units such as Delta Force (USA), Navy Seals (USA), KSK (DE), SAS (GB), SpezNas (RU) as well as lesser-known troops worldwide. It describes their history, organization and areas of operation as well as the armament of modern special forces.
With 500 pictures.
The Special Forces Command (KSK) of the Swiss Army combines the unique military knowledge and skills of various militia and professional formations. The relatives are all volunteers, multifunctional and complement each other in their tasks. Each formation has its own history and tradition.
With 450 b/w and colour pictures.
This volume The ‘SThe story of the Brandenburg? Panther Battalion and its prior history as I Battalion of Panzer-Regiment 26 played out against the background of the everywhere collapsing fronts of the final year and a half of the war. The reader takes part in the fighting withdrawals in the vast steppe landscapes of southern Russia and Rumania and the battles on the East Prussian border and in the Baltic States. He is encircled with the battalion in the Memel bridgehead in East Prussia in late 1944 and experiences the relief attempt towards Budapest in late 1944 – early 1945. Finally, in February 1945, follows the transfer of the renamed battalion to the Oder Front near Küstrin, where the Panthers were one of the last panzer battalions opposing the Russian drive on Berlin. The descriptions involve the reader, not only in the battalion?s actions, but as well in the overall events at the Oder in the final weeks of the war. He directly experiences the collapse of the entire Oder front, the retreat and destruction in the Halbe Pocket. The descriptions are so vivid and powerful that one cannot escape the drama of the events. Whoever wants to understand what happened back then can take a journey through time with this book.
Based on ten years of research, this is a book that rises above the many other books about panzer units and the final months of the war. More than 200 action photographs from every front, almost all of them previously unseen, and 27 color maps supplement the text.
This is a unique documentation which, once again, took advantage of the opportunity to allow the last eyewitnesses to speak.
The book is published in German/English!
236 photos, 34 of them in colour, 27 coloured maps.
This incredible visual record of life and death along the Eastern Front draws from the PIXPAST Archive, a collection built by Ian Spring of more than 32,000 original colour photographs taken between 1936 and 1946. Collated into three parts and organised thematically, the book begins with images of the ground war, including Hitlers invasion of the Soviet Union and the tanks, vehicles, weaponry and infantry on both sides.
Moving into the war in the skies, the images depict aircraft in flight and on the ground, the bombers, fighters, Luftwaffe personnel and the destruction wrought from battle. And finally, the images take us behind the lines, to the prisoners of war, partisans, medics, the daily lives and leisure activities of soldiers and civilians along the front and the impact of the harsh Russian winter.
With 250 photographs and text by renowned author and commentator Anthony Tucker-Jones, these images offer a rare, often surprising insight into the realities of the Second World War and people caught up in it, in vivid colour detail.
With rifles against tanks: When the British introduced a new weapon with their tanks on the battlefields of the First World War in 1916, the infantry could do little to counter the steel monsters. The German War Ministry responded with mauser’s anti-tank rifle.
This was followed by a development towards ever larger and heavier anti-tank rifles, until they were replaced by recoilless anti-tank handguns. But in the 1980s, the concept experienced a renewal with the modern anti-material rifles.
With 200 pictures.
After precursors in the 1st World War, the coastal security was expanded in Sept. 1939, after the victory in the west the coasts of Norway and France were fortified. Lessons from own and foreign fortifications flowed in – from the Westwall, Maginot line, Czech bunkers…
464 illustrations with many rare original photos! Historical photos of the facilities and manning, current color photos on site (with fortress and weapon technically interesting close-ups). Maps, drawings, longitudinal sections and floor plans deepen the overall understanding.
