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Guest of Adolf - Michael H Zang - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Guest of Adolf - Michael H Zang - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

"I was a guest of Adolf!"This was how Ernest Focht responded when asked about his wartime experience.Ernest Virgil Focht was born and brought up in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. He was drafted into the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in April 1941 and assigned to the 105th Infantry Battalion (Anti-Tank). After training he participated in the Carolina Maneuvers. The National Guard unit was redesignated as the 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion, being deployed to North Africa in January 1943.Ernie was captured in his first action in February 1943, remaining a prisoner of war until May 1945 when the Russian Army liberated his camp. During these 27 months he was held in five different POW camps, and was forced to march between camps in the depths of the 1944–45 winter. Using his wartime diaries and letters home, this book offers an insight into the 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion, and the experiences of prisoners of war.

DKK 289.00
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A Soaring Season - Aaron Harrison Bracy - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

A Soaring Season - Aaron Harrison Bracy - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

In 2003-04, the Saint Joseph’s Hawks became the most unlikely and most captivating story in college basketball. Led by two compelling leading characters, outspoken, media-friendly coach Phil Martelli, a Philadelphia gym rat who had dreamed about coaching St. Joe’s ever since seventh grade, and undersized but dominant point guard Jameer Nelson, the Hawks finished the regular season with a 27-0 record as the only undefeated team in the country. They did this despite having an underrecruited team from an underfunded program housed in underwhelming facilities, where players shared the weight room with students, professors and the general public. Martelli’s tiny, cramped office was more like a closet, and their home court was a mere gym that wasn’t even as modern as many neighboring high schools''. Everything about this mom-and-pop operation felt small-time — everything, that is, except the team, which incredibly rose to be unanimously ranked No. 1 in the country and became the envy of traditional powerhouses like Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina and UCLA. The underdog Hawks, perhaps buoyed in part by the school’s never-quit motto of The Hawk Will Never Die and its ever-flapping Hawk mascot, captivated not just Saints Joseph’s students, alumni and fans, but the entire city of Philadelphia and countless fans across the entire nation. They all were pulled by the notion that you don’t have to have the best or be the biggest to be the best and beat the biggest. Nelson, whose game dwarfed his generously listed height of 6 feet tall, would go on to win the Naismith Player of the Year Award while Martelli would be honored as the John Wooden Coach of the Year after the season. Both Nelson and fellow guard Delonte West, a lightly recruited athletic junior wing who transformed himself into a pro with a work ethic that never had been seen before or since on Hawk Hill, would be drafted into the first round of the NBA after the season. The Hawks were a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament for the first time ever but lost a heartbreaker in the Elite 8 to John Lucas III and the Oklahoma State Cowboys. To this day, many believe that Saint Joseph’s might have won the NCAA title had they advanced past Oklahoma State. Nonetheless, the underdog Hawks showed everyone in the country that season that, no matter the odds stacked against you, anything is possible.

DKK 296.00
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The Viking Battalion - Erik Brun - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Viking Battalion - Erik Brun - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Hidden in the crevasses of World War II history is the story of the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate). A small unit that rarely gets any attention, it is part of a fascinating story. Alongside battalions of Austrian, Greek, Filipino and Japanese Americans, the Army decided to create an all Norwegian American battalion, originally trained at Camp Hale, Colorado, along with the 10th Mountain Division, with the original mission of liberating Norway. Their exploits during training brought them enough notoriety that members of the 99th were recruited to start the First Special Service Force and a branch of the OSS. Although they were not initially sent to Norway, they would fight in Normandy, across France and Belgium, helped entrap the Germans at Aachen, protected the city of Malmedy during the Battle of the Bulge (where they stopped an attack by Skorzeny and a SS Panzer Division), helped liberate Buchenwald, guarded the Nazi treasures found in Merkers mine and finally served as the Honor Guard for King Haakon VII on his triumphant return to Norway.This book tells the story of the 99th Infantry Battalion through an anthology of rarely, if ever, previously seen memoirs, journals, letters and newspaper articles written by or about the Viking soldiers.

DKK 337.00
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Britain's Secret Defences - Andrew Chatterton - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Britain's Secret Defences - Andrew Chatterton - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The narrative surrounding Britain’s anti-invasion forces has often centred on ‘Dad’s Army’-like characters running around with pitchforks, on unpreparedness and sense of inevitability of invasion and defeat. The truth, however, is very different. Top-secret, highly trained and ruthless civilian volunteers were being recruited as early as the summer of 1940. Had the Germans attempted an invasion they would have been countered by saboteurs and guerrilla fighters emerging from secret bunkers, and monitored by swathes of spies and observers who would have passed details on via runners, wireless operators and ATS women in disguised bunkers. Alongside these secret forces, the Home Guard were also setting up their own ‘guerrilla groups’, and SIS (MI6) were setting up post-occupation groups of civilians – including teenagers – to act as sabotage cells, wireless operators and assassins had the Nazis taken control of the country. The civilians involved in these groups understood the need for absolute secrecy and their commitment to keeping quiet meant that most went to their grave without ever telling anyone of their role, not even their closest family members. There has been no official and little public recognition of what these dedicated men and women were willing to do for their country in its hour of need, and after over 80 years of silence the time has come to highlight their remarkable role.

DKK 192.00
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Fortress Britain 1940 - Andrew Chatterton - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Fortress Britain 1940 - Andrew Chatterton - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Alone, unprepared and weak. These are generally the words used to describe Britain’s position in 1940, part of a narrative that has been built up ever since the end of World War II. However, the reality is very different. On land, sea and in the air, Britain was prepared. It had the most powerful navy in the world; the RAF was relatively strong, but more importantly, was operating as part of a plan and a joined-up group system that was in reality never in any real danger of being defeated; even the post-Dunkirk British Army was better armed than the post-war narrative tells us. Thees forces were backed up by the Home Guard, and thousands of men and women in secret roles ready to help fight the invasion of the country. Even if all of this had gone wrong and the Nazis had defeated Britain militarily then a separate, highly secret civilian group were ready to become active only after the occupation had started.One word associated more than any other during this period of the Second World War is ‘Alone’ – Churchill played upon this in his speeches but in 1940, Britain had a hugely powerful empire. Although in many cases this support was thousands of miles away, the Empire and other Allies would have played a huge role had the Germans had invaded, one that has been overlooked in many accounts.

DKK 192.00
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Among the Firsts: Lieutenant Colonel Gerhard L. Bolland's Unconventional War - Matthew T. Bolland - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Among the Firsts: Lieutenant Colonel Gerhard L. Bolland's Unconventional War - Matthew T. Bolland - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Unconventional warfare tactics can have a considerable effect on the outcome of any war. During World War II, the United States government developed and employed two new methods of fighting. The first was the development of ''paratroop'' units, as they were first called. The second was the formation of a covert and sabotage operations branch called the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Lt. Colonel Bolland was involved in both of these ''firsts''. During the D-Day invasion he parachuted behind enemy lines, jumping out of the 82nd Airborne lead aircraft with General James Gavin. After fighting with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment for thirty-three days straight, he returned to England and became involved with the OSS Scandinavian Section. He served as Field Commander for their Operation, code named Rype. This was the only American military undertaking, albeit covert, in Norway during the entire course of the war. As a young boy growing up in rural western Minnesota, Bolland got his military start with the Minnesota National Guard, before being accepted to West Point, solely on merit. His military career lasted seventeen years. Lt. Colonel Bolland ended up with numerous decorations including the Norwegian Liberation Medal and Citation, the Bronze Star for valour, the French Fouragerre of Croix de Guerre with Palms and posthumously the Congressional Gold medal awarded to the OSS Society on behalf of all former OSS members that served during the war. His story reveals the struggles, successes, failures and ultimate victories, detailing what went right and what went wrong with these new unconventional methods of fighting.

DKK 263.00
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Perceptions of Battle - Jeff Dacus - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Perceptions of Battle - Jeff Dacus - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

After spending a difficult winter at Valley Forge, George Washington led the Continental Army in pursuit of the British Army moving from Philadelphia to New York City. On June 28, 1778, the army caught up with the British and defeated them at Monmouth Court House.The principal figure in the battle is George Washington. His planning, his orders, and his actions on the battlefield dominate the story. After the first rebuff of his advance guard under Charles Lee, it is Washington who matched each movement of the enemy with decisive actions of his own. In doing so he attained a tactical victory on the battlefield that had major strategic implications. Because of his leadership, and the actions of his army, both he and the Continental Army gained renewed respect from Congress, the American people, and the enemy.Washington’s success solidified his position as the face of the Revolutionary effort. While the Congress was often ineffectual or even nonexistent, Washington and his army became the symbol of the Revolution.Modern authors have contributed greatly to our knowledge of the battle of Monmouth but in doing so have tried to interpret or analyze it through our modern point of view, losing sight of what happened, disregarding the perceptions, opinions, and conclusions of the people who took part in the battle and its aftermath. This book is different in that it uses only first-person accounts to reach conclusions or render judgments. In addition to changing the perceptions of the victory of the Continental Army, modern historians have distorted the story further through the court martial of Charles Lee in the aftermath of the battle, giving it undue importance.

DKK 291.00
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The Defeat of the Damned - Douglas E. Nash Sr. - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Defeat of the Damned - Douglas E. Nash Sr. - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

One of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that fought for the Third Reich during World War II was the infamous Sondereinheit Dirlewanger, or the “Dirlewanger Special Unit.” Formed initially as a company-sized formation in June 1940 from convicted poachers, it served under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Oskar Dirlewanger, one of the most infamous criminals in military history. First used to guard the Jewish ghetto in Lublin and support security operations carried out in occupied Poland by SS and Police forces, the unit was soon transferred to Belarus to combat the increasingly active Soviet partisan movement. After assisting in putting down the Warsaw Uprising during August–September 1944, by November of that year it had been enlarged and retitled as the 2\. SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger. One month later, it fought one of its most controversial actions near the town of Ipolysag, Hungary, now known by its Slovak name of Šahy, between 13 and 18 December 1944\. As a result of its overly hasty and haphazard deployment, lack of heavy armament, and a confusing chain of command, it was virtually destroyed by two Soviet mechanized corps.Consequently, the Wehrmacht leadership blamed Dirlewanger and the performance of his troops for the encirclement of the Hungarian capital of Budapest during late December 1944 that led to the annihilation of its garrison two months later. The brigade’s defeat at Ipolysag also led to its compulsory removal from the front lines by General der Panzertruppe Hermann Balck and its eventual shipment to a rest area where it would be completely rebuilt, so thorough was its destruction. Despite its lackluster performance, the brigade was rebuilt once again and sent to East Prussia in February 1945, but never recovered from the thrashing it received at the hands of the 6th Guards Army in December.

DKK 291.00
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U.S. Army Divisions of the Pacific War - Stephen R Taaffe - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

U.S. Army Divisions of the Pacific War - Stephen R Taaffe - Bog - Casemate Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Despite the prevailing view that the Marine Corps bore the brunt of the fighting in the Pacific War, the men of the US Army played a decisive role in the conflict. Indeed, GIs did most of the war’s heavy lifting on the ground by conducting more amphibious assaults and prosecuting more operations than the Marines. By the end of the war there were 1.77 million U.S. Army troops in the Pacific and Asia, compared to the USMC’s 484,000. The Pacific was as much the Army’s war as the fighting in the European theater. The U.S. Army deployed twenty combat divisions to fight in the Pacific, including famous ones such as the 1st Cavalry Division and the 25th “Tropic Lightning” Division. Most were infantry, and included Regular, National Guard and draftee divisions. The divisions were deployed and maneuvered by theater, field army, and corps commanders around the Pacific’s geostrategic chessboard to battle and defeat the Japanese. The Army may have wanted its divisions to be interchangeable and uniform, but this proved impossible. Their quality and performance depended upon their resources, the geography and terrain on which they fought, experience, leadership, and organizational culture. Historians, though, have made little effort to examine their records in a systematic way before now. In addition, almost all of the Army’s divisions, some after admittedly rocky starts, became units capable of winning their engagements. Indeed, not a single Army division fighting the Japanese during the American counteroffensive across the Pacific was completely destroyed in combat. Whatever problems these divisions faced tended to grow out of the society that produced them, not fundamental flaws in Army doctrine. This is a tribute to the Army as a whole and to the twenty divisions that the Army deployed against the Japanese. This new history uses a narrative approach to describe and analyze each division''s history, characteristics, and battles during the conflict, concluding with an assessment of their battlefield records, taking into account the innumerable factors affecting their combat performance.

DKK 291.00
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