A renowned military historian and frequent television commenter brings to life the generalship of the North during the Civil War in sparkling, information-filled vignettes. For both the Civil War completist…

Covers D-Day, Normandy, the campaign for France, the Battle of the Bulge, and the final battles in Germany. This work profiles five panzer generals, chronicling their military careers and focusing…

Hitler’s tank divisions were some of his most feared troops and most lethal weapons in the taking and securing of territory during World War II. Mitcham assesses the performance and…

Rommel’s first field command during the war was the 7th Panzer Division, also known as the Ghost Division, which he led in France in 1940. It destroyed the French 1st…

At fourteen he became the head of his impoverished family, responsible for feeding eleven on the rough American frontier. By thirty-nine he had established himself as a successful plantation owner…

The Allied landings on D-Day, June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the German defeat in the West in World War II.