This compelling and bestselling study is the first to fully integrate the military, political, social, economic, and civilian perspectives with rank-and-file accounts from the soldiers of both armies during the inexorably march north toward their mutual destinies at Gettysburg.
The performance of Cutler's brigade at Gettysburg came at a great cost. In the battle, only five Union and Confederate brigades sustained 1,000 or more casualties. Cutler's brigade was one of them. This brigade deserves to be recognized for its heroic performance throughout the fight.
The most effective German division fighting in the WestDescribes how the division continually battled the Allied offensivesUses new materials from archives in the former Eastern BlocRefuses to shy away from unpalatable facts or controversies
The 15 cm sIG 33 (schweres Infanterie Geschutz 33, "Heavy Infantry Gun") was the standard German heavy infantry gun used in the Second World War. It was the largest weapon ever classified as an infantry gun by any nation.
'A definitive history of Napoleon's last victorious war' - First Empire Lively accounts of major and minor combat actions from Italy to Holland, Germany to Poland Analyzes the intersection of political goals and military operations
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of that terrible year, this book takes the reader on a journey into the labyrinth, to reveal the complexity, the layered motives, the flawed and disturbed minds that drove the world to war.