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Panzers of Prokhorovka
The Myth of Hitler’s Greatest Armoured Defeat
AvBen Wheatley
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
191 kr
A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history.Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon’s Grande Armée before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka, where the Soviet annihilation of Hitler’s elite SS Panzer force on 12 July 1943 in the largest armoured clash in history has traditionally been described as a key turning point in the war.The Panzers of Prokhorovka challenges this narrative. The battle was indeed an important Soviet victory, but a very different one to that described above. Based on ground-breaking archival research and supported by previously unpublished images of the battlefield, Ben Wheatley argues that German armoured losses were in fact negligible and a fresh approach is required to understand Prokhorovka. This book tackles the many myths that have built up over the years, and presents a new analysis of this famous engagement.
On Democracies and Death Cults
Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West
AvDouglas Murray
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
143 kr
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NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the Palestinian cause is ultimately playing into the hands of a much more dangerous force. Drawing from intensive on-the-ground reporting in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, Murray presents a compelling case that places the latest violence in its historical context. He takes readers on a harrowing journey through the aftermath of the 7 October 2023 massacre, piecing together exclusive accounts from victims, survivors and even the terrorists responsible for the atrocities.On Democracies and Death Cults argues that Israel’s commitment to fundamental Western values – capitalism, individual rights, democracy and reason – has made it a beacon of progress in a region dominated by authoritarianism and extremism. Murray contrasts Israel’s principles with the ideology of Hamas, which openly proclaims its love of death over life. If left unchecked, Murray argues, this misplaced Western sympathy could embolden forces that seek to undermine democratic values and perpetuate a culture of violence.Clear-eyed and deeply reasoned, On Democracies and Death Cults is a gripping and essential read for all who seek to understand the complexities of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and its implications for the future of democracy – and for the world itself.
Ut ur Kabul : den svenska evakueringen från Afghanistan
AvRobert Karjel
Storpocket, Svenska, 2024
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
141 kr
"Det räcker med att läsa första kapitlet "Epicentrum" så är du fast." Aftonbladet
I augusti 2021 faller Kabul i talibanernas händer. Den svenska ambassaden evakueras hastigt under dramatiska omständigheter. Kvar lämnas alla lokalanställda afghaner och tolkar. Om talibanerna får tag på dem är deras liv i fara.
Situationen blir snart politiskt och moraliskt ohållbar och Sverige inleder en operation för att föra ut sina lokalanställda. Obeslutsamhet, trassel med tillstånd och tolkning av lagar samt en pandemi gör processen både krånglig och utdragen, och en grupp civila säkerhetsoperatörer tvingas ta täten.
För varje timma minskar möjligheten att ta sig ut ur Afghanistan, och utanför Kabuls flygplats sitter tiotusentals desperata människor fast i ett kokande folkhav. Samtidigt är en självmordsbombare från Islamiska staten på väg mot flygplatsen.
Robert Karjel har intervjuat alla som deltog i Sveriges insats och upplevde den inifrån – från ministrar och ambassadörer till ljusskygga specialförband och lokalanställda afghaner. Ut ur Kabul är ett dokument som skildrar det djupa mänskliga lidande som uppstod när Sverige lämnade Afghanistan.
SAS
Rogue Heroes
AvBen Macintyre
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
135 kr
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*BEN MACINTYRE'S NEXT BOOK, REDWOOD, IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES, STARRING CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN AND DOMINIC WESTFrom the secret SAS archives and bestselling author Ben Macintyre: The first ever authorized history of the SAS.'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail________________In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines.Despite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find. And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS.With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force, and the immense cost of making it a reality.________________'Thorough and highly entertaining. It would be nigh on impossible to praise it too highly' Daily Express'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' Antony Beevor'Told with deceptive brilliance . . . one the finest books of its kind' Evening StandardSunday Times bestseller, April 2017
War
A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices
AvBeatrice Heuser
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
649 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
War has been conceptualised from a military perspective, but also from ethical, legal, and philosophical viewpoints. These different analytical perspectives are all necessary to understand the many dimensions war, the continua on which war is situated - from small-scale to large-scale, from limited in time or long, from less to extremely destructive, with varying aims, and degrees of involvement of populations. Western civilisations have conceptualised war in binary ways denying the variety of manifestations of war along these continua. While binary definitions are necessary to capture different conditions legally, they hamper analysis. The binaries include inter-State and intestine war, just war and unjust war (the latter including insurgencies), citizen-soldiers and professionals, civilians and combatants. Yet realities have mostly straddled such demarcations. Even citizen-armies have usually included professionals, civilians have been treated as enemies and sometimes even formally defined as enemies, and rules have not conformed with binary distinctions, if they were respected at all. While customary rules governing the conduct of war have been turned into International Law, this is the only aspect of war that has developed in a fairly linear way, while the rise, disappearance, and renaissance of the just war tradition has been anything but linear. This non-linearity also applies to the brutality with which war has been fought, especially towards civilians, who for long stretches of European history must have been the main victims of war, notwithstanding increasing protection they were afforded in theory by customary law. To understand war, we must shed some of these binaries.
Arnhem : Tysklands sista seger
AvAntony Beevor
Pocket, Svenska, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
99 kr
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»Best History Book of the Year.« The Times
»Antony Beevor kan konsten att litterärt gestalta historien. Hans nya bok om slaget i Arnhem är brutalt bra.« Johan Croneman, Dagens Nyheter
»Väl värd att rekommendera som motgift mot en alltför ljus och förvriden bild av andra världskrigets utdragna slutskede ... en fullmatad bok som aldrig blir tråkig.« Dick Harrison, Svenska Dagbladet
»Beevor briljerar ... Antony Beevor visar att han är både flyhänt och pålitlig som författare. Läsare som gillat hans tidigare böcker blir inte besvikna.« Tidskriften Militär Historia
Nytt storverk av den ledande militärhistorikern Antony Beevor.
Söndagen den 17 september 1944 luftlandsattes 10 000 allierade fallskärmssoldater bakom de tyska linjerna i Nederländerna. Målet var att säkra den viktiga bron över Rhen vid Arnhem, tillsammans med andra strategiska mål. Men Hitlers styrkor var avsevärt större än man räknat med, och kampen mot klockan blev ett faktum.
Antony Beevor, tidigare brittisk officer, är vår tids ledande militärhistoriska författare. I sin nya bok, Arnhem: Tysklands sista seger, berättar han om den dramatiska operationen. Med inlevelse skildrar han fallskärmssoldaternas allt mer desperata situation samt de tyska belägrarnas och civilbefolkningens erfarenheter av de hårda striderna.
Antony Beevors böcker Stalingrad, Berlin, Andra världskriget och D-dagen har alla sålt i stora upplagor runtom i världen, varav en halv miljon bara i Sverige.
Vägen till fred i Europa : hur Ukrainakriget kan stoppas
AvJeffrey D. Sachs
Kartonnage, Svenska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
219 kr
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I Vägen till fred i Europa diskuterar den amerikanske nationalekonomen Jeffrey D. Sachs hur Europa kan bygga fred och välstånd för alla kontinentens invånare.
Han beskriver Västeuropas och Rysslands förgiftade relationer under 200 år: hur dessa gång på gång har lett till krig och förödelse och hur denna onda cirkel kan brytas.
Han presenterar en plan för hur Ukrainakriget kan få ett avslut.
Han ger förslag på hur en ny utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik för Europa kan utformas.
»Konsekvenserna av detta långvariga förakt för ryska säkerhetsintressen är nu synliga med brutal tydlighet. Kriget i Ukraina, den kollapsade kärnvapenkontrollen, Europas energi- och industrikriser, Europas nya kapprustning, EU:s politiska fragmentering och Europas förlust av strategisk autonomi utgör inga tillfälligheter. De utgör de ackumulerade kostnaderna för två århundraden av europeisk vägran att ta Rysslands säkerhetsintressen på allvar.« Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs är nationalekonom och professor vid Columbia University. Han tillbringade över 20 år som professor vid Harvard University, där han erhöll sina kandidat-, magister- och doktorsexamina. Han har erhållit över 40 hedersdoktorat och bland hans senaste utmärkelser finns 2022 års Tang Prize i hållbar utveckling, Legion of Honor genom dekret av Frankrikes president och Order of the Cross från Estlands president.
Professor Sachs är ordförande för FN:s nätverk för hållbara utvecklingslösningar och rådgivare i hållbarhetsfrågor till generalsekreterare António Guterres. Tidigare har han varit specialrådgivare till tre FN-generalsekreterare.
Professor Sachs har utgivit bland annat följande böcker:
Poland s Jump to the Market Economy (1994)
Development Economics (1997)
Macroeconomics in the Global Economy (2003)
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005)
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008)
The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity (2012)
To Move the World: JFK s Quest for Peace (2014)
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable (med Bernie Sanders, 2017)
A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018)
The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020)
Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022)
New York Times har kallat Jeffrey D. Sachs för »förmodligen världens mest betydelsefulla nationalekonom«.
Time Magazine har kallat honom »världens mest kände nationalekonom« och två gånger utnämnt honom till en av världens 100 mest inflytelserika opinionsbildare.
Economist rankade i en undersökning Sachs som en av de tre mest inflytelserika nu levande nationalekonomerna.
The Peloponnesian War
AvThucydides
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
170 kr
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'The greatest historian that ever lived'Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Thucydides himself was a participant in the war; to his history he brings an awesome intellect, brilliant narrative, and penetrating analysis of the nature of power, as it affects both states and individuals.Of his own work Thucydides wrote: 'I shall be content if [my history] is judged useful by those who will want to have a clear understanding of what happened - and, such is the human condition, will happen again ... It was composed as a permanent legacy, not a showpiece for a single hearing.' So it has proved. Of the prose writers of Greece and Rome Thucydides has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. This new edition combines a masterly translation with comprehensive supporting material. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Biological War
A Scenario
AvAnnie Jacobsen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
234 kr
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThere is an invisible weapon among us. By the time you know you are a victim, it has turned you into a killer.'Even more perversely thrilling than Nuclear War: A Scenario' Observer'New Fear Unlocked . . . all too credible . . . the author's timing is impeccable' Sunday Times, Book of the WeekA lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this explosive new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, medical, and military responsibility, Annie Jacobsen examines this very scenario.There is no mushroom cloud, no shock wave or blast. Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small and malicious, that when used for evil, only evil can result.This is what could happen; a roadmap to the hours, days, and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.'This book moves like a meteor' New York Times'Biological War is difficult to put down, but it is even harder to stop thinking about once finished' Literary Review'Important... persuasive and unnerving' New Yorker'Energetic, detailed and disturbing . . . an engrossing, plausible book' The Economist'Read this book. It is a better briefing on the problem than the one we received in Downing Street six years ago' Spectator
Del 62 - Raid
Kyiv 2022
The battle for Ukraine's capital
AvMark Galeotti
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
205 kr
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Drawing on Mark Galeotti’s unrivalled sources in the Russian and Ukrainian militaries, this studies Russia’s risky move to seize Kyiv at the start of the 2022 invasion, and how it was foiled.In 2022, Vladimir Putin was convinced he could seize Kyiv with minimal fighting, install a puppet government, and close his fist on Ukraine in a matter of weeks. As the war he launched continues to rage, Dr Mark Galeotti, a world expert on the Russian military, explains how this lightning conquest was meant to be won – and how the Ukrainians crushed it.He explains how the Russian Army’s generals, under-prepared and kept in the dark, nonetheless made a concerted attempt to seize Hostomel Airport and from there take the capital, with mercenaries detailed to hunt down the government. But Ukrainian military and civilian resistance thwarted the attack and within a month, the Russians were already on the retreat, leaving behind the smoking remains of the 40-mile invasion column outside Kyiv.Drawing extensively on Russian and Ukrainian sources including interviews with soldiers involved in the operation, and fully illustrated with photographs, original artwork and maps, this is the most detailed and compelling study of this operation available in English. It is the story of a plan that could have been among military history’s boldest coups-de-main, but whose defeat instead shattered Russia’s hopes of an easy victory.
Del 61 - Air Campaign
Winter War 1939–40
Repelling the Soviets from Finnish skies
AvKari Stenman
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
217 kr
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The first illustrated study in English of the Finnish Air Force’s battle to repel the Soviet invaders during the Winter War, one of the greatest David-and-Goliath air battles in history.In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded its neighbour Finland, sparking the Winter War. While Finland was heavily outnumbered in all respects, in few respects was the contest so uneven as in the air. In this book, veteran Finnish aviation historian Kari Stenman draws on his decades of research to present the first account in English of the Finnish Air Force’s defence of the country’s skies, a clash that pitted its 114 combat aircraft against the Soviets’ 2,318.He explains that, equipped initially with a handful of British and Dutch aircraft, Finland’s air force adopted similar guerrilla tactics to its infantry. Fokker D.XXI interceptors were scattered to remote landing grounds to ambush the Soviets and give an impression of strength, while the bombers were first used for long-range reconnaissance and harassment. Over the course of the war, the Finns received new Gladiators, Fiat G.50s and French MS.406s, until at the close of the war, all flying units were thrown in to repel the Russian invasion across the frozen Gulf of Finland.Illustrated with previously unpublished photos, superb original artwork, 3D diagrams and maps, this reveals for the first time the full story of how Finnish aviators fought for their country’s independence.
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Del 63 - Air Campaign
New Guinea 1943–44
The Allies assume the offensive
AvMark Stille,John Rogers
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
222 kr
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Fully illustrated, this is a history of airpower in the decisive stage of the New Guinea campaign, when the Allies could finally go on the offensive to shatter Japanese forces. In mid-1943, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF) took over responsibility for New Guinea air operations from the Imperial Japanese Navy. In its first large-scale contest against the USAAF, the IJAAF was challenged to defend its bases, defend the sea lanes supporting numerous Japanese outposts along the coast, and influence ground operations. In this book, the second of two on the New Guinea campaign, Pacific War scholars Mark Stille and John Rogers draw upon years of research and Japanese, American and Australian sources to explain how the New Guinea air war turned against the Japanese between June 1943 and 1944. The over-extended IJAAF gradually lost combat strength in the face of vastly improved Allied airpower, leaving the Japanese unable to contend. One prong of the Allies’ air offensive targeted Japanese shipping to isolate its forces, while the other supported the ground offensives and landings that smashed Japanese forces and left most of them isolated for the rest of the war. Packed with artwork, maps, and archive photos, this book explains how the lessons learned and the forces built up during the harsh struggle for Papua in 1942–43 transformed the Allies’ airpower into a decisive element in MacArthur’s 1943–44 campaign.
Del 429 - Campaign
Königgrätz 1866
The Creation of Modern Germany
AvAngus Konstam
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
217 kr
An in-depth look at one of the biggest set-piece battles and one of the most decisive in European history pre-WWI.Growing friction between the centuries-old Austrian Empire, self-styled guardian of Germany, and the smaller but more dynamic Prussian Empire led to war between the two countries. In June 1866, three Prussian armies crossed into Bohemia, and brushed aside the hastily assembled Austrian forces that stood in their path. The battered Austrians fell back to the town of Könnigrätz (now the Czech city of Hradec Králové) on the River Elbe, where their reserves were waiting. The battle began on 3 July and resulted in a Prussian victory.Expert historian Angus Konstam explores this critical battle of the Austro-Prussian War, examining what the Prussian victory meant for the political landscape and how it led to the modern German state. Featuring stunning artwork, detailed maps and period images, this book also highlights how advanced Industrial Age technology played an important role, and how more modern tactics fought against the old style.
Stalingrad
AvAntony Beevor
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
147 kr
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The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2______________In October 1942, an officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town . . . Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'.The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination and its citizens endured unimaginable hardship as a result. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his decline.An extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature of war itself, Stalingrad will act as a testament to the vital role of the soviet war effort.______________'He reveals the full awfulness and human cost of the conflict with scholarly verve and deep sympathy' Ben Macintyre'A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative techniques of a novelist' Orlando Figes, Sunday Telegraph'A brilliantly researched tour de force of military history' Sarah Bradford, The Times
To Kill a Nation
The Attack on Yugoslavia
AvMichael Parenti
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
212 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy.
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Del 435 - Campaign
Donbas 2014–15
Undeclared and Uncivil War in Ukraine
AvMark Galeotti
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
222 kr
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Leading expert Mark Galeotti explores the undeclared war in the Donbas in 2014, illuminating the long-running Russia-Ukraine crisis.The emerging and undeclared struggle for Ukraine's south-eastern Donbas region that erupted after the Russian annexation of Crimea was at once an insurgency, a proxy war and a direct Russian intervention. At first, it was a struggle largely between local insurgents and Russian volunteers on the one side, and local security forces and pro-government militias on the other. Over time, Ukrainian government forces assumed a growing role – and so too did Russian regulars. Over the next year, back-and-forth struggles continued as neither side was able to assert themselves until the conflict settled into an uneasy, bad-tempered and ultimately unstable stalemate.Expert historian Mark Galeotti explores the war in the Donbas in 2014–15, detailing the eclectic mix of combatants and the mix of set-piece battles, scrappy insurgency and plain street brawls. With new artwork, detailed maps and diagrams, this book dives into the causes of the conflict, which only effectively froze in mid-2015 with the Minsk II peace deal, and shows how this played a role in the 2022 invasion.
D-Day
75th Anniversary Edition
AvAntony Beevor
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
147 kr
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fearThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was awesome and what followed was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side.Antony Beevor's inimitably gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war. He lands the reader on the beach alongside the heroes whose stories he so masterfully renders in their full terrifying glory.______________'A thrilling story, with all Beevor's narrative mastery' Chris Patten, Financial Times'Beevor's D-Day has all the qualities that have made his earlier works so successful: an eye for telling and unusual detail, an ability to make complex events understandable, and a wonderful graphic style' Ian Kershaw, Guardian, Books of the Year'D-Day's phenomenal success is both understandable and justified' James Holland'D-Day is a triumph . . . on almost every page there's some little detail that sticks in the mind or tweaks the heart. This is a terrific, inspiring, heart-breaking book' Sam Leith, Daily Mail
On My Watch
Leading NATO in a Time of War
AvJens Stoltenberg
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
239 kr
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JENS STOLTENBERG OFFERS AN HONEST AND CANDID ACCOUNT OF A DRAMATIC DECADE AS THE LEADER OF NATO. When Stoltenberg took office as Secretary General of NATO in 2014, the world was already changing. What followed was a decade marked by war, diplomatic crises, and decisions that helped shape our shared security.This book takes readers behind closed doors and offers a rare insight into how the world’s most powerful military alliance handles crises. Stoltenberg describes the effort to keep NATO united, and addresses key issues such as the war in Ukraine, NATO’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, relations with Russia and China, and cooperation with world leaders like Angela Merkel, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.This is not a book about division. It is a story of unity, of friendship – and of why NATO still matters. Through reflections on disagreement and difficult dilemmas, Stoltenberg shows why openness is essential to preserve cohesion – and to face the challenges of tomorrow. On My Watch offers a unique insight into the art of diplomacy and the hard choices that must be made when global peace is at stake.
Blood and Ruins
The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
AvRichard Overy
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
207 kr
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The TimesA bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historiansRichard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires.How war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally justified forms the heart of this new account. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial projects, the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the future of the global order.Blood and Ruins is a masterpiece from of one of the most renowned historians of the Second World War, which will compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking, original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew.
War in the Smartphone Age
Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips
AvMatthew Ford
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
304 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
An essential guide to understanding war and information on today's data-saturated battlefields--from Ukraine to Gaza and beyond.Thanks to smartphones, war is everywhere, all the time. Anyone can view, analyse and comment on photos, videos or other warzone media. Where did this technology come from? And what does it mean for the future of war?This book explains why you see what you do on your phone, and how these devices shape our knowledge, conduct and representation of war in the 2020s. It shows why smartphones are indispensable in peace and wartime: every device is a potential weapon, lines blur between war and daily life, and conflict becomes a shared digital experience. Social media platforms displace state-controlled narratives, amplifying violence and shaping war's legitimacy. Apps democratise conflict, enabling anyone to identify and attack perceived enemies. As the Ukraine war has shown, this new reality involves complex, unevenly distributed infrastructures, merging civilian communication with military targeting.With war accelerating beyond our comprehension, militaries have raced to benefit from and adapt to the smartphone age. Matthew Ford explores critical questions about today's hyper-connected battlefield.
Ett halvt år, ett helt liv
AvMagnus Ernström
Inbunden, Svenska, 2016
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(27)
218 kr
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"Jag förstår att jag sitter i ett pansarfordon som sprängs, och väntar en evighetslång millisekund på det första glödheta och rakbladsvassa splittret."
Det här är en sann berättelse om författarens tid som FN-soldat under Bosnienkriget – hans version av en svensk bataljons kamp för att rädda civilbefolkningens liv. En våldsam kamp som inte bara fördes mot krigsförbrytare, utan ibland också mot de egna: FN, den svenska regeringen och storpolitiska intressen. Vi får möta de små människorna i verklighetens Bosnien. Och de unga svenska FN-soldaterna som blir allt mer hårda, cyniska och omdömeslösa av att ständigt vistas nära döden.

Kronologiskt får vi följa Magnus Ernströms inre och yttre resa under ett halvår. Gripande skildras den kamp som utspelade sig när den svenska bataljonen hindrades från att ta sig in i Bosnien. Slobodan Miloševic gör allt för att hitta undanflykter, liksom den bosnienserbiske gränskontrollanten ”King of the Bridge”.

Ett halvt år, ett helt liv är en ovanlig ögonvittnesskildring i romanform om det fasansfulla kriget i forna Jugoslavien i början på 1990-talet.
Del 68 - Campaign
Lützen 1632
Climax of the Thirty Years War
AvRichard Brzezinski
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
220 kr
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A richly illustrated, compact take on a high-drama battle of the Thirty Years War.The Thirty Years War, a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants, raged across Europe between 1618 and 1648, devastating huge areas of Germany. By 1632 the Protestant powers were in a desperate situation until King Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden, 'the Lion of the North', came to their rescue.This book describes how, having smashed one of the two main Catholic armies, he faced the other at Lützen near Leipzig in November 1632. In a nightmare battle fought in thick fog, his Swedish troops locked horns with the Imperial army. It was a bloody clash, in which Gustavus himself demonstrated true courage at the head of his cavalry and one for which he would pay the ultimate price.Complete with illustrations throughout, including special battlescene maps, this slim volume lifts the lid on the battle and its outcome.
Berlin
Endgame 1945
AvPrit Buttar
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
365 kr
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Written by one of the world's leading experts on the Eastern Front, this captivating history explores the final battle for Berlin and the heart of Germany. This sweeping saga takes us from the banks of the River Oder as the Red Army begins it relentless drive towards the still beating heart of the Third Reich: Berlin. Only the Seelow Heights stood between the Soviet forces and the capital. Over the course of three days in May 1945 almost one million Soviet troops would attack these final entrenched positions. Once these defences were breached it was guaranteed that a bitter street-by-street battle would take place in the city itself between a vengeful Red Army and desperate, fanatical Nazis until final capitulation. Using vivid first-hand accounts, Prit Buttar reveals the brutal combat that defined the final death throes of the Third Reich.Not only was the outcome of the war at stake. As the Red Army rolled into Berlin this was already a foregone conclusion even if it would take its toll in blood. Already battle lines for the forthcoming Cold War were being drawn. Stalin, fearful that the Western Powers would not honour their agreements, was determined to have boots on the ground to ensure his control of what would become the Soviet occupation zone. Berlin: Endgame 1945 is the brilliant account of the ferocious climax to World War II and a chilling prologue to the Cold War.
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Del 21 - Fleet
Kriegsmarine Norway Command 1940–45
The naval war on the northern flank
AvLawrence Paterson
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
191 kr
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Fully illustrated, this is the first full history of the Kriegsmarine’s challenging operations from occupied Norway, tackling Allied sea power in the North Sea and Arctic. The invasion of Norway was intended to secure Germany’s northern flank, and win access to the Atlantic and to vital Scandinavian resources. It was the Kriegsmarine’s biggest, most testing, and most costly amphibious operation, and victory only brought new demands on the mauled surface fleet. Naval historian Lawrence Paterson here examines the Kriegsmarine’s presence and operations in occupied Norway, as the fleet fought to secure its new waters and launch offensive operations, first against the British and later the Soviets. It is a theatre most famous as the last lair of Germany’s battleships and for operations against the Arctic Convoys, but operations involved the full spectrum of the navy. Convoy protection, coastal security and interdiction were vital throughout the war and relied heavily on Germany’s workhorse Vorpostenboote. Illustrated with some rare and unpublished photos, superb original artwork, diagrams and maps, this book explores the full story of the Kriegsmarine in Norway. From warships and combat to its strategic tasks, the complex and confusing command structure, intelligence, logistics, security and facilities, it is the first comprehensive history of Germany’s fleet in the far north.
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Del 437 - Campaign
Carentan 1944
Connecting the D-Day Beachheads
AvSteven J. Zaloga
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
203 kr
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An in-depth look at the US' desperate battle to secure Carentan and support the Normandy invasion and the elite German units that sought to repel them.Although the US Army had successfully secured both Utah and Omaha Beach on D-Day, the next tactical problem was to connect the two beachheads. Utah and Omaha were separated by the Vire River estuary. Carentan was the first major town on the river, and as such was of vital tactical importance. However, this was not lost on the Germans, who dispatched their elite Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 to hold the town. On the US side, the task of capturing Carentan fell to the 101st Airborne Division, and in the week following D-Day, US and German troops waged a battle for Carentan.Here, expert historian Steven J. Zaloga goes in depth into the initial battle on June 10–12 , 1944, the German counterattack and the final Allied victory. With stunning artwork, detailed maps and BEVs, firsthand accounts, and period images, this study brings to life the fierce fighting between paratrooper forces and highlights how this Allied success led onto the next phase of Operation Overlord.
Operation Biting
The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
AvMax Hastings
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
143 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Times Best History Book of the Year; A Waterstones Best Book of the Year 'Reads like a thriller… I couldn't put Max Hastings's new book down' DAILY MAIL 'Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier' THE TIMES Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations. A company of the newly-formed Airborne Forces was committed to the operation, which took place on the night of 27/28 February. Amid heavy snow 120 men landed, some of whom were misdropped almost two miles from their objective. They nonetheless launched the assault, dismantled the German radar, and after three nail-biting hours in France and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time by landing-craft across stormy seas to Portsmouth.Max Hastings recounts this cliffhanging tale in a wealth of previously unchronicled detail. He portrays its remarkable personalities: the ‘boffin’ RV Jones; the peacock Mountbatten; the troubled husband of Daphne Du Maurier, Gen. ’Boy’ Browning, who commanded the Airborne Division; ‘Colonel Remy’, the French secret agent whose men reconnoitered Bruneval at mortal risk; Major John Frost, who led the paras into action; Charlie Cox, the little RAF technician who stripped the Würzburg and became an unexpected hero; Wing-Commander Charles Pickard, a legendary bomber pilot who led the drop squadron. Seldom have so many fascinating personalities been brought together to fulfil a mission that became a front-page triumph in a season of British defeats.Recounted in Hastings’ familiar best-selling blend of top-down and bottom-up action detail, Operation Biting tells a story that has become almost forgotten yet deserves to rank among the epic tales of courage and daring that took place in the greatest conflict in history.
Del 432 - Campaign
Battle of the Atlantic (2)
From Operation Drumbeat to the Defeat of the Wolfpacks, 1942–43
AvMark Stille
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
222 kr
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A detailed account of the dramatic success and failures of Hitler's U-boats in the mid-war years during the best-known naval campaign of World War II. At the start of 1942, the Germans benefited from the lack of American preparations to defend shipping along the US East Coast, and this 'Second Happy Time' saw serious Allied losses between January and July 1942. After this Allied disaster, Admiral Dönitz planned to shift his focus to the North Atlantic. This was interrupted by the Allied invasion of North Africa, which diverted the U-boat force until the end of 1942. When Dönitz was finally able to move his U-boats into the North Atlantic, they inflicted very heavy losses on Allied shipping and, by March 1943, looked poised for victory.Respected naval historian Mark Stille analyses this critical period in the Battle of the Atlantic, describing how Allied advances in technology and intelligence saw the balance shift, with a stunning 34 boats lost in May 1943 alone and the Germans forced to withdraw. He also examines whether the Germans could have ever actually threatened the Allied sea lanes of communication effectively. Using maps, diagrams, photographs and stunning battlescene artworks, the weapons, personalities, and tactics of the opposing sides are brought vividly to life in a unique and engaging way.
Ein Krieg wie kein anderer
AvJochen Hellbeck
Inbunden, Tyska, 2025
408 kr
1942
Hitler's Gamble for Victory
AvRichard Hargreaves
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
369 kr
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"[A] well-written and carefully researched account that illuminates all sides of these grinding battles." The Wall Street JournalA unique history of the Axis powers attempt to win the Second World War in 1942, told through the eyes of those who were there.Drawing upon sources in German, Russian, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian and English, 1942: Hitler's Gamble describes the spring and summer campaigns in the Soviet Union and Africa which crowned the Axis forces with fresh laurels. Impressive victories were won at Kharkov, Sevastopol and Tobruk. Axis powers were then on the cusp of victory in Egypt, the Caucasus and Stalingrad until the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut was brought to a halt in the autumn of 1942.Based upon 15 years of research in archives, museums and libraries across Europe, this is a unique account of this critical year in World War II. No other history has looked at the Eastern and North African theatres in conjunction, masterfully illustrating how the crushing gains on both fronts would be lost by the end of the year. Richard Hargreaves shines a light on the little studied areas of the war such as the aftermath of Tobruk and challenges traditional German-centric accounts of the Caucasus campaign. Strategy and the hubris of Hitler and his generals is brilliantly illustrated but so too are the lives and deaths of ordinary soldiers caught up in these extraordinary events.
Del 62 - Air Campaign
Philippines 1941–42
America's disastrous start to the Pacific War
AvMark Lardas
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
222 kr
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The weeks after Pearl Harbor saw Japan destroy the well-prepared US air forces in the Philippines. Fully illustrated, this studies the Pacific War’s little-known first major air campaign.On December 7, 1941, the Japanese not only attacked Pearl Harbor,but also struck at US and allied bases throughout the Pacific, including the USA’s biggest overseas territory, the Philippines. However, that was an air battle the US was expecting. The USAAF had beefed up its assets in the Philippines, sending nearly a quarter of its available B-17s to the Far Eastern Air Force (FEAF).It could also call on the Philippine Army Air Corps (PAAC). Aviation historian Mark Lardas explains how despite that, in a campaign that lasted barely a month, Japan’s air forces routed both the FEAF and the PAAC, gaining air superiority and permitting Imperial Army troops undisturbed access to the Philippine coast. Within a week Japan ruled the skies over Luzon. Two weeks later it had air superiority over all the Philippines. After a month, its control was so complete the Imperial Army felt confident to move its 5th Air Group back out of the Philippines. While desultory air combat would continue off and on for the next three months, the issue was decided by 5 January 1942. Packed with original artwork, 3D diagrams, maps and photos, this is the history of how the first air campaign of the Pacific War turned into a humiliating defeat for the United States.

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Panzers of Prokhorovka
The Myth of Hitler’s Greatest Armoured Defeat
AvBen Wheatley
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
191 kr
A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history.Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon’s Grande Armée before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka, where the Soviet annihilation of Hitler’s elite SS Panzer force on 12 July 1943 in the largest armoured clash in history has traditionally been described as a key turning point in the war.The Panzers of Prokhorovka challenges this narrative. The battle was indeed an important Soviet victory, but a very different one to that described above. Based on ground-breaking archival research and supported by previously unpublished images of the battlefield, Ben Wheatley argues that German armoured losses were in fact negligible and a fresh approach is required to understand Prokhorovka. This book tackles the many myths that have built up over the years, and presents a new analysis of this famous engagement.
On Democracies and Death Cults
Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West
AvDouglas Murray
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
143 kr
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NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the Palestinian cause is ultimately playing into the hands of a much more dangerous force. Drawing from intensive on-the-ground reporting in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, Murray presents a compelling case that places the latest violence in its historical context. He takes readers on a harrowing journey through the aftermath of the 7 October 2023 massacre, piecing together exclusive accounts from victims, survivors and even the terrorists responsible for the atrocities.On Democracies and Death Cults argues that Israel’s commitment to fundamental Western values – capitalism, individual rights, democracy and reason – has made it a beacon of progress in a region dominated by authoritarianism and extremism. Murray contrasts Israel’s principles with the ideology of Hamas, which openly proclaims its love of death over life. If left unchecked, Murray argues, this misplaced Western sympathy could embolden forces that seek to undermine democratic values and perpetuate a culture of violence.Clear-eyed and deeply reasoned, On Democracies and Death Cults is a gripping and essential read for all who seek to understand the complexities of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and its implications for the future of democracy – and for the world itself.
Ut ur Kabul : den svenska evakueringen från Afghanistan
AvRobert Karjel
Storpocket, Svenska, 2024
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
141 kr
"Det räcker med att läsa första kapitlet "Epicentrum" så är du fast." Aftonbladet
I augusti 2021 faller Kabul i talibanernas händer. Den svenska ambassaden evakueras hastigt under dramatiska omständigheter. Kvar lämnas alla lokalanställda afghaner och tolkar. Om talibanerna får tag på dem är deras liv i fara.
Situationen blir snart politiskt och moraliskt ohållbar och Sverige inleder en operation för att föra ut sina lokalanställda. Obeslutsamhet, trassel med tillstånd och tolkning av lagar samt en pandemi gör processen både krånglig och utdragen, och en grupp civila säkerhetsoperatörer tvingas ta täten.
För varje timma minskar möjligheten att ta sig ut ur Afghanistan, och utanför Kabuls flygplats sitter tiotusentals desperata människor fast i ett kokande folkhav. Samtidigt är en självmordsbombare från Islamiska staten på väg mot flygplatsen.
Robert Karjel har intervjuat alla som deltog i Sveriges insats och upplevde den inifrån – från ministrar och ambassadörer till ljusskygga specialförband och lokalanställda afghaner. Ut ur Kabul är ett dokument som skildrar det djupa mänskliga lidande som uppstod när Sverige lämnade Afghanistan.
SAS
Rogue Heroes
AvBen Macintyre
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
135 kr
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*BEN MACINTYRE'S NEXT BOOK, REDWOOD, IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES, STARRING CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN AND DOMINIC WESTFrom the secret SAS archives and bestselling author Ben Macintyre: The first ever authorized history of the SAS.'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail________________In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines.Despite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find. And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS.With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force, and the immense cost of making it a reality.________________'Thorough and highly entertaining. It would be nigh on impossible to praise it too highly' Daily Express'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' Antony Beevor'Told with deceptive brilliance . . . one the finest books of its kind' Evening StandardSunday Times bestseller, April 2017
War
A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices
AvBeatrice Heuser
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
649 kr
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War has been conceptualised from a military perspective, but also from ethical, legal, and philosophical viewpoints. These different analytical perspectives are all necessary to understand the many dimensions war, the continua on which war is situated - from small-scale to large-scale, from limited in time or long, from less to extremely destructive, with varying aims, and degrees of involvement of populations. Western civilisations have conceptualised war in binary ways denying the variety of manifestations of war along these continua. While binary definitions are necessary to capture different conditions legally, they hamper analysis. The binaries include inter-State and intestine war, just war and unjust war (the latter including insurgencies), citizen-soldiers and professionals, civilians and combatants. Yet realities have mostly straddled such demarcations. Even citizen-armies have usually included professionals, civilians have been treated as enemies and sometimes even formally defined as enemies, and rules have not conformed with binary distinctions, if they were respected at all. While customary rules governing the conduct of war have been turned into International Law, this is the only aspect of war that has developed in a fairly linear way, while the rise, disappearance, and renaissance of the just war tradition has been anything but linear. This non-linearity also applies to the brutality with which war has been fought, especially towards civilians, who for long stretches of European history must have been the main victims of war, notwithstanding increasing protection they were afforded in theory by customary law. To understand war, we must shed some of these binaries.
Arnhem : Tysklands sista seger
AvAntony Beevor
Pocket, Svenska, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
99 kr
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»Best History Book of the Year.« The Times
»Antony Beevor kan konsten att litterärt gestalta historien. Hans nya bok om slaget i Arnhem är brutalt bra.« Johan Croneman, Dagens Nyheter
»Väl värd att rekommendera som motgift mot en alltför ljus och förvriden bild av andra världskrigets utdragna slutskede ... en fullmatad bok som aldrig blir tråkig.« Dick Harrison, Svenska Dagbladet
»Beevor briljerar ... Antony Beevor visar att han är både flyhänt och pålitlig som författare. Läsare som gillat hans tidigare böcker blir inte besvikna.« Tidskriften Militär Historia
Nytt storverk av den ledande militärhistorikern Antony Beevor.
Söndagen den 17 september 1944 luftlandsattes 10 000 allierade fallskärmssoldater bakom de tyska linjerna i Nederländerna. Målet var att säkra den viktiga bron över Rhen vid Arnhem, tillsammans med andra strategiska mål. Men Hitlers styrkor var avsevärt större än man räknat med, och kampen mot klockan blev ett faktum.
Antony Beevor, tidigare brittisk officer, är vår tids ledande militärhistoriska författare. I sin nya bok, Arnhem: Tysklands sista seger, berättar han om den dramatiska operationen. Med inlevelse skildrar han fallskärmssoldaternas allt mer desperata situation samt de tyska belägrarnas och civilbefolkningens erfarenheter av de hårda striderna.
Antony Beevors böcker Stalingrad, Berlin, Andra världskriget och D-dagen har alla sålt i stora upplagor runtom i världen, varav en halv miljon bara i Sverige.
Vägen till fred i Europa : hur Ukrainakriget kan stoppas
AvJeffrey D. Sachs
Kartonnage, Svenska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
219 kr
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I Vägen till fred i Europa diskuterar den amerikanske nationalekonomen Jeffrey D. Sachs hur Europa kan bygga fred och välstånd för alla kontinentens invånare.
Han beskriver Västeuropas och Rysslands förgiftade relationer under 200 år: hur dessa gång på gång har lett till krig och förödelse och hur denna onda cirkel kan brytas.
Han presenterar en plan för hur Ukrainakriget kan få ett avslut.
Han ger förslag på hur en ny utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik för Europa kan utformas.
»Konsekvenserna av detta långvariga förakt för ryska säkerhetsintressen är nu synliga med brutal tydlighet. Kriget i Ukraina, den kollapsade kärnvapenkontrollen, Europas energi- och industrikriser, Europas nya kapprustning, EU:s politiska fragmentering och Europas förlust av strategisk autonomi utgör inga tillfälligheter. De utgör de ackumulerade kostnaderna för två århundraden av europeisk vägran att ta Rysslands säkerhetsintressen på allvar.« Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs är nationalekonom och professor vid Columbia University. Han tillbringade över 20 år som professor vid Harvard University, där han erhöll sina kandidat-, magister- och doktorsexamina. Han har erhållit över 40 hedersdoktorat och bland hans senaste utmärkelser finns 2022 års Tang Prize i hållbar utveckling, Legion of Honor genom dekret av Frankrikes president och Order of the Cross från Estlands president.
Professor Sachs är ordförande för FN:s nätverk för hållbara utvecklingslösningar och rådgivare i hållbarhetsfrågor till generalsekreterare António Guterres. Tidigare har han varit specialrådgivare till tre FN-generalsekreterare.
Professor Sachs har utgivit bland annat följande böcker:
Poland s Jump to the Market Economy (1994)
Development Economics (1997)
Macroeconomics in the Global Economy (2003)
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005)
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008)
The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity (2012)
To Move the World: JFK s Quest for Peace (2014)
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable (med Bernie Sanders, 2017)
A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018)
The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020)
Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022)
New York Times har kallat Jeffrey D. Sachs för »förmodligen världens mest betydelsefulla nationalekonom«.
Time Magazine har kallat honom »världens mest kände nationalekonom« och två gånger utnämnt honom till en av världens 100 mest inflytelserika opinionsbildare.
Economist rankade i en undersökning Sachs som en av de tre mest inflytelserika nu levande nationalekonomerna.
The Peloponnesian War
AvThucydides
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
170 kr
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'The greatest historian that ever lived'Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ended in the fall of Athens. Thucydides himself was a participant in the war; to his history he brings an awesome intellect, brilliant narrative, and penetrating analysis of the nature of power, as it affects both states and individuals.Of his own work Thucydides wrote: 'I shall be content if [my history] is judged useful by those who will want to have a clear understanding of what happened - and, such is the human condition, will happen again ... It was composed as a permanent legacy, not a showpiece for a single hearing.' So it has proved. Of the prose writers of Greece and Rome Thucydides has had more lasting influence on western thought than all but Plato and Aristotle. This new edition combines a masterly translation with comprehensive supporting material. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Biological War
A Scenario
AvAnnie Jacobsen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
234 kr
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThere is an invisible weapon among us. By the time you know you are a victim, it has turned you into a killer.'Even more perversely thrilling than Nuclear War: A Scenario' Observer'New Fear Unlocked . . . all too credible . . . the author's timing is impeccable' Sunday Times, Book of the WeekA lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this explosive new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, medical, and military responsibility, Annie Jacobsen examines this very scenario.There is no mushroom cloud, no shock wave or blast. Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small and malicious, that when used for evil, only evil can result.This is what could happen; a roadmap to the hours, days, and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.'This book moves like a meteor' New York Times'Biological War is difficult to put down, but it is even harder to stop thinking about once finished' Literary Review'Important... persuasive and unnerving' New Yorker'Energetic, detailed and disturbing . . . an engrossing, plausible book' The Economist'Read this book. It is a better briefing on the problem than the one we received in Downing Street six years ago' Spectator
Del 62 - Raid
Kyiv 2022
The battle for Ukraine's capital
AvMark Galeotti
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
205 kr
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Drawing on Mark Galeotti’s unrivalled sources in the Russian and Ukrainian militaries, this studies Russia’s risky move to seize Kyiv at the start of the 2022 invasion, and how it was foiled.In 2022, Vladimir Putin was convinced he could seize Kyiv with minimal fighting, install a puppet government, and close his fist on Ukraine in a matter of weeks. As the war he launched continues to rage, Dr Mark Galeotti, a world expert on the Russian military, explains how this lightning conquest was meant to be won – and how the Ukrainians crushed it.He explains how the Russian Army’s generals, under-prepared and kept in the dark, nonetheless made a concerted attempt to seize Hostomel Airport and from there take the capital, with mercenaries detailed to hunt down the government. But Ukrainian military and civilian resistance thwarted the attack and within a month, the Russians were already on the retreat, leaving behind the smoking remains of the 40-mile invasion column outside Kyiv.Drawing extensively on Russian and Ukrainian sources including interviews with soldiers involved in the operation, and fully illustrated with photographs, original artwork and maps, this is the most detailed and compelling study of this operation available in English. It is the story of a plan that could have been among military history’s boldest coups-de-main, but whose defeat instead shattered Russia’s hopes of an easy victory.
Del 61 - Air Campaign
Winter War 1939–40
Repelling the Soviets from Finnish skies
AvKari Stenman
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
217 kr
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The first illustrated study in English of the Finnish Air Force’s battle to repel the Soviet invaders during the Winter War, one of the greatest David-and-Goliath air battles in history.In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded its neighbour Finland, sparking the Winter War. While Finland was heavily outnumbered in all respects, in few respects was the contest so uneven as in the air. In this book, veteran Finnish aviation historian Kari Stenman draws on his decades of research to present the first account in English of the Finnish Air Force’s defence of the country’s skies, a clash that pitted its 114 combat aircraft against the Soviets’ 2,318.He explains that, equipped initially with a handful of British and Dutch aircraft, Finland’s air force adopted similar guerrilla tactics to its infantry. Fokker D.XXI interceptors were scattered to remote landing grounds to ambush the Soviets and give an impression of strength, while the bombers were first used for long-range reconnaissance and harassment. Over the course of the war, the Finns received new Gladiators, Fiat G.50s and French MS.406s, until at the close of the war, all flying units were thrown in to repel the Russian invasion across the frozen Gulf of Finland.Illustrated with previously unpublished photos, superb original artwork, 3D diagrams and maps, this reveals for the first time the full story of how Finnish aviators fought for their country’s independence.
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Del 63 - Air Campaign
New Guinea 1943–44
The Allies assume the offensive
AvMark Stille,John Rogers
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
222 kr
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Fully illustrated, this is a history of airpower in the decisive stage of the New Guinea campaign, when the Allies could finally go on the offensive to shatter Japanese forces. In mid-1943, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF) took over responsibility for New Guinea air operations from the Imperial Japanese Navy. In its first large-scale contest against the USAAF, the IJAAF was challenged to defend its bases, defend the sea lanes supporting numerous Japanese outposts along the coast, and influence ground operations. In this book, the second of two on the New Guinea campaign, Pacific War scholars Mark Stille and John Rogers draw upon years of research and Japanese, American and Australian sources to explain how the New Guinea air war turned against the Japanese between June 1943 and 1944. The over-extended IJAAF gradually lost combat strength in the face of vastly improved Allied airpower, leaving the Japanese unable to contend. One prong of the Allies’ air offensive targeted Japanese shipping to isolate its forces, while the other supported the ground offensives and landings that smashed Japanese forces and left most of them isolated for the rest of the war. Packed with artwork, maps, and archive photos, this book explains how the lessons learned and the forces built up during the harsh struggle for Papua in 1942–43 transformed the Allies’ airpower into a decisive element in MacArthur’s 1943–44 campaign.
Del 429 - Campaign
Königgrätz 1866
The Creation of Modern Germany
AvAngus Konstam
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
217 kr
An in-depth look at one of the biggest set-piece battles and one of the most decisive in European history pre-WWI.Growing friction between the centuries-old Austrian Empire, self-styled guardian of Germany, and the smaller but more dynamic Prussian Empire led to war between the two countries. In June 1866, three Prussian armies crossed into Bohemia, and brushed aside the hastily assembled Austrian forces that stood in their path. The battered Austrians fell back to the town of Könnigrätz (now the Czech city of Hradec Králové) on the River Elbe, where their reserves were waiting. The battle began on 3 July and resulted in a Prussian victory.Expert historian Angus Konstam explores this critical battle of the Austro-Prussian War, examining what the Prussian victory meant for the political landscape and how it led to the modern German state. Featuring stunning artwork, detailed maps and period images, this book also highlights how advanced Industrial Age technology played an important role, and how more modern tactics fought against the old style.
Stalingrad
AvAntony Beevor
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
147 kr
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The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2______________In October 1942, an officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town . . . Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'.The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination and its citizens endured unimaginable hardship as a result. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his decline.An extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature of war itself, Stalingrad will act as a testament to the vital role of the soviet war effort.______________'He reveals the full awfulness and human cost of the conflict with scholarly verve and deep sympathy' Ben Macintyre'A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative techniques of a novelist' Orlando Figes, Sunday Telegraph'A brilliantly researched tour de force of military history' Sarah Bradford, The Times
To Kill a Nation
The Attack on Yugoslavia
AvMichael Parenti
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
212 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy.
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Del 435 - Campaign
Donbas 2014–15
Undeclared and Uncivil War in Ukraine
AvMark Galeotti
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
222 kr
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Leading expert Mark Galeotti explores the undeclared war in the Donbas in 2014, illuminating the long-running Russia-Ukraine crisis.The emerging and undeclared struggle for Ukraine's south-eastern Donbas region that erupted after the Russian annexation of Crimea was at once an insurgency, a proxy war and a direct Russian intervention. At first, it was a struggle largely between local insurgents and Russian volunteers on the one side, and local security forces and pro-government militias on the other. Over time, Ukrainian government forces assumed a growing role – and so too did Russian regulars. Over the next year, back-and-forth struggles continued as neither side was able to assert themselves until the conflict settled into an uneasy, bad-tempered and ultimately unstable stalemate.Expert historian Mark Galeotti explores the war in the Donbas in 2014–15, detailing the eclectic mix of combatants and the mix of set-piece battles, scrappy insurgency and plain street brawls. With new artwork, detailed maps and diagrams, this book dives into the causes of the conflict, which only effectively froze in mid-2015 with the Minsk II peace deal, and shows how this played a role in the 2022 invasion.
D-Day
75th Anniversary Edition
AvAntony Beevor
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
147 kr
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fearThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was awesome and what followed was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side.Antony Beevor's inimitably gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war. He lands the reader on the beach alongside the heroes whose stories he so masterfully renders in their full terrifying glory.______________'A thrilling story, with all Beevor's narrative mastery' Chris Patten, Financial Times'Beevor's D-Day has all the qualities that have made his earlier works so successful: an eye for telling and unusual detail, an ability to make complex events understandable, and a wonderful graphic style' Ian Kershaw, Guardian, Books of the Year'D-Day's phenomenal success is both understandable and justified' James Holland'D-Day is a triumph . . . on almost every page there's some little detail that sticks in the mind or tweaks the heart. This is a terrific, inspiring, heart-breaking book' Sam Leith, Daily Mail
On My Watch
Leading NATO in a Time of War
AvJens Stoltenberg
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
239 kr
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JENS STOLTENBERG OFFERS AN HONEST AND CANDID ACCOUNT OF A DRAMATIC DECADE AS THE LEADER OF NATO. When Stoltenberg took office as Secretary General of NATO in 2014, the world was already changing. What followed was a decade marked by war, diplomatic crises, and decisions that helped shape our shared security.This book takes readers behind closed doors and offers a rare insight into how the world’s most powerful military alliance handles crises. Stoltenberg describes the effort to keep NATO united, and addresses key issues such as the war in Ukraine, NATO’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, relations with Russia and China, and cooperation with world leaders like Angela Merkel, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.This is not a book about division. It is a story of unity, of friendship – and of why NATO still matters. Through reflections on disagreement and difficult dilemmas, Stoltenberg shows why openness is essential to preserve cohesion – and to face the challenges of tomorrow. On My Watch offers a unique insight into the art of diplomacy and the hard choices that must be made when global peace is at stake.
Blood and Ruins
The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
AvRichard Overy
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
207 kr
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The TimesA bold new approach to the Second World War from one of Britain's foremost military historiansRichard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires.How war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally justified forms the heart of this new account. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial projects, the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the future of the global order.Blood and Ruins is a masterpiece from of one of the most renowned historians of the Second World War, which will compel us to view the war in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking, original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets out to understand the war anew.
War in the Smartphone Age
Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips
AvMatthew Ford
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
304 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
An essential guide to understanding war and information on today's data-saturated battlefields--from Ukraine to Gaza and beyond.Thanks to smartphones, war is everywhere, all the time. Anyone can view, analyse and comment on photos, videos or other warzone media. Where did this technology come from? And what does it mean for the future of war?This book explains why you see what you do on your phone, and how these devices shape our knowledge, conduct and representation of war in the 2020s. It shows why smartphones are indispensable in peace and wartime: every device is a potential weapon, lines blur between war and daily life, and conflict becomes a shared digital experience. Social media platforms displace state-controlled narratives, amplifying violence and shaping war's legitimacy. Apps democratise conflict, enabling anyone to identify and attack perceived enemies. As the Ukraine war has shown, this new reality involves complex, unevenly distributed infrastructures, merging civilian communication with military targeting.With war accelerating beyond our comprehension, militaries have raced to benefit from and adapt to the smartphone age. Matthew Ford explores critical questions about today's hyper-connected battlefield.
Ett halvt år, ett helt liv
AvMagnus Ernström
Inbunden, Svenska, 2016
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(27)
218 kr
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"Jag förstår att jag sitter i ett pansarfordon som sprängs, och väntar en evighetslång millisekund på det första glödheta och rakbladsvassa splittret."
Det här är en sann berättelse om författarens tid som FN-soldat under Bosnienkriget – hans version av en svensk bataljons kamp för att rädda civilbefolkningens liv. En våldsam kamp som inte bara fördes mot krigsförbrytare, utan ibland också mot de egna: FN, den svenska regeringen och storpolitiska intressen. Vi får möta de små människorna i verklighetens Bosnien. Och de unga svenska FN-soldaterna som blir allt mer hårda, cyniska och omdömeslösa av att ständigt vistas nära döden.

Kronologiskt får vi följa Magnus Ernströms inre och yttre resa under ett halvår. Gripande skildras den kamp som utspelade sig när den svenska bataljonen hindrades från att ta sig in i Bosnien. Slobodan Miloševic gör allt för att hitta undanflykter, liksom den bosnienserbiske gränskontrollanten ”King of the Bridge”.

Ett halvt år, ett helt liv är en ovanlig ögonvittnesskildring i romanform om det fasansfulla kriget i forna Jugoslavien i början på 1990-talet.
Del 68 - Campaign
Lützen 1632
Climax of the Thirty Years War
AvRichard Brzezinski
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
220 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
A richly illustrated, compact take on a high-drama battle of the Thirty Years War.The Thirty Years War, a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants, raged across Europe between 1618 and 1648, devastating huge areas of Germany. By 1632 the Protestant powers were in a desperate situation until King Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden, 'the Lion of the North', came to their rescue.This book describes how, having smashed one of the two main Catholic armies, he faced the other at Lützen near Leipzig in November 1632. In a nightmare battle fought in thick fog, his Swedish troops locked horns with the Imperial army. It was a bloody clash, in which Gustavus himself demonstrated true courage at the head of his cavalry and one for which he would pay the ultimate price.Complete with illustrations throughout, including special battlescene maps, this slim volume lifts the lid on the battle and its outcome.
Berlin
Endgame 1945
AvPrit Buttar
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
365 kr
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Written by one of the world's leading experts on the Eastern Front, this captivating history explores the final battle for Berlin and the heart of Germany. This sweeping saga takes us from the banks of the River Oder as the Red Army begins it relentless drive towards the still beating heart of the Third Reich: Berlin. Only the Seelow Heights stood between the Soviet forces and the capital. Over the course of three days in May 1945 almost one million Soviet troops would attack these final entrenched positions. Once these defences were breached it was guaranteed that a bitter street-by-street battle would take place in the city itself between a vengeful Red Army and desperate, fanatical Nazis until final capitulation. Using vivid first-hand accounts, Prit Buttar reveals the brutal combat that defined the final death throes of the Third Reich.Not only was the outcome of the war at stake. As the Red Army rolled into Berlin this was already a foregone conclusion even if it would take its toll in blood. Already battle lines for the forthcoming Cold War were being drawn. Stalin, fearful that the Western Powers would not honour their agreements, was determined to have boots on the ground to ensure his control of what would become the Soviet occupation zone. Berlin: Endgame 1945 is the brilliant account of the ferocious climax to World War II and a chilling prologue to the Cold War.
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Del 21 - Fleet
Kriegsmarine Norway Command 1940–45
The naval war on the northern flank
AvLawrence Paterson
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
191 kr
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Fully illustrated, this is the first full history of the Kriegsmarine’s challenging operations from occupied Norway, tackling Allied sea power in the North Sea and Arctic. The invasion of Norway was intended to secure Germany’s northern flank, and win access to the Atlantic and to vital Scandinavian resources. It was the Kriegsmarine’s biggest, most testing, and most costly amphibious operation, and victory only brought new demands on the mauled surface fleet. Naval historian Lawrence Paterson here examines the Kriegsmarine’s presence and operations in occupied Norway, as the fleet fought to secure its new waters and launch offensive operations, first against the British and later the Soviets. It is a theatre most famous as the last lair of Germany’s battleships and for operations against the Arctic Convoys, but operations involved the full spectrum of the navy. Convoy protection, coastal security and interdiction were vital throughout the war and relied heavily on Germany’s workhorse Vorpostenboote. Illustrated with some rare and unpublished photos, superb original artwork, diagrams and maps, this book explores the full story of the Kriegsmarine in Norway. From warships and combat to its strategic tasks, the complex and confusing command structure, intelligence, logistics, security and facilities, it is the first comprehensive history of Germany’s fleet in the far north.
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Del 437 - Campaign
Carentan 1944
Connecting the D-Day Beachheads
AvSteven J. Zaloga
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
203 kr
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An in-depth look at the US' desperate battle to secure Carentan and support the Normandy invasion and the elite German units that sought to repel them.Although the US Army had successfully secured both Utah and Omaha Beach on D-Day, the next tactical problem was to connect the two beachheads. Utah and Omaha were separated by the Vire River estuary. Carentan was the first major town on the river, and as such was of vital tactical importance. However, this was not lost on the Germans, who dispatched their elite Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 to hold the town. On the US side, the task of capturing Carentan fell to the 101st Airborne Division, and in the week following D-Day, US and German troops waged a battle for Carentan.Here, expert historian Steven J. Zaloga goes in depth into the initial battle on June 10–12 , 1944, the German counterattack and the final Allied victory. With stunning artwork, detailed maps and BEVs, firsthand accounts, and period images, this study brings to life the fierce fighting between paratrooper forces and highlights how this Allied success led onto the next phase of Operation Overlord.
Operation Biting
The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
AvMax Hastings
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
143 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Times Best History Book of the Year; A Waterstones Best Book of the Year 'Reads like a thriller… I couldn't put Max Hastings's new book down' DAILY MAIL 'Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier' THE TIMES Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations. A company of the newly-formed Airborne Forces was committed to the operation, which took place on the night of 27/28 February. Amid heavy snow 120 men landed, some of whom were misdropped almost two miles from their objective. They nonetheless launched the assault, dismantled the German radar, and after three nail-biting hours in France and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time by landing-craft across stormy seas to Portsmouth.Max Hastings recounts this cliffhanging tale in a wealth of previously unchronicled detail. He portrays its remarkable personalities: the ‘boffin’ RV Jones; the peacock Mountbatten; the troubled husband of Daphne Du Maurier, Gen. ’Boy’ Browning, who commanded the Airborne Division; ‘Colonel Remy’, the French secret agent whose men reconnoitered Bruneval at mortal risk; Major John Frost, who led the paras into action; Charlie Cox, the little RAF technician who stripped the Würzburg and became an unexpected hero; Wing-Commander Charles Pickard, a legendary bomber pilot who led the drop squadron. Seldom have so many fascinating personalities been brought together to fulfil a mission that became a front-page triumph in a season of British defeats.Recounted in Hastings’ familiar best-selling blend of top-down and bottom-up action detail, Operation Biting tells a story that has become almost forgotten yet deserves to rank among the epic tales of courage and daring that took place in the greatest conflict in history.
Del 432 - Campaign
Battle of the Atlantic (2)
From Operation Drumbeat to the Defeat of the Wolfpacks, 1942–43
AvMark Stille
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
222 kr
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A detailed account of the dramatic success and failures of Hitler's U-boats in the mid-war years during the best-known naval campaign of World War II. At the start of 1942, the Germans benefited from the lack of American preparations to defend shipping along the US East Coast, and this 'Second Happy Time' saw serious Allied losses between January and July 1942. After this Allied disaster, Admiral Dönitz planned to shift his focus to the North Atlantic. This was interrupted by the Allied invasion of North Africa, which diverted the U-boat force until the end of 1942. When Dönitz was finally able to move his U-boats into the North Atlantic, they inflicted very heavy losses on Allied shipping and, by March 1943, looked poised for victory.Respected naval historian Mark Stille analyses this critical period in the Battle of the Atlantic, describing how Allied advances in technology and intelligence saw the balance shift, with a stunning 34 boats lost in May 1943 alone and the Germans forced to withdraw. He also examines whether the Germans could have ever actually threatened the Allied sea lanes of communication effectively. Using maps, diagrams, photographs and stunning battlescene artworks, the weapons, personalities, and tactics of the opposing sides are brought vividly to life in a unique and engaging way.
Ein Krieg wie kein anderer
AvJochen Hellbeck
Inbunden, Tyska, 2025
408 kr
1942
Hitler's Gamble for Victory
AvRichard Hargreaves
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
369 kr
Skickas
"[A] well-written and carefully researched account that illuminates all sides of these grinding battles." The Wall Street JournalA unique history of the Axis powers attempt to win the Second World War in 1942, told through the eyes of those who were there.Drawing upon sources in German, Russian, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian and English, 1942: Hitler's Gamble describes the spring and summer campaigns in the Soviet Union and Africa which crowned the Axis forces with fresh laurels. Impressive victories were won at Kharkov, Sevastopol and Tobruk. Axis powers were then on the cusp of victory in Egypt, the Caucasus and Stalingrad until the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut was brought to a halt in the autumn of 1942.Based upon 15 years of research in archives, museums and libraries across Europe, this is a unique account of this critical year in World War II. No other history has looked at the Eastern and North African theatres in conjunction, masterfully illustrating how the crushing gains on both fronts would be lost by the end of the year. Richard Hargreaves shines a light on the little studied areas of the war such as the aftermath of Tobruk and challenges traditional German-centric accounts of the Caucasus campaign. Strategy and the hubris of Hitler and his generals is brilliantly illustrated but so too are the lives and deaths of ordinary soldiers caught up in these extraordinary events.
Del 62 - Air Campaign
Philippines 1941–42
America's disastrous start to the Pacific War
AvMark Lardas
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
222 kr
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The weeks after Pearl Harbor saw Japan destroy the well-prepared US air forces in the Philippines. Fully illustrated, this studies the Pacific War’s little-known first major air campaign.On December 7, 1941, the Japanese not only attacked Pearl Harbor,but also struck at US and allied bases throughout the Pacific, including the USA’s biggest overseas territory, the Philippines. However, that was an air battle the US was expecting. The USAAF had beefed up its assets in the Philippines, sending nearly a quarter of its available B-17s to the Far Eastern Air Force (FEAF).It could also call on the Philippine Army Air Corps (PAAC). Aviation historian Mark Lardas explains how despite that, in a campaign that lasted barely a month, Japan’s air forces routed both the FEAF and the PAAC, gaining air superiority and permitting Imperial Army troops undisturbed access to the Philippine coast. Within a week Japan ruled the skies over Luzon. Two weeks later it had air superiority over all the Philippines. After a month, its control was so complete the Imperial Army felt confident to move its 5th Air Group back out of the Philippines. While desultory air combat would continue off and on for the next three months, the issue was decided by 5 January 1942. Packed with original artwork, 3D diagrams, maps and photos, this is the history of how the first air campaign of the Pacific War turned into a humiliating defeat for the United States.