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After the liberation of Paris and Brussels in the late summer of 1944, the western Allies still faced determined German resistance. A brave British attempt to turn the Germans northern flank in Holland by means of an airborne landing codenamed Operation Market Garden. At Arnhem they were defeated by the unexpected presence of an SS armoured division. In December the Germans struck back through a snowy Ardennes forest in a three-pronged counter attack 'the Battle of the Bulge' that soon ran out of steam. Early in the New Year, the Allies leap-frogged the Rhine and advanced into the German heartland as the USAF and RAF pounded the German cities to rubble. Meanwhile Soviet forces had encircled and seized Berlin, Hitler had committed suicide in his bunker, and the war in Europe ended in May 1945.
THEIRS IS THE GLORY Arnhem, Hurst and Conflict on Film
OPERATION TOTALIZE
OPERATION LUSTY The Race for Hitler's Secret Technology
21 DAYS IN NORMANDY Maj. Gen. George Kitching and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division
BATTLEGROUND GENERAL: ARNHEM 1944
MONTY'S HIGHLANDERS 51st Highland Division in the Second World War
AIR WAR MARKET GARDEN: SHRINKING PERIMETER
AIR WAR MARKET GARDEN: THE BUILD UP TO THE BEGINNING
FIGHTING BRIGADIER The Life of Brigadier James Hill DSO MC
KILLING HITLER'S REICH The Battle for Austria 1945
BATTLE OF THE ODON
ABOVE THE BATTLE An Air Observation Post Pilot at War
FALAISE: THE FLAWED VICTORY The Destructon of Panzergruppe West, August 1944
BAOR BATTLEFIELD TOUR – OPERATION BLUECOAT – Directing Staff Edition
BAOR BATTLEFIELD TOUR – OPERATION VERITABLE – Directing Staff Edition
OBJECTIVE SAINT-LO 7 JUNE 1944 – 18 July 1944
FOR FREE INDIA: INDIAN SOLDIERS IN GERMANY AND ITALY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
SINEWS OF WAR The Logistical Battle to Keep the 53rd Welsh Division on the Move During Operation Overlord
HITLER'S ARDENNES OFFENSIVE The German View of the Battle of the Bulge
BAOR: ROYAL ENGINEERS BATTLEFIELD TOUR – THE SEINE TO THE RHINE Vol. 1 – An account of the operations included in the tour Vol. 2 – A guide to the conduct of the tour
BAOR:ROYAL ENGINEERS BATTLEFIELD TOUR – NORMANDY TO THE SEINE
AIR WAR VARSITY
SHELDRAKE Memories of a World War II Gunner
17.SS PANZER-GRENADIER-DIVISION GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN VOLUME 3
GERMAN MILITARY SYMBOLS January 1944
CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE .The Story of The 10th Bn. The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) 1944-1945
PATH OF THE 50th The Story of the 50th (Northumberland) Division in the Second World War 1939-1945
MOUNTAIN AND FLOOD The History of 52nd (Lowland) Division
43rd WESSEX DIVISION AT WAR 1944-1945
THE STORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD HUSSARS 1940-1946
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE A Glider Pilot's Story of Sicily, Arnhem and the Rhine Crossing
TAURUS PURSUANT A History Of 11th Armoured Division
Vol 2. Combat History of the 17. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN Volume 2
IMAGES OF WAR: VICTORY IN EUROPE
GORDON HIGHLANDERS 1919-1945
DEVIL'S BIRTHDAY The Bridges to Arnhem 1944
BRITISH MUNITIONS 1944 Recognition and Disposal (For Bomb Safety Officers)
GOTZ VON BERLICHINGEN Combat History of the 17 SS -Panzer-Grenadier-Division, Volume I
FIGHTING IN BUILT-UP AREAS 1943
FROM NORMANDY TO THE WESER The War History of the Fourth Battalion the Dorset Regiment June, 1944 – May 1945