Kampfgruppe Mühlenkamp: 5. SS-Panzer Division Wiking , Eastern Poland, July 1944 - Rilegato

Douglas E. Nash; Remy Spezzano

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ISBN 10: 0974838985 ISBN 13: 9780974838984

Casa editrice: RZM Publishing, 2016

Riassunto

Kampfgruppe Muhlenkamp presents for the first time a sequential series of images taken by SS war correspondent Ernst Baumann in Eastern Poland during a two week period in July 1944. At this time the 5. SS-Panzer Division "Wiking" was engaged in counter-attacks against Soviet armored and cavalry forces following their crushing defeat of Army Group Center in Belarus during the Red Army's "Operation Bagration" summer offensive. These stunning images of the Waffen-SS in action were scanned from the actual negatives and digitally enhanced and enlarged to bring out a previously unseen level of detail. Together with thoroughly researched text and captions as well as four military maps, the photos are shown in their proper sequence and matched with the dates and locations of the various engagements as they unfolded. The names of the officers appearing in the photos, and the troops, vehicles and weapons of the units under their command are documented in the accompanying narrative of the events which comprised the counterattacks at Kamieniec-Litevski and the relief of Gren. Btl. z.b.V. 560 on 22 July 1944.

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Douglas E. Nash, is a West Point Class of 1980 graduate and retired U.S. Army Colonel with 28 years of active military service in a variety of Army units ranging from armored cavalry and armor to special operations forces, including Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations. His military deployments to combat zones such as Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other assignments in Germany, Guantanamo Bay, and Uzbekistan, uniquely qualify him as a military analyst, tactician and historian. Nash's published works include the RZM best-seller Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket, and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-nominated Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp. He is currently employed as a military historian in the History Division of the U.S. Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA. Remy Spezzano is the founder and owner of RZM Publishing, a company that has become a byword for high quality photo books on the German Armed Forces of the Second World War. As a specialist in the area of photo research, he has worked with some of the world's preeminent national archives and gained access to numerous private collections to procure the finest photographic material produced by the German Propaganda units. The selected images are then enhanced using the most advanced photo-retouching techniques to obtain optimal visual appeal. These same rigorous standards are also applied to the graphic design and production of each book, which the publisher approaches like an artist intent on realizing his vision. The end result is a body of work that is world-renowned and includes RZM's best selling God, Honor, Fatherland; Platz Der Leibstandarte and Kampfraum Arnheim.

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• Editore: RZM Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0974838985
• ISBN 13: 9780974838984
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176