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Rapid Reads are condensed ebooks, concentrating on subjects of high interest about the German Army of World War II. They can normally be read in less than an hour. Our titles are also available on Amazon UK and US .

The German Invasion of Norway 1940 The German Invasion of Norway, codenamed Operation Weserübung, was one of the most impressive German strategic achievements of the war. Illustrated with several color maps, this book describes the planning and execution of the Norwegian campaign. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Rommel's High Tide: Gazala 1942 The Battle of Gazala, fought in North Africa during May 1942, was the most dramatic and successful of Erwin Rommel’s set piece battles. Sweeping around the British line in a single massive flanking maneuver, he almost destroyed the British Eighth Army. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Wehrmacht: Command and Control The German officer corps of World War II presided over one of the most effective systems of command and control in military history. This book examines the nature of this system and the doctrines that underpinned it. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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France 1940: Rommel's 7th Panzer Division The fall of France in June 1940 shocked the world. How could one of Europe’s biggest armies have collapsed in just six weeks? This book looks at the German campaign and the crucial role played by the commander of the 7th Panzer Division, Erwin Rommel. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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The Russians Who Fought for Hitler The war on the Eastern Front strained the Wehrmacht’s manpower resources to their limits. As a result, the Germans had to rely heavily on Russian Hilfswilligen (‘volunteer helpers’) and Osttruppen (‘Eastern Troops’) recruited from prisoner-of-war camps. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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The PzKpfw V Panther Tank With their thick armor, high top speed, and powerful main guns, Panther tanks terrorised T-34 and Sherman crews from 1943 to the end of the war. This book looks at the development and combat history of the flawed but fearsome Panzerkampfwagen V “Panther”. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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The Deadly Eighty-Eight (1 review) The Deadly Eighty-Eight is a must-read about the gun that made Allied tank crews lose sleep at night. Devised as a multi-purpose weapon, the 88 (called 8.8 by the Germans) was good in its anti-aircraft role, but unsurpassed as a tank killer. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Panzers at Arnhem When Allied paratroopers made the largest air drop of the war around the town of Arnhem, they did not realise that two German armoured divisions were refitting near the town, which proved a grimly effective opponent for the lightly equipped para units. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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U-boats: Ship Killers The story of the U-boats, the deadly German underwater force that threatened to starve Britain into submission during World War II and whose crews suffered tremendous losses as they battled for supremacy in the icy waters of the Atlantic. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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German Paratroops in Italy 1944 During the retreat up the Italian peninsula from Allied forces, German parachute units, the Fallschirmjager, trained to drop behind enemy lines as an offensive force, were tenacious and resolute, particularly in the rubble-strewn streets of Monte Cassino. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Tigers in Normandy 1944 (1 review) A detailed account of the efforts of German Panzer aces to halt the advance of the Allies from the Normandy beaches, focusing on the battles around Caen in June and July 1944 and using first hand accounts. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Street Fighting in Stalingrad (2 reviews) A gripping account of the brutal house-to-house fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. Based on eyewitness accounts, Street Fighting in Stalingrad, gives an ordinary soldier’s perspective of the most important battle of World War II. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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The Hitler Youth (1 review) Using numerous personal accounts of life in Hitler’s Germany, The Hitler Youth looks at the machinery of social control in Hitler’s Third Reich, focusing on the notorious Hitler Youth and its female counterpart, the BdM. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Waffen SS: Kharkov 1943 The story of Erich von Manstein’s finest hour – the German recapture of Kharkov in the summer of 1943, following the élite units of the Waffen-SS Panzer Corps as they spearhead von Manstein’s daring counteroffensive and retake the city back from Stalin. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Waffen-SS: Hungary 1945 Telling the story of the last great German offensive of World War II: Operation Spring Awakening, Waffen-SS: Hungary ’45 follows the élite units of the Sixth SS Panzer Army in their ‘Death Ride’ towards more than 2000 Soviet tanks and anti-tank guns. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Stuka Tank Busters 1943 Stuka Tank Busters looks how a near-obsolete dive bomber became the most feared ground-attack aircraft on the Eastern Front of World War II and the skilled pilots who put it to use in the skies of Kursk and Kharkov. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Afrika Korps: Rommel's 1941 Offensive Describing Rommel’s first campaign in North Africa, 1941, Rommel’s Panzers opens with the young General’s arrival amidst the chaos of the Italian retreat, and covers the transformation of Axis fortunes he brought at the head of his Deutches Afrika Korps. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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General Winter: Moscow 1941 The campaign that almost broke the German Army: the 1941 Battle for Moscow. Moscow ’41 looks at the campaign that the exhausted Wehrmacht waged against the Soviet Red Army and its powerful ally, the Russian winter. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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Prokhorovka: Day of Reckoning at Kursk 1943 Using detailed maps and eyewitness accounts, Prokhorovka describes the advance of the Waffen-SS Panzer Divisions and their defeat in the largest tank battle in history, the climax of the Battle of Kursk, one of the turning points of World War II. Read more… Format: epub & mobi (?)epub files are compatible with iBooks, Kobo and other e-readers.

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