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German Command Headquarters in the West: Then and Now

. . by Jean Paul Pallud. Hardback (7.3×10.0 inches). 112 pages. 2024 from 2008. Subtitle: Hitler’s Commanders at OB West This is another After the Battle book, where photo-heavy articles in the magazine are reprinted in book form. The After

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The Advance on Caen: 6-9 June 1944

. . by Tim Saunders. Hardback (6.5×9.5 inches). 252 pages. 2025. Subtitle: From Sword Beach Towards the City The plan was to grab Caen on D-Day. The actual result was a slog towards this hub city. This is the first

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The Siege of Dunkirk: 1944-1945

. . by Graham A. Thomas. Hardback (6.5×9.5 inches). 228 pages. 2025. Subtitle: And the Capture of the Channel Ports I’ve reviewed a few books about the German attack on Dunkirk (France) in 1940, but here’s one on the reverse:

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Verdun 1914: The Opening Moves

by Christina Holstein. Softcover (5.5×8.5 inches). 286 pages. 2025. Subtitle: Battleground There must be a couple hundred of these marvelous Battleground books. They generally follow the same format — first half history and second half combo touring the battlefield auto

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BOOK REVIEW: Night Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1943-45

Authors: Neil Page and Jean-Louis Roba Softcover (6.7×9.3 inches). 128 pages. 2025. This overview of nightfighter operations offers the usual format of timeline, mini-bios, OOBs, and battles. First-person accounts from aces pepper the text, supplemented by the usual and much appreciated

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Air Battles Before D-Day

. . by Joseph T. Molyson jr. Hardback (6.3×9.3 inches). 347 pages. 2025. Subtitle: How Allied Airmen Crippled the Luftwaffe and German Army in France The book covers aerial warfare on the Western Front from the start of WWII, although

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Normandy 1944: Air Campaign 54

. . by Julian Hale. Softcover (7.25×9.75 inches). 96 pages. 2025. Subtitle: The ‘Transportation Plan’ to Cut D-Day Communications The Allied destruction of railroad lines and bridges hamstrung the German efforts to send war material to the French coast prior

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Jagdpanther vs. 17-Pdr Achilles: Duel 143

. . by Frank Baldwin. Softcover (7.25×9.75 inches). 80 pages. 2025. Subtitle: North-West Europe 1944-45 Design, development, and deployment of both types of tank destroyers notes that these two armored fighting vehicles rarely met on the field of battle. There

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Spitfire I: Dogfight 13

. . by Tony Holmes. Softcover (7.25×9.75 inches). 80 pages. 2025. Subtitle: Phoney War and Battle of France The Dogfight series strives to match first-person accounts of flying the featured airplane with ribbon diagrams of how the aerial dogfight progressed.

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