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Gunter, Georg (trans. C. F. Colton), - LAST LAURELS - The German defence of Upper Silesia January-May 1945.

Title: LAST LAURELS - The German defence of Upper Silesia January-May 1945.
Description: Helion, Solihull, 2002, 1st edn. UK, expanded edn., x, 309pp, maps and half tone photo ills. in text, [i] ads., large format (12 x 9 inches approx.), pictorial boards, originally published in German in 1974 as: 'Letzter Lorbeer, Vorgeschichte und Geschichte der Kampfe in Oberschlesien, von Januar bis Mai 1945', this expanded English edition has a greatly increased number of photographs illustrating the account of the Red Aermy's series of offensives to capture Germany's key industrial region of Upper Silesia, from the massive offensive on 12 january through to the final German defensive actiobns around Ratibore five months later, with appendices of the German and Soviet Orders of Battle, German unit insignia, glossary and buibliography, heavy, faintly rubbed at tips, light creasing lower corners of preliminary pages, no dustwrapper, near fine,

Keywords: war ww2 red army germany upper silesia german soviet troops battle

Price: GBP 28.00 = appr. US$ 39.98 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 41107

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