NATO kept the Warsaw Pact behind the Berlin Wall until its dissolution - but what if it hadn't?
The Bear Marches West contains 12 wargame scenarios set during a fictional Warsaw Pact invasion of West Germany in the 1980s. All the scenarios are based on battles depicted in well-known novels, and are designed to be used with whatever rules the players wish.
Each scenario includes the battle's context, weather conditions, deployments, force lists and a colour map. The scenarios range in scale from small skirmishes, with a company on each side, to large engagements,...
NATO kept the Warsaw Pact behind the Berlin Wall until its dissolution - but what if it hadn't?
The Kaiserliche und KOnigliche Kriegsmarine -- The Austro-Hungarian Navy -- was in at the beginning of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie lay in state aboard its flagship, and at the end when it dissolved along with the empire that commanded it. During the war, this small but powerful "fleet in being" forced the Allies to maintain a blockade of the Otranto Straits. German and Austro-Hungarian U-boats ran riot in the Mediterranean even though the capital ships almost never left port.
Illustrated with thirty photographs and drawings, this book provides a...
The Kaiserliche und KOnigliche Kriegsmarine -- The Austro-Hungarian Navy -- was in at the beginning of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand an...
In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs, but now Argentina thought the British would give them up without a fight.
They were wrong.
Britain sent a task force into the South Atlantic to re-take the islands, and the short, intense war that followed was--in the words of Major-General Sir John Jeremy Moore--"a damn close-run...
In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of ...
Der Kalte Krieg heizte nie an, stand trotzdem die Sowjetunion im diesem Fall bereit. Dieses Nachschlagewerk bietet nahere Angaben uber 73 wichtige sowjetische Gefechtsfahrzeuge, dazu gehoren nicht nur der Baby Carriage" 2P26, ein leichtes Fahrzeug wie einen Jeep mit vier montierten Panzerabwehrraketen, sondern auch der leichte Kampfpanzer T-80U, der mit hochentwickelter Panzerung und elektronischen Gegenmassnahmen ausgestattet wird. Dieses Buch ist mit 61 Bilder und Zeichnungen illustriert. Der Zugriff auf einer Webgalerie mit zusatzlichen Bildern ist im Kauf eingeschlossen."
Der Kalte Krieg heizte nie an, stand trotzdem die Sowjetunion im diesem Fall bereit. Dieses Nachschlagewerk bietet nahere Angaben uber 73 wichtige sow...
This is the inspiring true story of what happens when ordinary people unite to make a stand against evil.
Lidice was a peaceful and vibrant community in Czechoslovakia with a rich mining heritage. But an act of Nazi revenge saw this village wiped from existence in a horrifying chapter of European history.
Disaster struck for Lidice in 1942 when the prominent Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated. Described by Hitler as "the man with an iron heart," Heydrich was one of the key architects of the Holocaust.
His death, after an attack by members of the Czech...
This is the inspiring true story of what happens when ordinary people unite to make a stand against evil.
Disaster struck for Lidice in 1942 when the prominent Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated. Described by Hitler as "the man with an iron heart", Heydrich was one of the key architects of the Holocaust.
Disaster struck for Lidice in 1942 when the prominent Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated. Described by Hitler as "the man with an iron h...
