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Two dear enemies – Churchill and de Gaulle

Knut Ståhlberg

Two dear enemies, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, walked together down the Champs Elysées to the cheering of the crowds. A dream had come true. ‘Churchill is a gangster,’ de Gaulle had said just a few months earlier. And Churchill had given ...

I Stalins våld

In Stalin’s Grip

Artur Szulc

During two years, the Soviet communist regime murdered, arrested and tortured Polish citizens in eastern Poland. The communists also deported about 320 000 Polish citizens from Eastern Poland to remote areas in the Soviet Union. Many of them perished ...

Dambusters

The Dambusters

Michael Tamelander

May 16, 1943. While the fading light of an early summer’s evening colours the flat Lincolnshire landscape, 19 Lancaster bomber planes and their crews take off from the RAF base at Scampton. The target: a decisive blow to the energy supply for the Ger ...

Hitler mot Stalin

Hitler Against Stalin

Niklas Zetterling

At dawn on the 22nd of June, 1941, the Germans attacked the Soviet Union. Hitler had been working towards this goal for a long time, and when the German armed forces surprised the Soviet defence, it looked as if his ambitions would soon be satisfied. ...

Breven från Iwo Jima

Letters from Iwo Jima

Yukiko Duke

It’s 1944, and American offensives are capturing one Pacific island after another. Pressed for time, Lieutenant-General Kuribayashi feverishly prepares Iwo Jima for an onslaught. “The enemy is about to land,” writes Kuribayashi. “The fighting will b ...

Med förtvivlans mod

With the courage of despair

Mathias Forsberg

On the basis of unpublished witness accounts, documents from archives, memoirs and recent research, in With the courage of despair Mathias Forsberg and Artur Szulc tell the story of the Polish army’s desperate battles in September, 1939, and its cont ...

Midway 1942

Midway 1942

Johan Lupander

In June 1942, one of the strangest battles in military history took place off the Midway Islands. For the first time ever, two opposing forces went to battle without being in direct contact – the two fleets were located nearly 200 kilometres apart. T ...

Tjerkassy '44

Tjerkassy '44

Anders Frankson

Eastern Front, January 1944. When Operation Korzun was launched, it was the first time two Russian tank armies spearheaded an attack. The Soviet commander Konjev’s tactics were successful and 55,000 German soldiers were encircled. The Soviet version ...

Slagskeppet Tirpitz

The Battleship Tirpitz

Michael Tamelander

The battleship Tirpitz, sister ship to the Bismarck that sank in the Atlantic in May 1941, operated from bases in Norway; its mission to disrupt the Allied convoys bound for Murmansk. Over a period of three years the ship played a prominent role in e ...

Bismarck

Bismarck. The Struggle for the Atlantic

Michael Tamelander

The story of the battleship Bismarck, the largest warship the world had seen, is one of the events of the Second World War that is most surrounded by myths. This description of the dramatic hunt is based on eyewitness reports as well as on the very l ...

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Decisive Moments. The Normandy Invasion 1944

Niklas Zetterling

On D-day, 6 June 1944, the allies landed in Normandy. Months of planning culminated in one of the largest and bloodiest military operations in history. Two waves of attack would secure a bridgehead on the European mainland so that the war could be fo ...

Slaget om Kursk

The Battle of Kursk: the Greatest Tank Battle in History

Anders Frankson

In a final, gigantic trial of strength, more than 2,000 Russian and German tanks battled it out at Kursk in 1943. Frankson & Zetterling describe the background to the battle, and tell of the great generals, of the development of tank weaponry a ...

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