Bøger i Stackpole Military History serien

Virtually the entire Soviet effort on the Eastern Front of World War II bears the stamp of Georgy Zhukov, chief of staff of the Red Army and deputy supreme commander under Stalin. The first volume of his memoirs covers Zhukov's peasant childhood, his prewar military career, and the first phase of World War II.

Six first-person accounts by German generals.

A graphic account of a bloody battle on the Eastern Front in the final months of World War II. Kustrin, about 50 miles from Berlin, was one of the final roadblocks standing between the Red Army and the Third Reich's capital, and the Germans defended it tenaciously--with high-school students and old men. The Germans were driven from Kustrin but forced teh Soviets into a sixty-day siege.

Amid the colonial upheaval of the 1960s, Britain urged its colony in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe) to grant its black residents a greater role in governing the territory. The white-minority government refused and soon declared its independence, a move bitterly opposed by the black majority. The result was the Rhodesian Bush War, which pitted the government against black nationalist groups, one of which was led by Robert Mugabe. Marked by unspeakable atrocities, the war ended in favor of the nationalists.