A 15-volume ebook library for serious readers of the war

If you can name the beaches, you’re ready for the rest of the war.

Most American WWII shelves stop at Overlord, the Bulge, and a flag on Suribachi. This one doesn’t. Fifteen campaign histories and memoirs — Russia, Spain, Berlin, Nuremberg, the Caucasus — in English, as ebooks. $105.99. About seven dollars a book. On your iPad tonight.

Campaigns & Memoirs · 15 ebooks · $105.99

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You were taught one war. It was not the whole war.

What you actually get

The math is not cute. It is just cheap for what it is.

How it lands on the device you already use

This is for you if:

• You pause a documentary to find the river and the corps boundary.
• You kept Keegan, Ambrose, the Time-Life set, or a footlocker of after-action reports.
• You are tired of D-Day being 80% of the American WWII conversation.
• You want the Eastern Front, Spain, and the Caucasus in English, on a screen you can enlarge.
• You do not need a host to tell you what to think. You want the pages.

What’s on the shelf

Fifteen volumes. Each one is here for a reason. Read the list before you pay.

• The North · deep background The Culture of the Teutons

  Vilhelm Grönbech, vols. I–II. A Danish scholar’s long look at the old North — kinship, law, and the culture later centuries never stopped arguing about. If you are tired of being told 1933 came from nowhere, start further back.

• Eastern Front · the country that stopped them Story of the Russian Land, vol. 1

  Narrative history of the land the Wehrmacht walked into. Not a textbook. The story of the country that would break the German army, told as a country, not a chapter.

• The Caucasus · the war under the mountains The Sixty-Year Caucasian War

  Rostislav Fadeev. The long imperial fight in the mountains that still puts names on the news. If you have ever paused a documentary because the map jumped to Chechnya or the passes, this is the book that makes those names sit still.

• Aftermath of 1918 · the other Gallipoli Bare Fields

  The Russians in Gallipoli, 1920–21. White army remnants on the wrong beach, after the civil war, after the world war. The peninsula you know from 1915, used again by men who had already lost once.

• Spain · rehearsal for the world war Spain 1923–1948

  Arthur F. Loveday. Dictatorship, civil war, then the wider war. If you have ever traced the Condor Legion, Guernica, or the internment of the defeated, this is Spain as a twenty-five-year campaign, not a sidebar.

• Budapest 1919 · a woman who stayed An Outlaw’s Diary: The Commune

  Cécile Tormay. First person from a capital that went through revolution between the two wars. Written while it was happening. Not a later memoir with the answers filled in.

• Old Europe · a fighting life The Autobiography of Götz von Berlichingen

  The iron hand. A knight who lost a hand and made a better one. If you like a war story that does not start in 1939, this is the one you read in a chair on a winter night.

• Italian Front · assault troops The Death Company

  Cristoforo Baseggio. An Italian assault unit in the first person. Close fighting, not a staff-college map problem. For readers who already know the Isonzo was not a footnote.

• American frontier · the other training ground Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers

  Warren Wildwood. 19th-century American narrative. A reminder that this country did not invent hard campaigning in 1941. The palate cleanser on a shelf of European war.

• Eastern Front · how the other staff wrote it Germany in Stalin’s Crosshairs

  Bernd Schwipper. The Soviet problem as German command put it on paper. If you have read Zhukov and Guderian and still want the staff view of the map turning, this is that file.

• 1945–46 · the trials Nuremberg: The Last Battle

  David Irving’s account of the postwar tribunals. Controversial. Not the last word, and not sold as one. It is in the box because readers who study the trials want to see what he wrote and set it next to the record they already trust.

• 1931 · before anyone knew the ending Hitler — Wyndham Lewis, 1931

  A modernist painter-writer looking at Germany in 1931, eight years before the war, fourteen years before the bunker. Period piece. Read it as a document from before the ending was known — not as a biography written after 1945.

• 1945–1994 · the aftermath Léon Degrelle in Exile, 1945–1994

  What happened after the shooting stopped to one of the war’s most notorious European volunteers. Forty-nine years of exile. Not a combat diary. The long after.

• Hungary 1921 · a period report When Israel Is King

  Jérôme and Jean Tharaud. Two French journalists in revolutionary Hungary, 1921, after the Béla Kun months. A period report from a country that went red and then went the other way. Read it as 1921, not as a speech from now.

• 1924 · across the Atlantic You Gentiles

  Maurice Samuel, 1924. An American Jewish writer addressing the Gentile world in the years after the Great War. In the collection because the interwar argument was not only European, and not only one voice.

Historical sources and period literature. A listing is not an endorsement of the author’s views.

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