{"title":"Christer Bergström","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"black-cross-red-star-air-war-over-the-eastern-front-volume-4-stalingrad-to-kuban-1942-1943-paperback","title":"Black Cross Red Star Air War Over the Eastern Front: Volume 4, Stalingrad to Kuban 1942-1943 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegarded as the standard work on the air war over the Eastern Front during World War II, Christer Bergström's unique Black Cross\/Red Star series covers the history of the air war on the Eastern Front in close detail, with the perspectives of both sides. Based on a close study of German and Russian archive material, as well as interviews with a large number of the airmen who participated in this aerial conflict, it has established itself as the main source on the air war on the Eastern Front.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Cross\/Red Star, Volume 4 will cover the air war along the entire Eastern Front during the period winter 1942\/1943 through the spring of 1943, in great detail, with a balance between German and Soviet archive sources etc, and with many first-hand accounts. It will be of the same size as the other volumes, and it will also contain aircraft color profiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the publication of Volume 4, new and heavily updated editions of volumes 1, 2 and 3 will follow, and next the subsequent volumes (vols. 5 etc.) will follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLarge format, heavily illustrated, (aircraft color profiles in the British edition)!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo be published in April 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN 978-91-88441-50-8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSize 210 mm x 297 mm (large format)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout, many detailed maps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetail price: US$49.99\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367738999007,"sku":"9789188441508","price":53.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/U7UI1br9ju9789188441508.webp?v=1789113406"},{"product_id":"arnhem-1944-an-epic-battle-revisited-vol-1-tanks-and-paratroopers-paperback","title":"Arnhem 1944: An Epic Battle Revisited: Vol. 1: Tanks and Paratroopers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the ultimate book on \"Operation Market Garden\", by internationally highly acclaimed military historian Christer Bergström.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe indepth research made by the author has resulted in many myths and misconceptions being convincingly dispelled, backed up by detailed source notes. . In fact, these two volumes form a completely new image of the battle in the Netherlands in the autumn of 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was Cornelius Ryan who in 1974 put \"Market Garden\" so to say \"on the map\". However, it is obvious that he had no time to go through his vast collection of first-hand material on \"Market Garden\" before he so sadly passed away that same year. This is a mission that Christer Bergström has taken upon himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA torrent of new books about \"Market Garden\" has been published since 1974, and many of its authors - all included - have done meritorious work in producing new research. But it appears quite obvious that nobody has previously tried to go through The Cornelius Ryan Collection in its entirety in order to publish to the public the important pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that Ryan produced but was never able to use in his book. But now it has been done, for the first time, in this book by Christer Bergström.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBergström has made a painstaking research work for several years, interviewing veterans and others who participated or witnessed the battle. He has gone through all relevant documents in all relevant archives in the UK, the USA, Germany and the Netherlands, and that material forms the basis of his book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut even more so: Cross-referencing both sides' documents is absolutely crucial to form an opinion that is as close to the actual events as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe major part of the archive material about the World War II in official collections has now been made accessible, but this has obviously not been enough - for several reasons. To begin with, we have the fact that the German side destroyed most of its remaining military documents at the end of the war. Even if Germany's Bundesarchiv has an impressive collection of documents from World War II at its disposal, it only constitutes a small part of the German military documents that were produced during the war. This is especially true for the last years of the war. In order to get as good an image as possible from the German side, I have during the last few decades had access to large quantities of first-hand material (documents from the war) from private collections - veterans, veterans' associations, collectors, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367739293919,"sku":"9789188441485","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YmystKcvlA9789188441485.webp?v=1789113407"},{"product_id":"arnhem-1944-an-epic-battle-revisited-vol-2-the-lost-victory-september-october-1944-paperback","title":"Arnhem 1944: An Epic Battle Revisited: Vol. 2: The Lost Victory. 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