For great info on a range of WW2 topics I can thoroughly recommend the Then & Now series of hard backs as well as the quarterly 'After the Battle' magazine.
For those who don't know the concept - this books and magazines cover some aspect of WW2 by telling the story and illustrating it with pictures taken at the time (the 'then' part of the title) with the same 'view' today (the 'now' part of the title).
I've got the hard backs covering the Third Reich, The Fall of Berlin, Panzers in Normandy, Occupation of the Channel Islands, Blitzkrieg in the West and all three volumes of the Blitz - really well researched and written material and it's quiet exciting to be able visit WW2 sites and match up photographs taken during WW2 and indeed locations featured and match them up.
To stand on the same spot or touch a wall that figured in history sends shivers down the spine.
If I am not making sense tale a look at www.afterthebattle.com
For those who don't know the concept - this books and magazines cover some aspect of WW2 by telling the story and illustrating it with pictures taken at the time (the 'then' part of the title) with the same 'view' today (the 'now' part of the title).
I've got the hard backs covering the Third Reich, The Fall of Berlin, Panzers in Normandy, Occupation of the Channel Islands, Blitzkrieg in the West and all three volumes of the Blitz - really well researched and written material and it's quiet exciting to be able visit WW2 sites and match up photographs taken during WW2 and indeed locations featured and match them up.
To stand on the same spot or touch a wall that figured in history sends shivers down the spine.
If I am not making sense tale a look at www.afterthebattle.com
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