The German Army of World War II (1939-1945) collectively referred to its various engineer units as Pioniere - what would be called combat engineers in the West.

The German engineer troops developed out of a branch that only developed into a fighting service arm by World War II. Thus, along with the special engineers, th

Hitler first considered an invasion of Great Britain in autumn 1940, then scheduled Operation Barbarossa, the conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union,

By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90 per cent of Stalingrad. Yet the Soviets stubbornly held on to the remaining p

This book covers the high command, the developments in unit organisation, the campaigns and the uniforms and equipment of the German Army in the last two years