Dr Peter Lieb is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich and the German Historical Institute in Paris. He holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Munich. His research interests are the German Army in World War I and World War II, and insurgencies and counterinsurgency in the 20th century. He has written numerous articles in English, German and French on these topics. His major studies are a book on the radicalisation of warfare in the West in 1944 with the title ‘Konventioneller Krieg oder NS-Weltanschauungskrieg? Kriegführung und Partisanenbekämpfung in Frankreich 1943/44’ (2007) and a fundamental contribution on the German occupation in Ukraine in 1918 in the multi-authored book ‘Die Ukraine. Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Fremdherrschaft 1917-1922’ (2011). He also served as an expert witness for military history in a Nazi war crimes trial in Munich in 2009.Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

• Origins of the campaignChronologyOpposing commandersOpposing armiesOrders of battleOpposing plansThe campaignAftermathThe battlefield todayFurther readingIndex

Highly recommended. - Military Modelcraft International

Dr Peter Lieb is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich and the German Historical Institute in Paris. He holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Munich. His research interests are the German Army in World War I and World War II, and insurgencies and counterinsurgency in the 20th century. He has written numerous articles in English, German and French on these topics. His major studies are a book on the radicalisation of warfare in the West in 1944 with the title ‘Konventioneller Krieg oder NS-Weltanschauungskrieg? Kriegführung und Partisanenbekämpfung in Frankreich 1943/44’ (2007) and a fundamental contribution on the German occupation in Ukraine in 1918 in the multi-authored book ‘Die Ukraine. Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Fremdherrschaft 1917-1922’ (2011). He also served as an expert witness for military history in a Nazi war crimes trial in Munich in 2009.Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

• Origins of the campaignChronologyOpposing commandersOpposing armiesOrders of battleOpposing plansThe campaignAftermathThe battlefield todayFurther readingIndex

Highly recommended. - Military Modelcraft International

Dr Peter Lieb is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Prior to this he was a Research Fellow at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich and the German Historical Institute in Paris. He holds a PhD and an MA from the University of Munich. His research interests are the German Army in World War I and World War II, and insurgencies and counterinsurgency in the 20th century. He has written numerous articles in English, German and French on these topics. His major studies are a book on the radicalisation of warfare in the West in 1944 with the title ‘Konventioneller Krieg oder NS-Weltanschauungskrieg? Kriegführung und Partisanenbekämpfung in Frankreich 1943/44’ (2007) and a fundamental contribution on the German occupation in Ukraine in 1918 in the multi-authored book ‘Die Ukraine. Zwischen Selbstbestimmung und Fremdherrschaft 1917-1922’ (2011). He also served as an expert witness for military history in a Nazi war crimes trial in Munich in 2009.Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

• Origins of the campaignChronologyOpposing commandersOpposing armiesOrders of battleOpposing plansThe campaignAftermathThe battlefield todayFurther readingIndex

Highly recommended. - Military Modelcraft International