{"title":"Books by Charles Whiting","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781800325111","title":"Paths of Death and Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe epic story of how the Second World War was won.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 4 January 1945, General 'Blood and Guts' Patton confided gloomily to his diary, 'We can still lose the war.' The Nazis were attacking in Eastern France, Luxembourg and Belgium. General Eisenhower's allied armies had lost over 300,000 men in battle (with a similar number of non-battle casualties) and they were still in the same positions they had first captured three months before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould the German will to resist never be broken?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVeteran military historian Charles Whiting assembled individual stories from the frontline as the war entered its last bloody, but ultimately victorious phase. From material such as diaries, interviews and battalion journals he vividly builds up a picture of the soldiers and combatants. As the greatest conflict of them all came to its epic crescendo, those on the ground knew that paths that lead to glory could also lead to death...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of Anthony Beevor, Richard Overy and Damien Lewis. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307159597429,"sku":"9781800325111","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800325111_57316db1-cc2b-460b-a20a-4b1891fe46e9.jpg?v=1786027173"},{"product_id":"9781800325098","title":"Hitler's Secret War","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the shadows was another war... An unputdownable account of the Nazi spy operation and how it ultimately failed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Second World War there was, behind the scenes, a bitter conflict was stamped 'Top Secret'. It was a war of infiltration and misdirection, espionage and assassination. And the Nazis were determined not to let anyone best them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevealing the full extent of Nazi's secret intelligence networks, bestselling author Charles Whiting takes the reader into organisations like the Abwehr, Germany's renowned military intelligence bureau, and features interviews with key figures like such key figures as Giskes, who fooled the Americans at the Battle of the Bulge, and Ritter, who stole the highly classified US Norden bombsights. There are accounts of hubris, heroism and cowardice; stunning triumphs and excruciating defeats, all out of the public eye and revealed only decades later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver a period of thirty years, Whiting met and interviewed a huge number of Nazi and Allied survivors involved in what came to be known as 'The War in the Shadows'. The result is an extraordinary and gripping story combining great cunning with staggering incompetence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers of Ben Macintyre and Max Hastings, \u003ci\u003eHitler's Secret War\u003c\/i\u003e outdoes the best spy novel and demonstrates yet again that fiction cannot rival history. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312931058037,"sku":"9781800325098","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800325098_a3231a6c-b16e-4908-a42b-77909cc78ef8.jpg?v=1786027173"},{"product_id":"9781848848610","title":"SS Peiper: Battle Commander SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler","description":"On the night of 14 July, 1976 - Bastille Day - an elderly German was brutally murdered in a little French village where he had taken refuge from the evil shadow which had dogged him for the past thirty-two years. His killers were never brought to justice; indeed, no real attempt was ever made to track them down, the affair being politically embarrassing to both the French and the German governments. The murdered man was Jochen Peiper, once the dashing leader of one of the most renowned units in the German Army. The shadow which hung over him was his alleged complicity in the murder of over seventy unarmed American soldiers during the Ardennes offensive in the winter of 1944\/45. It is certain that Peiper was not at the fateful crossroads near Malmedy at the time the men died, but that is not to say that they were not killed on his orders. Guilty or not, Peiper was tried and imprisoned after the war and on his release might have been said to have paid his debt for his supposed part in what had become known as the Malmedy Massacre. But there were those who thought otherwise.After exhaustive research, this classic work sees Charles Whiting tell the story of this enigmatic man, regarded by some as a brilliant and dashing leader of men, by others as a Nazi war criminal, with the vividness and punch which characterized Peiper's military career.   All the facts may never be uncovered but all that are known are recorded here. What is certain is that Jochen Peiper remains one of the most controversial miltary figures to emerge from the maelstrom of the Second World War.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313073336693,"sku":"9781848848610","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848848610_aa623a58-cc34-4734-b196-b5a8f6dcdaa7.jpg?v=1786029368"},{"product_id":"battle-of-hurtgen-forest","title":"Battle Of Hurtgen Forest","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Army regards the Hurtgen Forest as one of the most desperate battles it has ever fought. 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