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DHA 2025 Fall Sale!!
My favorite catalog items are on sale until the end of 2025. Proceeds from the sale will be given to non-profit military history organizations in the US. Item prices are about 25 percent off their catalog price. If any of these documents are within your area of interest, I recommend you buy them now. You will not be disappointed. To order, email me at [email protected]
Allied Technical Investigative Reports 1944-45
This collection is a trove of detailed engineering and technical information. These English-language reports were produced by the Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee (CIOS) immediately following WWII. They vary in length from just a few pages to more than 100 pages, and often contain diagrams, charts, and low-resolution photographs. Much of the information in these reports cannot be found anywhere else. I organized them into six sub-collections by topic.
Direction of German Military Operations from 1939 to Early 1941
This document gives an insider’s perspective of the German High Command’s motives and decisions as seen by someone who was there.
Analysis of German Naval Intelligence and the Normandy Invasion 1944
What did the German High Command know? What did they think? What did they get right and wrong, and why? My favorite quote in the document was made by Keitel to Hitler about the invasion of Sicily – “To the very last we insisted they (the Allies) would sail by. The ships leading their convoys sailed up to Sicily and we still maintained, they were just sailing by. Then, all of a sudden, they made a sharp turn and sailed right up to the coast.”
US Army ETHINT Manuscripts Collection
This remains one of the best-English language reference collections about how the German military conducted the last year of the war in Western Europe. The documents were scanned in color with all pages and maps.
US Campaign Strategy in Western Europe 1944-45
If you are interested in what US commanders and planners thought at each stage of the campaign in Europe, then this English-language post-war study document is a must. It is a pleasure to read and has an interesting format that describes both what was planned and what was actually executed. The document undercuts lots of amateur historian “what-if theories.”
US Seventh Army Operations in Sicily Jul-Aug 1943
This summary of operations is filled with maps and data presented in an easy-to-understand format Itr gives a very complete picture of the campaign.
US Army V Corps Operations 1942-45
This is what we wish all unit histories were like. It is a detailed day-to-day, fully mapped, illustrated narrative based on official reports and records, unit histories, and after-action reports.
T-311 Roll 136: Army Group North Map Atlases of Operations, Russia 1941-43
This is one of the best microfilm documents in NARA’s collection of captured German Military Records. It is a clean, high-resolution scan of three German-language atlases produced by Army Group North. Study these atlases to get beyond the usual description of ground operations and understand all the facets of AG North’s air, naval, communications, railway, and logistics activities during its three years in Russia.
The German View of the Western Front 1916-18
This collection of documents offers the German view of operations on the Western Front during WWI. What the documents have to say is often at odds with what many British, French, and US histories claim.
French Fortifications During the War 1914-1918
This is one in a series of instructional manuals prepared by the French Army after WWI. It is concise, illustrated, and contains lessons learned and conclusions.
My favorite catalog items are on sale until the end of 2025. Proceeds from the sale will be given to non-profit military history organizations in the US. Item prices are about 25 percent off their catalog price. If any of these documents are within your area of interest, I recommend you buy them now. You will not be disappointed. To order, email me at [email protected]
Allied Technical Investigative Reports 1944-45
This collection is a trove of detailed engineering and technical information. These English-language reports were produced by the Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee (CIOS) immediately following WWII. They vary in length from just a few pages to more than 100 pages, and often contain diagrams, charts, and low-resolution photographs. Much of the information in these reports cannot be found anywhere else. I organized them into six sub-collections by topic.
- Tank & Vehicles: 33 reports covering topics ranging from the development and manufacture of armored fighting vehicles to specific technologies such as gun fire control equipment and armor piercing shot. See the catalog for the complete list of documents. Sale Price is $15
- Artillery: 22 reports covering the development and manufacture of field and anti-aircraft artillery and the ranges where they were tested. See the catalog for the complete list of documents. Sale Price is $15
- Rockets & Missiles: 27 reports about V-weapons, fusing, and rocket motors. See the catalog for the complete list of documents. Sale Price is $15
- Aviation: 40 reports covering prop, jet aircraft, and helicopter technology and development. See the catalog for the complete list of documents. Sale Price is $15
- Naval: 28 reports concerning the technology of submarines, torpedoes, and destroyers. See the catalog for the complete list of documents. Sale Price is $15
- Miscellaneous: 44 reports covering a diverse range of topics from radio and radar research, infra-red technology, chemical weapons, small arms, and underground facilities. See the catalog for the complete list of documents. Sale Price is $15
Direction of German Military Operations from 1939 to Early 1941
This document gives an insider’s perspective of the German High Command’s motives and decisions as seen by someone who was there.
- 63-page English-language translation of notes made by Helmut Greiner who kept the OKW war journal from August 1939 to June 1943. The document explains strategy and operations for the Polish Campaign (1939), Campaign in the West and North (1939-40), Proposed Invasion of England and Air Warfare (1940), Proposed Seizure of Gibraltar (1940-41), German Collaboration with Italy (1940-41), and Rommel’s First African Campaign (1940-41). Sale Price is $6
Analysis of German Naval Intelligence and the Normandy Invasion 1944
What did the German High Command know? What did they think? What did they get right and wrong, and why? My favorite quote in the document was made by Keitel to Hitler about the invasion of Sicily – “To the very last we insisted they (the Allies) would sail by. The ships leading their convoys sailed up to Sicily and we still maintained, they were just sailing by. Then, all of a sudden, they made a sharp turn and sailed right up to the coast.”
- 84-page report based on German documents and interrogations of German Naval officers prepared by the US Office of Naval Intelligence in 1946. Covers the organization, operations, and means of German attempts to gather intelligence about the Allied invasion, as well as , the conclusions drawn from that intelligence. Sale Price $6
US Army ETHINT Manuscripts Collection
This remains one of the best-English language reference collections about how the German military conducted the last year of the war in Western Europe. The documents were scanned in color with all pages and maps.
- 81 reports about German strategy (1939-41); the Normandy invasion and aftermath; the invasion of southern France; the Ardennes, the Huertgen Forrest and the West Wall, Lorraine, Remagen, and the Ruhr. See the catalog for the complete list of documents. Sale Price is $6
US Campaign Strategy in Western Europe 1944-45
If you are interested in what US commanders and planners thought at each stage of the campaign in Europe, then this English-language post-war study document is a must. It is a pleasure to read and has an interesting format that describes both what was planned and what was actually executed. The document undercuts lots of amateur historian “what-if theories.”
- 111-page document about the strategic considerations that underlaid the Allied campaign in Western Europe during 1944-45 from the viewpoint of the commanders in the field. The study contains insightful discussions of why certain courses of action were chosen over others. A few sections of the document were redacted by physically cutting some paragraphs out of the document, but the redactions do not impact the usefulness or interest of the study. Chapters are: The Securing of the Initial Lodgment Area, The Advance to Germany, The Crossing of the Rhine and Envelopment of the Ruhr, Advance to Meet the Soviet Forces, and Conclusion of the Campaign. Sale Price is $7
US Seventh Army Operations in Sicily Jul-Aug 1943
This summary of operations is filled with maps and data presented in an easy-to-understand format Itr gives a very complete picture of the campaign.
- 336-page official report that provides a detailed summary of the Seventh Army’s planning, operations, lessons learned, orders, and staff section activity reports. Includes 36 maps of the campaign. Sale Price is $10
US Army V Corps Operations 1942-45
This is what we wish all unit histories were like. It is a detailed day-to-day, fully mapped, illustrated narrative based on official reports and records, unit histories, and after-action reports.
- A description of the operations of V Corps from OMAHA Beach, across France and Belgium to Luxembourg during the Battle of the Bulge, through the Westwall (Siegfried Line) into Germany, across the Rhine River, and over the Elbe River into Czechoslovakia. Sale Price is $15
T-311 Roll 136: Army Group North Map Atlases of Operations, Russia 1941-43
This is one of the best microfilm documents in NARA’s collection of captured German Military Records. It is a clean, high-resolution scan of three German-language atlases produced by Army Group North. Study these atlases to get beyond the usual description of ground operations and understand all the facets of AG North’s air, naval, communications, railway, and logistics activities during its three years in Russia.
- Prepared by Army Group North for the years 1941, 1942, & 1943 in Russia. Each atlas includes an order of battle chart; a short commentary on combat operations; and a series of elaborate maps, overlays, and sketches. These atlases are AG North's own official account of its operations on the Eastern Front. Also included is a file with a 1:12,500 scale town plan of Leningrad with index of military and industrial installations. Sale Price is $17
The German View of the Western Front 1916-18
This collection of documents offers the German view of operations on the Western Front during WWI. What the documents have to say is often at odds with what many British, French, and US histories claim.
- 16 German and English-language documents complied by US Army War College concerning experiences and lessons learned by the German Army on the Western Front from 1916-18 at Verdun, the Somme, Champagne, and Argonne. Sale Price is $15
French Fortifications During the War 1914-1918
This is one in a series of instructional manuals prepared by the French Army after WWI. It is concise, illustrated, and contains lessons learned and conclusions.
- A 98-page post-war French-language illustrated instruction manual that explains the evolution of French field and permanent fortifications and how the French Army employed them, especially at Verdun. The manual also describes the effect of German artillery fire of the fortifications. Sale Price is $10