Adrian Gilbert Books

Surveys the armed forces and battles of the First World War, including the Western and Eastern fronts and the war in the Middle East, covering such topics as recruiting, uniforms and equipment, trench warfare, naval campaigns, and the use of tanks and airplanes.Surveys the armed forces and battles of the First World War, including the Western and Eastern fronts and the war in the Middle East, covering recruiting, uniforms, equipment, trench warfare, naval campaigns, tanks, and airplanes.

From an award-winning and bestselling historian, the first comprehensive military history in over fifty years of Hitler's famous and infamous personal army: the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was one of the most feared combat organizations of the twentieth century. Originally formed as a protection squad for Adolf Hitler it became the military wing of Heinrich Himmler's SS and a key part of the Nazi state, with nearly 900,000 men passing through its ranks. The Waffen-SS played a crucial role in furthering the aims of the Third Reich which made its soldiers Hitler's political operatives. During its short history, the elite military divisions of the Waffen-SS acquired a reputation for excellence, but their famous battlefield record of success was matched by their repeated and infamous atrocities against both soldiers and civilians. Waffen-SS is the first definitive single-volume military history of the Waffen-SS in more than 50 years. In considering the actions of its leading personalities, including Himmler, Sepp Dietrich, and Otto Skorzeny, and analyzing its specialist training and ideological outlook, eminent historian Adrian Gilbert chronicles the battles and campaigns that brought the Waffen-SS both fame and infamy.

A profile of the world of the combat sniper offers readers a perspective on their endeavors in World War II and Vietnam with a collection of firsthand accounts that describe training, historical battles, and modern-day roles. Reprint.

The present world will end on 22nd December 2012, so prophesized the Maya 5000 years ago in their inscriptions deep within the Central American rainforests. Who were the Maya? Where did they come from and why did they suddenly disappear? Will we suffer floods, volcanic eruptions and choas in 2012?

In this explosive book, the authors show that after the Roman conquest, Britain retained its culture; its royal families intermarrying with the Caesars. There were two kings named Arthur -- one, the son of the emperor Magnus Maximum, the other his sixth-century descendant. Their lives rolled into one and elaborated upon by medieval poets, they became the single King Arthur of myth and legend. The authors reveal the burial grounds of both Arthurs as well as a secret historical current linking our times with the mysteries of Arthur and the Grail. From the Paperback edition.

Written by the co-author of The Orion Mystery and The Mayan Prophecies, this book secret takes the reader through the past, revealing how secret knowledge was both preserved in the East in the form of monumental architecture and at the time of the Crusades, passed westwards to the fledgling states of Europe.

Join Adrian Gilbert on an exciting look at the Mayan Calendar and the many mysteries it holds. Discover why the year 2012 is predicted to be a year of exciting and extreme changes and the reasoning behind these changes. Learn why and how the ancient Maya, a people of exceptional astronomical skill and understanding, invented a calendar so accurate that it ends exactly when the Sun enters a specific portion of the Milky Way as it rises on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012, marking the shift to a New Age. Look at the possibility that we are, according to those ancient people, actually living through the “end times.” Gilbert explores theories in this well-written, informative book. Includes lots of color photos.

Für manche gravierende Ereignisse der Menschheitsgeschichte (Pyramidenbau, Untergang der Dinosaurier und eben auch den Untergang der Maya) gibt es bisher viele Hypothesen, doch noch keine eindeutigen Erklärungen. Die Autoren - Gilbert mehr journalistisch recherchierend, Cotterell mehr mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlich argumentierend - versuchen hier, von unterschiedlichen Ansatzpunkten ausgehend, dann aber ihre Thesen gegenseitig stützend, zu beweisen, daß und warum nach dem Maya-Kalender 3114 v.Chr. eine Weltepoche begonnen hat und 2012 n.Chr. dramatisch enden wird. Ausgehend vom gleichen Sargdeckel von Palenque, auf dem Däniken schon einen Astronauten sitzen sah, wird ein Zusammenhang zwischen Mayakalender, Sonnenfleckenzyklen und Humanbiologie gesehen. Wenn das Buch auch populär geschrieben ist, so sollten doch vor allem für die ausführlichen Anhänge (Cotterell) Grundkenntnisse wenigstens in Mathematik, Astrophysik und Astronomie vorhanden sein. Das Buch wirkt weit seriöser als thematisch vergleichbare Däniken-Titel