War + Elite

They were trained in specialized combat and sent on the most dangerous missions. They paved the way for some of the most dramatic German victories of World War II and introduced new tactics, strategies and even whole new ways of warfare to the world. Ultimately, however, they were not enough to propel their nefarious master to victory.

War is a national undertaking which must be co-ordinated from the highest levels of policv-making to the basic levels of execution. Military strategy, operational art, and tactics are the broad divisions of activ it) in preparing for and con­ducting war. Successful strategy achieves national and alliance political aims at the lowest cost in lives and trea­sure. Operational art translates those aims into effective military operations and campaigns. Sound tactics win the battles and engagements which produce successful cam­paigns and operations

The Second World War saw elite units take a prominent role on the battlefield for the first time. The Encyclopedia of Elite Forces in World War II is a wide-ranging guide to the excellent units on land, sea or in the air whose success was usually hard-won against the odds, and whose actions had an impact on the course of the fighting around them.

In the dark days of the end of World War Two amidst the ruins of Berlin, one bullet can change history…Sniper Elite V2 is an award-winning and authentic World War II sniping experience. You are elite US sniper Karl Fairburne. Parachuted into Berlin amidst the Germans’ final stand, your mission is to prevent Nazi V2 rocket program technology from falling into the hands of the besieging Red Army. You must aid key scientists keen to defect to the US, and terminate those who would help the Russians.