ncc1701e Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Just seen this incoming book from Osprey Publishing: https://ospreypublishing.com/store/military-history/upcoming-books/preorder-2-months/atlas-of-the-european-campaign In June 1944 the Allies opened the long-awaited second front against Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, and this was to be the start of a long struggle throughout Western Europe for the Allied forces in the face of stiff German resistance. The European Theatre was where the bulk of the Allied forces were committed in the struggle against Nazi Germany. It saw some of the most famous battles and operations of the war - Normandy, Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge - as the Allies sought to liberate Western Europe in the face of bitter and hard-fought German resistance. From the beaches of D-Day through to the final battles in war-ravaged Germany, the war across the breadth and depth of Western Europe is brought to life through scores of carefully researched and intricately detailed maps. If it may help people for map design. Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornGinger Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Does it have good pictures to use for the purpose? Why not just take any map from somewhere and let people imagine they're fighting in any of the BeNeLux countries or Germany? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 You could do that as well, but you should know that a lot of people here are "realism junkies", myself included. Not against hypothetical battles at all, but a book full of maps depicting battles suitable for scenario making makes me salivate atleast. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glubokii Boy Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 I wounder if the scale will be of much use for CM-mapdesign...From looking at the maplist many of the maps seems to be of pretty large scale... GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION Map 1: The European Theater of Operations - June 1944 to May 1945 Map 2: The Strategic Debate - 1942-44 Map 3: Precursors to Overlord - 1942-44 Map 4: German Assessment of Allied Divisions in the UK - May 31, 1944 Map 5: The Atlantic Wall in France - 1944 CHAPTER 1: THE INVASION FRONT, JUNE 6, 1944 Map 6: Routes to the D-Day Invasion Beaches Map 7: Naval Bombardment on D-Day Map 8: Western Task Force's Assault on D-Day Map 9: German Defenses on the Cotentin Peninsula - June 6, 1944 Map 10: US Airborne Landings - June 6, 1944 Map 11: Utah Beach - June 6-7, 1944 Map 12: Pointe du Hoc - June 6, 1944 Map 13: Assault Landing Plan, Western Side, Omaha Beach Map 14: German Defenses on Omaha Beach Map 15: D-Day Operations on Omaha Beach - June 6, 1944 Map 16: The Eastern Task Force Map 17: German Defenses on Gold Beach Map 18: Gold Beach on D-Day Map 19: German Defenses on Juno Beach Map 20: The Canadians at Juno Beach Map 21: German Defenses on Sword Beach Map 22: British 6th Airborne Division Landings Map 23: Amphibious Landings on Sword Beach Map 24: The British Lodgment Area - Night, June 6, 1944 CHAPTER 2: THE BATTLE FOR FRANCE, JUNE-AUGUST 1944 Map 25: The Battle for Carentan - June 10-13, 1944 Map 26: Cutting off the Cotentin - June 10-18, 1944 Map 27: Festung Cherbourg Map 28: The Advance on Cherbourg - June 19-21, 1944 Map 29: The Attack on Cherbourg - June 22-26, 1944 Map 30: First Allied Moves on Caen Map 31: Villers-Bocage - June 12-14, 1944 Map 32: Planned Panzer Offensive, June 22, 1944 Map 33: Operation Epsom - June 25-30, 1944 Map 34: Railway Interdiction on the Normandy Front - June 1944 Map 35: Operation Charnwood and the Capture of Caen Map 36: The Battle of the Hedgerows Begins - July 3-11, 1944 Map 37: German Hedgerow Defenses - July 1944 Map 38: The Battle for St-Lô - July 14-20, 1944 Map 39: Operation Goodwood - July 18, 1944 Map 40: Strategic Situation in Normandy - July 2-24, 1944 Map 41: The Operation Cobra Plan Map 42: Operation Cobra Breakthrough - July 25-30, 1944 Map 43: Operation Bluecoat - July 30, 1944 Map 44: On the Eve of Breakout - July 31, 1944 Map 45: Race into Brittany - August 1944 Map 46: Operation Lüttich - August 7, 1944 Map 47: Operation Totalize, Phase I - August 7-8, 1944 Map 48: Operation Totalize, Phase II - August 8-11, 1944 Map 49: Operation Tractable - August 14-16, 1944 Map 50: The Strategic Situation in Normandy in Early August 1944 Map 51: The German Predicament - August 16, 1944 Map 52: The Collapse of the Falaise Pocket - August 18-19, 1944 Map 53: Closing the Falaise Pocket - August 18-21, 1944 Map 54: The US Army Advance to the Seine - August 19-24, 1944 Map 55: The Advance on Paris - August 23-24, 1944 Map 56: Operation Dragoon - August 15, 1944 Map 57: The Rhône Triangle - August 20-25, 1944 Map 58: Liberation of Marseilles - August 20-27, 1944 Map 59: The Pursuit to Lyon - August 29 to September 3, 1944 Map 60: The German Rout in France - August 1944 CHAPTER 3: THE BATTLES ALONG THE GERMAN FRONTIER, SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1944 Map 61: The Void: Pursuit to the German Frontier - August 26 to September 11, 1944 Map 62: Clearing the Channel Ports - September 1944 Map 63: Airborne Options - June-September 1944 Map 64: Operation Market Garden: the Plan Map 65: German Dispositions in the Netherlands - September 16, 1944 Map 66: 101st Airborne Division Landings - September 17-18,1944 Map 67: 82nd Airborne Division Landings - September 17-18, 1944 Map 68: The Arnhem Landing Plan - September 17, 1944 Map 69: The Advance of XXX Corps on Hell's Highway - September 17-25, 1944 Map 70: The End at Arnhem Bridge - September 20-25, 1944 Map 71: The End of Market Garden - September 26, 1944 Map 72: The Strategic Debate - Autumn 1944 Map 73: Westwall Defenses in the Aachen Sector Map 74: The First Battle of Aachen: Stolberg Corridor - September 12-29, 1944 Map 75: Aachen: the Northern Attack - October 2-8, 1944 Map 76: The Battle for Aachen - October 7-20, 1944 Map 77: The Hürtgen Forest - October-December 1944 Map 78: Operation Queen: XIX Corps - November 16 to December 9, 1944 Map 79: The Final Push: VII Corps Reaches the Roer - December 10-16, 1944 Map 80: Conflicting Plans in Lorraine - September 1944 Map 81: Third US Army along the Moselle - September 5-11, 1944 Map 82: XII Corps Bridgeheads near Nancy - September 1944 Map 83: Lorraine: the Strategic Situation - September 25, 1944 Map 84: Encirclement of Metz - November 9-19, 1944 Map 85: Operation Madison - November 8 to December 19, 1944 Map 86: 6th Army Group's Advance on the Rhine - November 14 to December 16, 1944 Map 87: Opening the Scheldt - October 6 to November 3, 1944 Map 88: Clearing the Scheldt: Operation Infatuate Map 89: The Fall of Walcheren - November 3-8, 1944 Map 90: Red Ball Express - September 1944 to February 1945 Map 91: Autumn Frustrations - September 15 to December 15, 1944 CHAPTER 4: THE ARDENNES CAMPAIGN, DECEMBER 1944 TO JANUARY 1945 201 Map 92: The Strategic Situation - December 16, 1944 Map 93: Initial Attacks of 6.Panzer-Armee - December 16-19, 1944 Map 94: Kampfgruppe Peiper - December 20-25, 1944 Map 95: Destruction of 106th Infantry Division - December 16-19, 1944 Map 96: The Defense of St-Vith Map 97: Attack in the Center: 5.Panzer-Armee vs. the 28th Division Map 98: Attack in the South: 7.Armee vs. XII Corps Map 99: Bastogne - December 19-23, 1944 Map 100: Patton's Relief of Bastogne - December 22-26, 1944 Map 101: Eliminating the Bulge - January 3-28, 1945 Map 102: Operation Nordwind - December 31, 1944 Map 103: Operation Sonnenwende - January 5-12, 1945 Map 104: The Battle of Haguenau - January 6-21, 1945 Map 105: Operation Cheerful: Strangling the Colmar Pocket - January 19 to February 9, 1945 CHAPTER 5: BATTLES FOR THE ROER AND RHINE, FEBRUARY-MARCH 1945 Map 106: Allied Plans following the Battle of the Bulge - February 1945 Map 107: West-Stellung - February 1945 Map 108: Operation Veritable - February 8, 1945 Map 109: Operation Blockbuster - February 1945 Map 110: Operation Grenade - February 23 to March 10, 1945 Map 111: Closing on the Rhine - February 8 to March 10, 1945 CHAPTER 6: ENDGAME AGAINST THE THIRD REICH, APRIL-MAY 1945 Map 112: The Strategic Situation in the West - March 1945 Map 113: The Rhine Rat Race - March 12-21, 1945 Map 114: The Rhine Crossings in the South - March 22-28, 1945 Map 115: Operation Plunder - March 23-24, 1945 Map 116: Operation Varsity - March 24, 1945 Map 117: Operation Flashpoint - March 24, 1945 Map 118: Breakout from Remagen - March 25-28, 1945 Map 119: The Strategic Situation - March 28, 1945 Map 120: Encircling the Ruhr - March-April 1945 Map 121: Reduction of the Ruhr Pocket - April 1-18, 1945 Map 122: The Liberation of the Netherlands - April-May, 1945 Map 123: Advance into Northern Germany - April-May 1945 Map 124: Advance to the Elbe - April 1945 Map 125: Advance in the South - April 24 to May 11, 1945 Map 126: The Final Campaign in Germany - April-May 1945 Map 127: Hitler's Last Defenses in France - 1944-45 FURTHER READING 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Combatintman Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 I wouldn't be surprised if the title is mostly just a rebundling of maps published in the campaign series with a couple of extras thrown in. I doubt there'll be much in there that will be much use for scenario design and there are far better map sources for free online - you just have to look. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Have to agree.....With one or two exceptions the Osprey series offer little more than inspiration for CM or for Modelling. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701e Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 On 03/04/2018 at 12:42 PM, Combatintman said: I wouldn't be surprised if the title is mostly just a rebundling of maps published in the campaign series with a couple of extras thrown in. I doubt there'll be much in there that will be much use for scenario design and there are far better map sources for free online - you just have to look. You are right. I have just found this myself. They have done a compilation of the maps of the campaign series in one book for Western front. The equivalent book is existing for Eastern front: https://ospreypublishing.com/atlas-of-the-eastern-front-hb The scale is just too high for design. At least, it can give a little background for briefings. But, I agree, online sources will be definitely better. Cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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