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 Operation Barbarossa: Strategy and Tactics on the Eastern Front, 1941 
 Author: Bryan I. Fugate Operation Barbarossa: Strategy and Tactics on the Eastern Front, 1941 Presidio Press 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 464 Language: English Size: 69 MB This insightful book covered the initial year of the German invasion of Soviet Russia. The book is well written and the author was able to go beyond the basic assessment as he tries with certain success, what went wrong and what went right during the initial seven months of this campaign. The author made it clear that it took a lot more then bad weather, Hitler's interferences and over extension of German forces to cost Germany any chance for victory during this period. He seem to be in the mind that German overall military leadership remains badly divided and also gives credits to the Russian willingness to trade space for time as they took the initial devastating losses and converted that time into a defensive position where they could launch a set of massive counter offensives. It seem that Germans were fixated into short term goals and objectives while the Russians were gearing for the long haul The author gives a fair and pretty perceptive views of the strategic and tactical situation during this initial seven month period of the Operation Barbarossa.
Spitfire V vs C.202 Folgore Malta 1942
 Author: Donald Nijboer Spitfire V vs C.202 Folgore Malta 1942 Osprey Publishing Osprey Duel 60 ISBN: 1782003568 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 82 Size: 4 Mb Language: English The inability of the Italians and Germans to invade Malta proved decisive for Allied victory in the Mediterranean during World War II, as the islands provided the Allies with a base from which to project air power. Early Italian efforts to pound the islands into submission were supplemented by major German forces from January 1942 and in a few weeks the situation for the defenders reached a critical stage; in response, in March 1942 the first Spitfires were delivered to Malta. Throughout the summer C.202s fought over Malta, escorting tiny formations of Cant Z.1007s, SM.79s and Ju 88s. The fighting subsided in August and September, but grew in strength with the arrival of more C.202s. In October the Regia Aeronautica could muster three Gruppi with a total of 74 C.202s.
Chindit vs Japanese Infantryman 1943-1944 (Osprey Combat 10)
 Author: Jon Diamond Chindit vs Japanese Infantryman 1943-1944 (Osprey Combat 10) Osprey Publishing 2015 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 82 Size: 6 Mb Language: English In order to keep China in the war against the Japanese, the Western Allies believed they had to return to Northern Burma. Colonel Orde Wingate, a military maverick and proponent of guerrilla warfare, knew that a different type of British infantryman was required for this role - the Chindit, indoctrinated with special training - to re-enter the jungles and mountains of Northern Burma in order to combat the victorious Japanese forces there. The Chindits' opponents would include the 18th Division, one of Imperial Japan's most seasoned formations, which by 1941 had already accumulated as much operational experience as most Anglo-American divisions would acquire in the entire 1939-45 war.
New Images of Nazi Germany: A Photographic Collection
 Author: Paul Garson New Images of Nazi Germany: A Photographic Collection McFarland & Co ISBN: 0786469668 2012 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 497 Size: 28 Mb Language: English With its battlefields paved over and its bunkers crumbled, the Third Reich of Nazi Germany nevertheless lives on in countless photographs that record an era of extraordinary brutality. This collection of more than 500 photographs taken by amateurs and professional propagandists provides a panoramic overview of Nazi Germany, offering intimate glimpses into living rooms and killing grounds, kitchens and concentration camps, movie theaters and battle fronts. The explanatory text explores the context of the images. Together, these photographs, most never before seen, create a time capsule, capturing the faces of Hitler's soldier's as well as those who suffered under the Nazi onslaught on humanity.
Bellona Military Vehicle Prints
 Bellona Military Vehicle Prints Bellona Publications Author: Walter J. Spielberger ASIN: B002JHJZL2 1970 Language: English Pages: 20 Format: PDF Size: 25,4 MB 7.5cm PAK40/2 auf Sfl II 'Marder' Heavy Assault Tank A39 'Tortoise' Light Tank Mark IA. A4. E6, E7, E8, E9, E10 75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T3
Burma: The Turning Point
 Author: Ian Lyall Grant Burma: The Turning Point. The Seven Battles on the Tiddim Road which Turned the Tide of the Burma War Pen and Sword 2003 Format: PDF Pages: 256 Size: 128 Mb Language: English The turning point of the war in Burma was the Imphal/Kohima campaign of 1944. For four months there was intense and savage fighting. The Japanese plan was to encircle and destroy the British and Indian positions before bursting into the plain and seizing Imphal. They failed in their first aim but the Japanese 15th Army prepared a final all-out thrust for Imphal. However, the British 4th Corps struck first and, after three weeks, the Japanese were virtually annihilated. This graphic account expertly analyses the campaign.Burma The Turning Point.pdf
The Infantry's Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II
 Author: Harry Yeide The Infantry's Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II Stackpole Books 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 416 Size: 7 Mb The U.S. Army's separate armored battalions fought in obscurity by comparison with the flashy armored divisions, but they carried the heavier burden in the grim struggle against the Axis in World War II. The battalions participated in every armored amphibious assault that the army conducted. They did most of the bloody work in Italy, made vital contributions in France, and constituted the entire effort in the Pacific.
The Battle of Britain [History of the Second World War 9]
![The Battle of Britain [History of the Second World War 9]](https://www.worldhistory.biz/uploads/posts/2015-05/1432582012_1425485761_part-9.jpeg "The Battle of Britain [History of the Second World War 9]") The Battle of Britain Author: Barrie Pitt Marshall Cavendish History of the Second World War, Part 9 1973 Pages: 32 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 50 МВ
The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle
 Author: Anthony Read The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle W. W. Norton & Company 2004 Pages: 1005 Format: PDF Language : English Size: 23 mb Quality: Good The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult relying on the hypnotic personality of Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed feriously for power and position as his chosen successor. This peculiar leadership dynamic resulted in millions of deaths and some of the worst excesses of World War II. This book examines these lieutenants, both as individuals and as a group. It focuses on the three most important Nazi paladins - Goring, Goebbels and Himmler - with their nearest rivals - Bormann, Speer and Ribbentrop - in close attendance. It shows how these personalities developed, and how their constant jealousies and intrigues affected the regime, the war and Hitler himself.
Tanks and Armor in Modern Warfare
 Author: James Gary Tanks and Armor in Modern Warfare Franklin Watts, Inc. 1966 Format: PDF Pages: 304 Language: English Size: 27.8 MB An examination of the impact of tanks and armor on modern warfare, specifically focusing on the period surrounding the Second World War.
Eva Braun: Life with Hitler
 Author: Heike B. Gortemaker Eva Braun: Life with Hitler Knopf 2011 Format: PDF/ePub Size: 11.6 Mb Language: English In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely loyal companion to Hitler; theirs was a relationship that flew in the face of the Führer’s proclamations that Germany was his only bride. Görtemaker paints a portrait of Hitler and Braun’s life together with unnerving quotidian detail—Braun chose the movies screened at their mountaintop retreat (propaganda, of course); he dreamed of retiring with her to Linz one day after relinquishing his leadership to a younger man—while weaving their personal relationship throughout the fabric of one of history’s most devastating regimes. Though Braun gradually gained an unrivaled power within Hitler’s inner circle, her identity was kept a secret during the Third Reich, until the final days of the war. Faithful to the end, Braun committed suicide with Hitler in 1945, two days after their marriage. Through exhaustive research, newly discovered documentation, and anecdotal accounts, Görtemaker has meticulously built a surprising portrait of Hitler’s bourgeois existence outside of the public eye. Though Eva Braun had no role in Hitler’s policies, she was never as banal as she was previously painted; she was privy to his thoughts, ruled life within his entourage, and held his trust. As horrifying as it is astonishing, Eva Braun will undoubtedly be referenced in all future accounts of this period.
Warzaw II: The Tank Battle at Praga
 Author: Norbert Bacyk Warzaw II: The Tank Battle at Praga Leandoer & Ekholm Publishers 2012 ISBN: 9197589543 Format: EPUB Size: 13,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 597 It is a common misunderstanding that the Red Army, on Stalin's order, halted outside Warsaw in August 1944 to let the German troops suppress the Polish uprising in the capital. Joseph Stalin of course didn't want to let a pro-British Polish government get a foothold in Warsaw. The fact is that on the last day of July (the night before the start of the uprising) the Red Army was on its way into Praga (the east part of Warsaw on the east bank of Vistula) when the German troops mounted a violent counter attack. This started the bitter fight that came to be called "The Battle for Praga" and was to continue until the end of September when the Red Army finally conquered Praga. By then it was too late for the Polish resistance inside the city. The fighting was among the toughest and most brutal on the Eastern Front during the war. Never before has this battle been described in the Swedish language and very seldom has it been mentioned in English literature. Furthermore we have managed to include unique pictures; photos that are vary rare and original colour illustrations by our internationally acknowledged illustrators; Maarten Swarts, Samuel Sward and Oliver Missing.
WW II Birds
 Author: John Veit WW II Birds John Veit 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 9 Mb Language: English This book contains photo galleries of WW II planes and links to short fly-by videos of several of them. US, British, Russian, German, and Japanese planes are featured.
The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific
 Author: John H. Bradley The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific Avery Publishing Group, Inc. 1989 Format: PDF Pages: 360 Language: English Size: 57.8 MB Beginning with a look at the readiness of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy and the United States armed forces, this book gives a detailed account of the Allies brutal five-year struggle with Japan. It examines the interrelationship of land, sea, and air forces as they battled over the vast reaches of the Pacific Theater of War.
The Great Battles of World War II volume 1, the Pacific Islands
 Author: Charles E. Pfannes The Great Battles of World War II volume 1, the Pacific Islands Zebra Books 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 372 Language: English Size: 33 MB On August 6, 1945, the United States exploded an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. This event was followed three days later by the dropping of another bomb on Nagasaki. On August 8, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. The United States Navy, meanwhile, had managed to completely isolate Japan from its empire. American bombers devastated Japan's cities. Any one of these could have led to Japan's surrender.
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
 Author: Richard Rubin The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War Mariner Books ISBN: 0547554435 2013 Format: EPUB Size: 15,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 528 In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now. A decade-long odyssey to recover the story of a forgotten generation and their Great War led Rubin across the United States and France, through archives, private collections, and battlefields, literature, propaganda, and even music. But at the center of it all were the last of the last, the men and women he met: a new immigrant, drafted and sent to France, whose life was saved by a horse; a Connecticut Yankee who volunteered and fought in every major American battle; a Cajun artilleryman nearly killed by a German aeroplane; an 18-year-old Bronx girl “drafted” to work for the War Department; a machine-gunner from Montana; a Marine wounded at Belleau Wood; the 16-year-old who became America’s last WWI veteran; and many, many more. They were the final survivors of the millions who made up the American Expeditionary Forces, nineteenth-century men and women living in the twenty-first century. Self-reliant, humble, and stoic, they kept their stories to themselves for a lifetime, then shared them at the last possible moment, so that they, and the World War they won – the trauma that created our modern world – might at last be remembered. You will never forget them. The Last of the Doughboys is more than simply a war story: It is a moving meditation on character, grace, aging, and memory.
Hitler in Argentina: The Documented Truth of Hitler's Escape from Berlin (The Hitler Escape Trilogy)
 Author: Harry Cooper Hitler in Argentina: The Documented Truth of Hitler's Escape from Berlin (The Hitler Escape Trilogy) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 1495936066 2014 Format: EPUB Size: 13,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 302 Who said that Hitler did not die in the bunker in April 1945? Josef Stalin told President Harry Truman that Hitler did not. Marshall Zhukov said "We have found no corpse that could be Hitler's." This book not only tells of the escape of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and others of the Third Reich; it includes photographs, files from the FBI, CIA and OSS that show the US knew they escaped, interviews and much more. You will also read the reason that no government went after Hitler even though they knew where he was. This book will change the history you were taught in 5th grade.
Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II
 Author: D. K. Brown Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II Seaforth Publishing / Pen and Sword ISBN: 1844157024 2007 Format: EPUB Pages: 176 Size: 4 Mb Language: English A warship designer and well-known author of a quartet of books on British warships, David K. Brown takes a detailed look at the Allied ships, weapons, and tactics that won the submarine war in the Atlantic in this handsomely illustrated book. Beginning with the lessons learned from World War I, the author outlines inter-war developments in technology and training and describes preparations for World War II. He then examines the balance of advantage as it see-sawed between U-boats and escorts when new weapons and sensors were introduced at a rapid rate.
Hitler's Bureaucrats The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil
 Author: Yaacov Lozowick Hitler's Bureaucrats The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil Continnuum-3PL 2005 ISBN: 0826479189 Format: PDF Size: 15,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 320 For many, the name Adolf Eichmann is synonymous with the Nazi murder of six million Jews. Alongside Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, he is probably the most infamous of the Nazi murderers; unlike them, the aura linked to his name is that of the ultimate evil that may lurk in each and every one of us. This understanding can be attributed above all to Hannah Arendt, and her seminal book, Eichmann in Jersualem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, in which she suggested that Eighcmann and many bureaucrats like him never actually realized what they were doing:they were thoughtless rather than consciously evil. By taking this position, Arendt rejected the biblical story of Genesis, which sets the ability to distinguish between right and wrong at the very core of beign human. Instead, she implied that Eichmann represented a potential face of the future. This book claims that she was wrong. It describes the facts as they appear in the documentation created by Eichmann and his colleagues, and suggest that they fully understood what they were doing. The primary motivating force for their actions was a well-developed acceptance of th tenents of Nazi ideology, of which antisemitism was a central component. As far as one is able to determine, after the war not a single one of them ever expressed regret for their actions against the Jews, unless it was regret for having to pay the consequences. These were no run-of-the-mill bureaucrats who merely 'followed orders'.
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