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 Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! The Story of December 7, 1941 
 Author: Theodore Taylor Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! The Story of December 7, 1941 Gulliver Books 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 210 Language: English Size: 16.6 MB On December 7, 1941, Americans were stunned to learn that Japanese forces had launched an attack on Pearl Harbor. In this engrossing and extensively researched account, Theodore Taylor examines both sides of the battle, taking a close look at the events leading up to it and providing compelling insight into the motives and operations of the brave men and women swept up in the fight.
The Secret of Stalingrad
 Author: Walter Kerr The Secret of Stalingrad Doubleday and Company 1978 Format: PDF Pages: 304 Language: English Size: 35.4 MB If World War II had a turning point, it came during the winter of 1942-1943 at Stalingrad when Hitler's Wehrmacht was decisively defeated by Stalin's Red Army and denied access to Soviet oil. Now Walter Kerr, a wartime correspondent in Moscow, contends that the battle also had long-lasting political implications. Stalin won, he claims, with the use of reserve formations whose existence he had concealed, calculating that the more critical the Western Allies thought his situation, the more likely they would relieve him with a European second front. In Kerr's revisionist thesis, Stalingrad was central to the mistrust and misunderstanding surrounding the twice-postponed second front, itself a key source of mutual suspicions leading to the Cold War. Kerr presents his case skillfully, weaving together the military and political aspects of the battle. He conveys the terrible drama of Stalingrad; whole units simply disappeared, chewed apart in the savage close-quarters street fighting. On both sides, ""the wounded thought mainly of getting away before the bayonets came because, as every infantryman knows, that is what bayonets are for--to kill the wounded."" Amazingly, Roosevelt and Churchill had no conception of the importance or scale of the Stalingrad battle since Stalin blocked the exchange of military information. Kerr deserves credit for clarifying the role of Stalin's reserve forces and recognizing their sacrifice. However, he never convincingly demonstrates why Stalingrad and the second front--as opposed, say, to differences over Poland and the Balkans--should be regarded as the origins of the Cold War. Though Kerr's thesis is likely to remain controversial, it adds interest to an astute mixture of military and political history.The Secret of Stalingrad.pdf
Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II
 Author: Jay A. Stout Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II Berkley Caliber 2015 Format: EPUB Pages: 464 Size: 9 Mb Language: English At the outbreak of World War II, the United States was in no way prepared to wage war. Although the U.S declared war against Germany in December 1941, the country lacked the manpower, the equipment, and the experience it needed to fight. Even had an invasion force been ready, a successful assault on Nazi-occupied Europe could not happen until Germany’s industrial and military might were crippled.
D-Day Minus One
 Author: Lawrence Cortesi D-Day Minus One Kensington Publishing Corporation 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 308 Language: English Size: 26.6 MB By late May of 1944, Paris, France was enjoying warm, spring weather. Residents moved about the city in shirt sleeves, traffic became heavier, the countless gardens had sprouted an array of colorful flowers, and trees were in full green foliage. But there was an ominous atmosphere hanging over Gay Paree. The vitality of its citizens, in evidence despite German occupation, had not heightened as was usual with the onset of warm weather. Small and large groups of Parisians huddled in dark cellars, closed apartments, and dark crannies, where they discussed the same subject: the coming Allied invasion of the continent.
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
 Author: Gunter K. Koschorrek Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front Frontline Books ISBN: 1848325967 2011 Format: EPUB Size: 3,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 288 Gunter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was not until he was reunited with his daughter in America some forty years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow. The author's excitement at the first encounter with the enemy in the Russian Steppe is obvious. Later, the horror and confusion of fighting in the streets of Stalingrad are brought to life by his descriptions of the others in his unit - their differing manners and techniques for dealing with the squalor and death. He is also posted to Romania and Italy, assignments he remembers fondly compared to his time on the Eastern Front. This book stands as a memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive and is, some six decades later, the fulfilment of a responsibility the author feels to honour the memory of those who perished.
Hitler's Atlantic Wall: Pas de Calais
 Author: Paul Williams Hitler's Atlantic Wall: Pas de Calais Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe ISBN: 184884817X 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 176 Size: 18 Mb Language: English This well-illustrated book describes the massive effort that the occupying Nazi forces put into the construction of the Eastern section of the Atlantic Wall. While the D-Day invasion was unaffected by the fortifications in this area, they still posed a significant threat. This came from the mighty gun batteries (such as Batteries Todt and Lindemann) that threatened Channel shipping and the South Coast of England, and, while isolated from the main Allied advance, the Festung ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk were denied to Allied use. This was of major strategic significance as the lines of supply were becoming ever longer and more vulnerable.Using rare archive material, this book takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the coast that Hitler was wrongly convinced would be the site of the Allied landings. Hitler's Atlantic Wall - Pas de Calais tells the history of how and why the giant batteries were built, the origins of their weaponry and the ingenious engineering and military operations that defeated them finally.
The Center of the Web
 Author: Collective The Center of the Web (The Third Reich Series) Time-Life Books 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 19o Language: English Size: 34.6 MB Center of the Web, is an absolute must for any Hilter, and Third Reich student. This title is from the masterful Time Life Third Reich series, assuring a competent work, and delivering a masterpiece. This book in laced with breathtaking pictures and illustrations. The writing is superb, and the captions are marvels by themselves. The attention to detail in the production of the cover, the design, and layout of the book is outstanding. While other books are content to throw facts and information at you, this book is in a rare category of books that totally immerse you into the storie. The book takes you deep into the highest sector of Nazi Germany. into the daily life of Adolf Hitler. Pure reading enjoyment.
A Guide To War Publications of the First & Second World War
 Author: Arthur Ward A Guide To War Publications of the First & Second World War Pen and Sword Military 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 256 Size: 19 Mb Language: English In WW2 information leaflets and posters proliferated. Soldiers were bombarded with Field Regulations, airmen with the latest updates about airborne early warning, bomb sights and radio navigation and sailors with material that helped them identify enemy aircraft and submarines and told them how to operate the new ship board weapons to destroy them.
Battle of Wingen-sur-Moder: Operation Nordwind
 Author: Wallace Cheves Battle of Wingen-sur-Moder: Operation Nordwind Merriam Press ISBN: 1435757270 2008 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 243 Size: 11 Mb Language: English This is the story of the battle of Wingen-sur-Moder, an important village leading to the Alsatian Plain. If German forces had captured this town in the early days of Operation Nordwind, and had been able to release their reserve Panzer divisions into the plain, the war might have been lengthened. Colonel Cheves commanded the US forces involved in the battle. 2nd Bn of the 274th, along with troops from the 276th and supporting elements, defeated two battalions of the battle-hardened 6th SS Mountain Division (Nord).
Voices from the Luftwaffe (Hitler's War Machine)
 Author: Bob Carruthers Voices from the Luftwaffe (Hitler's War Machine) Pen and Sword ISBN: 1781591113 2013 Format: EPUB Size: 3,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 128 "It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders." Hermann Goring This is the history of the Luftwaffe through the eyes of those who served in combat. The rise of the Luftwaffe from the ashes of the Great War is traced through recollections of Luftwaffe personnel who manned the gliders and perpetuated the charade that this was a civilian undertaking. The heady optimism generated by the stunning successes of the Blitzkrieg era are soon overturned by the grim experiences of the Battle of Britain and the life or death fight for the skies over Germany as the road leads ever downwards to defeat and Hitler's promised Gotterdammerung. The book is illustrated throughout with extensive selections from Der Adler, the wartime Luftwaffe propaganda magazine. This book is part of the 'Hitler's War Machine' series; a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on primary sources and contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of Hitler's Wehrmacht. The series consultant is David Mcwhinnie creator of the award winning PBS series 'Battlefield'.
Hitler's Panzers East - World War II Reinterpreted
 Author: R. H. S. Stolfi Hitler's Panzers East - World War II Reinterpreted University of Oklahoma Press 1992 Format: PDF Pages: 296 Language: English Size: 43.4 MB How close did Germany come to winning World War II? Did Hitler throw away victory in Europe after his troops had crushed the Soviet field armies defending Moscow by August 1941? R. H. S. Stolfi offers a dramatic new picture of Hitler's conduct in World War II and a fundamental reinterpretation of the course of the war. Adolf Hitler generally is thought to have been driven by a blitzkrieg mentality in the years 1939 to 1941. In fact, Stolfi argues, he had no such outlook on the war. From the day Britain and France declared war, Hitler reacted with a profoundly conservative cast of mind and pursued a circumscribed strategy, pushing out siege lines set around Germany by the Allies. Interpreting Hitler as a siege Fuhrer explains his apparent aberrations in connection with Dunkirk, his fixation on the seizure of Leningrad, and his fateful decision in the summer of 1941 to deflect Army Group Center into the Ukraine when both Moscow and victory in World War II were within its reach. Unaware of Hitler's siege orientation, the German Army planned blitz campaigns. Through daring operational concepts and bold tactics, the army won victories over several Allied powers in World War II, and these led to the great campaign against the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941.
Merville Battery & The Dives Bridges
 Author: Carl Shilleto Merville Battery & The Dives Bridges Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe ISBN: 184415100X 2011 Format: EPUB Pages: 256 Size: 42 Mb Language: English This battlefield guide is the companion work to Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge. Together, these two books form the fully revised and updated edition of the previous best selling Battleground Europe Series book Pegasus Bridge and Merville Battery.This book examines, in great detail, the attack by 9 Para Bn of the British 6th Airborne Division on the German gun emplacement known as the Merville Battery on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The actions of 8 Para, 12 Para, Canadian 1 Para, attached engineer and support units, and commando raids in this area of Normandy are also told. In particular, the importance of destroying the five bridges, and a drainage culvert, in the Dives valley are explained along with the importance of taking and holding the high ground to the north-east of Caen. These combined actions resulted in the protection and securing of the left flank of the greatest combined military operation in history;
Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge
 Author: Michael Tolhurst Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe ISBN: 0850527988 2000 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 33 Mb Language: English By Christmas 1944, the Allies were on the threshold of victory, having remorselessly rolled the Germans back to the very borders of ""The Fatherland"". Then, the shock of a massive Nazi counter-attack through the Ardennes in the depth of winter threw the Allies into confusion. Bastogne was at the very centre of this dramatic and most dangerous setback.
Reader's Digest Illustrated Story of World War II
 Author: Collective Reader's Digest Illustrated Story of World War II Reader's Digest Association 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 536 Language: English Size: 95.3 MB The book has a lot of 1st person stories from the war. There are maps, photos & short breakdowns of each theatre of operations & the major battles in them. The combination of good writing and great photography.
Mustang: Thoroughbred Stallion of the Air
 Author: Steve Pace Mustang: Thoroughbred Stallion of the Air Fonthill Media Limited ISBN: 1781550514 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 6 Mb Language: English An authoritative book on the Mustang, its variants and spin-offs. It was one of the main US fighter planes in World War II. Many of the 200-plus images in the book have never been published before and it includes numerous first-hand accounts of the Mustang in battle. This book has numerous appendices, a bibliography, a glossary and an index.
Panzer III - Germany's Medium Tank (Hitler's War Machine)
 Author: Panzer III - Germany's Medium Tank (Hitler's War Machine) Panzer III - Germany's Medium Tank (Hitler's War Machine) Pen and Sword ISBN: 1781592063 2013 Format: EPUB Size: 1,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 112 The Panzer III was designed to be the backbone of the Panzer force and was deployed on every front. However, due to its deficient armament and poor armor, and despite its outstanding reliability, it was obsolete by 1942. Emmy Award winning historian Bob Carruthers compiled this comprehensive overview of the Panzer III in action. It draws heavily on wartime intelligence reports to produce a fascinating insight into the development and combat history of the Panzer III at the tactical and operational level. Also featured are rare developments such as the flamethrower variant alongside unpublished photographs and illustrations, which provide an absorbing study, from an array of primary sources, of the world of the Panzer III and its crews, which conveys to the modern reader a vivid sense of how they were viewed at the time.
The Second World War
 Author: Charles Messenger The Second World War Franklin Watts 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 64 Language: English Size: 14.8 MB The Second World War is often described as a "total war." Although it began as a relatively restricted conflict between the Anglo-French allies and Germany over the political future of Poland in early September 1939, it gradually spread, drawing in country after country. In April 1940, Denmark and Norway were invaded by the Germans; a month later it was the turn of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and France. Italy joined in on Germany's side in June and, after attacking British forces in Egypt and East Africa, took part in the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece...
Panzer Combat Reports (Hitler's War Machine)
 Author: Bob Carruthers Panzer Combat Reports (Hitler's War Machine) Coda Books Ltd ISBN: 1781580502 2012 Format: PDF (conv) Size: 5,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 240 "Tank units should move at night, and in the daytime they should move only when they can be hidden from enemy airplanes." 'Tactical Handbook for the Troop Commander' This fascinating compilation of wartime battlefield reports drawn from British, American, Russian and German sources has been carefully selected by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers to produce an absorbing overview of the life and death of Germany's Panzer forces as the events unfolded during World War II. Featured topics include the Tiger, Panther, flame throwing tanks, experimental vehicles, tank tactics, mobile artillery, assault guns and more. Combining contemporary reports featuring a wide range of topics concerning Panzers in the field, this excellent survey of sources builds into an absorbing account of what the Allies considered to be the most important information concerning the Panzers on the battlefield. Drawn exclusively from original wartime reports, this new compilation is essential reading for anyone interested in discovering rare and vital information on the combat experience of the Panzers drawn exclusively from primary sources. This book is part of the 'Hitler's War Machine' series, a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on primary sources and contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of Hitler's Wehrmacht. The series consultant is David Mcwhinnie creator of the award winning PBS series 'Battlefield'.
German Light and Medium Tanks (Hitler's War Machine)
 Author: Bob Carruthers German Light and Medium Tanks (Hitler's War Machine) Coda Books Ltd 2012 Format: EPUB Size: 3,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 192 This comprehensive overview of the light and medium Panzers in action was compiled by Emmy Award winning historian Bob Carruthers. It draws heavily on war-time intelligence reports to produce a fascinating insight into the development and combat history of the Panzer I, II, III and IV at the tactical and operational level. Also featured are rare developments such as the flame thrower variant alongside unpublished photographs and illustrations which provide an absorbing study, from an array of primary sources, of the world of the Panzers and their crews from contemporary Allied sources, which conveys to the modern reader a vivid sense of how they were viewed at the time. This book is part of the 'Hitler's War Machine' series, a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on primary sources and contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of Hitler's Wehrmacht. The series consultant is David Mcwhinnie creator of the award winning PBS series 'Battlefield'.
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