Black Cross Red Star Air War Over The Eastern Front

Author : Christer Bergström
Publisher : Vaktel Forlag
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9188441504

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Black Cross Red Star Air War Over the Eastern Front by Christer Bergström Pdf

Regarded as the standard work on the air war over the Eastern Front during World War II, Christer Bergström's unique Black Cross/Red Star series covers the history of the air war on the Eastern Front in close detail, with the perspectives of both sides. Based on a close study of German and Russian archive material, as well as interviews with a large number of the airmen who participated in this aerial conflict, it has established itself as the main source on the air war on the Eastern Front. Black Cross/Red Star, Volume 4 will cover the air war along the entire Eastern Front during the period winter 1942/1943 through the spring of 1943, in great detail, with a balance between German and Soviet archive sources etc, and with many first-hand accounts. It will be of the same size as the other volumes, and it will also contain aircraft color profiles. Following the publication of Volume 4, new and heavily updated editions of volumes 1, 2 and 3 will follow, and next the subsequent volumes (vols. 5 etc.) will follow. Large format, heavily illustrated, (aircraft color profiles in the British edition)! To be published in April 2019 ISBN 978-91-88441-50-8 Size 210 mm x 297 mm (large format) Illustrated throughout, many detailed maps. Retail price: US$49.99

Author : Christer Bergström,Andrey Mikhailov
Publisher : Pacifica Press (CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0935553487

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Black Cross/red Star: Operation Barbarossa, 1941 by Christer Bergström,Andrey Mikhailov Pdf

In assembling the first installment of a projected six-volume series documenting the air war on the Eastern Front, the authors combed hitherto unexplored archives in the former Soviet Union to produce the first balanced history of the subject. More than 180 photographs that have never been seen by any reading public accompany color maps and an authoritative text debunking 50-year-old Western beliefs about Operation Barbarossa. The lives and accomplishments of Soviet fighter aces, about which little, if anything, has previously been published, make this groundbreaking history essential reading for both enthusiasts and casual history buffs.

Author : Christer Bergström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9188441210

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Black Cross Red Star -- Air War Over the Eastern Front by Christer Bergström Pdf

Regarded as the standard work on the air war over the Eastern Front during World War II, Christer Bergströms unique Black Cross/Red Star series covers the history of the air war on the Eastern Front in close detail, with the perspectives of both sides. Based on a close study of German and Russian archive material, as well as interviews with a large number of the airmen who participated in this aerial conflict, it has established itself as the main source on the air war on the Eastern Front. Black Cross/Red Star, Volume 4 will cover the air war along the entire Eastern Front during the period winter 1942/1943 through the spring of 1943, in great detail, with a balance between German and Soviet archive sources etc., and with many first-hand accounts. It will be of the same size as the other volumes, and it will also contain aircraft colour profiles.

Author : Eagle Editions Ltd
Publisher : Eagle Editions Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0976103443

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Black Cross Red Star by Eagle Editions Ltd Pdf

Volume 3, has been subtitled Everything for Stalingrad and covers the German summer offensive in 1942; the subsequent fierce air battles over the Caucasus; the Luftwaffe's onslaught on Convoy PQ-17; the hard air war over the Central and Northern combat zones, when the Soviets launched their relief offensives in the summer and fall of 1942; and, mainly, the huge Air Battle over Stalingrad. Similar to Volume 2, Volume 3 will contain a large number of photos and 37 high-quality aircraft color profiles, by one of the best aircraft profile artists in the world--Claes Sundin.

Author : Christer Bergstrom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9188441687

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Black Cross Red Star -- Air War Over the Eastern Front, Volume 1: Barbarossa by Christer Bergstrom Pdf

When the first edition of Volume 1 was published twenty years ago, it hit the WW II interested community as a bomb. Richard Goldblatt at SimHqCom, called it without a doubt one of the finest aviation history books Ive ever read, and J.J. Fedorowicz called it an indispensable reference highly recommended. At Stone & Stone it was voted as the No. 1 military history book of the year. That edition was sold out in about a year, and since no new edition was published, it has become a rarity. The first edition contained a maximum of 100,000 words. The second edition not only has much higher quality as far as the research is concerned but also contains twice that word count, a very large number of absolutely new photos (many of which are from pilot veterans photo albums and have never been published before), printed in the same high quality as in Volumes 4 and 5.

Author : Christer Bergstrom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9188441571

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Black Cross Red Star Air War Over the Eastern Front by Christer Bergstrom Pdf

This is the direct continuation of Volume 4 in the Black Cross/Red Star series. This volume covers the air war on the Eastern Front between March/April 1943 and July 1943, with the focus on the great air battles at Kuban and Kursk.

Author : Christer Bergström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Flygoperationer - andra världskriget 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:186332566

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Black Cross, Red Star by Christer Bergström Pdf

Author : Vasily Emelianenko
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784380267

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Red Star Against The Swastika by Vasily Emelianenko Pdf

This is the extraordinary story of Vasily B. Emelianenko, the veteran pilot of one of the Soviet Union’s most contradictory planes of WWII – the I1-2. This heavily armoured aircraft was practically unrivalled in terms of fire power, but it was slow to manoeuvre and an easy target for fighters. I1–2 had to attack enemy flak columns at extremely low altitudes, which led to enormous tolls both in equipment and personnel.

Author : Christer Bergström,Andrey Mikhailov
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0935553517

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Black Cross/Red Star by Christer Bergström,Andrey Mikhailov Pdf

Rare Russian photos of the air war during the winters of 1941 and 1942.

Author : Christer Bergström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1903223911

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Bagration to Berlin by Christer Bergström Pdf

Describes how the German Army Group centre developed a 'master of defence' strategy, which inflicted atrocious losses on the Red Army's attack formations in 1942 and 1943. Explores the German defensive operations around the River Dnepr and Sea of Azov in September 1943, as well as the subsequent German retreat and the air bridge operation to Cherkassy in early 1944. Examines the major Soviet offensive in mid 1944, the fall of Romania and the autumn battles in Poland, Courland and on the Vistula, ending with the major Soviet winter offensive of early 1945 against the Neisse and Oder rivers and last-ditch battles over Berlin itself.

Author : Willy Peter Reese
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429998758

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A Stranger to Myself by Willy Peter Reese Pdf

A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an intelligent, touching, and illuminating perspective on life on the eastern front. He documented the carnage perpetrated by both sides, the destruction which was exacerbated by the young soldiers' hunger, frostbite, exhaustion, and their daily struggle to survive. And he wrestled with his own sins, with the realization that what he and his fellow soldiers had done to civilians and enemies alike was unforgivable, with his growing awareness of the Nazi policies toward Jews, and with his deep disillusionment with himself and his fellow men. An international sensation, A Stranger to Myself is an unforgettable account of men at war.

Author : John Mosier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1416577025

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Deathride by John Mosier Pdf

The German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, began a war that lasted nearly four years and created by far the bloodiest theater in World War II. In the conventional narrative of this war, Hitler was defeated by Stalin because, like Napoleon, he underestimated the size and resources of his enemy. In fact, says historian John Mosier, Hitler came very close to winning and lost only because of the intervention of the western Allies. Stalin’s great triumph was not winning the war, but establishing the prevailing interpretation of the war. The Great Patriotic War, as it is known in Russia, would eventually prove fatal, setting in motion events that would culminate in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Deathride argues that the Soviet losses in World War II were unsustainable and would eventually have led to defeat. The Soviet Union had only twice the population of Germany at the time, but it was suffering a casualty rate more than two and a half times the German rate. Because Stalin had a notorious habit of imprisoning or killing anyone who brought him bad news (and often their families as well), Soviet battlefield reports were fantasies, and the battle plans Soviet generals developed seldom responded to actual circumstances. In this respect the Soviets waged war as they did everything else: through propaganda rather than actual achievement. What saved Stalin was the Allied decision to open the Mediterranean theater. Once the Allies threatened Italy, Hitler was forced to withdraw his best troops from the eastern front and redeploy them. In addition, the Allies provided heavy vehicles that the Soviets desperately needed and were unable to manufacture themselves. It was not the resources of the Soviet Union that defeated Hitler but the resources of the West. In this provocative revisionist analysis of the war between Hitler and Stalin, Mosier provides a dramatic, vigorous narrative of events as he shows how most previous histories accepted Stalin’s lies and distortions to produce a false sense of Soviet triumph. Deathride is the real story of the Eastern Front, fresh and different from what we thought we knew.

Author : Анна Александровна Тимофеева-Егорова
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : 0893573558

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Red Sky, Black Death by Анна Александровна Тимофеева-Егорова Pdf

"Born in a tiny village amidst revolution and civil war, Anna Yegorova came of age during the grimmest years of Soviet power. An optimistic and resolute young patriot, she saw hope and vision in the nascent superpower's ideology. She volunteered to help build Moscow. And she took to the skies and learned to fly. But when Germany's 1941 invasion shook Russia to its core, Yegorova joined her fellow pilots in the bloodiest war zone in human history, flying hair-raising reconnaissance missions in a wooden biplane. She became a flight leader in the famously deadly "Shturmovik" ground-attack aircraft, guiding her comrades in furious air battles along the Southern front. Eventually shot down and captured near Warsaw, Yegorova survived five months in a Nazi concentration camp. After the war, she was welcomed home with suspicion and persecution by the notorious Soviet secret police. Amid the epic catastrophe of Russia's "Great Patriotic War" and her own personal tragedies, Yegorova's story is also one of joy, camaraderie among soldiers and pilots and the quiet satisfaction of defending one's country, all against a backdrop of love for the freedom of flight. In 1965, Yegorova was awarded the illustrious "Hero of the Soviet Union", then Moscow's highest honor"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Von Hardesty,Ilya Grinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0700618287

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Red Phoenix Rising by Von Hardesty,Ilya Grinberg Pdf

The definitive account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II. Provides a fast-paced, riveting look at the air war on the Eastern Front as it has never been seen before.

Author : Albrecht Wacker
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848846937

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Sniper on the Eastern Front by Albrecht Wacker Pdf

A biography of the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the Knights Cross award. An Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht machine gunner, Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented with a Russian sniper-rifle while convalescing and so impressed his superiors with his proficiency that he was returned to the front as his regiment’s only sniper specialist. This sometimes-harrowing account provides an excellent introduction to the commitment in fieldcraft, discipline and routine required of the sniper, a man apart. There was no place for chivalry on the Russian Front. Away from the film cameras, no prisoner survived long after surrendering. Russian snipers had used the illegal explosive bullet since 1941, and Hitler eventually authorized its issue in 1944. The result was a battlefield of horror. Allerberger was a cold-blooded killer, but few will find a place in their hearts for the soldiers of the Red Army against whom he fought. “It is a great read and covers just about everything you would want to know about Allerberger, the weapons, techniques and employment of German snipers on the Eastern Front in WWII but does it in a manner and narrative that is never boring and is guaranteed to hold your interest.” —Argunners Magazine “A very unique story and experience worth telling of an Eastern Front Sniper.” —Sniper Central