Borodino Field 1812 And 1941

Author : Robert Kershaw
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750997591

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Borodino Field 1812 and 1941 by Robert Kershaw Pdf

The Battle of Borodino resonates with the patriotic soul of Mother Russia. The epic confrontation in September 1812 was the single bloodiest day of the Napoleonic Wars, leaving France's Grande Armée limping to the gates of Moscow and on to catastrophe in snow and ice. Generations later, in October 1941, an equally bitter battle was fought at Borodino. This time Hitler's SS and Panzers came up against elite Siberian troops defending Stalin's Moscow. Remarkably, both conflicts took place in the same woods and gullies that follow the sinuous line of the Koloch River. Borodino Field relates the gruelling experience of the French army in Russia, juxtaposed with the personal accounts, diaries and letters of SS and Panzer soldiers during the Second World War. Acclaimed historian Robert Kershaw draws on previously untapped archives to narrate the odyssey of soldiers who marched along identical tracks and roads on the 1,000-kilometre route to Moscow, and reveals the astonishing parallels and contrasts between two battles fought on Russian terrain over 100 years apart.

Author : Julie Buckler,Emily D. Johnson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810166592

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Rites of Place by Julie Buckler,Emily D. Johnson Pdf

Ranging widely across time and geography, Rites of Place is to date the most comprehensive and diverse example of memory studies in the field of Russian and East European studies. Leading scholars consider how public rituals and the commemoration of historically significant sites facilitate a sense of community, shape cultural identity, and promote political ideologies. The aims of this volume take on unique importance in the context of the tumultuous events that have marked Eastern European history—especially the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, World War II, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. With essays on topics such as the founding of St. Petersburg, the battle of Borodino, the Katyn massacre, and the Lenin cult, this volume offers a rich discussion of the uses and abuses of memory in cultures where national identity has repeatedly undergone dramatic shifts and remains riven by internal contradictions.

Author : Jonathan Dimbleby
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241979204

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Barbarossa by Jonathan Dimbleby Pdf

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny 'A page-turning descent into Hell and back . . . this fresh and compelling account of Hitler's failed invasion of the Soviet Union should be on everyone's reading list for 2021' Dr Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire _______________________________ The largest military operation in history. The turning point of the Second World War. The most important year of the twentieth century. Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of extermination to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create Lebensraum for the German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Third Reich, and was cataclysmic for Germany with millions of men killed, wounded or registered as missing in action. It was this colossal mistake -- rather than any action in Western Europe -- that lost Hitler the Second World War. Drawing on hitherto unseen archival material, including previously untranslated Russian sources, Jonathan Dimbleby puts Barbarossa in its proper place in history for the first time. From its origins in the ashes of the First World War to its impact on post-war Europe, and covering the military, political and diplomatic story from all sides, he paints a full and vivid picture of this monumental campaign whose full nature and impact has remained unexplored. Written with authority and humanity, Barbarossa is a masterwork that transforms our understanding of the Second World War and of the twentieth century. _______________________________ 'Superb. . . stays with you long after you have finished' Henry Hemming, bestselling author of Our Man in New York 'A chilling account of war at its worst' Bear Grylls

Author : A. F. Chew
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9781428915985

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Fighting the Russians in Winter: Three Case Studies by A. F. Chew Pdf

Author : Rodric Braithwaite
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89091987966

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Moscow 1941 by Rodric Braithwaite Pdf

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Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780968810

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Borodino 1812 by Philip Haythornthwaite Pdf

A highly illustrated account of the battle of Borodino, the most crucial action in Napoleon's 1812 campaign in Russia. The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleonic Wars. Following the breakdown of relations between Russia and France, Napoleon assembled a vast Grande Armée drawn from the many states within the French sphere of influence. They crossed the river Neimen and entered Russian territory in June 1812 with the aim of inflicting a sharp defeat on the Tsar's forces and bringing the Russians back into line. In a bloody battle of head-on attacks and desperate counter-attacks in the village of Borodino on 7 September 1812, both sides lost about a third of their men, with the Russians forced to withdraw and abandon Moscow to the French. However, the Grande Armée was harassed by Russian troops all the way back and was destroyed by the retreat. The greatest army Napoleon had ever commanded was reduced to a shadow of frozen, starving fugitives. This title covers the events of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812 in its entirety, with the set-piece battle of Borodino proving the focal point of the book.

Author : Robert Kershaw
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750991599

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24 Hours at Balaclava: 25 October 1854 by Robert Kershaw Pdf

In 1854 Britain and France were at war to save 'poor little Turkey', the crumbling Ottoman Empire, from the menace of Russian expansionism. On 25 October they were nine days into what would become an eleven-month siege, with little to show for it. Suddenly, from behind them came the unmistakeable sound of cannon. The Russians had arrived. Vastly outnumbered, the British gained an unlikely upper hand with the charge of the Heavy Brigade and the efforts of the Thin Red Line. But then, within two hours of achieving near victory, the British squandered it in dramatic style with the charge of the Light Brigade. Using eyewitness accounts, letters and diaries, acclaimed military historian Robert Kershaw presents a new, intimate look at the Battle of Balaclava, from the perspective of the men who 'saw little and knew even less'. Come down from the Heights and see the real story of one of the most ill-fated military expeditions in British history.

Author : Gregory Carleton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674978485

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Russia by Gregory Carleton Pdf

Outsiders view Russia as an aggressor, but Russians see themselves as surrounded by enemies, defensively fighting off invader after invader, or called upon by history to be the savior of Europe, or Christianity, or civilization itself, often at immense cost. As Gregory Carleton shows, war is the unifying thread of Russia’s national epic.

Author : Tony Le Tissier
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750999274

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Death Was Our Companion by Tony Le Tissier Pdf

As Hitler's dreams of a Thousand Year Reich crumbled in the face of overwhelming assaults from both East and West in the first months of 1945 the heavily out numbered German armed forces were still capable of fighting with a tenacity and professionalism at odds with the desperate circumstances. While Hitler fantasized about deploying divisions and armies that had long since ceased to exist, boys of fifteen, officer cadets, sailors and veterans of the Great War joined the survivors of shattered formations on the front line. Leading historian Tony Le Tissier gives a German perspective to the mayhem and bloodshed of the last months of the Second World War in Europe. Teenaged Flak auxiliaries recount their experiences alongside veteran Panzergrenadiers attempting to break out of Soviet encirclement. Struggles between the military, industry and the Nazi Party for influence over the defenders of Berlin contrast with a key participant's account of Goebbel's abortive attempt to conclude a cease-fire with the Soviets. This is fascinating reading for anybody interested in the ordinary soldier's experience of the culminating battles in central Europe in 1945.

Author : Bob Hyslop
Publisher : Cuthan Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780957369443

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Lies Hunt In Packs by Bob Hyslop Pdf

1964 USSR Khrushchev has fallen. Somebody wants a dissident helped to escape from USSR. Jonas Forbes is sent as he's considered 'expendable' Everybody seems to be lying and complications abound with the KGB torn by inner struggles and trouble continues after Jonas escapes from the USSR.

Author : Nelson DeMille
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759522619

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The Charm School by Nelson DeMille Pdf

"True master" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille presents a chilling, relentlessly suspenseful story of Cold War espionage perfect for fans of the hit FX show The Americans (Dan Brown). On a dark road deep inside the Russian woods at Borodino, a young American tourist picks up an unusual passenger with an explosive secret: an U.S. POW on the run from "The Charm School," a sinister operation where American POWs teach young KBG agents how to be model U.S. citizens. Their goal? To infiltrate the United States undetected. With this horrifying conspiracy revealed, the CIA sets an investigation in motion, and three Americans--an Air Force officer, an embassy liaison, a CIA chief--pit themselves against the country's enemies in a high-powered game of international intrigue.

Author : Nurit Schleifman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135225339

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Russia at a Crossroads by Nurit Schleifman Pdf

The meaning of Russia's past is in a process of continuous deconstruction, reshaping and negotiation by various social and political groupings. Of the deluge of group memories which have broken loose, this collection focuses on several new voices which have never been heard in Russia in this way before: women, Tatars, Cossacks, as well as the voices of religious and provincial populations. In addition, the volume sheds light on the creation of a multi-party system which paved the way for the expression of particular views and interests and generated much of memory's concepts and language.

Author : I. Baikova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Museums
ISBN : UOM:39015055364940

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Museums in and Around Moscow by I. Baikova Pdf

Author : Robert Kershaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681779317

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Landing on the Edge of Eternity by Robert Kershaw Pdf

Early in 1944, German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took a look at the sloping sands and announced "They will come here!” He was referring to "Omaha Beach”. The beach was then transformed into three miles of lethal, bunker-protected arcs of fire, with seaside chalets converted into concrete strongpoints, with layers of barbed wire and mines. When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day’s first wave on 6th June 1944, it lost 96% of its effective strength. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour—midnight to midnight—tracking German and American soldiers fighting across the beachhead. The Wehrmacht thought they had bludgeoned the Americans into submission yet by mid-afternoon, the American troops were ashore. Why were the casualties so grim, and how could the Germans have failed? Juxtaposing the American experience—pinned down, swamped by a rising tide, facing young Wehrmacht soldiers fighting desperately for their lives, Kershaw draws on eyewitness accounts, memories, letters, and post-combat reports to expose the true horrors of Omaha Beach. Landing on the Edge of Eternity is a dramatic historical ride through an amphibious landing that looked as though it might never succeed.

Author : Jonathan Dimbleby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197547212

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Operation Barbarossa by Jonathan Dimbleby Pdf

Published in the United Kingdom by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, under the title: Barbarossa: How Hitler lost the war.