German Army On The Eastern Front The Retreat 1943 1945

Author : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473880344

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German Army on the Eastern Front: The Retreat, 1943–1945 by Ian Baxter Pdf

A pictorial history of the German Army retreating west from the Soviet Army in the final stages of World War II. After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army’s front lines were slowly smashed to pieces by the growing might of the Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to fight. Even after the failed battle of the Kursk in the summer of 1943, and then a year later when the Russians launched their mighty summer offensive, code names Operation Bagration, the German Army continued to fight on, withdrawing under constant enemy ground and air bombardments. As the final months of retreat were played out on the Eastern Front in early 1945, it depicts how the once vaunted German Army, with diminishing resources, withdrew back across the Polish/German frontier to Berlin itself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1473880335

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German Army on the Eastern Front - The Retreat 1943-1945: Rare Photographs From Wartime Archives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1906033013

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From Retreat to Defeat by Ian Baxter Pdf

From Retreat to Defeat is a unique insight into the last desperate years of the German Army at war on the Eastern Front 1943-45. On the vast steppes of the Soviet Union, it describes how the German Army together with the elite mountain troops and Luftwaffe field divisions played a decisive role in trying to stem the rout along the disintegrating front lines. Drawing on previously rare and unpublished photographs with in-depth captions, the book provides an absorbing analysis of this traumatic period of the war. It reveals in detail how the beginning of the end began at the battle of Kursk, and how this massive operation led to the Red Army recapturing huge areas of the Soviet Union and bleeding white the German armies it struck. Despite the adverse situation in which the German Army was placed, soldiers were still infused to fight to the bitter end and attempt to build new lines of defense. But as the Red Army launched its long-awaited summer offensive in 1944, code-named `Operation Bagration`, the book reveals how the German Army were forced to withdraw under the constant hammer blows of ground and air bombardments. Those German forces that survived the artillery barrages, the onslaught of the tank armadas, and mass infantry assaults, streamed back from the battlefield and fought vicious battles through the Baltic states, Byelorussia, and built up new defenses along the Vistula in Poland. As the final months of the war were played out on the Eastern Front it depicts how the German Army, with diminishing resources, withdrew across a devastated Reich and fought out the last battles with party militia forces around a bombed and blasted Berlin.

Author : James Lucas
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473841222

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War on the Eastern Front by James Lucas Pdf

This classic WWII history presents a comprehensive yet vividly detailed account of the Third Reich’s epic and bitter clash with the Red Army. The opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa began on June 22nd, 1941, as German forces stormed into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle. A posting to the Eastern Front during the Second World War was rightly regarded with dread by the German soldiers. They faced the unremitting hostility of the climate, the people and even, at times, their own leadership. There were epic conflicts, such as the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk. But surrounding these famous events was a daily war of attrition which ultimately ground Hitler’s war machine to a halt. In this classic account, military historian James Lucas examines the Eastern Front from trench warfare to a bicycle-mounted antitank unit fighting against the oncoming Russian hordes. Told through the experiences of the German soldiers who endured these nightmarish years of warfare, War on the Eastern Front is a unique record of this cataclysmic campaign.

Author : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473862586

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The Crushing of Army Group North 1944–1945 on the Eastern Front by Ian Baxter Pdf

The Crushing of Army Group North 1944-45 on the Eastern Front tells the story in words and images of the last bitter months fought on Russian soil and the battle of the Baltic States that ensued. Drawing on rare and unpublished photos it reveals in detail how remnants of Army Group North were driven back to the borders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In the battles that followed, the retreating German Panzer and infantry divisions were encircled and annihilated. With the remnants were pushed back into East Prussia, and then fought to the death in the last few small pockets of land surrounding three ports of Libau in Kurland, Pillau in East Prussia and Danzig at the mouth of the River Vistula. It was here that the final battle of Army Group North would take place after Hitler ordered his troops to `stand and fight` and wage an unprecedented battle of attrition.

Author : Arno Sauer
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526733344

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In the Hell of the Eastern Front by Arno Sauer Pdf

A Nazi infantryman recalls the horrors of combat against the Soviet Union in this WWII memoir as told to his son. Friedrich “Fritz” Sauer was posted to the Eastern Front in 1942. A soldier in the 132nd Infantry Division, he was deployed in Hitler’s grand invasion of Russia. But instead of the swift knockout blow the Germans had anticipated, Operation Barbarossa ground on for almost four years. Sent first to the Crimea and then the region around Leningrad, Fritz experienced horrors of all kinds. In this memoir, Fritz recalls losing his best friend to a sniper, rescuing the body of a fallen comrade from No Man’s Land, enduring Soviet tank assaults, and his own wounding during a counterattack. Fritz was later transferred to a tank assault regiment where, on a mission to contact another unit, he lost his way in the snow. After sheltering with a farmer’s family, Fritz headed west to flee the advancing Red Army. His subsequent journey home took many twists and turns.

Author : Hans Schäufler
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526734327

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Panzers on the Vistula by Hans Schäufler Pdf

This WWII memoir of a Nazi officer is one of the most revealing firsthand accounts of the German retreat on the Eastern Front. A second lieutenant of the 4th Panzer division, Hans Schäufler commanded a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945. Then, as an infantryman, he took part in the doomed defense of Danzig before escaping across the Baltic in a small boat. His personal story offers a rare glimpse into the chaos and suffering endured by tens thousands of soldiers and civilians during the collapse of the Third Reich in the east. Along with vivid descriptions of the appalling conditions in Danzig and the fear and panic that gripped the city, Schäufler’s account provides valuable insight into the German army’s tactics as they fell back before the Soviet advance. While acute shortages of men, equipment, ammunition and fuel crippled the defense, the soldiers went on fighting for a lost cause in the face of certain defeat.

Author : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526768087

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The Nazis' Winter Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945 by Ian Baxter Pdf

Graphically describes the appalling hardships faced by German troops on the Eastern Front 1941-1945. Hitler’s shock decision to launch the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 was arguably the turning point of the Second World War. Spectacular early victories saw the Nazis close in on Moscow but the Soviet 1941/42 winter counter offensive changed the odds entirely. Without doubt Russian winter conditions were a major factor compounded by the Germans’ woeful lack of preparedness. As this fascinating book reveals, Wehrmacht and SS units only began to be issued with winter clothing in late 1941 and many had to improvise well into 1942. In an attempt to restore morale adversely affected by the harsh conditions and military reversals ‘The Winter Warfare Handbook’ (Winter Buch) was produced in 1942 and extracts are quoted in this work. Commanders had to adapt to the snow, freezing conditions and, almost worse, the impassable roads during the melt. With customary thoroughness and drastic measures the Germans largely mastered the climatic challenges but nothing could mask the reality of the ruthless and numerically superior enemy that they faced.

Author : Bastian Matteo Scianna
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030265243

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The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941–1943 by Bastian Matteo Scianna Pdf

The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian campaign in the East between 1941 and 1943, as well as how the campaign was remembered and memorialized in the domestic and international arena during the Cold War. Linking operational military history with memory studies, this book revises our understanding of the Italian Army in the Second World War.

Author : Jeff Rutherford,Adrian E Wettstein
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473861763

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The German Army on the Eastern Front by Jeff Rutherford,Adrian E Wettstein Pdf

Histories of the German army on the Eastern Front generally focus on battlefield exploits on the war as it was fought in the front line. They tend to neglect other aspects of the armys experience, particularly its participation in the racial war demanded by the leadership of the Reich. This ground-breaking book aims to correct this incomplete, often misleading picture. Using a selection of revealing extracts from a wide range of wartime documents, it looks at the totality of the Wehrmachts war in the East. The documents have previously been unpublished or have never been translated into English, and they offer a fascinating inside view of the armys actions and attitudes. Combat is covered, and complicity in Hitlers war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. There are sections on the conduct of the war in the rear areas logistics, medical, judicial and the armys tactics, motivation and leadership. The entire text is informed by the latest research into the reality of the conflict as it was perceived and understood by those who took part.

Author : J. N. Westwood
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : IND:30000081684924

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The Eastern Front by J. N. Westwood Pdf

Describes the battles, weapons, and men who took part in the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia in 1941.

Author : Russ Schneider
Publisher : Bibliotheca Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000046351678

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Gotterdammerung 1945 by Russ Schneider Pdf

Final battles on the Eastern Front during the months of January through May 1945 of World War II.

Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1579583121

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The Wehrmacht by Tim Ripley Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Robert M. Citino
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700630387

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The Wehrmacht's Last Stand by Robert M. Citino Pdf

By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world’s leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this gripping account of German military campaigns during the final phase of World War II, Citino charts the inevitable path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a “war of movement,” inexorably led to Nazi Germany’s defeat. The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or “death ride,” from January 1944—with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine—until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available. With Citino’s previous volumes, Death of the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German army’s strategy, operations, and performance against the Allies in World War II.

Author : O. Bartov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230598249

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The Eastern Front, 1941–45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare by O. Bartov Pdf

Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He describes the physical hardship, the discipline and morale at the front, and analyses the social, educational and political background of the junior officers who formed the backbone of the German army. Only with these factors in mind - together with the knowledge of the extent of National Socialist indoctrination - can we begin to explain the criminal activities of the German army in Russia and the extent of involvement of the army in the execution of Hitler's brutal policies.