Reading At War 1939 45

Author : David Bilton
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473891043

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Reading at War 1939–45 by David Bilton Pdf

As in the Great War, Reading in the Second World War was a town permanently in a state of flux. So close to London, so easily pinpointed by its proximity to the Thames, with railway lines converging near the town centre and with much of the town’s industry geared up to essential war work, it was an obvious target for the German Luftwaffe when the war broke out. Knowing this, the council had set up an efficient Civil Defence system aided by government finance. Fortunately for the citizens, although they were bombed on many occasions, only one raid had any significant impact. The book covers the daily life of a town ready for the worst, but one that continued with its daily life and just got on with its efforts to aid the war effort. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs, illustrations and human interest stories. Much of the material used has not been seen since the war so it provides a valuable and unique insight into daily life of the town.

Author : DAVID. BILTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1473891019

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READING AT WAR 1939-45 by DAVID. BILTON Pdf

Author : Philip Jowett,Brent Snodgrass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782001256

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Finland at War 1939–45 by Philip Jowett,Brent Snodgrass Pdf

In the face of Soviet invasion in 1939–40, and once again in 1941–44, the armies raised by Finland – a tiny nation of only 4 million people astonished the world by their effective resistance. At the end of both these campaigns – the Winter War, and the Continuation War – the fiercely patriotic defiance of vastly stronger Soviet forces by Marshal Mannerheim's soldiers won their country a unique prize: although forced to accept harsh terms, Finland was never occupied by the Red Army, and retained its independence. This book explains and illustrates, for the first time in English, the organization, uniforms, equipment and tactics of Finland's defenders.

Author : Maj.-Gen J. F. C. Fuller
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121834

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The Second World War, 1939-45 by Maj.-Gen J. F. C. Fuller Pdf

British General J. F. C. Fuller is one of the greatest military thinkers of this century, and has been called the Clausewitz of our time. This book is Fuller’s direct and clear-eyed account of the most terrible war of the modern era. When first published in 1948, it received notices such as these: “The strategic and tactical phases of the war are brilliantly expounded...on that score, the book stands as probably the best comprehensive work on the war to appear so far.”—The New Yorker “The narrative, valuable as it is, is not the most important part of General Fuller’s book. What really matters is the author’s comments on the events he describes, and these provide us with a clear statement of what he thinks not only about particular operations but about the conduct of the war as a whole. The result is a hard-hitting politico-military pamphlet, in which none of the punches are pulled.”—The Spectator “[Fuller] knows how to handle a narrative full of incident; he is thoroughly at home in a subject in which he has kept himself up to date; and...he is one of the very rare original students of warfare whom this country has produced.”—Times Literary Supplement Fuller’s biographer, Bryan Holden Reid, has described The Second World War as “an analysis of the breakdown, as Fuller saw it, of the vital relationship between grand strategy and grand tactics—the end and the means....Too often books on the Second World War detail the movements of formations about the battlefield and give space to strategical commentary without assessing the manner in which the war was actually fought. On the tactical level, The Second World War can still be read with profit.” Expertly combining detailed military history and analysis with Clausewitzian insights based on his own theories of warfare, Fuller produced a modern military masterpiece in The Second World War.

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330472296

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Europe at War 1939-1945 by Norman Davies Pdf

The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known: after six years of brutal fighting on land, sea and in the air, the Allied Powers prevailed and the Nazi regime was defeated. But as in so many things, the truth is somewhat different. Bringing a fresh eye to bear on a story we think we know, Norman Davies.Davies forces us to look again at those six years and to discard the usual narrative of Allied good versus Nazi evil, reminding us that the war in Europe was dominated by two evil monsters - Hitler and Stalin - whose fight for supremacy consumed the best people in Germany and in the USSR . The outcome of the war was at best ambiguous, the victory of the West was only partial, its moral reputation severely tarnished and, for the greater part of the continent of Europe, ‘liberation’ was only the beginning of more than fifty years of totalitarian oppression. ‘Davies writes with real knowledge and passion.’ Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard ‘Punchy and compelling' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1111 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307957184

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Inferno by Max Hastings Pdf

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context. Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century.

Author : Vincent O'Hara
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513973

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The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945 by Vincent O'Hara Pdf

The German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies. It emphasizes operational details but also paints a broad overview of the naval war. The book addresses the lack of information about the specifics of naval engagements in World War II and provides a database of naval engagements for comparison and analysis, but unlike most reference works, it has a continuous narrative and a theme. The result is a unique overview of the German and Allied navies at war that provides new appreciation of their activities and accomplishments.

Author : Douglas E. Delaney
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774820929

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Corps Commanders by Douglas E. Delaney Pdf

Corps Commanders examines how five strikingly dissimilar British and Canadian generals fought battles and fit into the British Empire armies of the Second World War. The three Canadians controlled British formations and served under British army commanders, and the two Britons worked for and led Canadians as well. Such inter-army adjustments were fairly simple because all Anglo-Canadian commanders and staffs spoke the military language of the Camberley and Quetta staff colleges. Gunners from Montreal understood guardsmen from London – no small advantage when coordinating coalition battles involving thousands of troops. Delaney’s book offers invaluable insight into interoperability and how men animate armies in war.

Author : Nicholas Stargardt
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465073979

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The German War by Nicholas Stargardt Pdf

A groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight -- and keep fighting -- for a lost cause in World War II In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of firsthand testimony -- personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence -- to explore how the German people experienced the Second World War. When war broke out in September 1939, it was deeply unpopular in Germany. Yet without the active participation and commitment of the German people, it could not have continued for almost six years. What, then, was the war the Germans thought they were fighting? How did the changing course of the conflict -- the victories of the Blitzkrieg, the first defeats in the east, the bombing of German cities -- alter their views and expectations? And when did Germans first realize they were fighting a genocidal war? Told from the perspective of those who lived through it -- soldiers, schoolteachers, and housewives; Nazis, Christians, and Jews -- this masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs and fears of a people who embarked on and fought to the end a brutal war of conquest and genocide.

Author : Steven High
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773581104

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Occupied St John's by Steven High Pdf

In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander docked in St John's harbor, carrying a thousand American soldiers sent to join the thousands of Canadian troops protecting Newfoundland against attack by Germany. France had fallen, Great Britain was fighting for its survival, and Newfoundland - then a dominion of Britain - was North America's first line of defence. Although the German invasion never came, St John's found itself occupied by both Allied Canadian and American forces.

Author : Artemis Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : British
ISBN : 0140247815

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Cairo in the War 1939-1945 by Artemis Cooper Pdf

This is an account of life, attitudes and events in Cairo during World War II. It describes the historical background of the events of the Desert War, as well as stories and descriptions of personalities gleaned from the Ambassador's diaries and those of her grandparents, Duff and Diana Cooper.

Author : David Porter
Publisher : Technical Guides
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Tanks (Military science)
ISBN : 1782747265

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German Tanks of World War II by David Porter Pdf

From heavy tanks to self-propelled guns, this highly illustrated technical guide introduces all the main types of armored fighting vehicles used by Germany in World War II--organized chronologically and by type. Each of the 120 featured artworks displays authentic markings and color schemes, while the separate models include exhaustive specifications. This is a key reference for military modelers and World War II enthusiasts.

Author : Gordon Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0881339725

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The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945 by Gordon Wright Pdf

"Covers the scope of World War II, before the H-bomb. Encompasses Europe on the brink of war, the expansion of German power, the war's economic, psychological, and scientific dimensions, & the resurgence of Allied power. B & W photos & illus."--Publisher

Author : Gerald Pawle
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343309599

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The Secret War 1939-45 by Gerald Pawle Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Duncan Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0276423798

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The World at War, 1939-45 by Duncan Anderson Pdf