Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1908410086
SS Steel Storm
Tim Ripley
Ss Steel Storm
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Steel Storm
Tim Ripley
Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0785828699
Steel Storm by Tim Ripley Pdf
SS Steel Storm is an account of the battles of the Waffen-SS panzer divisions of the East from the recapture ofKharkov in early 1943, when I SS Panzer Corps prevented the total collapse of Army Group South, to the last desperate attempts to hold the Red Army before Berlin in 1945. During this period the Waffen-SS panzer divisions fought a string of battles that are arguably the finest defensive actions of modern warfare. They certainly bear comparison with Napoleon's campaign of 1814 or the First Battle of the Marne in 1914. SS Steel Storm looks at the story from different angles: the use of offensive tactics during defensive battles: the deveopment of German tank and armored fighting vehicle technology; and Waffen-SS unit flexibility that was able to exploit changing tactical situations to the full. SS Steel Storm also explodes a number of myths that have sprung up since the end of World War II, such as the claim that the Waffen-SS panzer divisions were equipped with large quantities of Germanys best tanks. With the aid of full-color maps plus 170 photographs of Waffen-SS soldiers and tanks in the field, this hardcover reference book provides a unique account of a little-known, but crucially important aspect of Germany's war on the Eastern front.
SS Steel Storm
Tim Ripley
Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 076030937X
SS Steel Storm by Tim Ripley Pdf
In the final years of World War II, the outnumbered Waffen-SS capitalized on superior training, equipment, and commanders to plug several open gaps on the Eastern Front. From the recapture of Kharkov to the last stand at the gates of Berlin, this illustrated history recounts the key aspects of the major Eastern Front battles from the perspective of the Waffen-SS. Explanations include the use of offensive tactics as defensive maneuvers, the development of tank technology, and methods that allowed the Germans to survive fierce Russian bombardments. Illustrated with maps, line art, and previously unpublished frontline photography, the story's main focus is on the tactics used by commanders like Wittman and Barkmann to hold off numerically superior Russian forces. Appendices detail panzer organization, panzer tank aces and Knight's Cross winners, and tank specifications.
SS Steel Storm
Tim Ripley
Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Germany
ISBN : 1840440929
SS Steel Storm by Tim Ripley Pdf
SS Steel Storm
Tim Ripley
Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030591577
SS Steel Storm by Tim Ripley Pdf
An account of the battles of the Waffen-SS Panzer Divisions in the East from the recapture of Kharkov in early 1943, when the 1st SS Panzer Corps prevented the total collapse of Army Group South, to the last desperate attempts to hold the Red Army before Berlin in 1945.
Kursk
Steven H. Newton
Author : Steven H. Newton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786745135
Kursk by Steven H. Newton Pdf
The battle of Kursk, fought in the summer of 1943, involved six thousand German and Soviet armored vehicles, making it the biggest tank battle of all time and possibly the largest battle of any kind. Students of military history have long recognized the importance of Kursk, also known as "Operation Citadel," and there have been several serious studies of the battle. Yet, the German view of the battle has been largely ignored.After the war, U.S. Army Intelligence officers gathered German commanders' post-war reports of the battle. Due, in part, to poor translations done after the war, these important documents have been overlooked by World War II historians. Steven H. Newton has collected, translated, and edited these accounts, including reports made by the Chiefs of Staff of Army Group South and the Fourth Panzer Army, and by the Army Group Center Operations Officer. As a result, a new and unprecedented picture of German strategy and operations is made available. The translated staff reports are supplemented by Newton's commentary and original research, which challenges a number of widely accepted ideas about this pivotal battle.
Prisoners of War
Bob Moore
Author : Bob Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192576804
Prisoners of War by Bob Moore Pdf
The Second World War between the European Axis powers and the Allies saw more than twenty million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. While this total is inflated by the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945, it nonetheless highlights the fact that captivity was one of the most common experiences for all those in uniform - even more common than frontline service. Despite this, and the huge literature on so many aspects of the war, prisoner of war histories have remained a separate and sometimes isolated element in the wider national chronicles of the conflict constructed in the post war era. Prisoners of every nationality had their own narratives of military service and captivity. While it is impossible to encompass their collective histories, let alone the individual experiences of all twenty million prisoners in a single volume, Bob Moore uses a series of case studies to highlight the key elements involved and to introduce, analyse, and refine some of the major debates that have arisen in the existing historiography. The study is divided into three broad sections: captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war itself, comparative studies of specific categories of prisoners, and the repatriation and reintegration of prisoners after the war.
Last Citadel
David L. Robbins
Author : David L. Robbins
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307418180
Last Citadel by David L. Robbins Pdf
One nation taking a desperate gamble of war. Another fighting for survival. Two armies locked in a bloody cataclysm that will decide history. . . David L. Robbins has won widespread acclaim for his powerful and splendidly researched novels of World War II. Now he casts his brilliant vision on one of the most terrifying--and most crucial--battles of the war: the Battle of Kursk, Hitler’s desperate gamble to defeat Russia, in the final German offensive on the eastern front. Last Citadel Spring 1943. In the west, Germany strengthens its choke hold on France. To the south, an Allied invasion looms imminent. But the greatest threat to Hitler’s dream of a Thousand Year Reich lies east, where his forces are pitted in a death match with a Russian enemy willing to pay any price to defend the motherland. Hitler rolls the dice, hurling his best SS forces and his fearsome new weapon, the Mark VI Tiger tank, in a last-ditch summer offensive, code-named Citadel. The Red Army around Kursk is a sprawling array of infantry, armor, fighter planes, and bombers. Among them is an intrepid group of women flying antiquated biplanes; they swoop over the Germans in the dark, earning their nickname, “Night Witches.” On the ground, Private Dimitri Berko gallops his tank, the Red Army’s lithe little T-34, like a Cossack steed. In the turret above Dimitri rides his son, Valya, a Communist sergeant who issues his father orders while the war widens the gulf between them. In the skies, Dimitri’s daughter, Katya, flies with the Night Witches, until she joins a ferocious band of partisans in the forests around Kursk. Like Russia itself, the Berko family is suffering the fury and devastation of history’s most titanic tank battle while fighting to preserve what is sacred–their land, their lives, and each other–as Hitler flings against them his most potent armed force. Inexorable and devastating, a company of Mark VI Tiger tanks is commanded by one extraordinary SS officer, a Spaniard known as la Daga, the Dagger. He’d suffered a terrible wound at the hands of the Russians: now he has returned with a cold fury to exact his revenge. And above it all, one quiet man makes his own plan to bring Citadel crashing down and reshape the fate of the world. A remarkable story of men and arms, loyalty and betrayal, Last Citadel propels us into the claustrophobic confines of a tank in combat, into the tension of guerrilla tactics, and across the smoking charnel of one of history’s greatest battlefields. Panoramic, authentic, and unforgettable, it reverberates long after the last cannon sounds.
Servants of Evil: Voices from Hitlers Army
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Coda Books Ltd
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781906783587
Servants of Evil: Voices from Hitlers Army by Anonim Pdf
History is always written by the victors. . . this is the other sie of the coin. This is the front line perspective on World War II as seen through the eyes of the losing side, the men who fought for Hitler. These are the recollections of the men of the Kriegsmarine, the Luftwaffe and the Heer. Altogether they formed the Wehrmacht which in 1940 was the most efficient fighting force the world had ever seen. By 1942 the tide had begun to turn and the men of the once mighty Wehrmacht fought in vain at Stalingrad, El Alamein, Monte Cassino, Caen and Berlin. These are the U-boat men, the Panzer crews and the air aces. This is military history at its best and most enlightening as told from primary sources. Written by Emmy award winning author Bob Carruthers, this unique publication documents the primary accounts of many of those who fought in Hitler's army.
Voices from the Luftwaffe
Bob Carruthers
Author : Bob Carruthers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781591116
Voices from the Luftwaffe by Bob Carruthers Pdf
"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 Gring ??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 Gtterdmmerung. 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'.
Servants of Evil
Bob Carruthers
Author : Bob Carruthers
Publisher : Zenith Imprint
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 076032171X
Servants of Evil by Bob Carruthers Pdf
History, they say, is written by the victors, and to date that has certainly been true of World War II. What few German accounts do exist are, furthermore, generally written by those in positions of authority, not by the soldiers and airmen who fought in the front line. Servants of Evil shows us, for the first time, the Second World War as seen from "the other side" — by the boys and men who went to war believing in the Reich and in victory, only to see the myth of German invincibility crumble in the face of supposed impossibilities: the fighting ability and determination of the Russians; the strength of the Royal Air Force; the defeat of the U-boats by improved radar technology; the might and remarkable manufacturing capability of the USA — and, finally, the fall of Berlin.
Climatological Data
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : OSU:32435025217118
Climatological Data by Anonim Pdf
Climatological Data for the United States by Sections
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UOM:39015012348887
Climatological Data for the United States by Sections by Anonim Pdf
Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.
Climatological Data
United States. Weather Bureau
Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : IND:30000103774067
Climatological Data by United States. Weather Bureau Pdf
Climatological Data, National Summary
United States. Weather Bureau
Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UOM:39015039374338