The German Defeat In The East 1944 45

Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0811733718

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The German Defeat in the East 1944-45 by Samuel W. Mitcham Pdf

The last place a German soldier wanted to be in 1944 was the eastern front. That summer, Stalin hurled millions of men and thousands of tanks and planes against German forces across a broad front. In a series of massive, devastating battles, the Red Army decimated Hitler's Army Group Center in Belorussua, annihilated Army Group South in the Ukraine, and inflicted crushing casualties while taking Rumania and Hungary. By the time Budapest fell to the Soviets in Febuary 1945, the German Army had been slaughtered--and the Third Reich was in its death throes.

Author : Prit Buttar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780964645

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Battleground Prussia by Prit Buttar Pdf

An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil. The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions perished. From the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of East and West Prussia to the final surrender in the Vistula estuary, this book recounts in chilling detail the desperate struggle of soldiers and civilians alike. These brutal campaigns are brought vividly to life by a combination of previously untold testimony and astute strategic analysis recognising a conflict of unprecedented horror and suffering.

Author : Nik Cornish
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89091985473

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Armageddon Ost by Nik Cornish Pdf

'Armageddon Ost' examines in detail the final six months of the Second World War on the Eastern Front. It records the gradual and inexorable march of the Red Army towards ultimate victory. It includes first-hand accounts from those who actually fought in the war.

Author : Prit Buttar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472837905

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The Reckoning by Prit Buttar Pdf

'The Reckoning is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I've ever read. Bravo.' – Peter Caddick-Adams, author and broadcaster From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, The Reckoning is a masterful re-evaluation of the fateful year of 1944, and how the Red Army irrevocably turned the tide of war until the final defeat within the heart of Germany itself was guaranteed. The fighting throughout the Ukraine and Romania was brutal, with the German defence dogged and desperate. But for too long the Wehrmacht had relied on the superior combat prowess of its fighting men. What had not been taken into account, however, was that the Red Army would not only rely on its sheer size, but would fine-tune its fighting performance from its senior commanders right down to the individual soldier battling both fear and the elements to take each line, each trench, each inch of land. Ultimately it is a story not of how the Germans lost, as is all too often told, but of how the Russians increasingly learned how to win.

Author : Paul Adair
Publisher : Rigel Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1898800073

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Hitler's Greatest Defeat by Paul Adair Pdf

"Provides more than ample strategic and operational detail and context about the operation...The human view of combat... is most revealing and significant."--"Journal of Slavic Military "Studies. It was a battle worse than the one at Stalingrad, and World War II's turning point, thanks to Hitler's strategic miscalculations. Succinct and groundbreaking, this analysis of the largely ignored, bloody conflict in Byelorussia reveals how the Nazis lost the Eastern Front. Their defeat cost 350,000 casualities--and left the war effort doomed and broken.

Author : George M. Nipe
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811711623

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Decision in the Ukraine by George M. Nipe Pdf

Myth-busting account of the summer of 1943 on the Eastern Front, one of World War II's turning pointsIncludes the Battle of KurskSpecial focus on the notorious 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf"

Author : Bastiaan Willems
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479721

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Violence in Defeat by Bastiaan Willems Pdf

Explores how the Wehrmacht's defensive conduct contributed to the radicalisation of behavioural patterns in Germany during the war's final months.

Author : Earl F. Ziemke
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Military Operations
ISBN : 0160882745

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Stalingrad to Berlin by Earl F. Ziemke Pdf

Author : Prit Buttar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1472895797

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Battleground Prussia by Prit Buttar Pdf

"The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions perished. From the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of East and West Prussia to the final surrender in the Vistula estuary, this book recounts in chilling detail the desperate struggle of soldiers and civilians alike. These brutal campaigns are brought vividly to life by a combination of previously untold testimony and astute strategic analysis recognising a conflict of unprecedented horror and suffering."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Earl F. Ziemke,Center of Military History
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1780392877

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Stalingrad to Berlin by Earl F. Ziemke,Center of Military History Pdf

Army Historical Series. CMH Pub. 30-5-1. Describes the German-Soviet conflict in World War II and the events that resulted in the Soviet Union becoming a dominant military power in Europe. Frist published in 1968. Illustrated.

Author : Christer Bergström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Earl Frederick Ziemke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:468757759

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Stalingrad to Berlin by Earl Frederick Ziemke Pdf

Author : Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461751557

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Retreat to the Reich by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. Pdf

The story of the Normandy campaign from a German perspective Covers every point of view, from soldiers in the field to generals at high command The Allied landings in France on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the German defeat in the West. Military historian Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., vividly recaptures the desperation of the Wehrmacht as its thin gray line finally snapped amidst brutal hedgerow-to-hedgerow fighting in Normandy and as the survivors fled the Allied steamroller in a mad dash back to the Reich. With colorful descriptions and informative details, Mitcham recounts the German military retreat and the erosion of Germany's stronghold in Europe--as viewed through the eyes of a defiant, but ultimately defeated, Wehrmacht.

Author : Stephen G. Fritz
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813140506

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Ostkrieg by Stephen G. Fritz Pdf

On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern front consumed enormous levels of resources and accounted for 75 percent of all German casualties. Despite the significance of this campaign to Germany and to the war as a whole, few English-language publications of the last thirty-five years have addressed these pivotal events. In Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East, Stephen G. Fritz bridges the gap in scholarship by incorporating historical research from the last several decades into an accessible, comprehensive, and coherent narrative. His analysis of the Russo-German War from a German perspective covers all aspects of the eastern front, demonstrating the interrelation of military events, economic policy, resource exploitation, and racial policy that first motivated the invasion. This in-depth account challenges accepted notions about World War II and promotes greater understanding of a topic that has been neglected by historians.

Author : Bastiaan Willems
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108846073

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Violence in Defeat by Bastiaan Willems Pdf

In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital Königsberg. He shows that the Wehrmacht's retreat into Germany, after three years of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front, contributed significantly to the spike of violence which occurred throughout the country immediately prior to defeat. Soldiers arriving with an ingrained barbarised mindset, developed on the Eastern Front, shaped the immediate environment of the area of operations, and of Nazi Germany as a whole. Willems establishes how the norms of the Wehrmacht as a retreating army impacted behavioural patterns on the home front, arguing that its presence increased the propensity to carry out violence in Germany.