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Author : James Sidney Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1412658924
Author : James Lucas
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781804366356
The year the once all-conquering German army was finally defeated. By the summer of 1944, Germany was in crisis. The Allied landings had forced another battle arena upon an army already fighting on the vast Eastern front. The July bomb plot attempt on Hitler’s life made the dictator even more paranoid and suspicious of his own military commanders. In this absorbing study, James Lucas examines the army’s changing structure and weaponry throughout this final year of war, and reveals the often surprising measures taken to confront a situation Hitler had never contemplated, and never really accepted. From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and on to the Fall of Berlin, the author examines the last battles fought by the German army – which had by no means given up its struggle – as the Allies swept across Europe, charting the very unique experiences of a military force moving from dominance to defeat. Perfect for readers of Antony Beevor and Max Hastings.
Author : James Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 180436634X
Author : James Lucas
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012808997
Summarizes the tension, turmoil, and tragedy of the last days of the Third Reich.
Author : Robert M. Citino
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700630387
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 : United States. Army. Army, 3rd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015025016604
Author : Theodore Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258517116
Additional Contributor Is Robert E. McHaffie.
Author : Theodore Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UCAL:$B791679
"In the 84th Infantry Division, a unique experiment was attempted. As soon as the division was sent into combat, our own historical section was formed. It was encouraged to go direct to the source, to the men themselves, from the commanding general to any private, for the most complete, firsthand information on every action." -- from front flap of dust jacket.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : UOM:39015040046834
Army - the capture of the bridge at Remagen, and finally the overrunning of Germany.
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0811733718
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 : Harold R. Winton
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700623846
If the Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last gasp, it was also America's proving ground-the largest single action fought by the U.S. Army in World War II. Taking a new approach to an old story, Harold Winton widens our field of vision by showing how victory in this legendary campaign was built upon the remarkable resurrection of our truncated interwar army, an overhaul that produced the effective commanders crucial to GI success in beating back the Ardennes counteroffensive launched by Hitler's forces. Winton's is the first study of the Bulge to examine leadership at the largely neglected level of corps command. Focusing on the decisions and actions of six Army corps commanders—Leonard Gerow, Troy Middleton, Matthew Ridgway, John Millikin, Manton Eddy, and J. Lawton Collins—he recreates their role in this epic struggle through a mosaic of narratives that take the commanders from the pre-war training grounds of America to the crucible of war in the icy-cold killing fields of Belgium and Luxembourg. Winton introduces the story of each phase of the Bulge with a theater-level overview of the major decisions and events that shaped the corps battles and, for the first time, fully integrates the crucial role of airpower into our understanding of how events unfolded on the ground. Unlike most accounts of the Ardennes that chronicle only the periods of German and American initiative, Winton's study describes an intervening middle phase in which the initiative was fiercely contested by both sides and the outcome uncertain. His inclusion of the principal American and German commanders adds yet another valuable layer to this rich tapestry of narrative and analysis. Ultimately, Winton argues that the flexibility of the corps structure and the competence of the men who commanded the six American corps that fought in the Bulge contributed significantly to the ultimate victory. Chronicling the human drama of commanding large numbers of soldiers in battle, he has produced an artful blend of combat narrative, collective biography, and institutional history that contributes significantly to the broader understanding of World War II as a whole. With the recent modularization of the U.S. Army division, which makes this command echelon a re-creation of the corps of World War II, Corps Commanders of the Bulge also has distinct relevance to current issues of Army transformation.
Author : Rolf-Dieter Müller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0857450751
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855
Author : David T. Zabecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135812423
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Earl Ziemke
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782899778
[Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.