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Author : Geoffrey Jukes
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435891340
Outlines events on the Eastern Front of World War II from the 1941 German the invasion of the Soviet Union to Stalin's declaration of war with Japan in 1945
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190061012
The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War IIAt the conference held in Tehran November 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: the US Air Force wouldestablish bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Though pushing relentlessly for the United States and Great Britain to do more to help the war effort - the Soviet body count was staggering - Stalin, recalling the presence of foreign troops during the Russian Revolution, balked. His concern was thatthe American presence would inflame regional and ideological differences. Eventually in early 1944, Stalin was persuaded to give in, and Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated. B-17 Superfortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the Poltova region (in what is today Ukraine).As Plokhy's fascinating and utterly original book shows, what happened on these airbases mirrors the fate of the Grand Alliance itself. While both sides were fighting for Germany's unconditional surrender, differences arose that no common purpose could overcome. Soviet secret policeman watched overthe Americans, shadowing every move, and eventually trying to prevent fraternization between American airmen and local women. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the limitations of Soviet air defenses. Relations soured and the operations went south. Based on previously inaccessiblearchives, Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front offers a bottom-up history of the Grand Alliance itself, showing how it first began to collapse on the airfields of World War II.
Author : Lee Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317865032
Russia's engagement with Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II was ferocious, unprecedented and bloody, costing millions of civilian and military lives. In this challenging new book, Lee Baker distinguishes myth from reality and deflates the idea that this war, while gargantuan in scale, was in essence a war like any other.
Author : Chris Bellamy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307481139
In Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history. The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war, and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the two dictators was unceremoniously broken, and examines its far-reaching consequences, arguing that the cost of victory was ultimately too much for the Soviet Union to bear. With breadth of scope and a surfeit of new information, this is the definitive history of a conflict whose reverberations are still felt today.
Author : Bastian Matteo Scianna
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030265243
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 : James Lucas
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473841222
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 : Robert Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811767842
Stackpole’s Battle Briefings series offers accessible and insightful summaries of battles, commanders, and other military history topics. This volume covers the epic clash between the Germans and Soviets on the Eastern Front during World War II. Highlights include Operation Barbarossa, the massive battles at Stalingrad and Kursk, and the final, desperate resistance of the Germans as the Red Army closed in. Throughout are accounts from the turrets of T-34 and Tiger tanks and from the men who fought, often hand-to-hand, in the snow, mud, and dust of the Eastern Front.
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316084079
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.
Author : Duncan Anderson,Lloyd Clark,Stephen Walsh
Publisher : Campaigns of World War II
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1782746196
The Eastern Front gives an authoritative account of the epic clash between two infamous dictators, Hitler and Stalin, as they vied for supremacy during World War II. Exploring in detail the German and Soviet armies in 1941, it covers all the most infamous campaigns and offensive operations. A selection of action photos plus outstanding illustrations and art showcase the main battles, vehicles, uniforms, maps, and equipment.
Author : Norman Stone
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141938851
'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' Niall Ferguson 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and Russian sources, it sharply revises traditional assumptions about the First World War.' Michael Howard
Author : Konstantin Pleshakov
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618773619
Stalin's cunning and ruthlessness brought him to supreme power in the Soviet Union. Yet in the summer of 1941 he appeared to lose his touch. With unparalleled access to the Soviet archives, this text reveals why the dictator behaved as he did.
Author : Alexander Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020795
A major new account of the Soviet Union at war which charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army.
Author : Nikolai Litvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123257326
Litvin's stark, candid memoir focuses on his more than two years of service in the Red Army during its war with Germany. Originally written in 1962 and recently revised through extended interviews between author and translator, the result is a gripping account--in a straightforward, matter-of-fact tone--of the trials and tribulations of being a common Soviet soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Author : Ronald Smelser,Edward J. Davies, ll,Edward J. Davies (II)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521833653
Some Americans are receptive to a positive interpretation of German military conduct on the Russian front in World War II.
Author : Boris Sokolov
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526742278
“This English translation of the original Russian work is thought provoking, challenging the ‘official’ version of what happened” during World War II (Firetrench). The memory of the Second World War on the Eastern Front—still referred to in modern Russia as the Great Patriotic War—is an essential element of Russian identity and history, as alive today as it was in Stalin’s time. It is represented as a defining episode, a positive historical myth that sustains the Russian national idea and unites the majority of Russian citizens. As a result, as Boris Sokolov shows in this powerful and thought-provoking study, the heroic and tragic side of the war is highlighted while the dark side—the incompetent, negligent and even criminal way the war was run—is overlooked. Although almost eighty years have passed since the defeat of Nazi Germany, he demonstrates that many of the fabrications put forward during the war and immediately afterwards persist into the present day. In a sequence of incisive chapters he uncovers the truth about famous wartime episodes that have been consistently misrepresented. His bold reinterpretation should go some way towards dispelling the enduring myths about the Great Patriotic War. It is necessary reading for anyone who is keen to understand how it continues to be distorted in Russia today.
