War On The Eastern Front 1941 1945

Author : James Lucas
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473841222

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War on the Eastern Front by James Lucas Pdf

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 : Geoffrey Jukes
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435891340

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World War II: The Eastern Front 1941-1945 by Geoffrey Jukes Pdf

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 : James Lucas
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000043812844

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War on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945 by James Lucas Pdf

Text and photos record the conditions and experiences of German soldiers on the battle front with Russia.

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473861640

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The Eastern Front Air War, 1941–1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones Pdf

This lavishly illustrated WWII history examines the bitter aerial combat of the Eastern Front through rare wartime photographs and informative text. Though the air war was a major aspect of the Eastern Front conflict, it has long been neglected by historians. Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history offers a vividly detailed introduction to the subject. With more than 150 archival images—most of which have never been published before—this volume examines Stalin’s Red Air Force and Hitlers Luftwaffe, their equipment, and the role they played in supporting the war on the ground. Just before Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Stalin had decimated the leadership of the Red Air Force in a series of purges. Thousands of Russian fighter aircraft were swiftly destroyed in the German Blitzkrieg. But a remarkable recovery followed as the Red Air Force turned the tide against the ravages of the Luftwaffe to wrestle back air superiority by 1944.

Author : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399090049

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Waffen-SS Armour on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945 by Ian Baxter Pdf

An illustrated history of Nazi Germany’s Panzer units along the Eastern Front during World War II. Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, codename Operation Barbarossa, was arguably the pivotal moment of the Second World War. Initially the onslaught was staggeringly successful with, as the superb contemporary images in this book show, Waffen-SS armored divisions leading the charge. But the Nazis had underestimated the Russians’ determination to defend their homeland and the logistical problems compounded by the extreme winter weather conditions. After early victories such as the recapture of Kharkov in early 1943 and the Kursk offensive, commanders and crews of armored vehicles such as Pz.Kpfw.I, II, III, IV, Panther, Tiger, King Tiger, assault and self-propelled guns had to adapt their tactics and equipment to what became a desperate defensive withdrawal eventually back across a scarred and devastated Eastern Front. Even during the last months of the war as the Panzers withdrew through Poland and into the Reich, these exhausted elite units, broken down into small battle groups or Kampfgruppen, fought to the bitter end. With authoritative text supported by a plethora of rare fully captioned photographs, this classic Images of War book informs and inspires the reader revealing the key role played by Waffen-SS Panzer units in this most bitter campaign.

Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461646839

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War of Annihilation by Geoffrey P. Megargee Pdf

On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theater. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts of the country in ruins. The death and destruction would result not just from military operations but also from the systematic killing and abuse that the German army, police, and SS directed against Jews, Communists, and ordinary citizens. In War of Annihilation, noted military historian Geoffrey P. Megargee provides a clear, concise history of the Germans' opening campaign of conquest and genocide in 1941. By drawing on the best of military and Holocaust scholarship, Megargee dispels the myths that have distorted the role of Germany's military leadership in both the military operations themselves and the unthinkable crimes that were part of them.

Author : Erhard Raus,Steven H. Newton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786739707

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Panzer Operations by Erhard Raus,Steven H. Newton Pdf

Drawing from post-war reports commissioned by U.S. Army intelligence, World War II historian Steven H. Newton has translated, compiled, and edited the battle accounts of one of Germany's finest panzer commanders and a skilled tactician of tank warfare. Throughout most of the war, Erhard Raus was a highly respected field commander in the German-Soviet war on the eastern front, and after the war he wrote an insightful analysis of German strategy in that campaign.The Raus memoir covers the Russian campaign from the first day of the war to his relief from command at Hitler's order in the spring of 1945. It includes a detailed examination of the 6th Panzer Division's drive to Leningrad, Raus's own experiences in the Soviet winter counteroffensive around Moscow, the unsuccessful attempt to relieve Stalingrad, and the final desperate battles inside Germany at the end of the war. His battlefield experience and keen tactical eye make his memoir especially valuable for scholars, and his narrative is as readable as Heinz Guderian's celebrated Panzer Leader.

Author : James Lucas
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1935149199

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War on the Eastern Front by James Lucas Pdf

A grounds-eye view of the Wehrmacht s titanic World War II struggle against the Soviet Union . . . Dawn on Sunday 22 June 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle. James Lucas concentrates on the military experiences of German soldiers and reveals just what it was like to be numbered among their ranks. For the Germans this theater of war was unlike any other. They were faced with the unremitting hostility of the climate, the Soviet people, and even, at times, their own leadership. They saw epic battles such as Stalingrad and Kursk, and yet it was the daily war of attrition that ultimately proved fatal for Hitler s ambition and the German military machine. In a vivid account of the misery of war and its power to despoil both nations and individuals, James Lucas uncovers the full range of the German experience during this long and terrible campaign."

Author : O. Bartov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230598249

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The Eastern Front, 1941–45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare by O. Bartov Pdf

Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He describes the physical hardship, the discipline and morale at the front, and analyses the social, educational and political background of the junior officers who formed the backbone of the German army. Only with these factors in mind - together with the knowledge of the extent of National Socialist indoctrination - can we begin to explain the criminal activities of the German army in Russia and the extent of involvement of the army in the execution of Hitler's brutal policies.

Author : Keith Cumins
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 161200752X

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Cataclysm by Keith Cumins Pdf

Comprehensive overview of the war on the Eastern Front from the commencement of Operation Barbarossa in 1941 to the last battle in Berlin in 1945.

Author : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781591864

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Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 by Ian Baxter Pdf

This book in the popular Images of War series covers the deeds of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. With extensive text and in-depth captions with many rare and unpublished photographs it is an absorbing analysis of the part they played on the Eastern Front. It reveals in detail how this elite band of men fought during the opening phase of Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia, how it supported and took part in the victory at Kharkov, Demyansk and other battles in the Soviet Union. The book reveals the Waffen-SS's role at Kursk and how it was forced to withdraw in the face of overwhelming enemy superiority and were rushed from one danger zone to another to plug gaps in the front. Often these troops faced an enemy ten-times their strength and it was for this reason they were feared and respected by their enemy. Although by early May 1945, the Waffen-SS was all but destroyed, having battled across half Russia and gone on to protect the withdrawals of the rest of the German Army to the very gates of Berlin.

Author : Alexander Hill
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526786111

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The War on the Eastern Front by Alexander Hill Pdf

The RIA-Novosti press agency – now known as Sputnik in the West – has one of the best archives of Soviet Second World War photographs and for this remarkable book Alexander Hill has made a superb selection of them. These striking images record vividly, as only photographs can, the brutal conflict on the Eastern Front and the extraordinary experience of the soldiers and civilians who were caught up in it. Every aspect of the struggle is depicted – the fighting on the front lines and behind the lines, aerial combat and naval warfare, the ordeal of living under German occupation, the war industries and Lend-Lease and the massive sacrifices made at every level of Soviet society to defeat the Germans. The photographs and captions take the reader through the entire course of the war, from the Nazi-Soviet Pact and Soviet expansion into Poland, Finland and the Baltic Republics, through Operation Barbarossa and the German advances of 1941 and 1942, to the momentous battles at Stalingrad and Kursk and the sequence of massive offensives mounted by the Red Army that drove the Wehrmacht back to Berlin. The landscapes over which the armies moved, and the shattered towns and cities they left behind, are recorded as are individuals whose faces were captured by the camera during this devastating conflict over seventy years ago.

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750983136

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Slaughter on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones Pdf

In the summer of 1941, a collective madness overtook Adolf Hitler and his senior generals. They convinced themselves that they could take on and defeat a superpower in the making – the Soviet Union. Foolishly, they thought in a swift campaign they could smash the Red Army and force Stalin to sue for peace, despite dire warnings that Stalin was amassing a reserve army of more than 1 million men on the Volga. The end result would be such carnage that it would tear the German forces apart. In his major reassessment of the war on the Eastern Front, Anthony Tucker-Jones casts new light on the brutal fighting, including such astounding German defeats as at Stalingrad, Kursk, Minsk and, finally, Berlin. He controversially contends that from the very start intelligence officers on both sides failed to influence their leadership resulting in untold slaughter. He also reveals the shocking blunders by Hitler, Stalin and even Churchill that led to the appalling, needless destruction of Hitler's armed forces as early as the winter of 1941–42. Step by step, Tucker-Jones describes how the German war machine fought to its very last against a relentless enemy, fully aware that defeat was inevitable.

Author : J. N. Westwood
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : IND:30000081684924

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The Eastern Front by J. N. Westwood Pdf

Describes the battles, weapons, and men who took part in the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia in 1941.

Author : J. N. Westwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 060038585X

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Eastern Front by J. N. Westwood Pdf