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 7th Infantry Division Wehrmacht 1934-1945 (Wehrmacht Infantry Divisions)
7th Infantry Division Wehrmacht 1934-1945 (Wehrmacht Infantry Divisions)
7th Infantry Division Wehrmacht 1934-1945 (Wehrmacht Infantry Divisions)
Atenas Editores Asociados
2015
Format: EPUB
Size: 2,7 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 199

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 Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign: 1943 to 1945 (Images of War)
Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign: 1943 to 1945 (Images of War)
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones
Armoured Warfare in the Italian Campaign: 1943 to 1945 (Images of War)
Pen and Sword Military
2013
Format: EPUB
Pages: 160
Size: 8 Mb

The Second World War campaigns in North Africa, on the Eastern Front and in northwest Europe were dominated by armored warfare, but the battles in Italy were not. The mountainous topography of the Italian peninsula ensured that it was foremost an infantry war, so it could be said that tanks played a supporting role. Yet, as Anthony Tucker-Jones demonstrates, in the battles fought from the Allied landings in Sicily in 1943 to the German surrender after the crossing of the Po in 1945, tanks, self-propelled guns and armored cars were essential elements in the operations of both sides.

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 Typhoon, the Other Enemy: The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944
Typhoon, the Other Enemy: The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944
Author: C. Raymond Calhoun
Typhoon, the Other Enemy: The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944
Naval Institute Press
1981
Format: PDF
Pages: 266
Language: English
Size: 30.6 MB

This is the story of the U.S. Third Fleet's battle with a devastating typhoon in the Philippine Sea on 18 December 1944. It is about men and ships under conditions of extreme adversity, and tells of their desperate, often heroic, sometimes tragic struggle to survive. The account describes the loss of seven hundred and ninety officers and men, three destroyers, and well over a hundred aircraft. It notes that two of the three ships lost were Farragut-class destroyers, long known to have low margins of stability. Included is an eyewitness account of the experience of the Dewey, a destroyer of the same class, which rolled to the limit of its capacity to recover—in the words of Hanson Baldwin, "perhaps the first vessel in the history of the sea to survive such a roll." 1 Some of these events raised questions about destroyer stability and the responsibility of the Bureau of Ships for destroyer design. This book addresses those questions.

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 A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron (Forgotten Heroes of World War II)
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron (Forgotten Heroes of World War II)
Author: Lynne Olson, Stanley Cloud
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron (Forgotten Heroes of World War II)
Alfred A. Knopf
2003
Format: PDF
Pages: 520
Language: English
Size: 81.4 MB

A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known, and brilliantly told story of the scores of Polish fighter pilots who helped save England during the Battle of Britain and of their stunning betrayal by the United States and England at the end of World War II.Centering on five pilots of the renowned Kosciuszko Squadron, the authors show how the fliers, driven by their passionate desire to liberate their homeland, came to be counted among the most heroic and successful fighter pilots of World War II. Drawing on the Kosciuszko Squadron's unofficial diary--filled with the fliers' personal experiences in combat--and on letters, interviews, memoirs, histories, and photographs, the authors bring the men and battles of the squadron vividly to life. We follow the principal characters from their training before the war, through their hair-raising escape from Poland to France and then, after the fall of France, to Britain. We see how, first treated with disdain by the RAF, the Polish pilots played a crucial role during the Battle of Britain, where their daredevil skill in engaging German Messerschmitts in close and deadly combat while protecting the planes in their own groups soon made them legendary. And we learn what happened to them after the war, when their country was abandoned and handed over to the Soviet Union.A Question of Honor also gives us a revelatory history of Poland during World War II and of the many thousands in the Polish armed forces who fought with the Allies. It tells of the country's unending struggle against both Hitler and Stalin, its long battle for independence, and the tragic collapse of that dream in the "peace" that followed. Powerful, moving, deeply involving, A Question of Honor is an important addition to the literature of World War II.

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 Weapons and Technology of World War II
Weapons and Technology of World War II
Author: Windsor Chorlton
Weapons and Technology of World War II (20th Century Perspectives)
Heinemann Library
2002
Format: PDF
Pages: 54
Language: English
Size: 70.5 MB

This book examines the changes in weapons and tactics that impacted the way war was waged during World War II.

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 Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign (Images of War)
Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign (Images of War)
Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones
Pen & Sword Military
Images of War
2012
ISBN 13: 978-1848845671
Pages: 144
Language: English
Format: EPUB
Size: 10 MB

The North African campaign, the struggle of the Italians and Germans against the Allies in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia between 1940 and 1943, was a war of movement and maneuver, of dramatic changes of fortune, and it was a war in which mechanized forces - tanks in particular - excelled. Compared with the heavily populated landscapes of northwest Europe, the empty open spaces of North Africa appeared to be ideal operating terrain for tanks, yet the harsh desert conditions tested men and machinery to the limit, as Anthony Tucker-Jones demonstrates in this remarkable selection of wartime photographs. The use of armor during the entire course of the campaign is covered, from the initial Italian offensive, the arrival of Rommel's Panzergruppe Afrika, the battles fought along the North African shore which culminated in El Alamein, then the Allied advance into Tunisia which led to the final defeat of the German and Italian armies. The images give a fascinating inside view of combat, but they also reveal the daily routines of tank warfare 65 years ago, and give a vivid impression of what it was like to fight in and live with the tanks of the day - the German Mk IIIs and Mk IVs and the Tiger, the British Matildas and Valentines and the American Grants and Shermans that contributed so much to the Allied victory. Training, maintenance, transportation and supply are shown, as are the daily lives of the tank crews and extreme conditions in which they worked and fought.

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 World War II: Ground, Sea & Air Battles
World War II: Ground, Sea & Air Battles
Author: Karen Farrington
World War II: Ground, Sea & Air Battles
Abbeydale Press
2003
Format: PDF
Pages: 244
Language: English
Size: 32.7 MB

World War II Ground, Sea & Air Battles is the harrowing yet often uplifting story of World War II, told through narrative spiced with first-hand accounts by those who fought and lived through those 'dark hours' of the 2,000-day conflict.

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 The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War II (vol.5 1943-1944)
The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War II (vol.5 1943-1944)
Author: Peter Young
The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War II (vol.5 1943-1944)
Marshall Cavendish Limited
1985
Format: PDF
Pages: 302
Language: English
Size: 70.8 MB

The Second World War still affects every one of us, even those who were not born in 1945. To ignore its story is in a sense to run the risk that it may all happen again. Here at last is the chance to read the unvarnished truth written with the authority of one who was deeply interested in his study, and is free from the least taint of bias. If you were to be allowed to read only one account of the history of the Second World War, then it should be Colonel Bauer 's.

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 Naval Aviation in the Second World War (Images of War)
Naval Aviation in the Second World War (Images of War)
Author: Philip Kaplan
Naval Aviation in the Second World War (Images of War)
Pen and Sword Military
2013
Format: EPUB
Pages: 160
Size: 6 Mb

The first aircraft carriers made their appearance in the early years of World War I. These first flattops were improvised affairs built on hulls that had been laid down with other purposes in mind, and it was not until the 1920s that the first purpose-built carriers were launched, but no-one was as yet clear about the role of the carriers and they were largely unloved by the 'battleship admirals' who still believed that their great dreadnoughts were the ultimate capital ships. World War II changed all that, At Taranto, Pearl Harbor, and in the North Atlantic, the carrier, the ugly duckling of the world's navies, proved itself to be the dreadnought nemesis. As the tide of war turned, the fast attack carriers of the U.S. Navy spearheaded the counter-attack in the Pacific while the makeshift escort carriers helped to seal the fate of the German U-boats in the Atlantic.

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 Armoured Warfare on the Eastern Front (Images of War)
Armoured Warfare on the Eastern Front (Images of War)
Armoured Warfare on the Eastern Front
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones
Pen and Sword
Images of War
2011
ISBN: 1848842805
Pages: 160
Language: English
Format: EPUB
Size: 8 MB

On the Eastern Front during the Second World War massive Soviet and German tank armies clashed in a series of battles that were unmatched in their scale and ferocity. Several of them have attained almost legendary status. But epic encounters such as these were only part of a broader story, as Anthony Tucker-Jones demonstrates in this selection of graphic photographs.
While the images give a fascinating inside view of combat, they also reveal the daily routines of tank warfare 65 years ago. Training, maintenance, transportation and supply are shown, as are the daily lives of the tank crews and the often appalling conditions in which they worked and fought. The photographs also record in vivid detail the destructive reality of armored warfare, from the initial triumphant advance of the German panzers deep into the Soviet Union to the massive Red Army counter-offensives which drove the German armies back to Berlin.

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 Handbook On German Military Forces - The Illustrated Edition - Volume 1 (Hitler's War Machine)
Handbook On German Military Forces - The Illustrated Edition - Volume 1 (Hitler's War Machine)
Author: Bob Carruthers
Handbook On German Military Forces - The Illustrated Edition - Volume 1 (Hitler's War Machine)
Coda Books Ltd
2013
Format: EPUB
Size: 5,8 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 394
Fully illustrated throughout with charts, tables, maps, illustrations, diagrams and photographs, this authoritative reference book to the German Army during World War II is indispensable for the military enthusiast.
Written in 1945 by the US War Department as an essential guide for the American soldier in Europe, it examines the structure of the Wehrmacht, its organisation from the High Command down, tactics, fortifications and defenses, logistics, weapons, equipment, uniforms and the Air Force.
Available for the first time as an ebook, this is the first volume of three, and includes an in depth study of the German military system, the structure of the field forces and other military and auxiliary organisations, including the SS and the Gestapo.

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 Day Fighters in Defence of Reich: A Way Diary, 1942-45
Day Fighters in Defence of Reich: A Way Diary, 1942-45
Author: Donald Caldwell
Day Fighters in Defence of Reich: A Way Diary, 1942-45
Frontline Books
ISBN: 1848325258
2012
Format: EPUB
Size: 19,7 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 480
This book is a detailed, comprehensive daily reference to the air operations flown by the Luftwaffe against the daylight strategic missions by the United States Army Air Force against the German Reich and the western zone occupied by Germany. It is a unique look at the German air defenses as they struggled to cope with the threat posed by the American 8th and 15th Air Forces, which were charged with destroying Germany's critical war industries and wresting control of the air over the Reich from the Luftwaffe. The previous volume in this series, The Luftwaffe over Germany: Defense of the Reich is an award-winning narrative history of these defenses.

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 Iwo Jima 1945 (Battle Story)
Iwo Jima 1945 (Battle Story)
Author: Andrew Rawson
Iwo Jima 1945 (Battle Story)
Spellmount
2012
Format: EPUB
Pages: 159
Size: 9 Mb
Language: English

Operation Detachment, the invasion of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest fighting of the Pacific campaign. U. S. Marines supported by the Navy and Air Force fought the Japanese both over and underground on the island of volcanic ash, in a battle which was immortalized by the raising of the Stars and Stripes above Mount Suribachi. It was a battle that the Japanese could not win but they were determined to die trying; of the 18,000-strong garrison, only 200 were taken prisoner.

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 Britain Alone June 1940 to December 1941
Britain Alone June 1940 to December 1941
Author: Paul Lucas
Britain Alone June 1940 to December 1941 (On Target Special No2)
Aviation Workshop
2003
ISBN: 190464306X
Format: PDF
Size: 25,7 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 72
Between the fall of France in June 1940 and Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the British Isles stood completely alone without a major European ally in the struggle against Nazi Germany. Even when the Soviet Union was brought in to the war in far off eastern Europe, it was by no means certain that an alliance between Britain and the Soviet Union would last for more that a few months before the Soviets would be overrun and defeated, such was the initial success of 'Operation Barbarossa'. It was only with the entry of the United States in to World War Two, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, that the ultimate path to victory over Nazi Germany became clearer.
The eighteen months between June 1940 and December 1941 saw many anomalies and significant changes to the camouflage and markings of British military aircraft which were operating in many different parts of the world and makes for a fascinating period to study. To record every facet of these camouflage and markings during this time however would be a task which would require a book many times the size of this volume. Instead, this On Target Special seek to examine some of the lesser known and more unusual aspects of British camouflage and markings practices through a series of essays chronologically grouped around the period, in three specific Theatres of Operations, namely the Air Defence of the United Kingdom, the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in the Mediterranean and Middle East.

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 Anzio: Italy 1944
Anzio: Italy 1944
Author: Ian Blackwell
Anzio: Italy 1944
Pen and Sword Military
Battleground Europe
ISBN: 1783409983
2006
Format: EPUB
Pages: 192
Size: 18 Mb
Language: English

In an attempt to outflank the German Gustav Line running across Italy, Operation SHINGLE was launched on January 22nd 1944. Achieving complete surprise, the Allies made a successful landing at Anzio, but paused rather than pushing quickly inland, a delay which gave the Germans time to seal off the area and to counterattack the beachhead.

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 Stalingrad - The Turning Point
Stalingrad - The Turning Point
Author: Geoffrey Jukes
Stalingrad - The Turning Point
Ballantine Books
1978
Format: PDF
Pages: 164
Language: English
Size: 24.2 MB
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Stalingrad was the most long drawnout battle of the Second World War, and proved the most crucial. Geoffrey Jukes, who has made a distinguished mark as an expert on the Eastern Front, has written an account of this momentous struggle that is worthy of its theme.

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 Thunder Gods: The Kamikaze Pilots Tell Their Story
Thunder Gods: The Kamikaze Pilots Tell Their Story
Author: Hatsuho Naitao
Thunder Gods: The Kamikaze Pilots Tell Their Story
Kodansha International
1989
Format: PDF
Pages: 224
Language: English
Size: 29.2 MB

Thunder Gods is a definitive, absorbing, comprehensive, fascinating tale that breaks new ground. The best account of the kamikaze yet, It Illustrates planning, weapon, and organization of this specific suicide unit, and depicts pilots as humans, not desperates strapped to bombs.

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 Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten Army
Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten Army
Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten Army
Author: Barnaby Phillips
Oneworld Publications
2014
ISBN: 1780745222
Pages: 336
Language: English
Format: EPUB
Size: 12 MB

Named one of the Best Books of 2014 by NPR
"Riveting. It's an extraordinary story, well-researched and beautifully told — but not about the World War II you might know. Barnaby Phillips writes about humanity and compassion from the perspective of a Nigerian soldier whose forgotten colonial unit fought for the British Empire in then-Burma. Sixteen-year-old Isaac Fadoyebo is one of the "Burma Boys" who found themselves battling determined Japanese soldiers far away from home. Wounded and left for dead in the jungle, Isaac and Sierra Leonean David Kargbo survive only thanks to the goodness of a local villager, Shuyiman, and his family. Phillips delves deep into relationships, identity and much more in this stunning book. I couldn't put it down."—Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR correspondent
In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100,000 African soldiers were taken from Britain’s colonies to fight the Japanese in the Burmese jungles. They performed heroically, yet their contribution has been largely ignored. Barnaby Phillips travelled to Nigeria and Burma in search of "Burma Boy" Isaac Fadoyebo, the family who saved his life, and the legacy of an Empire. This is Isaac's Story.

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 Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945
Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945
Author: Newland S.J.
Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945
Routledge
1991
Format: pdf
Size: 16 mb
Language: English

The Cossacks who wore German uniforms saw their service not as treason to the motherland, but as an episode in the revolution of 1917, part of an ongoing struggle against Moscow and against Communism. Their reward was forced repatriation into Stalin's Gulag at the hands of Western powers in 1945.
Using a wide variety of resources, this book provides a detailed examination of the background of German - or more specifically Nazi - attitudes toward the Soviet peoples. With this background established, the contradictory and amoral policy of National Socialism toward the eastern volunteers is examined, culminating in a study of German attitudes and policies toward the Cossacks. The book then traces the recruitment, training and commitment to battle of the Cossack Division, and its later enlargement into the 15th Cossack Cavalry Corps in 1945.
This is the first history of Cossack troops in German service in the English language. It is to be hoped that it will provide the impetus for more research on this topic, as well as on the other Soviet nationalities in German service.

Contents:
Barbarossa: its Origins and Successes.
Exceptions to the Rule.
Who Can Wear the Field Grey?
The Cossacks: the Tsar’s Praetorian Force.
The De-Slavization of the Cossacks.
Mielau: Organization and Training.
Self-Government for Soviet Nationalities - a Wehrmacht initiative.
Who Leads the Cossacks? Who Champions their Cause?
The Cossack Division in Combat.
Requiem for the Cossack Corps.
Appendices.

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