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 Himmler's SS: Loyal to the Death's Head
Himmler's SS: Loyal to the Death's Head
Author: Robin Lumsden
Himmler's SS: Loyal to the Death's Head
The History Press
2009
ISBN: 0752450263
Format: EPUB
Size: 27,6 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 288
The real story of the SS, unlike its popular mythology, is so complex as to almost defy belief: it is a tale of intrigue and nepotism, of archaeology and Teutonism, of art and symbolism. This is a story of street fighters and convicted criminals becoming Ministers of State and police commanders; the story of charitable works and mass extermination being administered from the same building; and the story of boy generals directing vast heterogeneous armies on devastating campaigns of conquest. Fact is stranger than fiction in this look at the SS's wide-ranging effects on the police, racial policies, German history, education, the economy, and public life, as well as the uniforms and regalia which were carefully designed to set Himmler’s men apart as the new elite in Third Reich society. Fully illustrated, with rare images that show the "face" of the SS, this authoritative history will appeal to all with an interest in Hitler’s Third Reich.

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 Nazi Germany and the Arab world
Nazi Germany and the Arab world
Author: Nicosia, Francis
Nazi Germany and the Arab world
Language: English
New York: Cambridge University Press
2014

Format: pdf
Size: 16,8 mb

This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitler's assumption of power in January 1933 to 1944, a year following the final Axis defeat in and expulsion from North Africa in May 1943. It does so within the context of two central, interconnected issues in the larger history of National Socialism and the Third Reich, namely Nazi geopolitical interests and ambitions and the regime's racial ideology and policy. This book defines the relatively limited geopolitical interests of Nazi Germany in the Middle East and North Africa within the context of its relationships with the other European great powers and its policies with regard to the Arabs and Jews who lived in those areas

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 Inside Hitler's Headquarters 1939-45
Inside Hitler's Headquarters 1939-45
Author: Walter Warlimont
Inside Hitler's Headquarters 1939-45
Presidio Press
1991
Format: PDF
Pages: 568
Language: English
Size: 5.7 MB

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 The Fall of Malaya and Singapore (Images of War)
The Fall of Malaya and Singapore (Images of War)
Author: Jon Diamond
The Fall of Malaya and Singapore (Images of War)
Pen and Sword
2015
Format: EPUB
Pages: 224
Size: 28 Mb

In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita.

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 1 Group: Swift to Attack : Bomber Command's Unsung Heroes
1 Group: Swift to Attack : Bomber Command's Unsung Heroes
Author: Patrick Otter
1 Group: Swift to Attack : Bomber Command's Unsung Heroes
Pen and Sword
2013
Format: pdf
Size: 52Mb
Language: English

Following the recent unveiling of the monument to Bomber Command in London's Green Park, the publication of this lovingly crafted account of the exploits of oft-overlooked 1 Group is set to be a timely one. Patrick Otter combines an appropriate level of detail regarding operations, aircraft, bases and incidents, with accounts of human endurance and squadron fraternity, which works to create a thoroughly well researched account of the wartime proceedings of 1 Group which is rooted firmly in humanity. The book is heavily illustrated throughout with both images of aircraft and pilot profiles, supplementing the text perfectly and working further to humanize the accounts which the author relays, as well as satisfying the Aviation buffs curiosity for new and interesting images of aircraft in their wartime contexts. Although often considered a somewhat controversial operational unit, the bravery of the men who made up Bomber Command has never been in question. This book is further testament to that fact.

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 Barbarossa 3rd Reich Series
Barbarossa 3rd Reich Series
Barbarossa3rd Reich Series
Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books
Author:Time-Life Books
1990
Pages:192
Language:English
Format:pdf
Size:39 Mb

Recounts the Nazi invasion of Russia, describes the difficulties German soldiers faced from the harsh climate and terrain, and recounts the siege of Moscow and the retreat of German forces.

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 World War II The Pacific
World War II The Pacific
Author: Sean Sheehan
World War II The Pacific (Atlas of Conflicts)
Britannica
2004
ISBN: 0836856708
Format: EPUB
Size: 8,5 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 64
This series sets out to explain why the major wars of the 20th century started, to describe what happened, and to analyse how the results changed our world. Ages 10+ years.

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 The Luftwaffe in World War II (Images of War)
The Luftwaffe in World War II (Images of War)
Author: Francis Crosby
The Luftwaffe in World War II (Images of War)
Pen and Sword Military
2005
Format: EPUB
Pages: 272
Size: 53 Mb

World War Two Luftwaffe aircraft and their pilots have been a source of fascination and respect to aviation buffs since 1945.

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 Nimitz
Nimitz
Author: E.B. Potter
Nimitz
Naval Institute Press
1976
Format: PDF
Pages: 550
Language: English
Size: 77.2 MB

Fully covers Nimitz's naval career in addition to delving into his rural childhood and roles as husband and father.

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 Hitler’s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics And The Spanish Civil War
Hitler’s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics And The Spanish Civil War
Author: Pierpaolo Barbieri
Hitler’s Shadow Empire Nazi Economics And The Spanish Civil War
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674728858
2015
Format: PDF
Size: 3,1 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 368
Pitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco s Nationalists prevailed with German and Italian military assistance a clear instance, it seemed, of like-minded regimes joining forces in the fight against global Bolshevism. In Hitler s Shadow Empire "Pierpaolo Barbieri revises this standard account of Axis intervention in the Spanish Civil War, arguing that economic ambitions not ideology drove Hitler s Iberian intervention. The Nazis hoped to establish an economic empire in Europe, and in Spain they tested the tactics intended for future subject territories. The Nazis provided Franco s Nationalists with planes, armaments, and tanks, but behind this largesse was a Faustian bargain. Through weapons and material support, Germany gradually absorbed Spain into an informal empire, extending control over key Spanish resources in order to fuel its own burgeoning war industries. This plan was only possible and profitable because of Hitler s economic czar, Hjalmar Schacht, a wizard of international finance. His policies fostered the interwar German recovery and consolidated Hitler s dictatorship. Though Schacht s economic strategy was eventually abandoned in favor of a very different conception of racial empire, Barbieri argues it was in many ways a more effective strategic option for the Third Reich. Deepening our understanding of the Spanish Civil War by placing it in the context of Nazi imperial ambitions, Hitler s Shadow Empire" illuminates a fratricidal tragedy that still reverberates in Spanish life as well as the world war it heralded."

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 Behind Soviet Lines
Behind Soviet Lines
Author: David R. Higgins
Behind Soviet Lines: Hitler's Brandenburgers Capture the Maikop Oilfields 1942
Osprey Publishing
Osprey Raid 47
ISBN: 1782005994
2014
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages: 82
Size: 4 Mb
Language: English

In the summer of 1942, following the invasion of Russia the previous year, Hitler’s ‘Brandenburger’ commando units undertook a daring operation deep inside Soviet-held territory. Disguised as members of Stalin’s NKVD, the secret police dreaded by most Soviet citizens and soldiers, the Brandenburgers passed unsuspected past the Red Army’s checkpoints, before launching their surprise operation to seize the vital Soviet oil facilities around Maikop – delivering them intact into Nazi hands. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this expert assessment of the Maikop operation casts new light on German special-forces operations on the Eastern Front.

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 Air War Against Hitler's Germany
Air War Against Hitler's Germany
Author: Stephen W. Sears
Air War Against Hitler's Germany
American Heritage Publications
1964
Format: PDF
Pages: 156
Language: English
Size: 18 MB

There were other air wars fought during World War II-by Britons against Germans, by Germans against Russians, by Americans against Japanese, among others-but none was more dramatic nor more savage than America's air war against Germany. The air war over Europe proved to the world that havoc from the skies could be even more earth-shaking than any man could have dreamed. When the war ended every major city in Germany was in ruins. Of that destruction, and the aircraft that caused it, a German writer admitted that his own nation, in taking up the sword to conquer the world, had "summoned up those bands of furies which raced across the German skies."

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 Tiger I in Combat (Hitler's War Machine)
Tiger I in Combat (Hitler's War Machine)
Author: Bob Carruthers
Tiger I in Combat (Hitler's War Machine)
Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781591296
2013
Format: EPUB
Size: 2,4 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 128
"The Pz. Kpfw. VI with its heavy armor, dual purpose armament and fighting ability is basically an excellent tank." Major W. de l. Messenger, British Intelligence, 1944The Tiger I is the most famous tank in history. In the right hands, it enjoyed spectacular successes, but the Tiger I was also plagued by an array of technical and design flaws, which made it a death trap for novice and unwary crews. This unique overview draws on a wide variety of primary accounts of the Tiger I in action from both the Allied and the German perspective. Rare photographs, technical drawings and contemporary reports of the Tiger in combat help to set aside the myths and bring the reality into focus.This book is part of 'The Hitler's War Machine' series, a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on primary sources and contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of Hitler's Wehrmacht. The series consultant is David Mcwhinnie creator of the award winning PBS series 'Battlefield'.

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 The Day the War Ended May 8, 1945: Victory in Europe
The Day the War Ended May 8, 1945: Victory in Europe
Author: Martin Gilbert
The Day the War Ended May 8, 1945: Victory in Europe
Henry Holt and Company
1995
Format: PDF
Pages: 536
Language: English
Size: 58 MB

This book covers the day and weeks leading up to and after VE-Day 1945 throughout the world, the celebrations in free and occupied lands, the reactions of soldiers, prisoners, civilians and world leaders, the aftermath of the war in Europe and the Pacific. It's very well-written and very comprehensive, with contributions and memories from an enormous range of people throughout the world, and it's fascinating to read just how people celebrated those momentous days. The descriptions of liberation by the concentration camp victims are particularly heart-wrenching, as one would expect.

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 D-Day: Operation Overlord From It's Planning to the Liberation of Paris
D-Day: Operation Overlord From It's Planning to the Liberation of Paris
Author: Bernard C. Nalty, Russell A. Prichard
D-Day: Operation Overlord From It's Planning to the Liberation of Paris
Salamander Books Ltd.
1999
Format: PDF
Pages: 220
Language: English
Size: 20.8 MB

The D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944 have been described as the greatest amphibious operation in the history of warfare. The scale was majestic; 5,000 ships, together with thousands of lesser craft and backed by 11,000 aircraft. If the scale of the military undertaking was heroic, so too was its objective--nothing less than the defeat of Nazi Germany and the liberation of Europe. In this dramatic account of events, military experts from Britain, the United States and Germany describe the planning, build-up and execution of the D-Day attack.

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 Kursk - The Vital 24hrs
Kursk - The Vital 24hrs
Author: Will Fowler
Kursk - The Vital 24hrs
Amber
ISBN: 1904687369
2005
Format: PDF
Size: 70,2 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 192
In the early summer of 1942, following the German defeat at Stalingrad and the inconclusive battle at Kharkov, Hitler sought a decisive battle that would turn the struggle on the Eastern Front in the German's favour. Large numbers of the newly-designed Panther and Tiger tanks were rolling off the production lines, and Hitler was convinced that, with appropriate numbers, German armour could turn the tide against the advancing Soviets on the Eastern Front. Despite the reservations of his leading generals, Hitler was determined this offensive take place.
On the 5th July 1943, the German army launched Operation Citadel. Attacking with a force of 3000 tanks and assault guns, the Germans faced a well-dug in force of more than 3900 Soviet tanks, with another 1500 tanks in reserve. The tanks advanced with as many as 50 packed together per kilometre of line. What followed was the largest tank battle the world has ever seen, with heavy casualties on both sides in this titanic clash of arms.
On the 11th July, three SS divisions - Totenkopf, Das Reich and Liebstandarte - attempted to break through the Soviet lines at the village of Prokhorovka and so unhinge the Soviet defensive position. Facing them were newly deployed Fifth Guards Tanks Army. The battle raged all day, with German attack followed by Soviet counterattack. By nightfall the Germans had lost more than 300 tanks and the Fifth Guards Tanks Army 50 percent of their strength. Despite the heavy losses, the Soviet defenders had achieved their aim: the German attack had been halted and the initiative lost.

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 Desert War: The New Conflict Between the U.S. and Iraq
Desert War: The New Conflict Between the U.S. and Iraq
Author: John T. Campbell
Desert War: The New Conflict Between the U.S. and Iraq
New American Library
2003
Format: PDF
Pages: 124
Language: English
Size: 11.2 MB

Illustrated and detailed, this guide looks at war between the U.S. and Iraq from every angle—and examines the conflict that has loomed for years: the sanctions, the propaganda, the attacks in the no-fly zone, the weapons inspections, and the factors that have led us to where we are today.

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 Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe
Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe
Author: Jean-Louis Roba
Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe
Pen and Sword Aviation
ISBN: 1848840810
2009
Format: EPUB
Pages: 208
Size: 7 Mb
Language: English

No airforce in the Second World War would make more use of captured planes than the Luftwaffe. With this in mind, Jean-Louis Roba has undergone a considerable amount of work in tracking down hundreds of aircraft used by the Luftwaffe and illustrating their uses, careers and eventual fates. The book examines the full history of foreign planes in the Luftwaffe, from its inception in the prewar years to the end of the Second World War. More than just an account of the Luftwaffe's use of captured aircraft, the book debunks myths about how prepared the Germans were for war in 1939, and shows how important even such an unreliable source of supplies as captured planes would become to the Luftwaffe.

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 Panzer III at War 1939-1945 (Images of War)
Panzer III at War 1939-1945 (Images of War)
Author: Paul Thomas
Panzer III at War 1939-1945 (Images of War)
Pen and Sword Military
2013
Format: EPUB
Pages: 160
Size: 7 Mb

With comprehensive captions and text, this superb book is the latest in the bestselling Images of War Series and the second installment of the Author's pictorial history of the German Panzers in the Second World War. The Panzer III saw almost continuous action from the annexation of Czechoslakia, the invasion of Poland and then France and the Low countries, in North Africa, Italy, the Eastern Front and, finally, the retreat back into Germany.

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