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Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge
Author: Michael Tolhurst Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe ISBN: 0850527988 2000 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 33 Mb Language: English By Christmas 1944, the Allies were on the threshold of victory, having remorselessly rolled the Germans back to the very borders of ""The Fatherland"". Then, the shock of a massive Nazi counter-attack through the Ardennes in the depth of winter threw the Allies into confusion. Bastogne was at the very centre of this dramatic and most dangerous setback.
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Carlson's Marine Raiders: Makin Island 1942
Author: Gordon L. Rottman Carlson's Marine Raiders: Makin Island 1942 Osprey Publishing Osprey Raid 44 ISBN: 1472803272 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 81 Size: 4 Mb Language: English On August 17–18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps’ 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring amphibious raid on the Japanese-occupied Makin Island in the South Pacific. This ambitious but flawed operation was intended to divert Japanese reinforcements bound for Guadalcanal, over 1,000 miles to the southwest, in the wake of the US landings there ten days earlier.
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Tigers of the Death's Head
Author: Michael Wood Tigers of the Death's Head: SS Totenkopf Division's Tiger Company Stackpole Books 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 304 Size: 15 Mb Language: English Detailed history of the Tiger company of Nazi Germany's notorious "Death's Head" panzer division of the Waffen-SS
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Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 (Images of War)
Author: Ian Baxter Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 (Images of War) Pen and Sword Military 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 10 Mb Language: English 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 With extensive text and in-depth captions with many rare and unpublished photographs it is an absorbing analysis of the part they played on the Eastern Front.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 was rushed from one danger zone to another to plug gaps in the front.
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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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Fighting Techniques of A Panzer Grenadier 1941-1945
Fighting Techniques of a Panzergrenadier: 1941-1945 Author: Matthew Hughes, Chris Mann Motorbooks International Graduation Year: 2000 Language: English Quality: excellent Format: Pdf Pages: 96 Size: 58,3 Mb During World War II the Germans fielded 29 panzergrenadier divisions, in which fully motorized infantry units operated alongside tanks and assault guns. This in-depth analysis examines the recruitment and specialized training of these units and how that training translated to successful battlefield tactics in the Lightning War from 1939 to 1941 and on the Eastern Front after 1942.
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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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The Secret of Stalingrad
Author: Walter Kerr The Secret of Stalingrad Doubleday and Company 1978 Format: PDF Pages: 304 Language: English Size: 35.4 MB If World War II had a turning point, it came during the winter of 1942-1943 at Stalingrad when Hitler's Wehrmacht was decisively defeated by Stalin's Red Army and denied access to Soviet oil. Now Walter Kerr, a wartime correspondent in Moscow, contends that the battle also had long-lasting political implications. Stalin won, he claims, with the use of reserve formations whose existence he had concealed, calculating that the more critical the Western Allies thought his situation, the more likely they would relieve him with a European second front. In Kerr's revisionist thesis, Stalingrad was central to the mistrust and misunderstanding surrounding the twice-postponed second front, itself a key source of mutual suspicions leading to the Cold War. Kerr presents his case skillfully, weaving together the military and political aspects of the battle. He conveys the terrible drama of Stalingrad; whole units simply disappeared, chewed apart in the savage close-quarters street fighting. On both sides, ""the wounded thought mainly of getting away before the bayonets came because, as every infantryman knows, that is what bayonets are for--to kill the wounded."" Amazingly, Roosevelt and Churchill had no conception of the importance or scale of the Stalingrad battle since Stalin blocked the exchange of military information. Kerr deserves credit for clarifying the role of Stalin's reserve forces and recognizing their sacrifice. However, he never convincingly demonstrates why Stalingrad and the second front--as opposed, say, to differences over Poland and the Balkans--should be regarded as the origins of the Cold War. Though Kerr's thesis is likely to remain controversial, it adds interest to an astute mixture of military and political history.The Secret of Stalingrad.pdf
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Kamikaze
Author: Yasuo Kuwahara, Gordon T. Ailred Kamikaze Ballantine Books 1957 Format: PDF Pages: 196 Language: English Size: 14 MB The powerful life-story of a young Japanese who was trained as a last-ditch suicide pilot and escaped death only by one of the most ironic miracles in the history of war.
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The SS
Author: Collective The SS (The Third Reich Series) Time-Life Books 1988 Format: PDF Pages: 200 Language: English Size: 42.7 MB This Time-Life work is an excellent historical overview of the SS. Good introduction for the casual historian. The illustrations and photos are just great.
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Jets at Sea: Naval Aviation in Transition 1945-1955
Author: Leo Marriott Jets at Sea: Naval Aviation in Transition 1945-1955 Pen and Sword Aviation ISBN: 1844157423 2008 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 2 Mb Language: English As World War Two drew to a close, jet-powered aircraft were beginning to be introduced into service. To take advantage of this major development it was necessary for all the world's air powers to rethink combat tactics and develop the means of handling these faster and generally larger aircraft in the air, on land and especially at sea. As this modern breed approached and finally broke the sound barrier, so did landing and takeoff speeds. The decade after the war saw rapid developments in the design of both naval aircraft and their seaborne bases - the aircraft carrier.
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The Mammoth Book of Battles
Author: Jon E. Lewis The Mammoth Book of Battles Carroll & Graf Publishers 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 580 Language: English Size: 75.8 MB From the relief of Ladysmith during the Boer War to the decisive use of high technology and AirLand doctrines during Operation Desert Storm, here are more than forty gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan , Alan Clark, John Strawson, Anthony Farrar-Hackley, John Pimlott, John Frost and John Laffin.
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Hitler's Revolution: Ideology, Social Programs, Foreign Affairs
Author: Richard Tedor Hitler's Revolution: Ideology, Social Programs, Foreign Affairs Richard Tedor 2013 Format: EPUB Size: 8,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 403 Liberal democracy’s deadliest enemy, Adolf Hitler transformed Germany into an authoritarian, socialist state advocating sovereignty of nations, advancement of labor, preservation of the white race, and commerce based on an exchange of wares to replace the international gold standard. Becoming chancellor in 1933, he tackled his country’s bankruptcy, massive unemployment, communist subversion and foreign domination. His social economic programs and diplomacy restored German prosperity and independence in three years, despite determined opposition from Western democratic leaders. Penetrating the shroud of vilification draping this controversial figure, our study draws on German sources, many from the National Socialist era, to describe not just what Hitler did, but why. It also reveals democracy’s genuine war aims, a taboo subject for historians, in the ensuing global conflict that destroyed the German revolution. Challenging the status quo version of the period, here is the book for the student of history who senses that something is missing—and seeks the answers.
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Russian Armour In The Second World War (Images of War)
Author: Michael Green Russian Armour In The Second World War (Images of War) Pen and Sword Military 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 208 Size: 10 Mb It was the Stalin's tanks and armored fighting vehicles and their crews that finally pushed the German Army back from the outskirts of Moscow in late 1941 and early 1942. Proof of the Red Army tanks' and AFVs' effectiveness came at the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 when they defeated the cream of the Panzertruppen, From that point on, the tanks and armored fighting vehicles of the Red Army continued their offensive operations until they victoriously entered Berlin in April and May 1945.
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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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Aircraft of World War II
Author: Kenneth Munson Aircraft of World War II Doubleday and Company Inc 1968 Format: PDF Pages: 242 Language: English Size: 124 MB Illustrates over one hundred aircraft using scale drawings as well as actual photographs and includes technical data and a commentary on the service of each one of them.
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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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World War II in the Air: The Pacific
Author: James F. Sunderman World War II in the Air: The Pacific Bramhall House 1962 Format: PDF Pages: 328 Language: English Size: 37.6 MB This book is another good compilation of the historical events of the Central Pacific during WWII, particularly the 7th AAF (Army Air Force).
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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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