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 A Grave Too Far Away - A Tribute to Australians in Bomber Command Europe 
 Author: Kathyrn Spurling A Grave Too Far Away - A Tribute to Australians in Bomber Command Europe New Holland Publishers 2012 Format: PDF Pages: 401 Language: English Size: 49 MB This book illuminates the story of the men of (RAF) Royal Air Force Bomber Command Europe 1939-1945, who answered the call of their nation to defend the Mother Country in World War II. It is a tribute to the Australians who served in Bomber Command Europe, particularly those who died. Not only did these young men never really live, but they were the best of the best, and Australia would have been profoundly richer for their presence. Their loss and legacy will endure for generations.
Warzaw 1 - Tanks in the Uprising
 Author: Janusz Ledwoch Warzaw 1 - Tanks in the Uprising Leandoer & Ekholm Publishers 2012 ISBN: 9197589535 Format: EPUB Size: 19,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 606 Many books have been written about the Uprising in Warsaw, but none have been written in this detailed manner describing the use of the armored weapons of war. Tanks in city environments had, earlier during World War II only been used very rarely, since it is very difficult to use them properly in built-up areas. The Uprising in Warsaw was unique, as both sides used tanks in the battle. This book gives a concise picture of the vehicles and the weapon systems that were used. The appendix of the book gives lots of interesting facts such as a list of the units in the Polish Home Army and the German
Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC
 Author: William J. Hamblin Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC (Warfare and History) Routledge 2006 ISBN: 0415255899 Format: DJVU Size: 9,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 544 The only book available that covers this subject, Warfare in the Ancient Near East is a groundbreaking and fascinating study of ancient near Eastern military history from the Neolithic era to the middle Bronze Ages. Drawing on an extensive range of textual, artistic and archaeological data, William J. Hamblin synthesizes current knowledge and offers a detailed analysis of the military technology, ideology and practices of Near Eastern warfare.
Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44
 Author: Robert Forczyk Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44 Osprey Publishing ISBN: 1782006257 2014 Format: EPUB Size: 14,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 304 The Crimea has been the scene of conflict throughout its history. First occupied by the Russians in the 18th century it was the scene of the Crimean War, and was drawn into the Russian Civil War, as well as World War II. Today it remains a much disputed region with the Crimea at the center of ongoing tensions between East and West. Throughout World War II the Crimea was a microcosm of the more general war on the Eastern Front, reflecting the ebb and flow of fortunes of that conflict. It was a crucible that saw first Soviet and then German armies surrounded, overwhelmed, and then destroyed. The nature of the fighting in the Crimea was unusual for the Eastern Front, with naval forces playing an important role, as the Crimea’s position in the Black Sea gave rise to a major role for naval supply, amphibious landings, and, ultimately, evacuation. However, in other ways it was more characteristic of the Eastern Front, and the fighting for and occupation of the region saw the same level of atrocity and ethnic cleansing commonplace throughout the war in the East, with each side reaching the depths of barbarity in their treatment of the civilian population. Based on extensive new archival research, this incredible narrative history by acclaimed historian Robert Forczyk sheds new light on this vital aspect of the Eastern Front that has not been covered in English before.
Armor of Freedom: The U.S. Military Support to Yugoslavia in the 1950’s
 Author: Boštjan Kurent, Janko Boštjančič Armor of Freedom: The U.S. Military Support to Yugoslavia in the 1950’s Park of Military History 2013 Format: 2xPDF Pages: 2x24 Language: English/Slovenian Size: 7.7 MB As a post-WWII communist country, Yugoslavia became economically and politically dependent on the Soviet Union. Through careful diplomacy, the Yugoslav government showed the intention of forming a firm alliance with the western democracies and even of joining NATO. By sending military help to Yugoslavia, the USA wanted to protect it from any military actions from the East and also, indirectly, to protect Italy and the Mediterranean...
Berlin: Victory in Europe (Images of War)
 Author: Nik Cornish Berlin: Victory in Europe (Images of War) Pen and Sword Military 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 144 Size: 37 Mb In April and May 1945 the city of Berlin was the site of the final destructive act of the Second World War in Europe. The German capital became a battleground. After three weeks of ruthless fighting against a desperate, sometimes suicidal, defense, the Red Army took the city and crushed the last remaining German armies in the East. This momentous battle and the elaborate preparations for it were recorded in graphic detail by photographers whose images have come down to us today. These images, which give us an unforgettable glimpse into the grim reality of mid-twentieth-century warfare, are the raw material of Nik Cornish's evocative book.
Hitler's Propaganda Pilgrimage
 Hitler's Propaganda Pilgrimage Author: Bob Carruthers Pen & Sword Books 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1473833500 Pages: 144 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 19 MB The famous image of Hitler in Paris has become one of the most iconic images of the Second World War. However, Hitler only spent a few hours in Paris before heading to Flanders to revisit the sites of the battlefields where he had served during the Great War. He was on a propaganda mission to publicize his own war service and a full photographic record of Hitler’s visits to France and Flanders was produced by Heinrich Hoffman, Hitler’s personal photographer. Those photographs from 1940 have now been collected together for the first time and are reproduced here along with all of the most important surviving images of Hitler in the Great War. Featuring rare and previously unpublished images of Hitler in France and Flanders from 1914 to 1940, this important photographic study documents a vital but often overlooked chapter in the story of Adolf Hitler.
World War II
 Author: Mike Sharpe World War II (History of Warfare) Raintree Steck-Vaughn Company 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 84 Language: English Size: 80 MB Recounts the causes, significant battles, and events of World War II, including background on the major political and military figures of the war.
Modelling Scale Figures (Osprey Modelling №42)
 Author: Mark Bannerman Modelling Scale Figures (Osprey Modelling №42) Osprey Publishing 2006 Format: EPUB Pages: 80 Size: 13 Mb Language: English This book equips the beginner and intermediate modellers with the techniques required to successfully complete a figure from start to finish, and provides clear and easy-to-follow instructions on how to select, prepare, assemble, modify and paint realistic figures. It also offers a round-up of the range of figures available, a discussion of scale and how to work in differing scales as well as detailing the tools and materials you will need to get going. Modelling expert Mark Bannerman then provides an insight into construction and painting techniques, in clear, step-by-step tutorials that will increase confidence and develop better technique.
Panzerkampfwagen III
 Author: Thomas L. Jentz / Hilary L. Doyle Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf.J, L, M, und N, development and production from 1941 to 1943 Panzer Tracts Panzer Tracts No.3-3 ISBN: 098153824X 2009 Format: PDF (300 DPI) Pages: 92 Size: 66 Mb Language: English Now for the first time the defining features of each Ausfuehrung of the Pz.Kpfw.III have been correctly identified and when significant modifications were introduced correctly sorted out. This has been made possible by over 39 years of research in private and public archives, chassis number analysis, and the assistance of friends sharing rare photos of Pz.Kpfw.III with legible chassis numbers. Hundreds of hours were spent precisely measuring surviving Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf. J, L, M, and N components and over two thousand hours were spent in creating detailed as-built drawings. We have selected the unique approach of using 1/10th scale drawings to illustrate the smallest details, while six view (including right side and belly) 1/35th scale drawings are still used for the complete Pz.Kpfw.III. In accordance with our high standards, the text and data are based solely on primary sources.
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
 Author: Gunter K. Koschorrek Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front Frontline Books ISBN: 1848325967 2011 Format: EPUB Size: 3,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 288 Gunter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was not until he was reunited with his daughter in America some forty years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow. The author's excitement at the first encounter with the enemy in the Russian Steppe is obvious. Later, the horror and confusion of fighting in the streets of Stalingrad are brought to life by his descriptions of the others in his unit - their differing manners and techniques for dealing with the squalor and death. He is also posted to Romania and Italy, assignments he remembers fondly compared to his time on the Eastern Front. This book stands as a memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive and is, some six decades later, the fulfilment of a responsibility the author feels to honour the memory of those who perished.
The Panther V in Combat - Guderian's Problem Child
 The Panther V in Combat - Guderian\'s Problem Child Coda Books Ltd ISBN: 1781580669 2012 Format: EPUB Size: 3,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 96 The Panther V evidenced a number of problems in combat, and this was the proof of the rushed development programme that was made obvious from the events at Kursk. However, despite its disappointing battlefield debut, the Panther is frequently hailed as the best all round tank of the war. This fascinating study by Emmy award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers draws on a wide variety of combat reports and unique primary sources to weigh up the facts in order to produce the definitive single volume overview of a legendary fighting machine. Included are numerous examples of wartime combat reports from both Allied and German sources, additionally there are a large selection of extracts from the Pantherfibel, the original crew training manual. This superb book is essential reading for anyone interested in tank warfare during World War II. 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\'.
Bloody Skies (Stackpole Military Photo Series)
 Author: Nicholas A. Veronico Bloody Skies: U.S. Eighth Air Force Battle Damage in World War II Stackpole Books Stackpole Military Photo Series 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 208 Size: 10 Mb Language: English A visual history of the US Eighth Air Force in World War II
Army of the West
 Author: James A. Wood Army of the West: The Weekly Reports of German Army Group B from Normandy to the West Wall Stackpole Books 2007 ISBN: 0811734048 Format: Epub Pages: 288 Size: 12 Mb Language: English In May 1944 German Army Group B, headquartered in France, requested weekly reports from its commanders. These accounts included assessments of the general situation, estimates of the Allies situation, casualty figures, equipment losses, and descriptions of resistance activities. Commanded successively by Erwin Rommel, Günther von Kluge, and Walter Model, Army Group B bore the brunt of the Allied assault--D-Day, the Normandy campaign, and Operation Market-Garden--and these reports reveal what the German Army was thinking as it confronted the invasion.
Not to be Shot at or Exported - An Airman’s Letters Home 1942-1945
 Author: Leslie Howard Sullivan Not to be Shot at or Exported - An Airman’s Letters Home 1942-1945 Royal Australian Air Force Museum 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 192 Language: English Size: 14.3 MB World War II thrust Australia into a deep crisis, presenting her people with extraordinary challenges. Men, women and children found themselves in roles they could hardly have imagined a few years before. Thousands went to war while thousands of other servicemen and women held their positions in posts throughout Australia, never reaching the battle lines. They called themselves the “koalas”. Like the furry Australian animal, they were “not to be shot at or exported”. One of these “koalas”, Leading Aircraftman Les Sullivan, through his personal letters home and diary entries of this time, tells their fascinating story.
The Battle of Britain. The Greatest Air Battle of World War II
 Author: Richard Hough&Denis Richards The Battle of Britain. The Greatest Air Battle of World War II W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1989 Pages: 480 Format: PDF Language: English Size: 44mb The victory of the Battle of Britain ranks with Marathon and the Marne as a decisive point in history. At the end of June 1940, having overrun much of Western Europe, the Nazi war leaders knew that they had to defeat the Royal Air Force Fighter Command before they could invade the British mainland. With a finely-struck balance of historical background and dramatic renderings of RAF and Luftwaffe engagements over the English countryside, Hough and Richards offer a history that is at once deep and wide-ranging. They offer insight into how the British laid the groundwork for victory through aircraft research and production, the development and implementation of command and control structures, and research into new technologies, the most important of which was radar. Hough and Richards also utilize first-person accounts of the battle whenever possible, rendering the battle scenes with cinematic intensity. A compelling introduction to one of the most important battles of World War II, The Battle of Britain pays tribute to the men about whom Winston Churchill would remark, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." 100 illustrations, 7 maps
The United States Navy in World War II
 Author: S.E. Smith The United States Navy in World War II William Morrow & Company, Inc. 1966 Format: PDF Pages: 1144 Language: English Size: 194 MB In assembling the book, Smith excerpted whole chapters from some of the best books written about the navy's exploits during the Second World War. All of the collected chapters, written by one-hundred authors, were taken from books that told the navy's history through the simple telling of a story. There is no dry analysis of tactics here. You will see the intensity and drama unfolding aboard the ships at Pearl Harbor as the Japanese attacked . . . or watch from the bow of the destroyer Borie's as she rammed a Nazi U-boat in the middle of the Atlantic . . . or stand on the flight deck of the Guadalcanal as she chases down U-505 . . . or feel the Lexington as she started to list in the Coral Sea . . . and on and on it goes. Everything is here. The Aaron Ward. The Argus. The Bunker Hill. The Indianapolis. PT 109. And of course, the Enterprise and the Yorktown.
The Planes the Allies Flew in World War II
 Author: David C. Cooke The Planes the Allies Flew in World War II Dodd, Mead & Company 1969 Format: PDF Pages: 72 Language: English Size: 43.5 MB thanks to adeda A detailed review of The Planes the Allies Flew in World War II, fully illustrated.
Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II
 Author: D. K. Brown Atlantic Escorts: Ships, Weapons & Tactics in World War II Seaforth Publishing / Pen and Sword ISBN: 1844157024 2007 Format: EPUB Pages: 176 Size: 4 Mb Language: English A warship designer and well-known author of a quartet of books on British warships, David K. Brown takes a detailed look at the Allied ships, weapons, and tactics that won the submarine war in the Atlantic in this handsomely illustrated book. Beginning with the lessons learned from World War I, the author outlines inter-war developments in technology and training and describes preparations for World War II. He then examines the balance of advantage as it see-sawed between U-boats and escorts when new weapons and sensors were introduced at a rapid rate.
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