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The Red Army at War (Images of War)
Author: Artem Drabkin The Red Army at War (Images of War) Pen and Sword Military 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 128 Size: 36 Mb Language: English The 160 contemporary photographs from the Russian archives that have been selected for this book give a striking insight into all sides of wartime service for the Soviet soldier. The whole range of military experience is portrayed here, from recruitment and the rigors of training to transport, marching and the ordeal of combat.
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Pacific Payback The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway
Author: Stephen L. Moore Pacific Payback The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway NAL Hardcover ISBN: 0451465520 2014 Format: MOBI Size: 18,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 448 Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific.... But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron and witnessed the heart of America’s Navy broken and smoldering on the oil-slicked waters below. The next six months, from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway—a dark time during which the Japanese scored victory after victory—this small band of aviators saw almost constant deployment, intense carrier combat, and fearsome casualties. Many were killed by enemy Zero fighters, antiaircraft fire, or deadly crash landings in the Pacific, while others were captured and spent years in POW camps. Yet the Enterprise’s Dauntless crews would be the first to strike an offensive blow against Japanese installations in the Marshall Islands, would be the first to sink a Japanese warship, and would shepherd the Doolittle Raiders’ bombing of Tokyo.
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2nd Panzer Division 1935-1945
Author: Tankwaffe 2nd Panzer Division 1935-1945 Tankwaffe Publishing 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 126 Size: 3 Mb Language: English 2nd Panzer Division 1935-1945
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The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side
Author: Damien Lewis The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side Atria Books ISBN: 1476739145 2014 Format: EPUB Size: 5,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 304 An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash-landings to parachute bailouts—ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend. In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man’s-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey that would turn them into lifelong friends. One was an orphaned puppy, abandoned by his owners as they fled Nazi forces. The other was a different kind of lost soul—a Czech airman bound for the Royal Air Force and the country that he would come to call home.
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More World War II Aircraft in Combat
Author: Glenn B. Bavousett More World War II Aircraft in Combat Arco Publishing 1981 Format: PDF Pages: 150 Language: English Size: 73.6 MB More World War II aircraft in combat 47 famous warplanes depicted in raging conflict Glenn Bavousett. Very well illustrated.
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Storming Monte La Difensa (Osprey Raid 48)
Author: Bret Werner Storming Monte La Difensa: The First Special Service Force at the Winter Line Italy 1943 (Osprey Raid 48) Osprey Publishing 2015 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 82 Size: 4 Mb Language: English In December 1943 Monte La Difensa was part of the formidable German defences overlooking the Allies' planned route to Rome via Monte Cassino. In the First Special Service Force's first combat in the Mediterranean theater, the Force would employ its special training in mountain and winter warfare to scale the peak, capture it, and then hold it against the inevitable German counterattacks. Astonishing their superiors, the First Special Service Force succeeded in the face of seemingly impossible odds, but suffered a 77 percent casualty rate. Their victory, founded on their aggressive doctrine and extensive training in a variety of combat techniques, would prove instrumental in the postwar development of special forces. Employing full-colour artwork, archive photographs, and first-hand accounts from participants, the author examines the origins, execution, and aftermath of the FSSF's spectacular success at Monte La Difensa amid the savage winter conditions of December 1943.
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Orden de Batalla: Panzers Alemanes en la II Guerra Mundial
Author: Chris Bishop Orden de Batalla: Panzers Alemanes en la II Guerra Mundial Editorial Libsa 2009 Format: PDF Pages: 192 Language: Spanish Size: 14.4 MB Durante la II Guerra Mundial, Alemania utilizó las formaciones de carros de combate Panzer como una fuerza que revolucionó la táctica militar. Este libro presenta, ordenados por campañas, los precedentes de estos vehículos, las batallas con mapas en las que intervinieron, la estructura y organización de sus divisiones y la biografía de sus líderes con fotografías históricas.
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Code Talkers and Warriors: Native Americans and World War II
Author: Tom Holm Code Talkers and Warriors: Native Americans and World War II. Chelsea House 2007 Format: Pdf Size: 38 Mb Language: English
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A Photo History of Tanks in Two World Wars
Author: George Forty A Photo History of Tanks in Two World Wars Blandford Press 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 200 Language: English Size: 31 MB Traces the development of the tank, shows the various types of armored vehicles used by the Americans, English, French and Germans, and discusses how tanks were used in battle.
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Luftwaffe: the Second World War in Colour
Author: John Christopher Luftwaffe: the Second World War in Colour Amberley Publishing 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 128 Size: 4 Mb This unique collection of superb wartime color photographs brings the Luftwaffe – its aircraft and personnel – to life in a dramatically vivid way.
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Barbarossa & the Retreat to Moscow: Recollections of Fighter Pilots on the Eastern Front (The Red Air Force at War)
Author: Artem Drabkin Barbarossa & the Retreat to Moscow: Recollections of Fighter Pilots on the Eastern Front (The Red Air Force at War) Casemate Publishers 2007 Format: epub/pdf Size: 4.4 Mb Language: English The onset of war in the summer of 1941 was a disaster for the Soviet Air Force. In a few weeks, faced by the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, most of the Soviet frontline aircraft were destroyed, and the casualty rate among the pilots was cripplingly high. Yet the surviving few gained precious battle experience and they formed the core of the fighter force that turned the tables on the Germans and eventually won air superiority over the Eastern Front. Many of these Soviet pilots are still alive today and in this book they vividly recall the air battles of 60 years ago to offer a unique insight into the air war on the eastern front.
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Spitfire Aces of Northwest Europe 1944-1945
Author: Andrew Thomas Spitfire Aces of Northwest Europe 1944-1945 Osprey Publishing Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 122 ISBN: 178200338X 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 96 Size: 4 Mb Language: English This book traces the achievements of the pilots flying the iconic Spitfire in Northwest Europe, and examines how the steady technological improvements that were made throughout the Spitfire’s service life improved its capabilities in the air. Based at airfields throughout southern England, Merlin engine Spitfires provided the bulk of the air cover for the D-Day landings and it was an RCAF Spitfire which claimed the first ever ME 262 jet kill.
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Hitler's Jet Plane: The ME 262 Story
Author: Mano Ziegler Hitler's Jet Plane: The ME 262 Story Frontline Books ISBN: 1853676241 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 240 Size: 2 Mb Language: English The first operational military jet in the world, towards the end of the Second World War the ME 262 was to be the German ‘miracle weapon’. Mano Ziegler was involved from its inception and contributed to the design, testing, and training and even served in it operationally.
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Author: Ben Macintyre Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Broadway Books ISBN: 0307453278 2010 Format: EPUB Size: 7,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 416 London Times writer-at-large Macintyre (Agent Zigzag) offers a solid and entertaining updating of WWII's best-known human intelligence operation. In 1943, British intelligence conceived a spectacular con trick to draw German attention away from the Allies' obvious next objective, Sicily. The bait was a briefcase full of carefully forged documents attached to the wrist of Major William Martin, Royal Marines—a fictitious identity given to a body floated ashore in neutral Spain. Making the deception plausible was the task given to two highly unconventional officers: Lt. Comdr. Ewen Montagu and Squadron Leader Charles Cholmondeley. Macintyre recounts their adventures and misadventures with panache. The body was that of a derelict. Its costuming included the underwear of a deceased Oxford don. An attractive secretary provided the photo of an imaginary fiancée. The carefully constructed documents setting up the bogus operation against Greece and Sardinia convinced even Hitler himself. The Sicily landings were achieved as almost a complete surprise. And the man who never was entered the history and folklore of WWII.
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Brazen Chariots: An Account of Tank Warfare in the Western Desert, November-December 1941
Author: Robert Crisp Brazen Chariots: An Account of Tank Warfare in the Western Desert, November-December 1941 Ballantine Books 1961 Format: PDF Pages: 196 Language: English Size: 24.7 MB A classic, and for good reason. Crisp tells the story of life as a tank commander in North Africa during the early stages of WWII, and he does so with honesty and good humor. There are some truly epic encounters in this book, and it's well worth reading if you're interested in one of the less-featured parts of WWII.Brazen Chariots - An Account of Tank Warfare in the Western... .pdf
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Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge 1944-1945
Author: Peter Caddick-Adams Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge 1944-1945 Oxford University Press 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 928 Size: 4 Mb Language: English Between December 16, 1944 and January 15, 1945, American forces found themselves entrenched in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg defending against an advancing German army amid freezing temperatures, deep snow, and dense fog. Operation Herbstnebel--Autumn Mist--was a massive German counter-offensive that stunned the Allies in its scope and intensity. In the end, the 40-day long Battle of the Bulge, as it has come to be called, was the bloodiest battle fought by U.S. forces in World War II, and indeed the largest land battle in American history. Before effectively halting the German advance, some 89,000 of the 610,000 American servicemen committed to the campaign had become casualties, including 19,000 killed.
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Operation Barbarossa: The German Invasion of Soviet Russia
Author: Robert Kirchubel Operation Barbarossa The German Invasion of Soviet Russia Osprey Publishing ISBN: 1782004084 2013 Format: EPUB Size: 8,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 400 In the first 6 months of Hitler's World War II Nazi invasion, over 5 million of Stalin's Russian troops were killed, wounded, or captured defending their Motherland. Germany's surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, Operation Barbarossa, aimed at nothing less than the destruction of the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler saw this as the last vital step in the establishing of 'Lebensraum' for the German people in the East. Three German Army Groups, supported by numerous European allies, poured across the Soviet border crushing all before them in a lightning campaign that threatened to eliminate all Soviet resistance and secure an easy victory. However, the vast resources and size of Soviet Russia caused the German armoured spearheads to slow and the advance finally ground to a halt within sight of Moscow itself, and with it Hitler's dreams of a quick victory. This book combines Osprey's three Campaign titles on the Barbarossa campaign, along with new material specifically created, in order to tell the story of one of definitive campaigns of World War II.
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Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge (Battleground Europe)
Author: Carl Shilleto Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe ISBN: 1848843097 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 192 Size: 8 Mb Language: English On D Day, 6th June 1944 the greatest seaborne assault ever was launched against Hitler's Fortress Europe onto the beaches of Normandy. This battlefield guide tells in detail, how these objectives were achieved and relates the battles to the area as it is today. The book contains details of museums, memorials, cemeteries, tours and associated organizations all of which will unravel the history of the area to the visitor and armchair traveler alike.
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The Battle of Britain
Author: Julia Markl The Battle of Britain (Turning Points of WWII) Franklin Watts 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 120 Language: English Size: 12.6 MB May 1940. The Germans had forced 500,000 British, French and. Belgian troops to retreat to Dunkirk, France. At their backs lay the English Channel. In an amazing rescue operation, involving hundreds of small craft, from fishing boats to rafts, the troops were ferried across the Channel to England. But Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, warned the world that the "miracle" of Dunkirk was not a victory On June 18, following the surrender by the French to the Germans, he said: "The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin . . . Hitler knows he will have to break us m this island or lose the war" If the Germans could destroy the primary British defense, the Royal Air Force, they could invade England. With the British defeat, the German conquest of Europe would be complete.
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