Zenith Press, 2001 - 176 p. ISBN10: 0760312400 ISBN13: 9780760312407 (eng) A comprehensive history of the last battle of Nazi Germany, this book begins with a study of the background to the battle and a description of events on the eastern and western fronts before the Soviet forces reached Berlin. The strategic importance of the city to the German war effort and morale is...
Pen & Sword, 2016. — 186 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 147382267X After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army’s front lines were slowly smashed to pieces by the growing might of the Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to fight gallantly. Even after the failed battle of the Kursk in the summer of 1943, and then a year later when the Russians launched...
Pen and Sword Military, 2009. — 157 p. — (Images of War). Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions, the book provides an absorbing analysis of this traumatic period of the Second World War. It reveals in detail how the battle of Kursk was the beginning of the end and how this massive operation led to the Red Army recapturing huge...
Helion & Company Ltd., 2008. — 127 p. Operation Bagration - the Russian codename for the 1944 summer offensive, which led to the complete annihilation of Army Group Centre - was without doubt the most devastating defeat ever experienced by the German Army during the Second World War. Yet this mammoth offensive has for years been completely overshadowed by the Normandy campaign,...
Chicago: Quandrangle Books, 1966. — 166 p. The Third Reich of Dreams: How It Began Private Lives Remodeled: Life Without Walls" Bureaucratic Fairy Tales: "Nothing Gives Me Pleasure Anymore" The Everyday World by Night: So That I'll Not Even Understand Myself" The Non Hero: And Say Not a World The Chorus: There's Not a Thing One Can Do" When Doctrines Come Alive: The Dark in the...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. — 1074 p. The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany--soldiers at the front, women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave laborers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities. Taking a "history...
Stackpole Books, 2008. — 211 p. — ISBN: 081170419X In the sands of the Western Desert in 1941-42, Erwin Rommel made history as the Desert Fox, waging a brilliant and bold campaign against the British. Beginning at El Agheila in March 1941, the Afrika Korps – frequently outnumbered – drove the British steadily east across Libya and into Egypt. The German offensive eventually...
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2018. — 384 p. Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical,...
Chicago, Theses Press, 2014 - 144 p. On January 25, 1929, 75 years before this book was published, an extraordinarily courageous man was born: Robert Faurisson. When it comes to the remarkable scholarly work of Robert Faurisson, there are several matters to be kept distinctly in mind. First of all is his method. Here, this French scholar follows traditional methods in...
Ian Allan Publishing, 2001. - 98 p. ISBN10: 0711028532 The new Spearhead series is designed to look at the cutting edge of war, dealing with units capable of operating completely independently in the forefront of battle. Each volume in the series examines the chosen unit's origins and history, its organisation and order of battle, its battle history theatre by theatre, its...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. - 451 p. Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the Warthegau "German," Greiser introduced numerous cruel policies. He...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 944 p. Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. Interweaving a broad narrative of the war's progress from a wide range of people, Evans reveals the dynamics of a society plunged into war at every level. The great battles and events of...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 944 p. Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. Interweaving a broad narrative of the war's progress from a wide range of people, Evans reveals the dynamics of a society plunged into war at every level. The great battles and events of...
An important WWII Nazi propaganda document for home consumption which graphically depicts early Wehrmacht successes. This book, however, is very different in that it presents the foe's account at a time when her outlook was at its most optimistic point in the war.
Ian Allan, 2002. — 96 p. — (Blitzkrieg №1). This is the first volume in a new series concentrating on Germany's Blitzkrieg tactics during the course of the Second World War. It describes in detail how the strategy evolved and how it was first deployed against the ill-prepared and poorly-armed Poles, using contemporary photographs, allied with line drawings and detailed analysis.
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland - 555 c. Introduction: The Miracle of 1940. 1 The Blitzkrieg: Word and Concept. The Word “Blitzkrieg”. The Concept of Blitzkrieg. 2 Blitzkrieg without the Blitzkrieg Concept: The Background of the Campaign in the West. Did Hitler Have a Strategic War Concept? Was the Polish Campaign a Blitzkrieg? Did the Time Factor Work for or against...
Military Intelligence Service Special War Department, 1942. — 95 p. During the years from 1935 to 1939, the United States was allowed to send four individual officers to take the course. from their illuminating reports it is possible to learn the trend of German methods and teachings up to Hitler's attack on Poland. Throughout, striking similarities will be observed between...
Aberdeen Books, 2010. — 390 p. Hell from Above The Dead and the Dead to Be Between Fire and Ice Crescendo of Destruction The Devil’s Laughter The Last Bullet A Sea of Blood Unspeakable A War without End The Halls of Hell Crime of the Age Epilogue: Of Victors and Victims
Almark Publications, 1970. — 49 s. Language: English. This publication has been compiled to give the modeller, the enthusiast and the general reader a concise outline of some of the uniforms and personal equipment used by the ground forces of the Third Reich during World War 2. To cover the subject in infinite detail would necessitate many volumes and the difficulty at first...
Maryland: Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie, 1943. — 82 p. Handbook was prepared at the Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie, Maryland, and is designed to provide a ready reference manual for intelligence person-nel in combat operations. The need for such a manual wasso pressing that some errors and omissions are anticipated inthe current...
Authors not specified. London, 1945. 496 p. Language: English A guide to the German "Organization Todt" for Allied troops. Map of OT areas in Germany (Autumn 1944). Basic facts about the Organization Todt. History of the OT. Organization, administration and operation. Personnel. Manpower. Order of battle of OT units (see p.195 of total numbering for detailed contents). Annexes....
2nd edition. — London: Focal Point Publications; 2007. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1-872-197-183 AT 10.10 P.M. ON THE NIGHT of February 13-14, 1945 the R.A.F. Master Bomber broadcast the cryptic order: 'Controller to Plate-Rack Force: Come in and bomb glow of red T.I.s as planned.' The ill-famed attack on Dresden had begun. The target city was among Germany's largest, but it alone had...
Claassen Verlag, Auflage, 2002. — 271 s. Traudl Junge war 22 und träumte von einer Karriere als Tänzerin – als sie die »Chance ihres Lebens« bekam: Adolf Hitler bat die junge Sekretärin zum Probediktat. Von 1942 bis zu Hitlers Tod war sie stets an seiner Seite, tippte seine Reden, seine Briefe und sogar sein privates und »politisches« Testament. Unmittelbar nach dem Krieg...
Stackpole Books, 2007. — 368 p. Character-based study of why the German air force was defeated Recounts the Luftwaffe in combat from the blitzkrieg of 1939-1940 and the Battle of Britain to the Eastern Front and the Normandy campaign. From its secret post--World War I beginnings to its virtual destruction by the Allied air forces, the story of the German air force is best told...
Stackpole Books, 2007. — 400 p. Narrative histories highlighting organization, combat experiences, and casualties of each division Lists of constituent units and division commanders Sources for further reading on each division. This is the first of 3 definitive volumes that cover the German ground forces that swept across Europe with such ruthless efficiency in 1939 and 1940...
Stackpole Books, 2007. — 400 p. Narrative histories highlighting organization, combat experiences, and casualties of each division Lists of constituent units and division commanders Sources for further reading on each division. This second of 3 volumes on German ground forces in World War II covers the 291st through 999th Infantry Divisions; named infantry divisions (e.g.,...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012. — 380 p. — Second Edition. Despite huge odds against them, Hitler’s commanders — the elite of the Wehrmacht — almost succeeded in conquering Europe. Now in an expanded edition that includes biographies of the generals of Stalingrad and a new chapter on the panzer commanders, this book offers rare insight into the men who ran Nazi...
New York: Stein and Day, 1985. - 537 pgs. This is a comprehensive book about the organizational and technical aspects of the German ground forces. This reference work covers infantry, panzer, panzer grenadier, mountain, airborne, Jäger, and light divisions, as well as security, Luftwaffe field, Waffen-SS, and such miscellaneous units as Cossack cavalry divisions in the service...
New York: Stein and Day, 1985. - 537 pgs. This is a comprehensive book about the organizational and technical aspects of the German ground forces. This reference work covers infantry, panzer, panzer grenadier, mountain, airborne, Jäger, and light divisions, as well as security, Luftwaffe field, Waffen-SS, and such miscellaneous units as Cossack cavalry divisions in the service...
University Of Chicago Press, 2004 - 112 p. One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones, but this was something completely new. And yet there was an immediate...
Mit einem Nachwort von David Irving. — Tübingen: Grabert, 1989. — 368 S. Der Versailler Vertrag, Hitler-Deutschland und die allgemeine Abrüstung. Zwischen Krieg und Frieden. Dem Krieg entgegen.
Maryland, Steppingstones Publications. First edition(1975). 131 p. Paul Rassinier was a French Professor of history and geography who devoted the last" twenty years of his life to a systematic study of one of the most crucial, controversial aspects of World War II history: the atrocity question. More specifically the study of the claim that the German National Socialist...
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. — 214 p. All Europe is under the shadow of war. It is like an eclipse of the sun. In the warring nations the darkness is most intense, amounting to a continuous blackout. The neutral countries form a sort of twilight zone, where life is better, yet far from normal. In nature, an eclipse is a passing phenomenon; awe-inspiring but soon over....
Herbig, 1998. — 204 S. Wolfgang Strauss spricht im Untertitel seines Buches vom "russischen Historikerstreit". Der Leser kann also eine kontroverse Erörterung zum "Unternehmen Barbarossa" erwarten. Doch die Abwägung von Pro und Contra, die Abwägung verschiedener Positionen - auch ansatzweise - findet nicht statt. Der Autor, kein Historiker, zitiert ausschließlich die sog....
Publication details not specified, 2016. - 30 p. The aim of this manual is to introduce some of the fundamental tactical principles as drilled into German soldiers during the Second World War. This manual focuses mainly upon the individual infantryman and the infantry section (or “Gruppe”) in combat. A brief description of the principles of attack, defence and reconnaissance is...
Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 2001. — 311 p. United States Army newsreel footage of the devastated landscapes of German cities provides one of the most enduring images of World War II. The pictures of gutted buildings and rubble-filled streets offer a stark testament to the ultimate failure of the Luftwaffe in protecting the German homeland from aerial attack. In the...
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