Armored Trains Of The Soviet Union 1917 1945

Author : Wilfried Kopenhagen
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780887409172
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armored Trains of the Soviet Union, 1917-1945 written by Wilfried Kopenhagen and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1997-01-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shown are Soviet armored trains as used during the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, and World War II.

Author : Wolfgang Sawodny
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764317835
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Armored Trains on the Russian Front, 1941-1944 written by Wolfgang Sawodny and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book is the third by Wolfgang Sawodny on German armored trains in World War II, and presents all new information not previously discussed in his first two highly successful volumes. The main emphasis here is on the operational history of German armored train units on the Russian front, and includes many previously unpublished photographs.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849089582
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armored Trains written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First seen during the American Civil War and later appearing in the Franco-Prussian War and the Anglo-Boer Wars, the armored train came to prominence on the Eastern Front during World War I. It was also deployed during the Russian Civil War and the technology traveled east into the Chinese Civil War, and the subsequent war with Japan. It saw service on the Russian Front in World War II, but was increasingly sidelined because of its vulnerability to air attack. Steven J Zaloga examines the origins and development of the armored train, focusing equally on the technical detail and on the fascinating story of how armored trains were actually used in combat. This title will appeal to armor, military history and railroad enthusiasts alike.

Author : David Bullock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472801644
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armored Units of the Russian Civil War written by David Bullock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1920 the Red Army of Russia fielded an overwhelming array of armored cars, armored trains and tank detachments. These armored units played an important part in consolidating the newly won Bolshevik empire in the early 1920s; as a consequence of the fact that railways were the strategic arteries that essentially controlled Russia, armored trains have never played such a significant role in military history as they did in the Russian Civil War. This title details the management, construction, repair, personnel, training and combat of the Red Army's armored units on all fronts, including such famous vehicles as Trotsky's armored train.

Author : Wolfgang Sawodny
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780887402883
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Armored Trains Vol. II written by Wolfgang Sawodny and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1997-01-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume describing the various German armored trains used during WWII.

Author : Jamie Bisher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135765952
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Terror written by Jamie Bisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the gripping story of a forgotten Russia in turmoil, when the line between government and organized crime blurred into a chaotic continuum of kleptocracy, vengeance and sadism. It tells the tale of how, in the last days of 1917, a fugitive Cossack captain brashly led seven cohorts into a mutinous garrison at Manchuli, a squalid bordertown on Russia's frontier with Manchuria. The garrison had gone Red, revolted against its officers, and become a dangerous, ill-disciplined mob. Nevertheless, Cossack Captain Grigori Semionov cleverly harangued the garrison into laying down its arms and boarding a train that carried it back into the Bolsheviks' tenuous territory. Through such bold action, Semionov and a handful of young Cossack brethren established themselves as the warlords of Eastern Siberia and Russia's Pacific maritime provinces during the next bloody year. Like inland pirates, they menaced the Trans-Siberian Railroad with fleets of armoured trains, Cossack cavalry, mercenaries and pressgang cannon fodder. They undermined Admiral Kolchak's White armies, ruthlessly liquidated all Reds, terrorized the population, sold out to the Japanese, and antagonized the American Expeditionary Force and Czech Legion in a frenzied orchestration of the Russian Empire's gotterdammerung. Historians have long recognized that Ataman Semionov and Company were a nasty lot. This book details precisely how nasty they were.

Author : David Bullock
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841765440
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armored Units of the Russian Civil War written by David Bullock and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important conflicts of the 20th century, the Russian Civil War was the struggle that led to the formation of the Soviet Union. Following the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government on 7 November 1917, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets met and handed over power to the Soviet Council of People's Commissars. Immediately forces began to assemble in opposition to the Bolshevik regime, and these became known as the Whites. This title examines the armour that they had at their disposal throughout the course of the war. It was a varied collection including British and French vehicles and, perhaps most famously, the armoured trains that enabled the Whites to dominate much of Siberia.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armor written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Forty
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636240232
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Army into the Reich written by Simon Forty and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of how the Red Army pushed west and into Berlin in 1945 during World War II. The last year of the war saw Russian offensives that cleared the Germans out of their final strongholds in Finland and the Baltic states, before advancing into Finnmark in Norway and the east European states that bordered Germany: Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. By spring 1945 the Red Army had reached to Vienna and the Balkans, and had thrust deep into Germany where they met American, French and British troops advancing from the west. The final days of the Third Reich were at hand. Berlin was first surrounded, then attacked and taken. Hitler’s suicide and his successors’ unconditional surrender ended the war. For writers and historians who concentrate on the Western Allies and the battles in France and the Low Countries, the Eastern Front comes as a shock. The sheer size of both the territories and the forces involved; the savagery of both weather and the fighting; the appalling suffering of the civilian populations of all countries and the wreckage of towns and cities—it’s no wonder that words like Armageddon are used to describe the annihilation. Red Army into the Reich combines a narrative history, contemporary photographs and maps with images of memorials, battlefield survivors and then & now views. It may come as a surprise to the western reader to see how many memorials there are to Russia’s Great Patriotic War and those to the losses suffered by the countries who spent so long under the murderous Nazi regime. Praise for Red Army into the Reich “If you have any interest in understanding the final cataclysm that overtook the Third Reich and delineated the hows and whys of the Cold War—and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union—Red Army into the Reich will give you a glimpse into a generally underreported past...a small slice of heaven for the East Front fan.” —ARMOR Magazine “Carries the reader into the Eastern Front with clear writing, good maps, and lavish illustration. Many of the photographs are accompanied by images of how the scene they depict appears today.” —WWII History Magazine “A better-illustrated recent volume would be hard to find, especially one that covers the breadth of Red Army combat operations in the third period of the war.” —Journal of Slavic Military Studies

Author : Timothy C. Dowling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598849484
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia at War [2 volumes] written by Timothy C. Dowling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-use reference explores the people and events that shaped Russian military history—and impacted Europe, Asia, and the world—over the past eight centuries. Russian military history is an often-overlooked field. Yet Russia is and has long been an important player in global politics, and its military exploits have been central to its role on the world stage. This study of Russia's military past provides insights into European and U.S. history, including the conduct of the two World Wars and the Cold War, and will help readers better appreciate the current geopolitical situation. This work covers major events and figures in Russian military history from the end of Mongol domination in the 14th century to the present day. More than 650 entries by scores of expert contributors detail events, individuals, organizations, and ideas that have influenced Russian warfare over 800 years. Two alphabetically arranged volumes explore such conflicts as the Russo-Polish Wars, the Great Northern War, the Russo-Turkish Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Cross references and further readings in each entry serve as jumping-off points for further exploration.