Blitzkrieg Unleashed

Author : Richard Hargreaves
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811707245
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blitzkrieg Unleashed written by Richard Hargreaves and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On-the-ground account of the opening campaign of World War II Told from the perspective of the Germans who conquered Poland Based on letters, diaries, official documents, histories, and newspapers At dawn on September 1, 1939, the Germans launched their land, air, and sea assault on Poland, sparking the great conflagration of World War II and shocking the world with the speed and ferocity of their blitzkrieg. With thundering panzers and screaming dive-bombers, they crushed the vital port of Danzig into submission, drove the Polish Air Force from the skies, and took Warsaw amid great bloodshed. After six weeks of brave resistance, the Poles surrendered, no match for the Nazi war machine.

Author : Craig W. H. Luther
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764343766
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarossa Unleashed written by Craig W. H. Luther and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines in unprecedented detail the advance of Germany's Army Group Center through central Russia, toward Moscow, in the summer of 1941, followed by brief accounts of the Battle of Moscow and subsequent winter battles into early 1942. Based on hundreds of veterans' accounts, archival documents, and exhaustive study of the pertinent primary and secondary literature, the book offers new insights into Operation Barbarossa, Adolf Hitler's attack on Soviet Russia in June 1941. While the book meticulously explores the experiences of the German soldier in Russia, in the cauldron battles along the Minsk-Smolensk-Moscow axis, it places their experiences squarely within the strategic and operational context of the Barbarossa campaign. Controversial subjects, such as the culpability of the German eastern armies in war crimes against the Russian people, are also examined in detail. This book is the most detailed account to date of virtually all aspects of the German soldiers' experiences in Russia in 1941.

Author : Halik Kochanski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674068165
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eagle Unbowed written by Halik Kochanski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II gripped Poland as it did no other country. Invaded by Germany and the USSR, it was occupied from the first day of war to the last, and then endured 44 years behind the Iron Curtain while its wartime partners celebrated their freedom. The Eagle Unbowed tells, for the first time, the story of Poland’s war in its entirety and complexity.

Author : Bob Carruthers
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
ISBN 13 : 9781781592274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poland 1939 written by Bob Carruthers and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the powerful record of the lightning campaign against Poland as documented by the Kriegsberichter. This book incorporates the whole of the results of extensive post war interviews carried out by the US department of the Army. The result is a vivid military history of the Polish campaign of September 1939 from the front lines. This view of the campaign from the sharp end draws upon previously unpublished images. Kriegsberichter photographed the events of Hitler's war on land, sea and air on a day-by-day basis; their huge legacy is estimated to encompass over 2,000,000 images, which constitute a powerful primary visual record of the main events of World War II as witnessed from the front lines. Written by Emmy Award winning author Bob Carruthers, this unique publication documents the primary accounts of many of those who fought in Hitler's army. 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.

Author : Bevin Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101460911
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Nazi War Machine written by Bevin Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inside the Nazi War Machine vividly recounts how Rommel, von Manstein and Guderian turned the Blitzkrieg into a fearsome weapon of war in France in 1940, and how Hitler botched his best opportunity to have defeated the BEF, and perhaps defeated Britain.”—Carlo D’Este, author of Patton: A Genius For War In 1940, as Hitler plotted to conquer Europe, only one nation posed a serious threat to the Third Reich's domination: France. The German command was wary of taking on the most powerful armed force on the continent. But three low-ranking generals—Eric von Manstein, Heinz Guderian, and Erwin Rommel—were about to change the face of modern warfare. By grouping tanks into juggernauts to slam through enemy lines, the blitzkrieg was born. With this aggressive, single-minded plan, the Nazis bypassed the supposedly impenetrable Maginot Line, charged into the heart of France, and alerted the world that the deadly might of Germany could no longer be ignored.

Author : Alexander B. Rossino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler Strikes Poland written by Alexander B. Rossino and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping examination of the systematic and murderous ways that Germans first put into place their criminal ideology in their invasion of Poland, during which tens of thousands of civilians were killed to make ``living space'' for Germans in the east.

Author : Cathal Nolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199874654
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Allure of Battle written by Cathal Nolan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon - play a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but matériel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.

Author : Hans Wijers
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 081175927X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle of the Bulge written by Hans Wijers and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of their bitter combat--in the words of German and American soldiers who were there.

Author : Philip Warner
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 081170999X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of France written by Philip Warner and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative look at the battle for France in May and June 1940 Explains how the French were caught off guard, how the Germans swept into the country, and how the British battled the blitzkrieg Recounts the evacuation at Dunkirk Shows how the fall of France changed the course of World War II

Author : Bob Carruthers
Publisher : Archive Media Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781906783846
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poland 1936 - the Blitzkrieg Unleashed written by Bob Carruthers and published by Archive Media Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If the tanks succeed, then victory follows." Heinz Guderian This is the powerful record of the lightning campaign against Poland as documented by the Kriegsberichter. This book incorporates the whole of the results of extensive post war interviews carried out by the US department of the Army. The result is a vivid military history of the Polish campaign of September 1939 from the front lines. This view of the campaign from the sharp end draws upon previously unpublished images. The events of Hitler's war on land sea and air were photographed on a day by day basis by the Kriegsberichter; their huge legacy is estimated to encompass over 2,000,000 images which constitute a powerful primary visual record of the main events of World War II as witnessed from the front lines. Written by Emmy AwardTM winning author Bob Carruthers, this unique publication documents the primary accounts of many of those who fought in Hitler's army. 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'.