Five Years Four Fronts

Author : Georg Grossjohann
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0345476107
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Years, Four Fronts written by Georg Grossjohann and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Hitler’s invasions of Poland and France came the Russian Front–and that’s when the real war started. An infantryman who rose from the enlisted ranks to regimental command in combat, Georg Grossjohann fought on four different fronts during World War II, but saw most of his fighting–from 1941 to 1944–against Russians in the Soviet Union and Romania. He provides shattering glimpses of the horror and chaos of the war, as well as profound insights into everyday life in the Wehrmacht. Five Years, Four Fronts chronicles the combat experiences of Grossjohann and his men as they triumphantly roll across Poland, France, and the sunny steppes of the Ukraine, only to ultimately sustain grinding defeats in the endless, freezing plains of the Soviet Union and the grim, dark Vosges Mountains of France. Grossjohann was a soldier’s soldier, respected by his men, undaunted by his superiors, and, as can be observed in this raw, brutally honest account, not afraid to call the shots as he saw them.

Author : Georg Grossjohann
Publisher : Aberjona Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Years, Four Fronts written by Georg Grossjohann and published by Aberjona Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WWII German memoir of major importance, recalling the wartime career of a professional soldier and Knight's Cross winner. Significance. This book gives it to the reader 'with the bark on', is utterly devoid of self-serving, selective amnesia or embellishments, and conveys a sense of eminent humanity. Far from being consistently perfect examples of military efficiency or martial valour, the characters in this book cover the spectrum from coward and incompetent dolt, to eccentric, to near-saint and lionhearted warrior. Similarly, the quality of planning, support, and decision-making the author observed spans the range from imbecilic to uninspired to brilliant. Grossjohann never imagined his story would be published, but rather, strove to leave his honest account behind for his progeny. Thanks to the efforts of his widow, Edeltraud Grossjohann, and Ulrich Abele, the work's gifted translator, this story is now available to English-speaking students of WWII. Most importantly, this book covers several of the 'sideshow' battles and campaigns of WWII in Europe, and exposes the reader to a German Army that many readers will be surprised to find existed. The late Georg Grossjohann (1911-19

Author : Russell Miller
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409002640
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magnum written by Russell Miller and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of Magnum, told largely in the words of its photographers. It offers a unique perspective on half a century of world history from an extraordinary group of men and women who were front line witnesses at virtually every major event in the last fifty years. Wars, famines, natural disasters, social, political and environmental crises - Magnum photographers were there. They have been acute observers of the human condition, photographing the richest people in the world, the poorest, the least known and the most celebrated, from Marilyn Monroe to Che Guevara, JFK to Nelson Mandela, Picasso to Krushchev. This is a multi-layered story. At one level, it tells how a small group of photographrs - among them Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger - came together, established and nurtured a co-operative photographic agency that has survived against all the odds to become the most famous in the world. At a secondary level, it is the richly anecdotal story of the photographers themselves, their adventures around the world and their feelings about, and reactions to, their assignments.

Author : Norman Stone
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140267255
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eastern Front 1914-1917 written by Norman Stone and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Stone's account of the World War I on the Eastern front, now reissued with a new introduction.

Author : Keith Bonn
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307417751
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Odds Were Even written by Keith Bonn and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three months of savage fighting, the U.S. Seventh Army did what no army in the history of modern warfare had ever done before–conquer an enemy defending the Vosges Mountains. With the toughest terrain on the Western Front, the Vosges mountain range was seemingly an impregnable fortress, manned by German troops determined to hold the last barrier between the Allies and the Rhine. Yet despite nearly constant rain, snow, ice, and mud, soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Army tore through thousands of pillboxes, acres of barbed wire, hundreds of roadblocks, and miles of other enemy obstacles, ripping the tenacious German defenders out of their fortifications in fierce fighting–and then held on to their gains by crushing Operation Nordwind, the German offensive launched in a hail of steel at an hour before midnight on the last New Year’s Eve of the war. Keith Bonn’s fascinating study of this little-known World War II campaign offers a rare opportunity to compare German and American fighting formations in a situation where both sides were fairly evenly matched in numbers of troops, weapons, supplies, and support. This gripping battle-by-battle account shatters the myth that German formations were, division for division, superior to their American counterparts.

Author : Nicholas Stargardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465018998
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German War written by Nicholas Stargardt and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the Third Reich that explores the German psyche

Author : Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural History of Man written by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Anthony Thacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biographical and Historical Record of the Class of 1835 in Yale College written by Thomas Anthony Thacher and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Heart Institute written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Lipsky
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547523750
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolutely American written by David Lipsky and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A “fascinating, funny and tremendously well written” chronicle of daily life at the US Military Academy (Time). In 1998, West Point made an unprecedented offer to Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky: Stay at the Academy as long as you like, go wherever you wish, talk to whomever you want, to discover why some of America’s most promising young people sacrifice so much to become cadets. Lipsky followed one cadet class into mess halls, barracks, classrooms, bars, and training exercises, from arrival through graduation. By telling their stories, he also examines the Academy as a reflection of our society: Are its principles of equality, patriotism, and honor quaint anachronisms or is it still, as Theodore Roosevelt called it, the most “absolutely American” institution? During an eventful four years in West Point’s history, Lipsky witnesses the arrival of TVs and phones in dorm rooms, the end of hazing, and innumerable other shifts in policy and practice. He uncovers previously unreported scandals and poignantly evokes the aftermath of September 11, when cadets must prepare to become officers in wartime. Lipsky also meets some extraordinary people: a former Eagle Scout who struggles with every facet of the program, from classwork to marching; a foul-mouthed party animal who hates the military and came to West Point to play football; a farm-raised kid who seems to be the perfect soldier, despite his affection for the early work of Georgia O’Keeffe; and an exquisitely turned-out female cadet who aspires to “a career in hair and nails” after the Army. The result is, in the words of David Brooks in the New York Times Book Review, “a superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life I have read. . . . How teenagers get turned into leaders is not a simple story, but it is wonderfully told in this book.”