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Author : Edgar M. Howell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782896171
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 written by Edgar M. Howell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this text is to provide the Army with a factual account of the organization and operations of the Soviet resistance movement behind the German forces on the Eastern Front during World War II. This movement offers a particularly valuable case study, for it can be viewed both in relation to the German occupation in the Soviet Union and to the offensive and defensive operations of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army. The scope of the study includes an over-all picture of a quasi-military organization in relation to a larger conflict between two regular armies. It is not a study in partisan tactics, nor is it intended to be. German measures taken to combat the partisan movement are sketched in, but the story in large part remains that of an organization and how it operated. The German planning for the invasion of Russia is treated at some length because many of the circumstances which favored the rise and development of the movement had their bases in errors the Germans made in their initial planning. The operations of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army are likewise described in considerable detail as the backdrop against which the operations of the partisan units are projected. Because of the lack of reliable Soviet sources, the story has been told much as the Germans recorded it. German documents written during the course of World War II constitute the principal sources, but many survivors who had experience in Russia have made important contributions based upon their personal experience.

Author : Nik Cornish
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781472801432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Partisan 1941–44 written by Nik Cornish and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the start of Barbarossa, large numbers of Soviet troops and civilians were cut off behind Nazi German lines in what Stalin termed the Great Patriotic War. We know this in the West as the Russo-German part of World War II, but for many partisans it began as a life and death struggle simply to survive. The partisan war in the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944 has been the subject of considerable political manipulation in the decades following 1945. In great part this was due to the need to project the image of a country united behind Joseph Stalin and the Communist regime when the truth was much more complex than that. The opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa had exposed the lack of unity in the Soviet Empire as nationalist and anti-Communist groups emerged in the western provinces such as Belo Russia, Galicia, Bukovina, Ukraine and the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Consequently it was vital for the survival of the Soviet Union that such groups were countered in situ and that the authority of Moscow was maintained in what were known as the Occupied Territories. During the summer of 1941 plans, dormant since the 1930s, for the conduct of partisan warfare behind the lines of an invading force were resurrected. The plans were intended to make life for the invaders as problematic as possible by acts of sabotage, by bleeding off troops from the front line to provide security for the ever lengthening supply lines, to discourage collaborators through acts of retaliation but most important of all to maintain the physical presence of Soviet authority. The term Soviet Partisan of covers a wide variety of warrior types ranging from the highly trained, well-armed and motivated NKVD volunteer to the ordinary civilian refugee fighting for his or her life with precious little training, experience or weaponry. Between these two groups are the isolated formations of Red Army men cut off from their units by the speed of the Axis invasion in 1941, ad hoc local formations that gathered around a charismatic local Communist Party official or simply patriotic Russian civilians who wanted to fight back. One group often overlooked is the Jewish partisan bands who sought refuge in the forests and marshes from the tentacles of the Einsatzgruppen and the ethnic cleansing policies of the Third Reich. During the course of 1942-43 these and other groups fell under the control of the Central HQ of the Partisan Movement (CHQPM). However, The very nature of partisan warfare still required the individual to think for themselves and to bend the letter of the order to local circumstance consequently it remained much more the fight of an individual warrior as opposed to the faceless of mass of army versus army warfare.

Author : Leonid D. Grenkevich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136318518
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 written by Leonid D. Grenkevich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partisans and terrorists have dominated military history during the second half of the 20th century. Leonid Grenkevich offers an account of the shadowy partisan struggle that accompanied the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

Author : Alexander Hill
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714657110
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Behind the Eastern Front written by Alexander Hill and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study, based on Soviet and German archival sources, of Soviet partisan activities in the rear of the German Army Group North 1941-44.

Author : Edgar M. Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 written by Edgar M. Howell and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonid D. Grenkevich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136318585
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 written by Leonid D. Grenkevich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partisans and terrorists have dominated military history during the second half of the 20th century. Leonid Grenkevich offers an account of the shadowy partisan struggle that accompanied the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

Author : Alexander Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472825640
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Partisan vs German Security Soldier written by Alexander Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The savage partisan war on the Eastern Front during World War II saw a wide variety of forces deployed by both sides. On the Soviet side, civilian partisans fought alongside and in co-operation with Red Army troops and Red Army and NKVD 'special forces'. On the German side, German Army security divisions, with indigenous components including cavalry, fought alongside SS police and Waffen-SS units and other front-line troops employed for short periods in the anti-partisan role. In addition to providing the background history of the forces of both sides, this study focuses upon three examples of German anti-partisan operations that show varied success in dealing with the Soviet partisan threat. Notably, it covers a major operation in north-west Russia during the spring of 1943 – Operation Spring Clean – that saw Wehrmacht security forces including local components fighting alongside troops under the SS umbrella against a number of Soviet partisan brigades. During the fighting, German forces even employed captured French tanks from earlier in the war against the partisans. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and drawing upon an array of sources, this is an absorbing account of the brutal fighting between German security forces and their Soviet partisan opponents during the long struggle for victory on World War II's Eastern Front.

Author : United States Government Printing Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780160019951
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944 written by United States Government Printing Office and published by . This book was released on 1956-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Cooper
Publisher : Scarborough House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nazi War Against Soviet Partisans, 1941-1944 written by Matthew Cooper and published by Scarborough House. This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set largely in Eastern Europe, this is the history of one of the pivotal struggles of World War II. A story of action, retaliation and reprisals that involved some two million people, told from both side of the rifle sights.

Author : Kenneth Slepyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Guerrillas written by Kenneth Slepyan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the operations, politics, culture, and autonomy of Soviet partisans (or guerrillas) who fought the German army in WWII. Blending military, political, social, and cultural history, Slepyan also provides a prism for viewing relations between the suffocating Stalinist state and its independent partisan warriors.