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Author : David A. Miller
Publisher : Merriam Press
ISBN 13 : 1576380734
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Die Schwertertraeger Der Wehrmacht written by David A. Miller and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Almon Miller
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781475063387
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Die Schwertertrger Der Wehrmacht written by David Almon Miller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press Military Monograph 298. Sixth Edition (March 2012). In addition to details about the award itself, each of the 160 recipients (76 Heer, 54 Luftwaffe, five Kriegsmarine, and 24 Waffen-SS) are detailed in the order they received the "Swords." Details of each recipient's award of each class of the Knight's Cross are also provided. A wealth of information and data in a handy, singular reference. Contents: * Introduction * Heer * Luftwaffe * Kriegsmarine * Waffen-SS * Bibliography * 157 Photos.
Author : Florian Berger
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811744904
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (449 download)
Download or read book The Face of Courage written by Florian Berger and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of the 98 German soldiers--out of millions--who received both the Knight's Cross (for extreme bravery) and the Close-Combat Clasp in Gold (for at least 50 days of hand-to-hand fighting) during World War II.
Author : Oscar Gonzalez
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 178159385X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book The Silent Attack written by Oscar Gonzalez and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the capture of Fort Eben Emael Belgium by German paratroopers, on May 10, 1940. This operation marked the first use of gliders and shaped charges, while proved possible drop paratroopers behind enemy lines. The training, secret, accuracy and speed, in addition to the element of surprise, these men became lethal, causing chaos among Belgian soldiers.??However, it should be stressed that these paratroopers were part of a larger group: The Sturmablteilung Koch (Koch Assault Group), the elite of the Luftwaffe in 1940, whose mission was not only to take Eben Emael, but also the three bridges over the Alberto canal near: Veldwezelt, Vroenhoven and Kanne. The success of the attack on Belgium and France would depend on the rapid conquest of those bridges.??The aim of this book is to show how it was planned and carried out the assault on the Albert Canal bridges. All this not only through a supported text documents, records and evidence, but also by many photos never published until now. Every detail, from the creation of the Koch Assault Group, until the final attack, has been closely scrutinized by reference to the best sources, as well as testimonies of Belgian and German soldiers.??About the authors: scar Gonzàlez LÑpez has a degree in Philosophy and teaches History and Philosophy. As a military historian his research has focused on the Fallschirmj_ger as well as the Spanish volunteers in the German Army during the Second World War, through close contact with many former veterans. Amongst other books, he has published Fallschirmj_ger at the Gran Sasso and German Paratroops in Scandinavia. He lives in Spain.??Thomas Steinke studied at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. He takes part in the 'Volksbund Dr. Kriegsgr_berfÙrsorge', being involved in the search and care of German War graves of the Second World War, as well as in educational activities whose main goal is to improve the mutual and peaceful understanding amongst the European people. The focus of his studies has long been German paratroopers, in particular the members of the Sturmabteilung Koch and the LL-Sturmregiment.??Ian Tannahill holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Queensland, Australia, and is a registered patent and trade mark attorney. His interest in the Fallschirmj_ger was sparked by an article he read as a teenager on the fall of the fortress of Eben Emael. His contact with former German paratroopers ignited a desire within Ian to tell the world about the capture of the Albert Kanal bridges by the Fallschirmj_ger and glider pilots of Sturmabteilung Koch.
Author : Sanders Marble
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823239772
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Scraping the Barrel:The Military Use of Sub-Standard Manpower written by Sanders Marble and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of organized conflict, sub-standard men--the inverse of the elites that get the lion's share of our attention-- have served their countries. This is their untold history.
Author : Robert M. Citino
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700630384
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Wehrmacht's Last Stand written by Robert M. Citino and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world’s leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this gripping account of German military campaigns during the final phase of World War II, Citino charts the inevitable path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a “war of movement,” inexorably led to Nazi Germany’s defeat. The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or “death ride,” from January 1944—with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine—until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available. With Citino’s previous volumes, Death of the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German army’s strategy, operations, and performance against the Allies in World War II.
Author : zusammengestellt aus Wikipediaseiten und publziert von DrGoogelberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291210679
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Die Massaker der Wehrmacht written by zusammengestellt aus Wikipediaseiten und publziert von DrGoogelberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Mason
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898077
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Falling From Grace: The German Airborne In World War II written by Chris Mason and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1930’s, an aggressive and innovative rearmament program in Nazi Germany gave rise to the tactics of vertical envelopment. Pioneering the use of gliders as troop carriers, parachutists, and the air landing of reinforcements to exploit tactical success, the German Wehrmacht used the new technique of airborne warfare with startling success as part of the Blitzkrieg campaign against the Low Countries and France in 1940. -When the tactical doctrine used to seize bridges, strong points and road junctions in Fall Gelb was transferred to the seizure of an entire island that was heavily defended in 1941, however, the German airborne effectively committed suicide. -In ten days in May 1941, half the airborne forces in the entire German army were killed or wounded on Crete. Hitler wrongly ascribed the disaster to a playing out of the surprise factor, and banned further parachute operations until 1943. -The right conclusions were arrived at by the commander of the German airborne himself, General Kurt Student, in post-battle analysis. His own insistence on faulty tactics was devastating... The German innovation of vertical envelopment in the 1930’s was as revolutionary to modern military tactics as the simultaneous development of the integrated combined arms offensive known today as the Blitzkrieg. In putting Billy Mitchell’s ideas into practice, Luftwaffe General Student demonstrated vision, innovative thinking and practical military skill. Poor intelligence and reliance on his “spreading oil drops” tactics for the deployment of his paratroopers, the Fallschirmtruppe, on Crete, however, led directly to their removal as a significant weapon from the German arsenal in World War II.
Author : Timothy P Mulligan
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612510809
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Neither Sharks Nor Wolves written by Timothy P Mulligan and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although countless books have been written about the U-boat war in the Atlantic, precious few facts have come to light about the men who served in the submarines that wrought such havoc on Allied ships. Eager to get beyond the stereotypes perpetuated in movies and novels and find out who these elusive sailors really were, archivist Timothy Mulligan started searching official records. Eventually he went straight to the source, conducting a survey of more than a thousand U-boat officers and enlisted men and interviewing a number of them personally. The result is this character study of the German submarine force that challenges traditional and revisionist views of the service. Mulligan found striking similarities in the men's geographic and social origins, education, and previous occupations, particularly within the specialized engineering and radio branches of the submarine force. The information he gathered establishes quantifiable patterns in age, length of service, and experience, as well as the organization's overall recruitment policies and training standards. The numbers and losses of U-boat personnel are also fully examined. Beyond these objective characteristics, this study lists such subjective factors as morale, treatment of enemy ship survivors, and the relationship of the submariners to the Nazi regime, and it confirms a serious crisis in morale in late 1943. The roles played by the head of the U-boat arm, Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, and its organizational chief, Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, are thoroughly addressed. Mulligan concludes that the U-boat arm quickly evolved from a handpicked elite to a more representative sample of the German navy at large but continued to be treated as an elite force. The only comprehensive investigation yet published, this book also draws on POW interrogations of U-boat survivors and documentation of Kriegsmarine personnel policy obtained from German archives.
Author : Alfred Scott McLaren
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817316027
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Unknown Waters written by Alfred Scott McLaren and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the brave officers and men of the nuclear attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651), who made the first survey of an extremely important and remote region of the Artic Ocean. The unpredictability of deep-draft sea ice, shallow water, and possible Soviet discovery, all played a dramatic part in this fascinating 1970 voyage.
Author : Massimiliano Afiero
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8893275597
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Axis Forces 13 written by Massimiliano Afiero and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue we start with an article dedicated to the use of the SS Prinz Eugen division during the 'Schwarz' operation, conducted on the Balkan front in May 1943. This is followed by the biography of Philipp Theiss, extracted from the new book by our Peter Mooney. We continue with the first part of the article dedicated to the recruitment of the Cossacks into the German armed forces and with the second part of the monumental work dedicated to the Krüger brothers by our Mike Miller. Finally, we close with an equally voluminous work on foreign nurses who served in the German Red Cross, a topic little treated by official historiography.
Author : Jason Mark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811766195
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Island of Fire written by Jason Mark and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalingrad was one of the largest, bloodiest, and most famous battles in history as well as one of the major turning points of World War II. For four winter months during the battle, German and Soviet forces fought over a single factory inside the city of Stalingrad. Lavishly illustrated with photos and maps, Island of Fire presents a day-by-day—at times hour-by-hour—chronicle of that pitiless struggle as seen by both sides. The book is unparalleled and exhaustive in its research, meticulous in its reconstruction of the action, and vivid in its retelling of the street-by-street, hand-to-hand fighting near the gun factory.
Author : Stephan Janzyk
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473894638
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Operation Fall Weiss written by Stephan Janzyk and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the fledgling German paratroop operations in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in 1941, attracted worldwide attention, what is not as well known is that the use of paratroopers was planned for the invasion of Poland in 1939, in an act that began the Second World War. This has given rise to the myth that Adolf Hitler wanted to keep this new, and hitherto little-known, branch of the armed services secret for future projects.However, on several occasions the men of Parachute Regiment 1 were sat ready in their Ju52 transport planes, fully equipped and ready to go. 'Operation Fall Weiss' describes the role of the German paratroopers in the Polish campaign, using war diaries, maps, contemporary documents and photographs, including those from various private collections around the world.
Author : John Weal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178200565X
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstörer Aces of World War 2 written by John Weal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first of its type to be devoted exclusively to the Zerstörer day fighter aces, spanning the war years from Poland to the defence of the Reich. Although Messerschmitt's single-engined Bf 109 has received most of the plaudits for achieving virtual air superiority over Europe in 1939-40, the exploits of the manufacturer's twin-engined Bf 110, the Ju 88 and the Me 410 Zerstörer in the first year of the war also make for very impressive reading. Indeed, on the eve of World War 2 a posting to a Bf 110 unit was considered to be the best career move available in the Luftwaffe.
Author : Jerzy Sawicki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book From Nuremberg to the New Wehrmacht written by Jerzy Sawicki and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Forsyth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472845404
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book To Save An Army written by Robert Forsyth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one of the most dramatic operations arranged by the Luftwaffe. Stalingrad ranks as one of the most infamous, savage and emotive battles of the 20th century. It has consumed military historians since the 1950s and has inspired many books and much debate. This book tells the story of the operation mounted by the Luftwaffe to supply, by airlift, the trapped and exhausted German Sixth Army at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942/43. The weather conditions faced by the flying crews, mechanics, and soldiers on the ground were appalling, but against all odds, and a resurgent and active Soviet air force, the transports maintained a determined presence over the ravaged city on the Volga, even when the last airfields in the Stalingrad pocket had been lost. Yet, even the daily figure of 300 tons of supplies, needed by Sixth Army just to subsist, proved over-ambitious for the Luftwaffe which battled against a lack of transport capacity, worsening serviceability, and increasing losses in badly needed aircraft. Using previously unpublished diaries, original Luftwaffe reports and specially commissioned artwork, this gripping battle is told in detail through the eyes of the Luftwaffe commanders and pilots who fought to keep the Sixth Army alive and supplied.
Author : Leo Barron
Publisher : Dutton Caliber
ISBN 13 : 0451467884
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Patton at the Battle of the Bulge written by Leo Barron and published by Dutton Caliber. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitler's forces had pressed in on the small Belgian town in a desperate offensive designed to push back the Allies, starting the Battle of the Bulge. So far, the US soldiers had managed to repel waves of attackers and even a panzer onslaught, but as their ammunition dwindled, the weary paratroopers of the 101st Airborne could only hope for a miracle--a miracle in the form of General George S. Patton and his Third Army. More than a hundred miles away, Patton, ordered to race his men to Bastogne, was already putting in motion the most crucial charge of his career. Tapped to spearhead his counterstrike against the Wehrmacht was the Fourth Armored Division, a bloodied but experienced unit that had fought and slogged its way across France. But blazing a trail into Belgium meant going up against some of the best infantry and tank units in the German Army. Failure to reach Bastogne in time could result in the overrunning of the 101st--a catastrophic defeat that could turn the tide of the war and secure victory for the Nazis.
