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Author : O. A. Ržeševskij
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (874 download)
Download or read book World War II written by O. A. Ržeševskij and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerhard P. Gross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813168392
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Myth and Reality of German Warfare written by Gerhard P. Gross and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were extremely influential on military planning across the globe and were adopted by American and Soviet armies. In the twentieth century, Germany's art of warfare dominated military theory and practice, creating a myth of German operational brilliance that lingers today, despite the nation's crushing defeats in two world wars. In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a comprehensive examination of the development and failure of German operational thinking over a period of more than a century. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of five different armies, from the mid--nineteenth century through the early days of NATO. He also offers fresh interpretations of towering figures of German military history, including Moltke the Elder, Alfred von Schlieffen, and Erich Ludendorff. Essential reading for military historians and strategists, this innovative work dismantles cherished myths and offers new insights into Germany's failed attempts to become a global power through military means.
Author : Oleg Aleksandrovich Rzheshevskiĭ
Publisher : Moscow : Progress Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Vtorai︠a︡ Voĭna written by Oleg Aleksandrovich Rzheshevskiĭ and published by Moscow : Progress Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : O. A. Reevskij
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (476 download)
Download or read book World War II written by O. A. Reevskij and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oleg Rzheshevsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (923 download)
Download or read book World War II written by Oleg Rzheshevsky and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oleg Aleksandrovich Rzheshevskiĭ
Publisher : Moscow : Progress Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book World War II : myths and realities written by Oleg Aleksandrovich Rzheshevskiĭ and published by Moscow : Progress Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew P. Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Soviet History of World War II written by Matthew P. Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clive Ponting
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Armageddon written by Clive Ponting and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 years after the end of World War 2, Clive Ponting provides a major reassessment of the most destructive conflict in human history. He analyses how and why the war spread from being a limited European conflict to full scale global war.
Author : Edward W. Wood, Jr.
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597973335
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Worshipping the Myths of World War II written by Edward W. Wood, Jr. and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is any war a "good war"? In Worshipping the Myths of World War II, the author takes a critical look at what he sees is America's dedication to war as panacea and as Washington's primary method for leading the world. Articulating why he believes the lessons of World War II are profoundly relevant to today's events, Edward W. Wood, Jr., reflects on such topics as the killing of innocents, which became increasingly accepted during the war; on how actual killing is usually ignored in war discussions and reporting; on the lifetime impact of frontline duty, which he knew firsthand; on the widely accepted concept of "the Greatest Generation"; on present criteria for judging war memoirs and novels; on the fallacy that the United States won the war largely on its own; and on the effect that the Holocaust had on our national concepts of evil and purity. His final chapter centers on how the "war on terror" is different from World War II--and why the myths created about the latter hide that reality.
Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374716129
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Looking for the Good War written by Elizabeth D. Samet and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans—all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States’ “exceptional” history and destiny. Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of the late 1940s, the disaffected Civil War veteran who looms so large on the screen in the Cold War Western, and the resurgent military hero of the post-Vietnam period. Taken together, these figures reveal key elements of postwar attitudes toward violence, liberty, and nation—attitudes that have shaped domestic and foreign policy and that respond in various ways to various assumptions about national identity and purpose established or affirmed by World War II. As the United States reassesses its roles in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the time has come to rethink our national mythology: the way that World War II shaped our sense of national destiny, our beliefs about the use of American military force throughout the world, and our inability to accept the realities of the twenty-first century’s decades of devastating conflict.
Author : Oleksandr Zinchenko
Publisher : Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance
ISBN 13 : 966136558X
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (613 download)
Download or read book The WAR and MYTH written by Oleksandr Zinchenko and published by Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance. This book was released on 2018 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book in no way claims an ultimate truth and a standard of knowledge of the World War II and the list of these myths is not exhaustive. It is just historical fast-food, its appearance caused by the acute desire to satisfy the hunger for information about this period in terms of the information war.
Author : Pier Paolo Battistelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869244
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Myths, Amnesia and Reality in Military Conflicts, 1935-1945 written by Pier Paolo Battistelli and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin fabricated the myth that the Germans carried out the Katyń massacre and the West accepted it while always suspecting the reality. In the same way, each country tried to forget the more painful memories of its past and construct its own mythology. The Germans were never taken to task at Nuremberg for bombing because the Anglo-Americans virtually carried out a war of annihilation. The French Gaullist myth was that it was decadent politicians who caused the defeat, and that fighting France freed itself. In a similar vein, the Italian resistance was fostered as a myth and used postwar to cover the fascist period of their history. British and American popular history tends to portray their countries as the main victors often ignoring the massive Russian contribution, and generally concentrates on the barbarity of the Eastern war. Much is forgotten and much enhanced; both incidents and leaders. The Italian military historian of this book writes in depth about the Italian war so often ignored in western history, and tackles the myth of Italian cowardice, while the British author takes a cold, calculated look at Anglo-American leaders such as Montgomery, Mountbatten, Clark, Patton, and questions the myth of the special relationship between Great Britain and the USA, as well as the official and unofficial amnesia relating to self-inflicted gas wounds in Italy.
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Myths and Realities written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Conyers Nesbit
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752472763
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Flight of Rudolf Hess written by Roy Conyers Nesbit and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 May 1941, Rudolf Hess - Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich - embarked on his astonishing flight from Augsburg to Scotland. At dusk the same day, he parachuted on to a Scottish moor and was taken into custody. His arrival provoked widespread curiosity and speculation, which has continued to this day. Why did Hess fly to Scotland? Had Hitler authorized him to attempt to negotiate peace? Was British Intelligence involved? What was his state of mind at the time? Drawing on a variety of reliable archive and eyewitness sources in Britain, Germany and the USA, authors Roy Conyers Nesbit and Georges van Acker have written what must be the most objective assessment of the Hess' story yet to be published. Their compelling narrative not only dispels many of the extraordinary conspiracy theories, but also uncovers some intriguing new facts.
Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1595587594
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book "The Good War" written by Studs Terkel and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II” (The Boston Globe). “The Good War” is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter’s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what People magazine has called “a splendid epic history” of WWII. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. “Tremendously compelling, somehow dramatic and intimate at the same time, as if one has stumbled on private accounts in letters locked in attic trunks . . . In terms of plain human interest, Mr. Terkel may well have put together the most vivid collection of World War II sketches ever gathered between covers.” —The New York Times Book Review “I promise you will remember your war years, if you were alive then, with extraordinary vividness as you go through Studs Terkel’s book. Or, if you are too young to remember, this is the best place to get a sense of what people were feeling.” —Chicago Tribune “A powerful book, repeatedly moving and profoundly disturbing.” —People
Author : Matthew P. Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (935 download)
Download or read book The Soviet History of World War 2 written by Matthew P. Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Mertus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520218655
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Kosovo written by Julie Mertus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-08-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the foundations of conflict in Kosovo, charging that the international community's failure to support the Albanians in their initial passive resistance to Serbian repression led to violence.
