AK Interactive, 2020. — 108 p. This new lavishly illustrated title in our Profile Guide series takes you on a journey through the German armoured vehicles which took part in combat in Normandy after the Allied invasion launched on June 6, 1944. Discover the plethora of different camouflage patterns depicted on 190 colour profiles, and read the informative captions which give...
Washington, D. C.: Records Analysis Division; Office of Budget and Administrative Planning, 1944. — 54 p. Brief Historical Statement Office of Economic Warfare Historical Background Office of the Administrator of Export Control Economic Defense Board Merger of Office of Export Control with Economic Defense Board Economic Defense Board Becomes Board of Economic Warfare...
Washington, D. C.: Records Analysis Division; Office of Budget and Administrative Planning, 1944. — 54 p. Brief Historical Statement Office of Economic Warfare Historical Background Office of the Administrator of Export Control Economic Defense Board Merger of Office of Export Control with Economic Defense Board Economic Defense Board Becomes Board of Economic Warfare...
Washington: War Department, Public Relations Bureau, 1942. — 72 p. Prepared for use with the War Department Orientation Course "These maps and graphs were prepared from civilian sources of information".
Washington: National Defense Research Committee, 1946. — 193 p. This first phase of U-boat warfare was greatly influenced by the rapidly changing overall military situation. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and England and France declared war on Germany on September 3. Some U-boats had left Germany early in August and when the war began there were about six at sea,...
Leo Cooper, 1989. — 286 p. The Norwegian campaign of 1940 occupies a special place among the campaigns and operations of the Second World War.’ He points out that its duration was relatively short, its theatre restricted and the forces engaged limited. Why ‘special’? Because it was the first example of a modern combined operation by land, sea and air. It was the first modern...
Indiana University Press, 2010. — 388 p. Mr Adams is a business man and amateur historian that has written another superlative book on WWII. His earlier book dealt with the operational appraisal of the Pacific War. The keystone to the author's books is that they're highly researched and thought out and include many primary examples to back up his comments. Included in the...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 276 p. This volume is the first comprehensive account in the English language that addresses the genesis, organization and operations of Italian forces that fought alongside the Germans and other contingents allied with them in Russia beginning with Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 until the defeat of the Italian forces there in early 1943. In...
Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2009. — 283 s. Relacja niemieckiego generała ukazuje walki na Śląsku toczone z Rosjanami w 1. połowie 1945 r. z perspektywy obrońców prowincji. Taka wizja historii odbiega od polskiej interpretacji wydarzeń i na pewno, podobnie jak opracowania polskie czy rosyjskie, zawiera jedynie część prawdy. Ale bez niej nasza wiedza o dramatycznych dniach...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2020. — 216 p. Here are overlooked or forgotten tales from the world's greatest conflict. These are stories of courage, daring, and stupidity, some of which would challenge the imaginations of Hollywood scriptwriters. Some of the many true tales that author Donald Aines recounts include: • He would never be cast as a dashing war hero, but a cast member of...
Random House, 2001. — 352 p. Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's influential personality and his military strategy was critical in...
Casemate Publishers, 2010. — 228 p. The thrilling memoir of the legendary army colonel and paratrooper—the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat during WWII. In his distinguished service during World War II, Col. Mark James Alexander took command of three separate battalions of parachute infantrymen within the 82nd Airborne Division. A legend in...
Офлайновая версия сайта http://alexeirus.dax.ru. — 2005, 232 с.: ил. Вторая мировая война — история, кампании, сражения. Описания сражений и операций. Календарь знаменательных дат. Информация о видах вооружения стран-участников. Биографии известных личностей. Статьи охватывают весь период войны, все театры военных действий и сопровождаются фотографиями и схемами. Сражения и...
McFarland, 2011 - 288 p. ISBN10: 0786460539 ISBN13: 9780786460533 (eng)
Looting has long been recognized as one of the crimes committed by the Third Reich during World War II, a crime which stripped economic wealth and artistic treasures from the populations the Nazis terrorized. This historical text reveals the shocking extent of looting by Allied forces, exploring their...
Castle Books, 2002. — 226 p. — ISBN10 0785814205 ISBN13 9780785814207. "The Forgotten Battle" has remained alive and vivid in the mind of its thousands of participants. This necessary and brilliantly crafted work examines the battles of Overloon and Maas Salient, the "other" side of WWII in Europe-a bloody slugging match between equally skilled opponents that comprised the...
Under the Gen. Editorship of H. M. Hyman. — New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1967. — 119 p. In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany on two fronts, a major decision had to be made; where to draw a stop line to prevent an accidental clash between the Russian and the Anglo-American armies. Behind this decision lay another. Which forces...
Simon and Schuster, 1995. — 656 p. Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion were abandoned, and how ordinary soldiers and officers acted on their own initiative....
Simon and Schuster, 1998. — 396 p. From historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. This authoritative narrative account is drawn by the author himself from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, most particularly from the definitive and comprehensive D-Day and...
Brill, 2010. — 496 p. — (History of Warfare 66). Drawing on new research, this book provides the first comprehensive English-language account of the German assault on the Netherlands in May 1940. It presents fresh and incisive analyses of German and Dutch actions at tactical, operational and strategic levels.
Amber Books, 2014. — 255 p. Campaigns of World War II: Fall of the Reich is a military history of the Western European campaign from D-Day in June 1944 to the fall of Berlin in May 1945. Beginning with the Allied preparations for what would become Operation Overlord, from the initial discussions of Roosevelt and Churchill, to the deliberations and plans of Marshall and Brooke,...
Casemate, 2022. — 288 p. The vivid account of a young machine gunner's war with the Big Red One, from D-Day through the Hurtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, Remagen to the Wehrmacht's last stand in the mountains of Germany. Ernest "Andy" Andrews began his training as a machine gunner at Fort McClellan in Alabama in July 1943. In early 1944, he arrived in the UK for further...
Volumen número 3 de la traduccion de la obra del italiano Arrigo Petacco editada en español por SARPE durante los años 1978_1980, que comprende 9 volúmenes.
Harper Collins Publishers, 2014. — 288 p. From the bestselling and prize-winning author of 'A Brilliant Little Operation' comes the long neglected D-Day story of the largest action by the French Resistance during WWII, published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings. In early 1941, three separate groups of plotters – one military, one political, one...
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. — 392 p. ISBN: 0-471-27393-7 Gerald Astor has rightfully acquired a reputation as one of today’s best oral history writers. Those knowledgeable of the fighting, events, and personalities of the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater understand there is too much to discuss in a single volume. With that in mind, Astor focuses his book on a few key...
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. — 392 p. ISBN: 0-471-27393-7 Gerald Astor has rightfully acquired a reputation as one of today’s best oral history writers. Those knowledgeable of the fighting, events, and personalities of the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater understand there is too much to discuss in a single volume. With that in mind, Astor focuses his book on a few key...
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. — 392 p. ISBN: 0-471-27393-7 Gerald Astor has rightfully acquired a reputation as one of today’s best oral history writers. Those knowledgeable of the fighting, events, and personalities of the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater understand there is too much to discuss in a single volume. With that in mind, Astor focuses his book on a few key...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002. - 681 pgs. An Army at Dawn is the first book in Atkinson’s trilogy about the liberation of western Europe during WWII. This book covers North Africa while forthcoming books will cover Italy and France. An Army at Dawn won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. This history book that flows extremely. It is an skillful marriage of storytelling and...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002. - 681 pgs. An Army at Dawn is the first book in Atkinson’s trilogy about the liberation of western Europe during WWII. This book covers North Africa while forthcoming books will cover Italy and France. An Army at Dawn won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. This history book that flows extremely. It is an skillful marriage of storytelling and...
Holt Paperbacks, 2007. — 768 p. — (Liberation Trilogy).
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North AfricaThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this...
Holt Paperbacks, 2008. — 848 p. — (Liberation Trilogy).
“A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.”—The New York TimesIn An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of...
Henry Holt, 2014. — 177 p. Adapted for young readers from the New York Times–bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that day—June 6, 1944—the day that led to the liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. They came by sea and by sky to reclaim freedom from the occupying Germans, turning the tide of World War II. Atkinson...
Holt Paperbacks, 2013. — 896 p. — (Liberation Trilogy). — ISBN: 978-0-8050-6290-8. The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War IIIt is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes...
Chicago Review Press, 2011.
272 p.
Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator sent into occupied France and transferred crucial messages. Johtje Vos, a Dutch housewife, hid Jews in her home and repeatedly outsmarted the Gestapo. Law student Hannie Schaft became involved in the most dangerous resistance work-sabotage, weapons transference, and assassinations. In these...
Lucknow Books, 2015. — 228 p. The only war correspondent who accompanied the Allied Dieppe raid of 1942 tells the story of the brave, heroic but ultimately futile assault landing which would lay the foundation for the success in Normandy two years later. Alexander Berry Austin was a noted war correspondent who worked for the London Herald during the Second World War. He was...
Selected and prepared by The United Nations War crimes commission. — London: HM Stationary Office, 1947. — 172 p. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Wright of Durley Heading notes and summary Outline of the proceedings The Court The Charge Application By The Defence For The Severing Of The Two Charges Application By The Defence For Individual Trials Against Individual Accused...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1975. — 315 p. S.O.E. in the Balkans. Some Factors in British Decision-making over Yugoslavia 1941–43. British Policy Towards General Draža Mihailović. The Myth of an Allied Landing in the Balkans during the Second World War. Summer 1943: The Critical Months. The Andarte Delegation to Cairo: August 1943. ‘Pearls from Swine’: the Foreign Office papers, S.O.E....
Sterling, 2008. — 400 р. — ISBN: 978-1402740909. In a refreshingly fearless, colloquial voice, Axelrod recounts the key events of World War II with humanity and drama. The Real History of World War II remains authoritative, non-academic, and appealingly designed with illustrations and maps. Axelrod looks to the conflict’s ramifications, concisely exploring the war’s...
The History Press, 2020. — 256 p. Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with a wide range of veterans following the publication of her grandfather's wartime memoir, Victoria Panton Bacon has gathered a moving collection of their experiences. Their recollections tell of a different...
The History Press, 2022. — 192 p. During the Second World War, women kept society going, acting as carers, nurses, cleaners and teachers; or stepping in where men had gone, taking up such positions as engineers, farm laborers, factory workers, drivers and intelligence experts. This new collection of stories contains twelve true testimonies of women who lived through these...
Barnes & Noble, 2002. — 296 p. This book doesn't describe battle plans, an order of battle; it gives a layman's account of the prior history of the battle, a few battle basics and a brief summary of the battle results. For anybody looking for a serious rendition of battle planning or analysis of WWII battle campaigns instead of generalities, you should definitely look...
Routledge, 2016. — 288 p. Comparing the original battle plans with how the battle was actually fought provides a different perspective that World War II enthusiasts will welcome. High school and college collections needing more military focused World War II material should add this to their circulating collections. The authors present axioms of war and present battles that...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1977. — 264 p. — ISBN10 0-85368-331-X. Over 2,500 submarines saw action during WWII from all combatant nations, and for the first time all classes and types of submarines are covered in a single book. From midgets to large U-cruisers, along with projected and experimental designs, a mass of detail records technical characteristics for each class...
Arcturus, 2020. — 255 p. Just as vital as the battle on land or the struggle at sea, the air war ultimately tipped the balance of power in World War II. Many campaigns rode on the capabilities of their airforce, as British Spitfires were pitted against Messerschmitt Bf 109s and Japanese Zeros. Aerospace expert David Baker explores this battle in the skies, detailing the...
Routledge, 2009. — 180 p. Russia's engagement with Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II was ferocious, unprecedented and bloody, costing millions of civilian and military lives. In this challenging new book, Lee Baker distinguishes myth from reality and deflates the idea that this war, while gargantuan in scale, was in essence a war like any other. Following an...
Il Mulino, 2023. — 470 p. La guerra, ultima fase del fascismo trionfante, ha agito su di noi più profondamente di quanto risulti a prima vista. La guerra ha distolto materialmente gli uomini dalle loro abitudini, li ha costretti a prendere atto con le mani e con gli occhi dei pericoli che minacciano i presupposti di ogni vita individuale, li ha persuasi che non c'è possibilità...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. — 375 p. This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany. With Western Europe now at the heart of a united continent, it is even more difficult to explain how only 70 years ago European states destroyed much of the urban landscape from the air. There were many blitzes between...
Stackpole Books, 2006. — 400 p. Although the assault on Utah Beach ultimately became one of the most successful military operations of World War II, its outcome was anything but certain. Not only was Utah the most isolated of the five D-Day beaches, but the airborne assault was of unprecedented size and complexity. Despite the perils, American troops confidently cascaded into...
London: Pluto Press, 2014. — 305 p. The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the footsteps of Winston Churchill by standing up to dictators. In The Second World War Chris...
Voyageur Press, 2007. — 256 p. In 1942, the 82nd Infantry Division at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, was split in two. One of the new divisions began intense preparations and training for a surprise landing on the Nazi-occupied European continent. The location was Normandy, France; the date was June 6, 1944; and the division was the 101st Airborne: the legendary "band of brothers."...
Hong Kong University Press, 2006. — 342 p. Almost 2,000 British Prisoners of War were aboard the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru when an American submarine torpedoed and sank her in October 1942. This book tells the story of those men, from the fighting in Hong Kong, through the sinking, and for some, to liberation and beyond. Although never previously studied in any depth, the...
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2021. — 155 p. James Henry Banton was born in Burton on Trent in 1920. He worked as a driver of a steam locomotive used to transport beer and supplies to breweries around the town. When war broke out Jim joined the RAF, eventually becoming a Leading Aircraftsman as part of the RAF’s ground crew. During this time Jim had met the love of his life...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 324 p. The glider-borne operation to capture Pegasus Bridge has an established place in the annals of warfare. Conducted by Major John Howard and his company of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry it was a superbly daring, brilliantly executed 'coup de main' assault. Equally brave was the seizure of the Orne bridges by airborne forces and...
Praeger Security International, 2007. — 269 p. Before landing in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies executed an elaborate deception plan designed to prevent the Germans from concentrating forces in Normandy. The lesser-known first part, Fortitude North, suggested a threat to Norway. The more famous Fortitude South indicated that the invasion would occur at the Pas de...
Skyhorse, 2014. — 320 р. — ISBN: 978-1629143941. World War II marked not only the end of a terrifying time in Europe, but also the dawning of many technological breakthroughs. In Weapons of World War II, written by the chief of the Research and Engineering Office of Ordnance, G. M. Barnes discusses the various weapons used during the war. Such topics include: Small arms and...
Cassell & Company Ltd., 2007. — 364 p. A collection of intimate portraits of the five men who lead the British Army through the battles of the African's Desert Campaign in 1940-1943: Richard O'Connor, Alan Cunningham, Neil Ritchie, Claude Auchinleck, and Field Marshall Montgomery. A comprehensive account of the Desert Campaign is provided. An outstanding contribution to the...
Indiana University Press, 1986. — 352 p. A collection of intimate portraits of the five men who lead the British Army through the battles of the African's Desert Campaign in 1940-1943: Richard O'Connor, Alan Cunningham, Neil Ritchie, Claude Auchinleck, and Field Marshall Montgomery. A comprehensive account of the Desert Campaign is provided. An outstanding contribution to the...
Wydawnictwo Militaria, 2006. — 87 p. Książka poświęcona operacji Frühlingserwachen - ostatniej niemieckiej ofensywie II wojny światowej w okolicach jeziora Balaton, na Węgrzech. Operacja Frühlingserwachen – kryptonim ostatniej niemieckiej ofensywy podczas II wojny światowej. Atak rozpoczął się 6 marca 1945 roku na froncie wschodnim i skierowany był przeciwko oddziałom...
Pegasus Books, 2017. — 526 p. The Anglo-American relationship from 1941-1945 proved to be the most effective military alliance in history. Yet there were also constant tensions and disagreements that threatened to pull the alliance apart. Based on considerable archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Eisenhower's Armies considers the breadth and depth of the...
Random House, 2005. — 531 p. In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Rommel's Panzerarmee Afrika. Yet just five months later, the famous bombardment opened the Eighth Army's...
Random House, 2015. — 256 p. In the mid-twentieth century the relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past. Theirs was a history of protection and oppression, of rebellion and ultimately war. But then the shared crisis of the Second World War brought Britain and America closer than ever before or since, and saw an unprecedented level of military cooperation....
Routledge, 2021. — 810 p. The Routledge History of the Second World War sums up the latest trends in the scholarship of that conflict, covering a range of major themes and issues. The book delivers a thematic analysis of the many ways in which study of the Second World War can take place, considering international, transnational, and global approaches, and serves as a major...
Routledge, 2021. — 810 p. The Routledge History of the Second World War sums up the latest trends in the scholarship of that conflict, covering a range of major themes and issues. The book delivers a thematic analysis of the many ways in which study of the Second World War can take place, considering international, transnational, and global approaches, and serves as a major...
Routledge, 2022. — 811 p. The Routledge History of the Second World War sums up the latest trends in the scholarship of that conflict, covering a range of major themes and issues. The book delivers a thematic analysis of the many ways in which study of the Second World War can take place, considering international, transnational, and global approaches, and serves as a major...
Texas University Press, 2010. — 505 p. In December 1941, the War Department sent two transports and a freighter carrying 103 P-40 fighters and their pilots to the Philippines to bolster Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Far East Air Force. They were then diverted to Australia, with new orders to ferry the P-40s to the Philippines from Australia through the Dutch East Indies. But on the...
Texas University Press, 2014. — 360 p. Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed...
Osprey Publishing, 1994. ― 97 p. ― (Ejercitos y Batallas 01). ― ISBN 8478384731. La batalla de Normandía fue el último gran enfrentamiento de crucial importancia estratégica librado en occidente en los tiempos modernos. Entre junio y agosto de 1944, y tras la mayor invasión anfibia de la historia, ejércitos compuestos por más de un millón de hombres lucharon en el noroeste de...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 224 p. A comprehensive analysis of Hitler’s role as the supreme military leader of the Third Reich across all the major campaigns. There have been many books on Adolf Hitler and specific military campaigns and battles during the time of the Third Reich. However, there has never been a comprehensive analysis of Hitler’s role as the supreme...
An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Limited Yorkshire – Philadelphia ISBN 978 1 39907 036 2 The third in a three-part in depth study and deals with Hitler’s influence on the Wehrmacht and how his decisions influenced the advancement of weapons technology in this pivotal era of the Second World War.
An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Limited Yorkshire – Philadelphia ISBN 978 1 39907 036 2 The third in a three-part in depth study and deals with Hitler’s influence on the Wehrmacht and how his decisions influenced the advancement of weapons technology in this pivotal era of the Second World War.
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 216 p. Operation Market Garden – the Allied airborne invasion of German-occupied Holland in September 1944 – is one of the most famous and controversial Allied failures of the Second World War. Many books have been written on the subject seeking to explain the defeat. Historians have generally focused on the mistakes made by senior commanders as...
US Naval War College, 1957. — 926 p. Confidental. This analysis of the OOOO October 20th - 1042 October 23rd phase of the Battle for Leyte Gulf which embraces in general the operations wherein SOWESPAC forces, supported by POA forces, seized footholds in the Leyte Gulf area of the Philippines, and the Japanese reactions thereto, was prepared by the Naval War College. It is...
US Naval War College, 1957. — 926 p. Confidental. This analysis of the OOOO October 20th - 1042 October 23rd phase of the Battle for Leyte Gulf which embraces in general the operations wherein SOWESPAC forces, supported by POA forces, seized footholds in the Leyte Gulf area of the Philippines, and the Japanese reactions thereto, was prepared by the Naval War College. It is...
US Naval War College, 1957. — 1086 p. Confidental. This analysis of the October 20th - October 23rd phase of the Battle for Leyte Gulf which embraces in general the operations wherein SOWESPAC forces, supported by POA forces, seized footholds in the Leyte Gulf area of the Philippines, and the Japanese reactions thereto, was prepared by the Naval War College. It is based on...
Spellmount, 2012. — 160 p. The tale of one of the longest-running sieges in British military history, and a potent symbol of resistance. The siege of Tobruk lasted 240 days during which the "gallant garrison" of Allied soldiers, primarily the Australian 9th Division, held out against constant attacks from Rommel's Afrika Korps. The battle became a potent symbol of British...
Routledge, 2019. — 202 p. Throughout the Second World War, the term ‘Europe’ featured prominently in National Socialist rhetoric. This book reconstructs what Europe stood for in National Socialist Germany, analyses how the interplay of its defining elements changed dependent on the war, and shows that the new European order was neither an empty phrase born out of propaganda,...
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. — 136 p. Few of the major campaigns of World War II aroused as much controversy as the War in North Africa, 1940-1943. Figures such as Rommel, Montgomery, and Eisenhower would become world famous because of the fighting in North Africa. This book opens with seven historiographical essays that evaluate and critically assess the major...
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 94 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-47385-687-5. Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other,by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the Auschwitz complex. Here a vast complex of buildings were...
Pen & Sword, 2009. — 130 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-84884-072-0. The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in its gas chaМбers. Countless more died as a result of disease and starvation. 'Auschwitz Death Camp' is a chilling pictorial record...
Helion and Company, 2009. — 112 p. Battle in the Baltics 1944 - 1945 is an exclusive insight into the last frantic months of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1944 - 1945. From mid-August 1944 there was nothing but a drum-beat of defeats for the German Army as it fought to the grim death to try and hold back the overwhelming might of the Russians from reaching...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 218 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-78159-331-8. Accompanied by rare and unpublished photos with in-depth captions the book presents a unique visual account of one of the Nazi’s most infamous concentration camps. The imagery shows the SS’s murderous activities inside Belsen, and also reveal another disturbing side to them relaxing in their barracks or...
Pen & Sword, 2011. — 167 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-84884-381-3. The Final Days of the Reich is the latest in the popular Images of War series by Ian Baxter. Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions and text, this book is a compelling account of the final weeks of the Nazis' struggle for survival against overwhelming odds....
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 100 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN 978-1-39909-664-5. Heinrich Himmler has a strong claim to be Adolf Hitler’s most powerful subordinate. He was certainly the main architect of the Holocaust. Appointed Reichsfuhrer-SS in 1929 he built the SS into a million strong paramilitary force and took control of the Nazi concentration camps system. From 1943...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 124 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN 978-1-52676-541-3. Nearly 80 years on, the concept and scale of the Nazis’ genocide programme remains an indelible, nay almost unbelievable, stain on the human race. Yet it was a dreadful reality of which, as this graphic book demonstrates, all too much proof exists. Between 1941 and 1945 an estimated three and a...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 90 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN 978-1-52676-542-0. Nearly 80 years on, the concept and scale of the Nazis’ genocide programme remains an indelible, nay almost unbelievable, stain on the human race. Yet it was a dreadful reality of which, as this graphic book demonstrates, all too much proof exists. Between 1941 and 1945 an estimated three and a...
Pen & Sword, 2015. — 218 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-78159-388-2. Using many rare and unpublished images this book identifies and delves into the characters of the notorious men who were instrumental in one of the greatest crimes against humanity in World history. Through words and pictures the chilling truth emerges. In many respects these monsters were all too normal....
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 126 p. — ISBN 978-1-39900-374-2. The term Panzergrenadier was introduced in 1942 and applied equally to the infantry component of Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and later Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiere divisions. As this classic new Images of War book describes, these elite divisions fought as mechanized infantry and escort for and in close cooperation with...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 176 p. Using 250 photographs, this addition to the Images of War series examines Hitler's elite armored infantry: the Panzergrenadiers. The term Panzergrenadier was introduced in 1942 and applied equally to the infantry component of Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and later Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiere divisions. As this classic new Images of War book...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 128 p. Following the 1940 invasion of Poland, the Nazis established ghettos in cities and towns across the country with the initial aim of segregating and isolating the Jewish community. These closed sectors were referred to as Judischer Wohnbezirk or Wohngebiet der Juden (Jewish Quarters). Using contemporary images this well researched and...
Penguin Books, 2005. — 592 p. The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an impregnable global network denied to the Nazis. Within a few weeks in 1941-42 a Japanese invasion had...
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1977. — 160 pgs. Winifred Beaumont volunteered on impulse for the army nursing service, and reluctantly went abroad. She was already an experienced field theatre nurse, and thus in the Far East in 1944 a valuable piece of woman-power. In army parlance she was a Detail, a nursing sister who could be sent wherever she was most needed. For...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 84 p. This thesis examines the impact that the dominant personalities of General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Ernest King had in shaping Allied strategy in the Pacific during the Second World War. The concept of dominant personality is defined as containing three essential elements: arrogance, tenacity, and supreme competence. The lives of...
Spellmount Limited, 1998. — 189 p. Formed in 1944 as part of the British Army, the Jewish Infantry Brigade fought with distinction in Italy. It was the first all-Jewish 'army' and knowledge of its existence and its role in defeating the Nazis gave an immense boost to Jews everywhere. But the Brigade's political masters were in Palestine, not Whitehall, and as the Second World...
Texas University Press, 2006. — 272 p. A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, Prisoner of the Rising Sun offers new evidence of the treatment accorded officers and shows how the Corregidor prisoners fared compared with the ill-fated Bataan captives. When Japanese aircraft struck airfields in the Philippines on...
Rizzoli, 2003. — 472 p. Nella primavera del 1941, dopo il fallimento del tentativo d'invasione da parte dell'esercito italiano, la Grecia continentale fu occupata dalla Wehrmacht. Il 20 maggio, i tedeschi scatenarono un'imponente offensiva per conquistare anche Creta, fondamentale per il controllo del Mediterraneo orientale. Dopo dodici giorni di accanita battaglia, in cui...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2014. — 405 p. Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra intercepts, had already laid a careful trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war when a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle around. Prize-winning...
London: Penguin Books, 2004. One. The Fall of Greece. Military Missions. Diplomatic Missions. Secret Missions. The Double Invasion. Across the Aegean. Two. The Battle of Crete. 'A Second Scapa'. 'The Spear-point of the German Lance'. 'Most Secret Sources'. 'A Fine Opportunity for Killing'. Maleme and Prison Valley. Close Quarters at Rethymno and Heraklion. First Night and...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 624 p. "Glorious, horrifying... D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."—Time Renowned historian Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem, and the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The Guardian) presents the first major account in more...
Kraków: Znak, 2013. — 1056 s. — ISBN:9788324021611 Gdybyś miał przeczytać w życiu tylko jedną książkę o II wojnie światowej, powinna to być książka Beevora. Przełomowa panorama II wojny światowej. Dzieło życia prekursora nowoczesnej historii wojskowości. Pisząc swój niezapomniany Stalingrad, Antony Beevor stworzył podwaliny współczesnej historii wojskowości. W Berlinie 1945,...
Helion and Company, 2011. — 255 p. In the first of a two-volume study, the author presents an extremely detailed record of the Organisation, doctrine and equipment of US Army infantry divisions during the latter part of World War II. The second volume will provide capsule histories for all US Army infantry divisions during this period. After examining the state of the US Army...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. — 304 p. Among the operations known as Plan Bodyguard, the deception devised to cover the Allies' Normandy landing, was the little known but critical Plan Zeppelin, the largest and most complex of the Bodyguard plans. Zeppelin, in conjunction with the Mediterranean Strategy, succeeded in pinning down sixty German divisions from southern...
The Research Department Air Command and Staff College, 1997. — 34 p. The United States war production capacity played a significant role in the Allied victory in World War II. The aircraft industry in particular rallied to mass produce thousands of aircraft to support the war efforts in both theaters. Mass production led to the dilemma of sacrificing quantity for quality. This...
Casemate, 2011. — 352 p. After Normandy, the most spectacular Allied offensive of World War II was Operation Market Garden, which saw three divisions of paratroopers dropped behind German lines, to be joined by massive armored columns breaking through the front. The ultimate object was to seize a crossing over the Rhine to outflank the heartland of the Third Reich and force a...
Continuum, 2011. — 284 p. An examination of the relationship between the Royal Air Force and the French Fighter pilots who flew for the RAF during World War II.
Pen & Sword, 2003. — 303 p. — ISBN: 0850529891. Captain Bennett discusses the traumatic effects of the Washington and London Naval Treaties on the fleets of the principal powers between the wars, and their astonishing growth and technical progress between 1939 and 1945. He then deals with the war in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The Battle of the River Plate, the struggle...
MacLehose Press, 2017. — 320 p. In the shadow of Mount Kenya, surrounded by the forests and creatures of the savannah, life drags interminably for the inmates of POW Camp 354, captured in Africa during World War II. Confined to an endless cycle of boredom and frustration, one prisoner realizes he can bear it no longer. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to...
Pacifica Press, 2000. — 340 p. — ISBN10 0935553487; ISBN13 9780935553482. Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was not only one of the greatest land operations in history, but also one of the largest air operations. Over 3,000 Luftwaffe aircraft and aircraft of nations allied with Germany faced over 10,000 Soviet aircraft across an enormous...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 287 p. The Battle of the Odon evokes the clash between the British Army and the II SS-Panzer Korps, as they attacked across the Odon Valley during Operation "Epsom" in June 1944. Using contemporary photographs and documents, this book provides day-by-day details of the operation that what just one part of what is commonly referred to as the 'Battle...
London: Pen & Sword Military, 2015. — 249 p. After a slow start, the Second World War produced an enormous number of war correspondents. Correspondents like Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and George Orwell were all inspired to put their experiences on the printed page. Hemingway and his wife, Martha Gellhorn, went on to cover the D-Day Landings and the final victory in...
NAL, 2010. — 320 p. The men, the minds, and the military tactics of Nazi Germany that would challenge the world to war. In 1940, as Nazi Germany spread its wings of war, France stood secure in the knowledge that they possessed the largest, most formidable, and best-equipped army in Europe. France also had a stalwart ally in Britain and the support of Holland and Belgium. But...
Warszawa: Bellona, 1991. — 231 s. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Książka polskiego badacza Roberta Bieleckiego „Normandia 1944” poświęcona jest jednemu z najwybitniejszych epizodów II wojny światowej – lądowaniu wojsk aliantów zachodnich w Normandii. W pracy autor konsekwentnie opisuje wydarzenia poprzedzające lądowanie w Normandii w czerwcu 1944 r., w tym działania bojowe na innych...
New York: Viking Penguin, 2002. — 476 pgs. Bierman and Smith are, respectively, ex-BBC and ex-Observer correspondents currently based in Cyprus. Despite its U.S. title (the book goes by Alamein: War Without Hate in the U.K.), their popular account covers the entire three-year North African campaign. The descriptions of the battles are well-crafted and easily accessible to the...
Boston: Woodbridge, 1999. — 926 p. The "World War II: Almanac" provides students with the information they need to write reports and complete class assignments. "World War II: Biographies" profiles more than 30 men and women involved in the war and features 65 photographs and illustrations. "World War II: Primary Sources" allows students to study 16 speeches, diary entries,...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. — 143 p. First of all, because it was so important to the Free French themselves, the reader should understand the difference between the Free French (France Libre) and the Army of Africa (l’Arme´e d’Afrique). The former includes only those units and individuals that pledged themselves specifically to Charles de Gaulle and began gathering...
Michael Bird, 2015. — 189 p. The Secret Battalion is the true story of four hundred and seventy courageous French Resistance fighters besieged by 10,000 German and Vichy troops on the Plateau of Glieres and the battle fought in March of 1944, three months before the Allied invasion of Europe on D-day.
Dept. of the Army, 1994 - 28 p.
Center of Military History Publication.
Covers the Allied invasion of Sicily from July9 to August 17, 1943. Sicily was the first piece of the Axis homeland to fall to the Allies during World War
2. Includes a color map, black and white photographs, and suggestions for further reading.
Crown Books, 2001. — 536 p. Numbered people The IBM-Hitler intersection Identifying the Jews The IBM-Nazi alliance A nazi medal for Watson War cards Dedly count With Blitzkrieg efficiency The Gehomag revolt The struggle to stay in the Axis France and Holland IBM and the War Extermination The spoils of genocide Afterword Revelation and resposibility Notes Major Sources
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 256 p. The First World War was marked by an exceptional expansion in the use and production of military cartography. But World War II took things even further, employing maps, charts, reconnaissance, and the systematic recording and processing of geographical and topographical information on an unprecedented scale. As Jeremy Black—one of the...
London; N. Y.: Routledge, 2003. — 299 p. — ISBN 0-415-30534-9. World War Two was the sum of numerous related conflicts with their own causes, patterns and outcomes. This new and convincing survey takes a global perspective to explain the complicated course of the war in military terms. Jeremy Black provides fresh insights into the operations at the Eastern Front and the war...
Little Brown Book, 2021. — 320 p. A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won and lost. In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States. In this timely book, which fills a real gap, Black engages...
Pen & Sword Military, 2006. — 192 p. — (Battleground Europe). In an attempt to outflank the German Gustav Line running across Italy, Operation SHINGLE was launched on January 22nd 1944. Achieving complete surprise, the Allies made a successful landing at Anzio, but paused rather than pushing quickly inland, a delay which gave the Germans time to seal off the area and to...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 288 p. he US Fifth Army first saw action during the Salerno Landings in September 1943. While commanded by US Lieutenant General Mark Clark, from the outset one of its two Corps was the X (British) Corps; the other V1 (US) Corps. The French Expeditionary Corps, the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, the South African Armored Division, the Italian Co-Belligerent...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 224 p. On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days, half a million Allied servicemen fought the Germans and Italians for control of this rocky island, which was to become the first part of Axis homeland to fall during World...
Ian Allan, 2002. — 96 p. The theory of Blitzkrieg - lightning war - developed during the interwar years, but its true potential was only to be revealed in the autumn of 1939 when the German forces swept into Poland. For the next three years, in all theatres of the war, the German forces proved supreme, as their superiority of equipment, training and strategy resulted in a rapid...
Ian Allen, 2003. — 96 p. In the third of the series the author examines Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of Russia in 1942 and the campaign during the following year when the Axis forces renewed their offensive after the winter. The invasion of June 1941 was the largest operation undertaken by German forces during the war, comprising more than 100 army divisions and some...
Ian Allen, 2003. — 96 p. This is part four of a series looking at the Second World War campaigns of the German Army. In this volume Fowler looks at the campaigns in the Balkans - the invasions of Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete and the first year of the German intervention in North Africa, from the arrival of the first German troops in February 1941 up to late October 1942 and the...
Ian Allen, 2003. — 96 p. If World War 1 was characterized, certainly on the Western Front, by the endless miles of trenches and the remarkable lack of mobility in the front line during more than four years of war, those military strategists who expected a similar war of attrition in any second conflict were to be confounded. World War 2 was to witness the triumph of offense...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 320 p. As a German battalion commander Rudolf Bohmler fought in the front line during the fierce battles fought at Monte Cassino. After the war he wrote this remarkable history, one of the first full-length accounts of this famous and controversial episode in the struggle for Italy. His pioneering work, which has long been out of print, gives a...
Routledge, 2015. — 350 p. Nazi Germany and Japan occupied huge areas at least for some period during World War II, and those territories became integral parts of their war economies. The book focuses on the policies of World War II aggressors in occupied countries. The unbalanced economic and financial relations were defined by administrative control, the implementation of...
New York: Franc Cass Press, 2004. — 176 p. Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns. This leadership is analyzed on various levels, ranging from the grand strategic to operational. The...
Pen and Sword, 2001. — 244 p. The Fall of France in 1940 has been well chronicled but numerous misconceptions remain.This fascinating and thought-provoking collection of essays on wide-ranging issues covering the politics and fighting on land, sea and in the air will be greatly welcomed by academics and military history enthusiasts.Topics covered include the preparations of the...
University Press of Colorado, 1994. — 293 p. Travelers to Europe who have a keen interest in the Allied effort to defeat Nazi Germany during World War II will find they need only one guide - the newest edition of The March to Victory: A Guide to World War II Battle and Battlefields from London to the Rhine. All of the tours in The March to Victory have been arranged in...
Amber Books, 2014. — 256 р. The military engagements and campaigns of World War II are emblazoned on mankind’s memory: from the Blitzkrieg attacks that smashed the Polish army in 27 days, and conquered Norway in a day, through the savage and sustained fighting of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front, to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The...
Shadow Mountain, 2019. — 208 р. This unique collection documents twelve fascinating and largely untold stories of minorities, women, and Native Americans who supported the Allied cause in World War II. Courageously serving as soldiers, spies, POWs, builders, medics, and movie stars, they fought for the cause of freedom and democracy against the combined threat of the Nazis and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. — IX, 270 p. — ISBN: 0-19-280224-0. The Second World War surpassed all previous wars in the sheer cost of many millions of lives, most of them civilian. It left a world reeling from physical destruction on a scale never experienced till then, and from the psychological traumas of loss, of imprisonment and genocide, and permanent exile from...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 375 p. An important rethinking of the Normandy war narrative. Beyond the Beach examines the Allied air war against France in 1944. During this period, General Dwight David Eisenhower, as Supreme Allied Commander, took control of all American, British, and Canadian air units and employed them for tactical and operational purposes over France rather...
Casemate, 2010. — 255 p. Robert Bowen was drafted into Company C, 401st Glider Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, as World War II broke out, and soon afterwards found himself storming ashore amid the chaos on Utah Beach, through unfamiliar terrain littered with minefields and hidden snipers. He was wounded during the Normandy campaign but went on to fight in Holland and the...
The History Press, 2020. — 304 p. May 28, 1940: Major Akbar Khan of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps marches at the head of 299 soldiers along the beach at Dunkirk—the only Indians in the BEF in France and the only ones at Dunkirk. These men of the Indian Army, carrying their disabled imam, find their way to the East Mole and embark for England in the dead of night. On...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2017. — 255 p. Here, Martin Bowman brings us the first book on Operation Varsity to include both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, British and Canadian paratroop and resupply missions, all presented together in one ambitious volume. Operation ‘Varsity-Plunder’, the last large-scale Allied airborne operation of World War II, was...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 336 p. Did a German invasion or invasions take place along the shores of East Anglia in 1940? Though Operation ‘Sealion’, the intended invasion of southern England, never materialized, Hitler openly confided that 'even a small invasion might go a long way’, and asked that his forces might mount one, two or even three ‘small invasions’ in 1940. So...
Pen & Sword Aviation, 2019. — 336 p. Did a German invasion or invasions take place along the shores of East Anglia in 1940? Though Operation "Sealion", the intended invasion of southern England, never materialized, Hitler openly confided that "even a small invasion might go a long way", and asked that his forces might mount one, two or even three "small invasions" in 1940. So...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2023. — 295 р. Martin Bowman’s considerable experience as a military historian has spanned over forty years, during which time he has spent hundreds of hours interviewing and corresponding with numerous men and women and their relatives, in Britain, America and beyond, resulting in a wealth of material on the war at sea from World War One to the...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2013. — 176 p. This is the third volume of a comprehensive five part work, detailing every aspect of air and paratroopers operations on the night of 5/6 June 1944. The 6th Airborne Division was to support British Second Army and First Canadian Army; its task was to seize and hold the left flank of the bridgehead. The 5th Parachute Brigade was to seize...
The History Press, 2013. — 192 p. Based on original research and personal reminiscences of French and Allied participants, this story, previously unpublished in English, highlights the cynical disregard for civilian lives shown by British SOE and American OSS. Nearing D-Day, Allied intelligence used Royal Air Force airdrops to send Allied liaison officers down with supplies to...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 282 p. Mention the war in northern France and people think it was all heroic SOE agents fighting the Gestapo, the Milice and the German occupation troops. True, in Normandy, the German occupiers shot or deported some hundreds of agents and Resistance fighters. But there was another war going on at the same time that cost far more lives. When we...
MetroBooks, 2000. — 610 p.
This new edition of a photographic history of World War II features 900 captioned images. It covers every major theatre of conflict and the people involved, capturing scenes of mass suffering and individual heroism, military conflict, portraits of leaders, and more. The text provides historical grounding by summarizing the many complex events of the...
Simon and Schuster, 1997. — 416 p. Boyne resurrects the war of the skies in all its heroic and tragic drama, while supplying insightful, expert conclusions about previously overlooked aspects of the war, including the essential role of American bombers in Europe; Germany's miscalculation of the number of planes required for victory; the Allies' slow start in deploying maximum...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 240 p. The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet strategically important landscape, the fortunes of the implacable opponents swung wildly. While best remembered for the duel between Montgomery's Eighth Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps and the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 240 p. The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet strategically important landscape, the fortunes of the implacable opponents swung wildly. While best remembered for the duel between Montgomery's Eighth Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps and the...
Allen and Unwin, 2019. — 336 p. The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the Australian army in the Second World War. In many ways it was also a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of France, with an amphibious landing combined with the first successful large-scale Allied airborne operation of the war. D-Day New Guinea brings together the extraordinary stories of the...
Canberra: Army History Unit, 2021. — 196 p. — (Australian Army History Series) Between the end of the Kokoda campaign in January 1943 and the start of the New Guinea offensives at Lae in early September 1943, the Australian Army was engaged in some of the most intense and challenging fighting of the war for the ridges around Salamaua. Following the defeat of the Japanese...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 285 p. — (Australian Army History Series). The Battle for Wau brings together for the first time the full story of the early World War II conflicts in New Guinea, from the landing of the Japanese at Salamaua in March 1942 to their defeat at Wau in February 1943. Phillip Bradley draws on the recollections of over 70 veterans from...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 372 p. — (Australian Army History Series). Following on from his acclaimed book, The Battle for Wau, Phillip Bradley turns his attention to the Salamaua campaign - the first of the New Guinea offensives by the Australian Army in the Second World War. Opening with the pivotal air-sea battle of the Bismarck Sea, this important title...
Published by the National Archives and Records Administration, 2006. — 1717 p. This finding aid will help researchers interested in Japanese war crimes, war criminals, and war crimes trials to navigate the vast holdings of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration at College Park (NARA). It will also be useful to anyone interested in military, intelligence, political,...
Warszawa, Zespół, 1989. — 163 s. Książka Bregmana, choć pochodzi sprzed półwiecza, ciągle zachowuje swoją wartość. Pojawiły się w ciągu tego okresu nowe źródła, ale pisarstwo Bregmana dobrze zniosło próbę czasu, zarówno pod względem stylu, jak i zawartości. Ten niemal reporterski zapis współpracy ZSRR z Trzecią Rzeszą, choć oparty o dokumenty, zachowuje aktualność po dzień...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 228 p. Refighting the Pacific War looks at how World War II in the Pacific might have unfolded differently, giving historians, authors and veterans the opportunity to discuss what happened and what might have happened. Contributors to this alternative history include noted military historians William Bartsch, John Burton, Donald Goldstein, John...
John Wiley 8k Sons, 2000. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-0-471372-87-0. In this ingenious volume, victory or defeat in the twentieth century's climactic conflict depended on the secret war of wits that occurred between the scientists, mathematicians, and codebreakers on each side. This is a fascinating look at the behind the scenes duel to develop the winning weapons of World War II....
Harry N. Abrams, 2019. — 368 p. The riveting story of the unlikely coalition of individuals who prevented the Axis from obtaining an abundant supply of oil and absorbing an army of 50,000 into their own, turning the tide of WWII in the Middle East. Spring 1941 was a high point for the Axis war machine. Western Europe was conquered; southeastern Europe was falling, Great Britain...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 272 p. When Singapore fell so ignominiously to the Japanese in February 1942 many tens of thousands of men, women and children were left to their own devices. It was truly 'every man for himself'. To stay in Singapore meant certain captivity and every probability of barbarity at the hands of the Japanese that so many tried to escape. This book...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1986. — 33 p.
This is a survival story of one family’s flight during World War II. In 1942, as war spread in the Far East and the British, Japanese, and Chinese fought ferocious battles on Burmese soil, an eleven–year–old boy and his family found themselves trapped in the path of advancing armies. Told through the eyes of that Anglo–Burmese...
Lyons Press, 2021. — 248 p. Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces. Brooks presents a global narrative of the American experience of war during the year, ranging from the tiny blood-drenched island of Tarawa to the vast expanses of North Africa. At no other period...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 226 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-02522-7. This book argues that American strategists in the Joint Chiefs of Staff were keenly aware of the inseparability of political and military aspects of strategy in the fight against Japan in World War II. They understood that war not only has political sources, it also has political purposes that establish the war's...
The History Press, 2014. — 208 p. The greatest airborne operation in history commenced on 17 September 1944. Nine days later nearly four out of five of the British 1st Airborne Division and their Polish comrades would be killed, wounded or captured as Germany secured her last great battlefield victory of the war. The ferocious and gallant actions in Arnhem and Oosterbeek have...
Spellmount, 2013. — 394 p. Kohima was the turning point in the Japanese invasion of India, witnessing the end of their attempt to overthrow the British Raj. It was a bitter battle fought in three stages, spanning three months, and ending with the siege of Imphal. Losses on both sides were heavy, with the Japanese suffering their greatest land defeat thus far in the war. Against...
London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2004. — 216 p. On 3 July 1940, soon after the collapse of the French front and France's request for an armistice, a reluctant Royal Navy commander opened fire on the French Navy squadron at Mers-el-Kebir. Some 1,300 French sailors lost their lives. The late David Brown's detailed account finally conveys an objective understanding of the course of...
New York: The Bookmailer, 1965. — 262 p. Early battles of the Pacific-First peace feelers How Communist propaganda affects our foreign policy Yalta and the advisers Okinawa-Suzuki-Eugene Dooman testifies The "resignation" of Mr. Grew Potsdam and the advisers The atomic bomb and surrender The MacArthur hearings Appendix
New York: The Bookmailer, 1965. — 262 p. Early battles of the Pacific-First peace feelers How Communist propaganda affects our foreign policy Yalta and the advisers Okinawa-Suzuki-Eugene Dooman testifies The "resignation" of Mr. Grew Potsdam and the advisers The atomic bomb and surrender The MacArthur hearings Appendix
Sapere Books, 2021. — 258 p. Second Front Now! examines the most contentious political and military issue of the Second World War: namely, whether, where and when a second front should be launched in northern Europe, and the conflicts between the three superpowers – Great Britain, the United States and Soviet Russia – that it involved. Upon it depended the future direction of...
Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2004. — 691 p. The story of the five battles that changed Australia forever, this compelling narrative incorporates hundreds of interviews with the soldiers who fought at Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna, and Sanananda in 1942 and 1943. Revealed are the very real and engaging experiences of Generals MacArthur and Blamey and other senior Australian...
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2014. — 816 p. Impressive, compelling, and rich in human spirit,this is a scrupulously researched and groundbreaking account of one of the most traumatic calamities in Australian history—the Malayan Campaign, the fall of Singapore, and the subsequent horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway. Unpicking the myths and legends of the war, Peter Brune goes to the...
Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2007. — 354 p. The definitive biography of one of the great heroes of the Kokoda Trail, this recollection tells the story of one of Australia’s great World War II battalion commanders. Written by a leading authority on the subject who had access to private letters and papers, this gripping, action-packed narrative describes the war’s battles in North...
Allen and Unwin, 2005. — 288 p. The definitive account of the Australians on the Kokoda Trail - a story told through the eyes of the Australians who fought there, many of whom have now passed away. The Kokoda Trail is part of Australian military folklore. During July to September 1942 the Japanese set about the capture of Port Moresby by an overland crossing of the Owen Stanley...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 322 p. How did a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconcile itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war? In this provocative new history, Jonathan Brunstedt pursues this question through the lens of the myth...
Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1976. — 282 s. — ISBN 3-87943-433-6. The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, 'dive bomber') is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and served the Axis forces...
Casemate, 2020. — 239 р. The first English translation of this German account of the battle of Narvik. Published for the first time in English, this is a German account of the German invasion of Norway in the spring of 1940. It focuses on the efforts of Group “1” led by Eduard Dietl. This group of Gebirgstruppen was landed at Narvik in early April by ten destroyers. These ships...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 312 p. In September 1944 the Western Allies mounted an audacious attempt to seize a crossing over the Rhine into Germany in a bid to end the Second World War quickly. Yet despite the deployment of thousands of American, British and Polish airborne troops, in conjunction with the efforts of ground forces to link up with them, ultimately at Arnhem in...
London: Frank Cass, 2004. — 279 p. The popular perception of the performance of British armour in the Normandy campaign of 1944 is one of failure and frustration. Despite overwhelming superiority in numbers, Montgomery's repeated efforts to employ his armour in an offensive manner ended in a disappointing stalemate. Explanation of these and other humiliating failures has centred...
New York: Routledge, 2006. — 228 p. This is a collection of essays produced by 16 leading American, British, Canadian, German and New Zealand historians, the product of two international conferences held in the United Kingdom in 2004. The essays re-examine key aspects of the Normandy campaign from the events of D-Day to points towards the close of the campaign discussing the...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 128 p. German army deficiencies are often cited as the reason for the failure of the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes region of France, Belgium and Luxembourg in December of 1944 to January 1945 which the Germans called Operation Wacht am Rhein, the Allies named the Ardennes Counter-offensive, and was also commonly known as the Battle of the...
Casemate, 2019. — 128 p. A highly illustrated account of the battle of the Falaise Pocket, Normandy 1944. The battle of the Falaise Pocket, in August 1944, was the turning point in the Normandy campaign. By early August the German Army was in turmoil: while it was managing to hold back the Allies, the defense involved resources that could not be replaced, and the Allies ruled...
Potomac Books, 2000. — 208 p. This fast-moving memoir of T. Moffatt Burriss shows his extraordinary role as a platoon leader and company commander with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe and North Africa during World War II. He saw a great deal of combat on Sicily, at Salerno, on Anzio Beach, in Holland during Operation Market Garden, and during the drive into...
Naval Institute Press, 2006. — 351 p. While America was preoccupied with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, an even greater tragedy was unfolding across Southeast Asia. From Wake Island to Burma, the Empire of Japan opened the largest front in the history of warfare: an aircraft-driven invasion of colonial possessions throughout the Far East that crumbled the entire Western...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 224 p. When writing his memoirs after World War II, German Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring stated, “Italy’s missing her chance to occupy the island [of Malta] at the start of hostilities will go down in history as a fundamental blunder.” It’s easy to see why this tiny 95 square mile island held such a prominent place in the war’s...
Penguin Press, 2023. — 320 p. Ian Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule, or true heroes, or something in between. On the face of it, the three characters in this book seem to have little in common—aside from the fact that...
Harper Perennial, 1998. - 128 с.
ISBN: 0-688-17081-1
Подлинная фотохроника сражения за Гуадалканал на Тихом океане во время Второй мировой войны (7 августа 1942 - 7 февраля 1943 года). Сражение шло на земле, в воздухе, на воде и под водой. Это было первое крупное наступление союзников против японских сил.
Фотографии хорошо показывают суровые и жестокие будни войны. Эти...
William Morrow, 1998. — 132 p.
In the desperate battle for Guadalcanal, every American soldier had to walk a thin red line between life and death. On August 7, 1942, American Marines waded into the Pacific island called Gaudalcanal.
They encountered jungles, alligators, insidious malaris, and a particularly deadly adversary in the Japanese soldier. Only weeks after their...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978 1 84908 190 0 The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 257 p. This book proposes a significant new interpretation of the relations between Italian partisans and British forces during the Italian campaign of 1943-1945. The core of the argument challenges many assumptions that are today still present both in Italian and in the Anglophone historiography on the subject. In current historiography, the debate...
Cornerstone, 2022. — 650 p. March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is finally within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift disillusionment. The final 100 days of the Second World War will prove to be bitterly and bloodily fought, village by village, town by town. In Victory in the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 688 p. The final volume in one of the most acclaimed works of military history of this generation. Here is Peter Caddick-Adams' third volume in his trilogy about the final year of the Western front in World War Two. Fire & Steel covers the war's final 100 days-beginning in late January 1945 and continuing until May 8th, 1945, when the German...
Fort Leavenworth: Us Army Command and General Staff College, 1986. — 51 p. This study examines the nature of the defense at the operational level of war by analyzing the Battle of the Bulge in Dec. 1944 using the concepts of blitzkrieg and "web" defense. The monograph begins by discussing the influence of defensive theory on the operational concepts of blitzkrieg and "web"...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 108 p. The 1st Armored Division was the first American armored unit to enter combat against German panzer divisions in World War II. A product of the contentious mechanization process between the First and Second World Wars, the division soon found itself to be outmatched by its German foe. Following a relatively easy victory against the...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 320 p. On the eve of World War II, the British army was more an international police force than a true combat-ready fighting machine. Raymond Callahan chronicles its trial-by-fire transformation in a new and unflinching look at Great Britain's top commanders in the field. Callahan reexamines the much-maligned performance of the British army...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 288 p. In 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. That campaign, the most brilliant and original operational maneuver conducted by any British general in the twentieth century, largely forgotten until now, is a full and fresh account utilizing a full range of...
New York: Ballantine, 1973. - 158 pgs. The Chindits were the largest of the allied special forces of the 2nd World War. They were formed and lead by Major General Orde Wingate. The Chindits operated deep behind enemy lines in North Burma in the war against Japan. For months they lived in and fought the enemy in the jungles of Japanese occupied Burma, totally relying on airdrops...
Pen and Sword Books, 2004. — 202 p. Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits by the controversial General Orde Wingate. He became Wingate's...
Big Sky Publishing, 2023. — 290 p. On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi Third Reich, Reinhard, Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’ and architect of the ‘Final solution’, died from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt carried out just days before. His death caused shockwaves in the Nazi State, and resulted in savage reprisals, with Hitler ordering...
Big Sky Publishing, 2022. — 228 p. Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back across the mountains to the Japanese...
Big Sky Publishing, 2022. — 288 p. Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of 'B' Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, and these men took up a position at...
Allen and Unwin, 2020. — 432 p. On July 21, 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua, soon turning into an all-out attempt to capture Port Morseby. This is the powerful story of the three weeks of battle by a small Australian militia force to keep the Japanese at bay. Outnumbered by at least three to one, they fought to...
MBI, 2010. — 288 p. One of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, Operation Stalemate, as Peleliu was called, was overshadowed by the Normandy landings. It was also, in time, judged by most historians to have been unnecessary; though it had been conceived to protect MacArthur’s flank in the Philippines, the U.S. fleet’s carrier raids had eliminated Japanese airpower,...
Broadway Books, 2008. — 336 p. A harrowing portrait of a largely forgotten campaign that pushed one battalion to the limits of human suffering. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division’s “Ghost Mountain Boys” were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign in World War II: to march over the 10,000-foot Owen Stanley Mountains to protect the...
Routledge, 2013. — 264 p. This book reappraises the ill-fated raid named operation Jubilee, focusing on aspects such as naval and air operations in the Channel, signals, radar intelligence, agents and deception. It draws from official archives, both German and Allied. From these voluminous but fragmented records, many of which have been destroyed, classified or lost, the book...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. — 295 p. After storming the beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of France bogged down in seven weeks of grueling attrition in Normandy. On July 25, U.S. divisions under Gen. Omar Bradley launched Operation Cobra, an attempt to break out of the hedgerows and begin a war of movement across France. Despite a disastrous start, with...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 421 p. The Canadian 4th armored division crossed the Channel in July 1944 to reinforce the invading forces and assist in the Allied attempts to breakout of the Normandy beachhead around. They were heavily engaged in Operation Totalize and Operation Tractable but have been criticized for their failure to close the ‘Falaise gap’ and complete the...
Harper Collins books, 2006. — 288 p. Offering a unique approach to history, this series of individual encyclopedias will delineate and explain the people, places, events, chronology, and ramifications of pivotal days in history. One Day in History: December 7, 1941 will provide a comprehensive and engaging overview of this date in history as well as an examination of the theme...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 239 p. Hill 731 was the scene of the most ferocious battle of the Greek-Italian War in Albania. Watched by Mussolini himself, on 9 March 1941 the Italians launched their Spring Offensive, designed to stem four months of humiliating reverses. The objective was a pair of parallel valleys dominated by the Greek-held Hill 731 that had to be taken at...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 272 p. On 28 October 1940, the Greek premier, Ioannis Metaxis, refused to accept a deliberately provocative ultimatum from Mussolini and Italian forces began the invasion of Greece via Albania. This aggression was prompted by Mussolini's desire for a quick victory to rival Hitler's rapid conquest of France and the Low Countries. On paper, Greek forces were...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 52 p. The Battle of Kasserine Pass (1943) proved to be a shock both to American military forces in the field and to the American public at home. The defeat of the Allied forces in the battle put doubt into the minds of many—all of whom assumed the righteous democracies of the western Allies could not be defeated in the field by the armies of...
Routledge, 2021. — 214 р. This book analyses why the Italian army failed to defeat its Greek opponent between October 1940 and April 1941. It thoroughly examines the multiple forms of ineffectiveness that plagued the political leadership as well as the military organisation. Mussolini’s aggression of Greece ranks among the most neglected campaigns of the Second World War....
Lyons Press, 2013. — 357 p. The Dodger is the story of John Bigelow "Johnny" Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape. The American-born and well-connected Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and friends with the rich and famous of both countries, including Kermit Roosevelt,...
Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2018. — 145 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 9781473868441. Rare photographs from both German and Russian sources : Today there are very few surviving vehicles from the Wehrmacht. which illustrate the fate of many of the armored fighting vehicles of Hitler’s much vaunted Panzerwaffe.
Coda Books, 2012. — 224 p. The German campaigns in the Balkans, Greece and the seizure of Crete are detailed in this long neglected account of the campaign as described from the German point of view. Out of print since the fifties, this new edition is edited and introduced by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. Based mainly on original German records and...
Potomac Books, 2019. — 256 p. During World War II many escape-line organizations contributed to the Allied cause by funneling hundreds of servicemen trapped behind enemy lines out of occupied Europe. As the Germans tightened their noose around the escape lines and infiltrated them, the risk of discovery only grew for the servicemen who, in ever-increasing numbers, needed safe...
Osprey Publishing, 1980 Men at Arms Series/100 Though for centuries fighting was considered primarily a man's job, the world wars of the 20th century demanded women's involvement in the war effort. By World War II women were playing a major auxiliary role in all branches of the armed forces. From the daring female fighter pilots of besieged Russia to the heroic American nurses on...
Arcturus Digital, 2002. — 224 p. The Second World War was the final global conflict of the twentieth century. It involved more combatants, and a wider range of battlefield terrain than any other conflict in history, from the frozen plains of Russia to the baking Libyan desert, and from the atolls of the Pacific to the skies over Britain. In Turning the Tide, Nigel Cawthorne has...
Arcturus, 2017. — 306 р. — ISBN: 1788280237. After D-Day, 6 June 1944, Hitler found his worst nightmare coming true. He was fighting on two fronts, with the Russians advancing from one side and the western powers from the other. This book shows how the Allies built on their successes after the titanic struggle in the east, culminating in the brutal battle of Stalingrad, and...
Arcturus, 2017. — 306 р. — ISBN: 1788280237. After D-Day, 6 June 1944, Hitler found his worst nightmare coming true. He was fighting on two fronts, with the Russians advancing from one side and the western powers from the other. This book shows how the Allies built on their successes after the titanic struggle in the east, culminating in the brutal battle of Stalingrad, and...
Regnery History, 2017. — 192 p. Battle-Hardened: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to VE-Day tells the story of an American soldier's growth from a 2nd Lieutenant eager to prove his worth in battle to a skilled and resolute commander over the course of the Northern European Campaign. Craig Chapman delves deep into the personal recollections and mental state of...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 2013 — 248 p. — ISBN10: 1137297689; ISBN13: 978-1137297686. The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried...
Charles River Editors, 2017. — 122 p. A swift, sudden attack from the ocean, putting soldiers ashore on a hostile coast at some point weakly defended by the enemy, has been a powerful tactical and strategic tool since the late Bronze Age. Utilized by the Sea Peoples against New Kingdom Egypt and the Greek city-states in their internecine wars, amphibious warfare combined high...
Charles River Editors Press, 2016. — 44 p. Fought over bitterly cold flecks of rock and tundra scattered across the remote waters marking the boundary between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the Aleutian Islands campaign represented one of the strangest encounters of World War II. Curving southwestward from the southwest coast of Alaska like the tail of a stingray, the...
Bloomsbury, 2019. — 248 p. Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the initial resistance of local groups of colonial railwaymen to such metropolitan innovations. Michael W. Charney looks at the role of the railways in the First Burma...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 376 p.
The period between the two world wars of the twentieth century was one of the most exciting in the history of war. In anticipation of another conflict, military planners and civilian thinkers struggled after 1918 with the painful implications of World War I. Given its scope, the wholesale mobilization of civilian populations, and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 405 p. Presenting the results of a fifth, and final, conference on the history of total war, this volume is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. In considering the validity of this proposition, the contributors address a broad range of analytical problems that this vast...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 288 p. The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 12). — ISBN 9781472856624. El raid de Doolitüe tuvo muchas características bélicas que los líderes actuales desean pero que rara vez ven. El ataque del 18 de abril de 1942 sobre Tokio y sus áreas adyacentes fue posible gracias a la cooperación de diversas ramas de las fuerzas armadas; necesitó, en relación a otras...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 373 p. Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. When Men Fell from the Sky is a comparative history of the treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany and Britain.
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 295 p. The Blitz- the period of Nazi bombing campaigns on civilian Britain during World War II- was a formative period for British national identity. In this groundbreaking book, David Clampin looks at the images, campaigns and slogans which helped to form the fabled 'Blitz spirit'- powerfully echoed in Winston Churchill's speeches. Because advertisers...
Routledge, 2023. — 270 p. This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931–1945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U.S.-led allied forces from 1941 to 1945. Part I of the book examines three interlocking components, the origins of the war; its impact on combatants and civilians; and its short-term...
Grove Atlantic, 2007. — 392 p. The Allied attack of Normandy beach and its resultant bloodbath have been immortalized in film and literature, but the U.S. campaign on the beaches of Western Italy reigns as perhaps the deadliest battle of World War II's western theater. In January 1944, about six months before D-Day, an Allied force of thirty-six thousand soldiers launched one...
Grove Atlantic, 2009. — 415 p. In September 1944, with the Allies eager to break into Nazi Germany after Normandy, thirty-five thousand U.S. and British troops parachuted into Nazi held territory in the Netherlands. The controversial offensive, code named Operation Market Garden, was conceived by British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery to secure the lower Rhine Germany's last...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 320 p. In many popular histories of the Pacific War, the period from the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor to the US victory at Midway is often passed over because it is seen as a period of darkness. Indeed, it is easy to see the period as one of unmitigated disaster for the Allies, with the fall of the Philippines, Malaya, Burma and the Dutch East...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. From August 7, 1942 until February 24, 1944, the US Navy fought the most difficult campaign in its history. Between the landing of the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal and the final withdrawal of the Imperial Japanese Navy from its main South Pacific base at Rabaul, the US Navy suffered such high personnel losses that for years it refused...
Brill, 2013. — 536 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 87). While the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was a pivotal moment in European history and precipitated the outbreak of the Second World War western historiography has largely neglected Northern Europe. Two questions dominated the course of events, the Anglo-German contest for control of the access to the Atlantic...
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 296 p. Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and high-explosive bombs designed to follow the westerly winds of the upper atmosphere and drift to the west coast of North America. After...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 316 p. Traces the development of the service and maintenance organization of the Army Air Forces during World War ll. Also provides a look at the dynamics of military bureaucracy. Introduction. Organizational and Tactical Background. Five Air Depot Groups in 1941. The Eighty Group Program, January–July 1942. Beginning of the Training Program....
Casemate, 2021. — 264 p. Imagine how many lives would have been saved had the war in Europe finished in December 1944 instead of five months later... David Colley analyzes critical mistakes made by the Allied supreme commander, General Dwight Eisenhower, in the last nine months of the war. He argues that had Eisenhower been more adept at taking advantage of several potential...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 336 p. The Red Ball Operation, the vital train of supplies improvised by American troops during the invasion of Europe, was one of the GIs' bravest exploits, without which World War II would have dragged on at a terrible cost of Allied lives. Yet it has been overlooked due to the fact that it was mostly manned by African-Americans. Now the story is told...
Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2009. — 324 p. Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous spine of New Guinea. Few prisoners were taken, most were shot. War conventions were routinely flouted, by both sides. Troops were reduced to a primal level, such were the inhuman conditions in which battles were...
Canelo History, 2023. — 484 р. The end is in sight but the fight is long: the epic and terrifying conclusion to the greatest conflict in history. Going into 1944, the Allies knew the tide was turning in their favour. But they still faced a monumental task to get to victory. From the beaches of Normandy on D-Day to those of the Pacific stormed by American marines, from the air...
Casemate Publishers, 2012. — 272 p. Having driven the British and Indian Forces out of Burma in 1942, General Mutaguchi, Commanding the 15th Japanese Army, was obsessed by the conquest of India. In 1944 the British 14th Army, under its commander General Slim, drew back to the Imphal Plain, before Mutaguchis impending offensive. To the north, however, the entire Japanese 31...
Little, Brown, 1985. — 582 p. Frontmatter Preface How War Came Juggernaut over Europe Britain Stands Alone War in the Mediterranean From the Vistula to the Volga The Rising Sun Occupied Europe Fights Back Reaping the Whirlwind One Up and Two to Go From the Volga to the Oder From D-Day to VE-Day The Setting Sun Victory Acknowledgments and References Index of Authors Index of...
Brandford Press, 1982. — 146 p. The Underwater War takes a fresh and authoritative look at submarines during World War Two. No other book has dealt as internationally and intimately with the way submarines lived and fought during the years 1939-45. Practically all the material is drawn from original sources and life on operational duty is described in detail, closely involving...
Cartoons and posters by Lord Beaverbrook. — London: HM Ministry of Information, 1942. — 24 p. Great history is made: An Anglo-American mission goes to Stalin. Extract from Lord Beaverbrook’s broadcast to the people upon his return from Moscow. Britain’s tank factories are working day and night. «Hurricanes» are in Russia! Britain’s tank factories work day and night. «Tanks,...
Cartoons and posters by Lord Beaverbrook. — London: HM Ministry of Information, 1942. — 24 p. Great history is made: An Anglo-American mission goes to Stalin. Extract from Lord Beaverbrook’s broadcast to the people upon his return from Moscow. Britain’s tank factories are working day and night. «Hurricanes» are in Russia! Britain’s tank factories work day and night. «Tanks,...
Simon & Schuster, 2003. — 352 pp. The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 872 р. — ISBN 978-1-98216870-4 The Devils Will Get No Rest is a character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, an Anglo-American clash over military strategy that produced a winning plan when World War II could have gone either way. Churchill called it the most important Allied conclave of the war. Until now, it has never been...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 224 p. Resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred all the way across the European continent during the Second World War. It took a wide range of forms - non-cooperation and disinformation, sabotage, espionage, armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare. It is an important element in the experience and the national memory of the peoples who...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 400 p. Local resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred throughout the European continent during World War II, taking a wide range of forms—non-cooperation and disinformation, sabotage and espionage, and armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare. It is a key element in the experience and the national memory of those who found...
Endeavour Press, 2017. — 77 p. In the annals of British history the name Montgomery is legend. During the Second World War Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery led the British Eighth Army against Rommel’s elite Panzers from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory against German invaders in Tunisia in May 1943. This command included the Second Battle of...
Atlantic Books, 2010. — 624 p. This is a landmark reassessment of the Second World War, of its origins and prosecution. It looks set to become the definitive single-volume military history. In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 537 p. A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the vital Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 537 p. A fast-paced and absorbing read of the final months of the vital Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports,...
Exisle Publishing, 2015. — 240 p. The WWII Battle of Sidi Rezegh was fought in November-December 1941, part of a campaign to retake eastern Libya and drive the enemy out of North Africa. It was partially successful and achieved the badly needed relief of Tobruk. The New Zealand Division played a major role in this complex campaign. Peter Cox sets the scene for the fighting in...
Heritage House, 2011. — 288 p. In June 1942, Japanese troops occupied the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska in Alaska, the first enemy occupation of US territory since the War of 1812. For the next year a bloody conflict raged that was nearly invisible to most North Americans as Canadian and American soldiers, airmen and sailors went north to hold the Japanese in check. This...
College Station: Texas A & M Press, 2008. — 216 p. Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and almost all of them were eager to face any...
Open Road Media, 2017. — 1132 p. Author William Craig traveled to three different continents, reviewed thousands of documents, and interviewed hundreds of survivors to write these New York Times–bestselling histories, bringing the Eastern Front and the Pacific Theater of World War II to vivid life. The Fall of Japan masterfully recounts the dramatic events that brought an end...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 239 p. Peter Crichton seized the outbreak of the Second World War to escape his journalistic job in London. Ever adventurous and somewhat impetuous he quickly transferred regiments to the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars who were destined for North Africa. In no time he found himself fighting a desperate and ill-fated rear-guard action in the mountains of Northern...
Lume Books, 2021. — 332 p. In World War II, mighty political and technical forces were harnessed but, at the end of the day, victory was secured and defeat suffered by the soldiers of the ground. Gathered here are their own stories in their own words – eyewitness accounts of the experience of battle. These stories bear testimony to the many faces of soldiering in the greatest...
London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. — 286 p. Britain and the Red Cross, 1864–1929 Grandeur, Tribulation, Apocalypse, 1919–40 Prisoners and Parcels, 1940–1 Dependence and Divergence, 1941–2 Civilians and Ships, 1940–3 Prestige and Credibility, 1942–3 Humanity and Götterdämmerung, 1944–5 Relief and Redundancy, 1945–6
Boydell Press, 2021. — 245 p. Many existing studies on the role of women in the Second World War concentrate on women's increasing participation in the workplace and on their struggles to cope with rationing and shortages. This book goes further, exploring women's wartime experiences much more fully. Drawing on a wide range of sources including oral interviews, scrapbooks,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 1997. — 335 p. This book provides a much needed accessible introduction to this key world topic for students of the twentieth century. The Powers in 1919 and After. The Making of the Inter-War World, 1919-1923. The Failed Peace, 1919—1933. The Challenge of Fascism and the Democratic Response. The International System Challenged, 1933-1936. The Deepening Crisis,...
Fonthill Media, 2017. — 248 p. 10 July 1940 —the official first day of the Battle of Britain—witnessed increased aerial activity over the Channel and along the eastern and southern seaboards of the British coastline. The main assaults by ever-increasing formations of Luftwaffe bombers, escorted by Bf109s and Bf110s, were initially aimed at British merchant shipping convoys...
Casemate, 2017. — 144 p. During World War II, 1,517 members of US aircrews were forced to seek asylum in Switzerland. Most neutral countries found reason to release US airmen from internment, but Switzerland took its obligations under the Hague Convention more seriously than most. The airmen were often incarcerated in local jails, and later transferred to prison camps. The...
Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2009. — 336 p. After seven weeks of bitter fighting there was a desperate need to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In late July 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey’s Second Army moved two entire corps from the Caen sector to the relatively quiet countryside around Caumont. Here, the British XXX Corps prepared to give battle, with VII Corps...
St. Martin’s Press, 2017. — 272 p. Oflag 64, a World War II prisoner of war (POW) camp based in Schubin, Poland, was speculated to be one of the only POW camps set up exclusively for U.S. Army ground component officers. About 150 American officers lived in the camp in 1943, and by 1945, that number had expanded to 1,500. When the German commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider...
Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2011. — 224 p. — ISBN 978-1-84884-433-9. Over 200 exciting full color posters from World War II, each one accompanied by a caption describing its origins, design, and purpose. The posters cover a wide range of topics, such as recruitment, security, finance, food, and hygiene. Contains posters sourced from European and US archives, both Axis and Allied,...
Grange books, 2004. — 196 p. — (Military Handbooks) World War II Day By Day is a chronological history of the conflict from the beginning to the surrender of Japan in 1945.
Barnes & Noble, 2007. — 584 р. — ISBN: 0-7607-9475-8. When the German Blitzkrieg smashed into Poland on September 1, 1939, the world was plunged into mankind’s most destructive war. World War II: A Day-by-Day History is a chronological history of the conflict from the start of the Polish campaign in September 1939 to the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. All...
New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006. — 200 p. — ISBN: 0760780056. ON DECEMBER 16, 1944, in the heavily-forested region of the Ardennes in Belgium, the German army made one final attempt to turn the tide of the war. At 5:30 A.M., 8 German armored divisions and 13 infantry divisions launched an all-out attack on 5 divisions of the US First Army. If the Wehrmacht were to succeed in...
Editorial Planeta, 2008. — 500 p. ¿Cuál era el campo de concentración más grande que estuvo en funcionamiento en Europa entre 1939 y 1945? No era Auschwitz. ¿Qué país perdió la mayor cantidad de civiles entre 1939 y 1945? No fueron Francia ni Alemania. Con una mirada totalmente diferente sobre una parte de la historia de Europa que todos creemos conocer, Norman Davies contesta...
Macmillan, 2006. — 544 p. The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known: after six years of brutal fighting on land, sea and in the air, the Allied Powers prevailed and the Nazi regime was defeated. But as in so many things, the truth is somewhat different. Bringing a fresh eye to bear on a story we think we know, Norman Davies. Davies forces us to look again...
Pan MacMillan, 2003. — 784 p. One of the most dramatic and shameful episodes in World War II was the doomed Warsaw Uprising of 1944 — an uprising that failed because the Allies betrayed it. Now that story comes to its full terrible life in this gripping account by the bestselling historian Norman Davies. In August 1944, encouraged by the advance of the Red Army, the Polish...
Pen and Sword Books, 2016. — 208 p. In the face of the advancing Allied forces, Italy capitulated in September 1943, leaving thousands of Allied prisoners of war held in camps around the country to fend for themselves. Amongst those prisoners was Tony Davis who had been captured in North Africa. Determined to make the most of the opportunity, with two fellow companions in arms...
Indiana University Press, 2016. — 368 p. In 1942, the Solomon Islands formed the stepping stones toward Rabaul, the main base of Japanese operations in the South Pacific, and the Allies primary objective. The stunning defeat of Japanese forces at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November marked the turning point in the war against Japan and the start of an offensive in the...
Stackpole Books, 2013. — 240 p. - Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's bombing mission against German airfields in Holland - Mission came just days after the famous Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid - The Americans expected an easy mission, but it proved to be anything but - Loaded with firsthand accounts from pilots and crews of bombers and fighters.
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 64 p. — ISBN: 978-1-846039-19-3. Alex de Quesada reveals the full history of the US Coast Guard throughout World War II in this Elite title. In particular, the book draws attention to the little-known story of how the US Coast Guard ran a number of the landing craft throughout D-Day in 1944 as well as providing crucial anti-U-boat patrols throughout...
University Press of Kansas, 2018. — 464 p. From 1942–1945 the Allies’ war in the Southwest Pacific was effectively a bilateral coalition between the United States and Australia under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. By charting the evolution of the military effectiveness of the US-Australian alliance, MacArthur’s Coalition puts the relationship between the United...
Pen and Sword Books, 1992. — 259 p. Major-General Anthony Deane-Drummond - as he is now - was a famed escaper from the Germans in World War II. He first described his experiences in a book called "Return Ticket". This is the full story of his life which is chiefly memorable for the story of his escape after the Battle of Arnhem.
Regnery History, 2013. — 288 p. He was known as "the G.I. General" - humble, self-effacing, hard-working, reflecting the small-town virtues of the America whose uniform he wore. But those very virtues have led historians to neglect General Omar Bradley - until now. Bestselling author Jim DeFelice, in this, the first-ever biography of America's last five-star general, tells...
University of Calgary Press, 2004. — 396 p. Obtaining weather data was vital for military operations in Northwestern Europe during World War II. In an effort to secure this data, the German Navy and Air Force secretly established manned weather stations in East Greenland, Svalbard, and Franz Josef Land. War North of 80: The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II is...
University of Calgary Press, 2004. — 396 p. Obtaining weather data was vital for military operations in Northwestern Europe during World War II. In an effort to secure this data, the German Navy and Air Force secretly established manned weather stations in East Greenland, Svalbard, and Franz Josef Land. War North of 80: The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II is...
Longman Publishing, 2006. — 448 p. In December 1944 three German armies attacked the Western allies through the Ardennes, their aim being to drive a wedge between the Americans and the British, and force a negotiated armistice on the western front. The Battle of the Bulge, as it became known, was crucial to the course of the war.
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 208 p. When Montgomery took command prior to D-Day he gathered around him commanders and formations he knew and trusted. Not surprisingly 7th Armoured Division was one of these and they were deployed from Italy to England. In this fine account the author who fought alongside the Desert Rats describes the Division's battles from the beaches, the breakout...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 224 p. In this delightful book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life – and death - in the front line of the Allies’ advance from Normandy to Hitler’s Germany. In eleven months of bitter fighting the combined efforts of the British and their allies ground down their ruthless enemy. Each and every man has a unique story to tell,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 224 p. When Monty was given Allied command of the D-Day landings he wasted no time gathering around him individuals and formations he could trust. These included the 4th (Black Desert Rats) and 8th (Red Fox’s Mask) formations. Both had unrivaled fighting records. Once ashore in Normandy the two superb brigades went on to enhance their reputations...
Pen and Sword Military, 2007. — 208 p. The 51st Highland Division was the most famous infantry division that fought with the British Army in WW2. It was the only infantry division in the armies of the British Empire that accompanied Monty from during Alamein to Berlin. After the 1940 disaster at St Valéry when many were killed or captured, the re-formed 51st were a superlative...
Lume Books, 2020. — 238 p. A detailed study of a division that fought hard in both world wars. The 53rd Division fought bravely in both world wars. In the first, they battled the Turks in Palestine, and in the second they landed in Normandy. Mainly recruited in Wales, they weathered battles like Gallipoli, Gaza, the Bulge and the Reichswald. In this detailed account of the...
Thistle Publishing, 2016. — 295 p. When, in September 1940, Adolf Hitler cancelled Operation SEA LION, the proposed invasion of Britain by secret edict, he ordered the construction by the Todt Organisation of 1,500 miles of Atlantic Wall defences along the French, Belgian and Dutch coastlines. Every seaport was turned into a fortress. Hitler designed the layout and military...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 256 p. The 11th Armoured Division, famous for its Black Bull insignia, was widely recognized as being among the best armored divisions in north-west Europe during the Second World War. This book tells the story of the Division in the words of the soldiers who fought with it: of its part in the three ferocious battles in Normandy Operations EPSOM,...
Fonthill Media, 2015. — 284 p. In this third volume on the progress of the Second World War after the D-Day landings, Patrick Delaforce examines the final weeks of World War Two, beyond the Yalta Conference, when the question to be asked was not who would win, but how to prevent the war dragging on and also how to prevent Hitler from implementing a scorched earth policy across...
UBC Press, 2012. — 408 p. Corps Commanders examines how five strikingly dissimilar British and Canadian generals fought battles and fit into the British Empire armies of the Second World War. The three Canadians controlled British formations and served under British army commanders, and the two Britons worked for and led Canadians as well. Such inter-army adjustments were...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 379 p. This book is the first complete study in English of Antonescu's part in the Second World War. Antonescu was a major ally of Hitler and Romania fielded the third largest Axis army, joined the Tripartite Pact in November 1940 as a sovereign state and participated in the attack on the Soviet Union of 22 June 1941 as an equal partner of Germany.
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 288 p. Two of the greatest strategic mistakes by Hitler involved failure to take control of two key locations, Gibraltar and Malta; between them these two were able to influence, and at times dominate, the Western Mediterranean area, and surrounding land masses. Malta, with its strategic partner, Alexandria (and Egypt) likewise dominated the Eastern...
Rocklin: Prima Publishing, 1992. — 470 p.— ISBN: 1-55958-079-8 This book is based on the outstanding computer simulation products created by wrry Holland for Lucas.film Games. Those of you who are Jans of these products already know how much they strive to be accurate and to provide an experience drawn from the history of the greatest conflict in modern times. In this book,...
Rocklin: Prima Publishing, 1992. — 470 p.— ISBN: 1-55958-079-8 This book is based on the outstanding computer simulation products created by wrry Holland for Lucas.film Games. Those of you who are Jans of these products already know how much they strive to be accurate and to provide an experience drawn from the history of the greatest conflict in modern times. In this book,...
Boston Mills Press, 1992 г. - 160 с.
Во время Второй мировой войны 40000 американских солдат-железнодорожников обеспечивали военные перевозки и внесли большой вклад в победу. Этот фотоальбом рассказывает об их повседневной работе в годы войны.
Книга содержит огромное количество уникальных фотографий и представляет интерес для всех, кто интересуется историей Второй мировой...
Greenhill Books, 2007. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-85367-705-2. In 1945, two and a half million people were forced out of Germany’s most easterly province, East Prussia, and in particular its capital, Königsberg. Their flight was a direct result of Hitler’s ill-fated decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941. The horrors of Leningrad and Stalingrad were to be avenged by an army...
Издательство: Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1954 г. - 100 с. Язык: Английский Цель настоящего исследования – краткое описание немецкой кампании против партизан на Балканах в период их оккупации европейскими странами Оси от завершения военных действий против Греции и Югославии в апреле 1941 г. до захвата Советскими войсками и партизанами Белграда в октябре 1944...
Издательство: Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1954 г. - 100 с. Язык: Английский. Цель настоящего исследования – краткое описание немецкой кампании против партизан на Балканах в период их оккупации европейскими странами Оси от завершения военных действий против Греции и Югославии в апреле 1941 г. до захвата Советскими войсками и партизанами Белграда в октябре 1944...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2008. — 611 p. Fatal Decision is a powerful, dramatic, moving, and ultimately definitive narrative of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II. In the winter of 1943-1944, Anzio, a small Mediterranean resort and port some thirty-five miles south of Rome, played a crucial role in the fortunes of World War II as the target of an amphibious...
Algonquin Books, 1990. — 329 p. Recounts military events in the Mediterranean during World War II, including how the inexperienced Americans gained combat experience and learned to work together with the British. The award-winning historian offers an illuminating reassessment of WWII Allied operations in the Mediterranean—and the generals who led them. As a secondary theater of...
WBG, 2013. — 639 S. Der Band enthält 200 grundlegende Quellen zum Ostkrieg und den dort verübten Kriegsverbrechen aus allen einschlägigen internationalen Archiven: von Moskau, Kiew und Minsk bis Berlin und zum Militärarchiv Freiburg. Umfassend schildern die Quellen alle relevanten Aspekte wie die ›Judenfrage‹, das Vorgehen gegen die KPdSU, die Politkommissare und Partisanen...
WBG, 2013. — 639 S. Der Band enthält 200 grundlegende Quellen zum Ostkrieg und den dort verübten Kriegsverbrechen aus allen einschlägigen internationalen Archiven: von Moskau, Kiew und Minsk bis Berlin und zum Militärarchiv Freiburg. Umfassend schildern die Quellen alle relevanten Aspekte wie die ›Judenfrage‹, das Vorgehen gegen die KPdSU, die Politkommissare und Partisanen...
АТФ, 2002. — 45 с.
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Богато иллюстрированная книга по истории африканского немецкого корпуса в Северной Африке.
Несмотря на название, книга характеризует не только численный состав, вооружение и тактику немецких частей в период африканской кампании 1940-42 гг. По аналогичной схеме описаны итальянские части (союзники Германии), а также противники...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017. — 248 p. This book examines the experience of two British Infantry Divisions, the 43rd (Wessex) and 53rd (Welsh), during the Overlord campaign in Northwest Europe. To understand the way the British fought during Operation Overlord, the book considers the political and military factors between 1918 and 1943 before addressing the major battles and...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 126 p.
This latest book in the highly successful Images of War series covers the dramatic events that saw ultimate Allied victory over the Japanese in remote Northern Burma on the Chinese border. The plan involved two separate but concurrent operations. US Army General Joseph Stilwell was ordered to train up two Chinese divisions and together with a US...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 232 p. In 1944 with the war in Europe turning in the Allies’ favor, Japan still occupied vast swathes of South East Asia and the Pacific. In Burma, the seemly unstoppable Japanese advance was halted at Kohima and Imphal in June and July 1944. Six months later the advances made by British-led forces enabled the re-opening of the supply routes from...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 224 p. Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove across the Arno River, capturing Florence on 5 August. Once again The Wehrmacht’s Tenth and Fourteenth Armies eluded destruction, withdrawing into the Gothic Line in the Northern Apennines. The...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 241 p. General Stilwell’s ad hoc force of Merrill’s Marauders, American-trained Chinese divisions, Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate’s Chindits conducted a northern Burmese offensive that led to the coup de main seizure of Myitkyina’s airfield in May 1944. In August 1944, after a protracted siege, Myitkyina town on the Irrawaddy River fell to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 239 p. The Japanese seizure of Rabaul on New Britain in January 1942 directly threatened Northern Australia and, as a result, General Douglas MacArthur took command of the Southwest Pacific Area. In July 1942, the Japanese attacked south across the Owen Stanley mountain range. Thanks to the hasty deployment of Australian militiamen and veteran...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 240 p. Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from the Adriatic, every effort to capture Monte Cassino failed. Fifth Armys VI Corps amphibious landing at Anzio in January, while initially successful stalled in the face of formidable German counter-attacks...
Pen & Sword Books, 2015. — 208 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-473845-58-0. IN JUST TEN WEEKS from 8 December 1941 to mid-February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita. Many British and Imperial units fought hard on the Malayan mainland but the Japanese showed greater mobility, cunning and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 248 р. With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross channel attack from Britain on North West Europe. Churchill favored invading the soft underbelly of Italy to weaken the Axis forces and gain Italian surrender. With Eisenhower's army and battle-hardened Eighth Army in North Africa, Churchill...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 455 p. By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first the Western then Eastern Front, respected military analyst C. J. Dick offers rare...
Wiley, 2020. — 432 p. Looking to ally yourself with World War II knowledge? More than 75 years after its end, World War II remains one of the most devastating and impactful events in human history. It was a global war, and the nations that fought it employed every available resource, harnessing both technology and people to one purpose. Today, we remember WWII for its battles,...
Pegasus Books, 2013. — 532 p. Draws on official records and the personal insights of those involved in the battle of El Alamein (1942), to detail the political and strategic realities that fueled the battle that changed the course of World War II.
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 640 p. Author of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of the largest military operation not only of World War Two but of all time - the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941. Often seen as the turning point of the war in Europe, Operation...
Pen and Sword Books, 2013. — 224 p. A total of eleven British armored divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action. In 1940, only 1st Armored Division faced the overwhelming German blitzkrieg and it was in the North African desert that the armored division concept came of age. The terrain was ideal for armored...
Pen and Sword Military, 2007. — 259 p. Eighth Army was Britain’s most famous field army of the twentieth century. This book studies the experience of Eighth Army in the Italian campaign, examining how a force accustomed to the open spaces of North Africa adjusted to the difficult terrain of Italy where fighting became much more a matter for the infantry than for the armor. The...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 287 p. The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommel s Afrika Korps and his Italian allies would break through and seize Cairo with catastrophic strategic and political implications for the Allies. That this never...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 255 p. Joining the Royal Tank Corps in 1923, Major-General Percy Hobart quickly established himself as one of the foremost thinkers on armored warfare. By 1938 he was GOC Mobile Division, later 7th Armored Division, in Egypt. He was also known for not suffering fools—a tendency that got him briefly relieved of his command. But during World War II, Winston...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 272 p. While the main focus in early 1945 was on the advance to The Fatherland, 15 Army Group’s 5th (US) and 8th (British) Armies were achieving remarkable results in Northern Italy. Superb generalship (Truscott – 5th Army and McCreery – 8th Army under General Mark Clark’s 15 Army Group), planning, preparation and training outweighed the...
Bennington, Vermont: Merriam Press, 1989. - 46 pgs. Merriam Press Monograph No. M-
36. The author states that the relationship of events in time is the true essence of history, so this is basically a daily journal that records the general events on a day-to-day basis. It is hoped this will add to the reader's understanding of the gallant but futile defense of the Philippine...
University of North Texas Press, 2014. — 320 p. Over the past seventy years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944 has come to stand as something more than a major battle in an increasingly distant war. The assault itself formed a vital component of Allied victory in the Second World War. D-Day, as the initial landing is traditionally termed, has developed...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 274 p. In the early morning of 10 May 1940, the sky literally fell on the heads of the defenders of Fort Eben-Emael, considered to be Belgium's most powerful fortress. This huge structure, with its powerful artillery and infantry weapons, was the key to the Meuse and Albert Canal defences. In the darkness of the pre-dawn, German DFS 230 gliders...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 295 p. What was it like as a French soldier to defend the Maginot Line when the Germans invaded in 1940, and was the line really a strategic and tactical disaster a massive waste of resources? Clayton Donnell's expert, finely detailed and graphic account of the role of the Maginot Line in the defense of France gives the reader an inside view of...
Helion and Company, 2005. — 84 p. Most studies of the 1940 Western Campaign have tended to focus on a narrow range of topics, principally those relating the German forces or the epic of Dunkirk. The publication of this title is aimed at redressing the balance by providing a detailed account of the operations of the Dutch army during this campaign. The author begins by...
University Press of Kansas, 1994. — 354 p. This study picks up where D-Day leaves off. From Normandy through the breakout in France to the German Army's last gasp in the Battle of the Bulge, Michael Doubler deals with the deadly business of war - closing with the enemy, fighting and winning battles, taking and holding territory. His study provides a reassessment of how American...
Archon Books, 1985. — 232 p. An examination of the military doctrine that animated the French defense against the German invasion in 1940. The fall of France in 1940 stunned leaders across the world. France boasted one of the most modern militaries of the time but collapsedswiftly in the face of German aggression - because, historian Robert A. Doughty argues, its military doctrine...
Stackpole Books, 2014. — 416 p. Colonel Doughty (US Army and West Point) examines the German victory at Sedan, which has generally been viewed as testament to an innovative and invincible German war machine. Through detailed analysis of both French and German battle records, he reconstructs the battle and reveals, not a new and superior weaponry or war machine, but efficient...
Pantheon Books, 1986. — 1032 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-81614-6. Part One: Enemies. Patterns of Race War. " Know You Enemy ". War Hates and War Crimes. Part Two: War in Western Eyes. Apes and Others. Lesser Man and Supermen. Primitives, Children, Madman. Yellow, Red, and Black Men. Illustrations. Part Three: War in Japanese Eyes. The Pure Self. The Demonic Other. " Global Policy with...
ABC-CLIO, 2005. — 350 p. Personal Perspectives: World War II brings to life the experiences of specific segments of soldiers and civilians as they were affected by the conflict, capturing special characteristics of each group and the unique ways they experienced the war. Twelve essays written by top international scholars portray what it was really like to experience the war...
Da Capo Press, 2009. — 400 p. As the Japanese fleet prepared to sail from Japan to Pearl Harbor, the German army was launching its final desperate assault on Moscow, while the British were planning a decisive blow against Rommel in North Africa. The British conquered the desert, the Germans succumbed to Moscow's winter, and the Japanese awakened the sleeping giant of American...
Red Globe Press, 2017. — 208 p. This new study provides a concise, accessible introduction to occupied Europe. It gives a clear overview of the history and historiography of resistance and collaboration. It explores how these terms cannot be examined separately, but are always entangled. Covering Europe from east to west, this book aims to explore the evolution of scholarly...
Leo Cooper, 1987. — 304 p. Dawns Like Thunder' is a complete appraisal of the retreat from Burma using accounts from people who were there and not just the statements of commanding officers. It’s a good story of the humiliating British / Indian retreat from Burma in 1941/1942. Most of the book discusses the Japanese attacks and the British retreats at the operational / tactical...
US Army Command and General Staff College, 1984. — 189 p. — (Leavenworth Papers № 9). The author has adopted a twofold approach to the Aitape campaign. In the first part of his Leavenworth Paper, he examines the strategic and operational levels of the battle, particularly command decision making and its relationship to Ultra. The second part of the paper, however, shifts the...
Remember When, 2011. — 224 p. Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women’s personal accounts of what their lives were like and what particular experiences they had...
Ship to Shore Books, 2018. — 236 p. In May 1943 US forces clashed with Japanese invaders in an epic battle on the Alaskan island of Attu. Fighting through the fog and icy rain, avoiding pot-shots from snipers in mountain crevices, lugging heavy machine guns up slippery inclines, and ultimately scaling a 250-foot cliff, the 17th Infantry willed its way to a crucial victory in...
Da Capo Press, 1993. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0306805057 ISBN13: 9780306805059. On the night of January 11, 1945, fog, low clouds, and blizzards reduced visibility at times to literally zero along the Sandomierz bridgehead. So the German troops did not notice tanks, assault guns, and towed artillery pieces moving in position by the thousands along the east bank—the Russian side—of...
New Jersey: Castle Books, 2002. — 403 p. — ISBN: 0-7858-1624-0 On the night of January 11, 1945, fog, low clouds, and blizzards reduced visibility at times to literally zero along the Sandomierz bridgehead. So the German troops did not notice tanks, assault guns, and towed artillery pieces moving in position by the thousands along the east bank—the Russian side—of the Vistula...
Hachette, 2021. — 352 p. General Douglas MacArthur's bloody campaign to defeat die-hard Japanese forces and liberate the Philippines “I shall return,” General Douglas MacArthur promised the Filipino people following the Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines in spring 1942. The people there believed MacArthur’s vow—and even Americans were stirred by his dramatic...
Praeger, 2004. — 192 p. Did Hitler mean to pursue global conquest once he had completed his mastery of Europe? In this startling reassessment of Hitler's strategic aims, Duffy argues that he fully intended to bring the war to America once his ambitions in the Eurasian heartland were achieved. Detailed here for the first time are the Third Reich's plans for a projected series of...
New American Library, 2016. — 448 p. One American soldier called it “a green hell on earth.” Monsoon-soaked wilderness, debilitating heat, impassable mountains, torrential rivers, and disease-infested swamps—New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops. Japanese forces numbering some 600,000 men began landing in January 1942, determined...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2022. — 352 р. Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market-Garden invasion, and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American...
2005. — 28 p. Alphabetically considered the most important battles of the Second World war, which took place in the African, Pacific, Western and Eastern theaters of War. World War II events from A to Z.
Routledge, 2009. — 272 p. Following the fall of Burma to the Japanese in May 1942, reopening and expanding the link from India to China through Burma became the allied force's principal war aim in South-East Asia. This book argues that the campaign's development was driven more by what was logistictically possible than by pure strategic intent.
New York: Quill William Morrow 1994. — 414 p. — ISBN: 0-688-12288-4. This is not a history of World War II , but revelations about many of the lesser-known details. Because it is a book of facts, you don't read it from beginning to end, but rather you jump in wherever it strikes your fancy. There are over three hundred separate items, each a complete story in itself. As a rule,...
Endeavour Press, 2018. — 342 p. A veteran of World War II himself, experienced historian Colonel Dupuy is expertly placed to write this revealing and fascinating account of the war. Compressing the enormity of the Second World War into a compact narrative sweeping the world, Dupuy explores life in England under the Blitz to General Joseph Stilwell’s 400-mile trek through Burma,...
Franklin Watts, 1963. — 75 p. Describes the Asian land major battles and campaigns of hardly combat in the last years of World War II. Chiang Kai-shek’s demand for the recall of the talented but abrasive Stilwell was satisfied in October 1944, and some reorganization of the Allies’ commands in Southeast Asia followed. While Lieutenant General Daniel Sultan took Stilwell’s...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 240 p. "Stalin's Defectors" is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945. No other Allied army in the Second World War had such a large share of defectors among its prisoners of war. Based on a broad range of sources, this volume...
Sourcebooks, 2021. — 400 р. For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII―in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2013. — 497 p. When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2006. — 194 p. Early on the morning of 7 December 1941, 360 Japanese carrier-borne aircraft made a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbour, and laid waste to the American Far East Fleet. They sank four battleships, crippled three cruisers and three destroyers, and seriously damaged two other battleships. One hundred and sixty-four planes were...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2013. — 272 p. This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands. From the ongoing Italian geomorphic study of the Alamein arena to individual memories of non-combatant Alexandrians, from the Free French to the seasoned colonial forces of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 308 p.
Amidst the ruins of postwar Europe, and just as the Cold War dawned, many new memorials were dedicated to those Americans who had fought and fallen for freedom. Some of these monuments, plaques, stained-glass windows and other commemorative signposts were established by agents of the US government, partly in the service of...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 520 p. Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942-1944, the Normandy landings--and so, perhaps, the Second World War II--would have ended differently. This is one of many lessons of "The Mediterranean Air War," the first one-volume history of the vital role of airpower during the three-year struggle for control of...
Time-Life (Creator), 2014. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 160320993X. — ISBN13: 978-1603209939. World War II, fought from 1939 to 1945, engulfed the globe in a shattering struggle over national sovereignty and individual rights. It was also the costliest battle in history in terms of human life, with millions perishing in combat, in concentration camps, and under the rubble of crushed...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. — 255 p. Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century, but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall, for instance, famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all, even when their lives were at stake.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. — 324 p. A penetrating study of why soldiers fight and what sustained Canadians in battle during the Second World War. Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in Arms addresses these questions in a groundbreaking study of the behaviour,...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 372 p. Monty and the Canadian Army details the lasting great military influence of famous General B. L. Montgomery, whose military competence and genius shaped the mobilized Canadian Army in the Second World War.
Brill, 2014. — 300 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 96). In Belgium’s Dilemma: The Formation of Belgian Defense Policy, 1932-1940 , Jonathan Andrew Epstein presents, for the first time in English, a detailed examination of the formation of Belgian defense policy in the eight years leading up to the crucial World War II Blitzkrieg campaign in Western Europe. Belgium’s decision...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 208 p. Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. A retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Estes shows tremendous knowledge of combat and writes gripping battlefield prose. Two-thirds of the West European volunteers came from Spain and the Netherlands, yet Estes...
Motorbooks International, 1995. — 168 p. The capture of the Burma Road by the Japanese during World War II forced U.S. airmen to fly hundreds of missions a day into China in an airlift of epic proportions. Having to fly over the towering Himalayan Mountains, the pilots came to know this route as 'flying the hump.' The Hump was a pioneering aviation operation that had just about...
Монография. Motorbooks International Publishers & Wholesalers, 1994. - 188c. На английском языке. Bomber Command было сердцем операций ВВС США против нацистской Германии во Второй мировой войне. На своем пике ВВС США насчитывали 2 411 294 мужчин и женщин в военной форме, а 230 000 самолетов управляли 193 440 пилотов. По статистике, во Второй мировой войне не было более опасного...
Heath and Company, 1975. — 244 p. World War II changed recent history not only by altering the balance of power In the world, but also by ending European overseas empires, which led eventually to the founding of new independent nations. The war left the world with two major power centers: the United States and the Soviet Union, who each now possess nuclear power sufficient to...
Routledge, 2022. — 232 p. Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy’s surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 addresses this seeming paradox, by examining the views of Allied...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 268 p. After a long series of crushing defeats by the apparently unstoppable Japanese air and ground forces, the eventual fight back and victory in Burma was achieved as a result of the exercise of unprecedented combined services cooperation and operations. Crucial to this was the Allies supremacy in the air coupled with their ground/air support...
Pen and Sword, 2020. — 314 p. Allied air power made a major, arguably decisive, contribution to victory in The Second World War both in the European and Pacific theaters. The cost in men and machines was horrific with Bomber Command suffering 50% air crew casualties. While many perished, others shot down over enemy territory or water survived only after overcoming extraordinary...
Scribe Publications, 2016. — 432 p. This is the largely unknown story of another Anzac force, which fought not at Gallipoli, but in Greece, during World War II. Desperately outnumbered and fighting in deeply inhospitable conditions, these Anzacs found themselves engaging in a long retreat through Greece, under constant air attack. Most of the Anzac Corps was evacuated by the...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 208 p. Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascinating detail the authors describe how O'Hare shot down five attacking Japanese bombers and severely damaged a sixth and other awe-inspiring...
Casemate Publishers, 2012. — 288 p. A daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron, the author of this remarkable memoir bailed out of his burning Mustang two days after D-Day and was launched on a thrilling adventure on the ground in Occupied France. After months living and fighting with the French Resistance, Ted was captured by the Wehrmacht, interrogated as a spy,...
Teach Yourself, 2011. — 292 p. Charting the main military campaigns, this book examines the path to Allied victory and its impact on the countries involved. It explores such questions as Why did Hitler declare war on the U.S.? Why did the Allied powers out-produce the Axis powers? Who was the most effective leader? Should American and British strategy have been different? and...
Big Sky Publishing, 2017. — 254 p. When Imperial Japan unleashed the Pacific War in December 1941, Australian forces went into action, as part of a larger British Empire force, to defend Malaya and Singapore. Australia's principal contribution to defending Malaya and Singapore was the 8th Division. Originally raised for service in the Mediterranean, the division was committed...
Abbeydale Press, 2003. — 240 p.
World War II Ground, Sea & Air Battles is the harrowing yet often uplifting story of World War II, told through narrative spiced with first-hand accounts by those who fought and lived through those 'dark hours' of the 2,000-day conflict.
Aurum, 2015. — 288 p. The Luftwaffe's targetting and destruction of Coventry city remains the biggest and most destructive air raid on British soil during the Second World War. Seen as a centre of British armaments production, the German high command wished to inflict terror and panic on the British public, a plan that had paid dividends during their relentless conquest of...
Arcturus Digital, 2005. — 145 p. By midnight on 6 June 1944, the future of Europe hung in the balance. Allied troops occupied beachheads as Hitler's troops threatened to drive them back into the sea. Karen Farrington presents this remarkable story of the final Allied liberation and the push through to Berlin, the beating heart of the Third Reich. In "Victory in Europe", almost...
Harper Collins, 2010. — 224 p. How to Lose WWII is an engrossing, fact-filled collection from Bill Fawcett that sheds light on the biggest, and dumbest, screw-ups of the Great War. In the vein of his other phenomenal compendiums of amazing battlefield blunders, How to Lose a Battle and How to Lose a War, Fawcett focuses on some amazing battle catastrophic mis-steps of Axis and...
University of Michigan Press, 1993. — 584 p. The last days of the Raj bring to mind Gandhi's nonviolence and Nehru's diplomacy. These associations obscure another reality: that an army of Indian men and women who tried to throw the British off the subcontinent. The Forgotten Army brings to life for the first time the story of how Subhas Chandra Bose, a charismatic Bengali,...
Book Network, 2019. — 538 p. World War II was a traumatizing experience for those nations that were caught up in it. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Undivided India where over two and a half million Indians volunteered to serve in the armed forces and to fight against the evils of the fascist Axis Powers. Those Indians who served and fought had their own motives but a...
Colorado-Springs: Ereads, 2000. — 144 pp.
The Battle of Anzio was among of the most bloody of the World War II conflicts. T.R. Fehrenbach's accurate account stunningly depicts the reality of the Allied forces' fight for survival on an Italian beach as they stormed what Winston Churchill called the soft underbelly of the Axispowers. In one of the turning points of the war, the...
Lyons Press, 2001. — 528 p. More people perished during the battle of Okinawa than in the ensuing bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The Battle of Okinawa offers a stunning account of the last major campaign of World War II and the largest land-sea-air engagement in history. Superbly researched and extraordinarily detailed, this masterpiece of military history is told...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 224 p. This book examines the period between the unconditional surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945, and the arrival of Allied liberation forces in Japanese-occupied territories after 2 September 1945. The delay handed the Japanese a golden opportunity to set their house in order before Allied war crimes investigators arrived. After 14 August groups...
Simon and Schuster, 2007. — 494 p. The gripping, behind-the-scenes, true account of a critical time in modern history, brought to new life through the accounts of three remarkable men at its core. The history of the Second World War is typically told through its decisive battles and campaigns. But behind the front lines, behind even the command centers of Allied generals and...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 363 p. Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that 'the more fighting I see, the more I am convinced that the big thing in war is morale'. Jonathan Fennell, in examining the North African campaign through the lens of morale,...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 224 p. Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson returned to Burma as part of this, as a...
Cambridge: Cambrodge University Press, 2015. — 804 + xiv p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-03892-9. The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Second World War, a team of twenty-five...
Stackpole Books, 2003. — 374 p. The Waffen SS were considered the elite of the German armed forces in the Second World War and were involved in almost continuous combat. From the sweeping tank battle of Kursk on the Russian front to the bitter fighting among the hedgerows of Normandy and the last great offensive in the Ardennes, forever immortalized in history as the Battle of the...
War Department USA, Washington, 1944. — 332 p. "Полевое руководство 7-35. Пехотная противотанковая рота, пехотный полк и противотанковый взвод, пехотный батальон"
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 192 p. Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living. He begins by describing his unusual childhood and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in Warsaw, Poland. However they became split up when Poland became overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 265 p. In the summer of 1943, the United Nations began Operation HUSKY, the invasion of Sicily. The Eagles over HUSKY - the airmen of the Allied air forces - played a crucial role in the assault. The Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica provided a significant part of the Axis force meant to defend the island and throw the Allies back into the sea. The...
Wolverhampton Military Studies, 2018. — 192 p. In the summer of 1943, the United Nations began Operation HUSKY, the invasion of Sicily. The Eagles over HUSKY - the airmen of the Allied air forces - played a crucial role in the assault. The Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica provided a significant part of the Axis force meant to defend the island and throw the Allies back into the...
Goose Lane Editions, 2017. — 220 p. Near the end of October 1941, a few hundred soldiers from New Brunswick were among the 1,975 Canadian troops who set sail from Vancouver to reinforce the British Colony of Hong Kong. Within two short months, after a hard-fought but disastrous battle against the Imperial Japanese Army, the island fell to the invaders on Christmas Day, and its...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 336 p. The story of POW John Fletcher-Cooke's horrifying treatment at the hands of the Japanese during World War II. Based on a diary he kept throughout his captivity, this story, told without bitterness, reveals a man who refused to give way to despair. He also recounts how he revisited Japan and met his former captors.
Amberley Publishing, 2013. — 352 p. Barnes Wallis was the most famous inventor and designer of the Second World War. Thanks to the film and book of The Dam Busters, he is still a household name today. His story is not just of the 'bouncing' bombs that destroyed the Mohne and Eder dams but also of the other devices he invented, from the Wellington bomber to the Upkeep, Tallboy...
Field manual. — War Department, United States Government Printing Washington , November 1944. — 172 p. This manual covers the tactical employment of the armored infantry battalion, both as part of a larger force, and when acting independently. It is designed as a guide and does not prescribe a set of inflexible rules. Each tactical situation must be solved on its own merits and...
Field manual. — Washington: US Goverment Printing Office, 1942. — 144 p. This manual, containing illustrations with explanatory data relative to foreign armored vehicles, German, Japanese, Russian, and Italian, is published for limited distribution. When illustrations are not given, blank spaces have been left so that they may be added when provided. The manual will be used for...
Basic Field Manual. — Washington: US Goverment Printing Office of War Departament, 1941. — 171 p. The purpose of this manual is to serve as a guide in the identification and classification of foreign armored vehicles. Armies include those from Germany, Japan, Russia, Italy, and France.
Chicago: Time Life Education, 1982. — 216 p. To declare for neutrality in World War II was to court the wrath of belligerents on all sides, and only a few countries managed to establish themselves as enclaves of peace on the map of wartime Europe. One group of nations, the seven so-called Oslo States tried to chart acommon course of neutrality. But their aspirations soon ran...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 65 p. — (Leadership-Strategy-Conflict). Erich von Manstein was one of the most successful German commanders of World War II. His military mind proved outstanding in many a conflict but perhaps his greatest triumph was his ingenious operational plan that led to the rapid defeat of France in May 1940. Manstein also showed great skill under adversity by...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 400 p. — (General Military). — ISBN: 978-1-4728-1486-9. In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines, and the...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 15). — ISBN 9781472856655. Antecedentes de la batalla: Después de que la Fuerza Expedicionaria Británica fuera expulsada de Francia en Dunkerque en 1940, Gran Bretaña llevó a cabo un ambicioso programa de incursiones en el territorio controlado por los alemanes. Desde Noruega hasta Saint-Nazaire, los comandos...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 28). — ISBN 9781472856802. La historia ha demostrado que los desembarcos aliados en Normandía del 6 de junio de 1944, la llamada operación «Overlord», fueron un gran éxito. Aquel día, las fuerzas británicas, norteamericanas y canadienses lograron establecer unas sólidas posiciones en la zona y los alemanes fueron...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 25). — ISBN 9781472856772. Los desembarcos en la playa Sword y los combates librados por los paracaidistas británicos en la zona del estuario del río Orne fueron sólo una pequeña parte de la gran liberación aliada de Normandía que empezó el 6 de junio de 1944. Lo que sucedió en este flanco izquierdo del frente de...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 27). — ISBN 9781472856796. Los desembarcos anfibios en las playas llamadas en código «Gold» y «Juno», el 6 de junio de 1944, fueron sólo una parte de la gran invasión aliada de Francia para liberar Europa de la ocupación de la Alemania nazi. A las órdenes del comandante supremo aliado, el general Dwight D. Eisenhower,...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 35). — ISBN 9781472856516. El 16 de enero de 1945, las fuerzas alemanas que habían participado en la última gran ofensiva de Hitler en Europa occidental se encontraban de nuevo en sus posiciones de partida. El masivo ataque en las Arde-nas tenía que haber hecho retroceder a los Aliados más allá del Mosa y haber partido...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 11). — ISBN 9781472856617. El 24 de mayo de 1941, el crucero de batalla HMS Hoody el acorazado HMS Prince of Wales se enfrentaron al acorazado alemán Bismarck y al crucero pesado Prinz Eligen en el Atlántico Norte. Después de sólo diez minutos de batalla, el orgullo de la flota británica, el Hood, estalló y se hundió....
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 24). — ISBN 9781472856765. El 7 de abril del 1944, el general Bernard Montgomery, jefe del 21.° Grupo de Ejércitos, entregó a todos los comandantes superiores que iban a participar en los inminentes desembarcos en Francia las últimas instrucciones sobre las fases finales del plan de invasión. La operación «Overlord»,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 239 p. The Anglo-American battle for the Geilenkirchen salient in November, 1944, was infantry warfare at its worst, and it is described in vivid detail in this new edition of Ken Ford’s classic study. The onset of winter saw the Allied advance from the Normandy beaches forced to a halt on Germany’s doorstep. The clock had been put back to the...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 227 p. Using a combination of new perspectives and new evidence, this book presents a reinterpretation of how 21st Army Group produced a successful combined arms doctrine by late 1944 and implemented this in early 1945. Historians, professional military personnel and those interested in military history should read this book, which contributes to the...
Cassell, Arms and Armour, 1997. — 254 p. Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox", employed German "blitzkrieg" techniques to great effect during the rush through the Low Countries and France, then excelled himself in the Desert Campaign until being swamped by Allied numbers, and returned to France to work with forces attempting to prevent an Allied invasion. This text shows the forces,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 232 p. On 10 May 1940, German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit up and take notice. Improved parachutes and the creation of gliders that could carry troops meant...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 239 p. Highly illustrated history of infantry warfare during the Second World War covering Allied and Axis infantry on every battlefront during the conflict, with over 400 photographs. The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield. You may be able to crush an opponent with armour or artillery, but there’s only one way to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 130 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN 978 1 52672 372 7. Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army labored to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode in the Normandy campaign, and this...
Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2020. — 366 p. Shortly after the British and Indian forces had withdrawn from Burma in the face of the Japanese onslaught in 1942, Colonel E.C.V. Foucar MC was instructed to undertake a ‘special duty’, namely seek out documentary material and information from the various officers involved in the First Burma Campaign. The final element of Foucar’s task...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 322 р. This is a significant book that investigates how the French internal resistance and external Free French movement were financed during the Second World War. It brings together the secretive financial aspects of resistance inside France with those under the control of the Free French movement in London. To date, there have been a number of...
Amber Books, 2014. — 54 p. In any military operation throughout history, few 24-hour periods have been as crucial as that of 6th June 1944. With the aid of specially commissioned maps, D-Day: The First 24 Hours series gives the dramatic history of the first 24 hours of the Normandy landings, and explains in detail the events that occurred in each landing zone. In this second...
Ian Allan Publishing, 2003. — 97 p. — (Blitzkrieg). World War 2 was to witness the triumph of offence over defence, with the awesome power of tank armies and air forces deployed to devastating effect. The French may have thought their Maginot Line impregnable, but its rapid breeching in the spring of 1940 emphasised how far German military thinking had developed as opposed to that...
Random House, 1990. — 845 p. A history of the battle at Guadalcanal draws on first-time translations of official Japanese defense accounts and declassified U.S. radio intelligence to recreate this critical campaign. The battle at Guadalcanal--which began eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor--marked the first American offensive of World War II. It was a brutal six-month...
Grub Street Publishing, 2000. — 192 p. In this text the author vindicates the RAF by detailing the outstanding achievements of the pilots and commanders of the squadrons fighting the vital battle against the Luftwaffe at Dunkirk (1940).
Grub Street Publishing, 2010. — 256 p. When Canadian troops and British Commandos made their now famous ‘reconnaissance in force’ against the harbor town of Dieppe on 19th August 1942, they were supported and protected by the largest array of Royal Air Force aircraft ever seen in WWII until that time. Air Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, AOC of Fighter Command’s No.11 Group, was...
Grub Street Publishing, 2003. — 224 p. This new book covers the adventures of 283, 284, 293 and 294 Walrus Squadrons, operating from North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Sardinia. The pilots, like their counterparts in England, knew of the dangers of landing on the sea. It was a daunting task attempting to rescue downed airmen as they had often to operate in bad weather, and near...
Routledge, 2000. — 289 p. The battle at Kursk in 1943 is often referred to as the greatest tank battle in the history of warfare. This volume makes extensive use of German archival documents as well as various Russian books and articles. As well as an account of the battle, it addresses methodological issues.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1983. - 429 pgs. Written by an officer and historian of the British Army, this is a campaign history of the British Army in the Second World War: its battles, defeats and victories, across all theaters of operations from the outbreak of war with Germany in 1939 to the final defeat of Japan in 1945. Here the reader will find grand strategy at the...
New York: Skyhorse, 2014. — 231 p. George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war's final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial Epilogue,...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2013. — 146 p. John French first took up flying in 1937 with the University of London Air Squadron, and this move was to signal the start of a long and varied career in flight that would see him involved in some of the most iconic wartime exploits of the Twentieth Century. Posted to Gibraltar in the midst of war, he flew sorties in support of the North...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 337 p. One of the British Army’s first paratroopers recounts in vivid detail his service in the 2nd Parachute Battalion during the Battle of Arnhem and beyond. No one who has read of Arnhem can fail to be inspired by gallantry of the 2nd Parachute Regiment, which held the north end of the key road bridge over the Rhine—the “Bridge Too Far”—not...
The History Press, 2009. — 223 p. Despite his worldwide reputation as the father of modern psychology, Sigmund Freud’s security in his native Vienna changed overnight when Hitler’s forces annexed Austria on March 12, 1938. His books had already been burned across Germany, and now he and his family were at immediate risk. The Nazis carried out regular raids on Jewish families’...
Lume Books, 2020. — 198 p. Willy Field was born Willy Hirschfeld in Bonn, Germany. The morning after Kristallnacht in November 1938 he was arrested by the Gestapo and transported to Dachau concentration camp. This fascinating book details his horrific experiences as a German Jew in the camp, and how he survived to come to England as a refugee. Sent to Australia and interned as...
Da Capo Press, 1993. — 431 p. This book is, as the title suggests, a Strategical and Tactical, not Political, history of the Second World War and it accomplishes this task magnificently. Fuller analyzes both theaters of operations in terms of initiative and resources giving invaluable, and relatively unbiased, insights into successes and failures at all levels of warfare, then...
London: Arms and Armour, 1992. — 319 p. This is a study of the Shokan - the Japanese counterparts of the German and Allied General and Flag Officers during World War II. This book enables the reader to chart the careers of Japanese military leaders, their part in the strategy and structure of their country, their feats of bravery and cruelty, and, where known, their eventual...
LSU Press, 2021. — 320 p. After D-Day is one of a small but growing body of works that examine the Allied liberators of France. This study focuses on both the French experience of the U.S. Army and the American soldiers' reaction to the French during the liberation and its immediate aftermath. Drawing on French and American archival materials, as well as dozens of memoirs,...
Louisiana State University Press, 2021. — 320 p. After D-Day is one of a small but growing body of works that examine the Allied liberators of France. This study focuses on both the French experience of the U.S. Army and the American soldiers' reaction to the French during the liberation and its immediate aftermath. Drawing on French and American archival materials, as well as...
Ward Lock, 1976. — 111 p. The Motorised Armies, Scandinavia, Italy and the Axis Satellites, the Navy and Naval Air Arms, the United States, Japan and China.
Booket, 2016. — (Divulgación. Historia). — ISBN10: 8408150219; ISBN13: 978-8408150213. En el año 2015 se conmemora el 70.º aniversario del final de la segunda guerra mundial, la guerra total de la que todos conocemos los grandes hitos: los turbios inicios del nazismo, la invasión de Polonia, la derrota de Francia, el bombardeo de Pearl Harbor, el Afrika Korps, el holocausto...
Darmstadt: Bei Franz Schneekluth, 1953. — 392 p. In der Liste deutscher Jagdflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg ist eine Auswahl von hoch dekorierten Jagdfliegern der deutschen Luftwaffe während des Zweiten Weltkrieges aufgeführt.
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 288 p. Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in the Pacific brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history. Behind it lay a debate that had been raging for some weeks prior among American...
Zenith Press, 2013. — 400 p. As the final book in Bruce Gamble's esteemed trilogy on the War in the Pacific, Target: Rabaul picks up where Fortress Rabaul, the second installment, leaves off--and sets the stage for the major Allied aerial engagements of 1943-1945, which would result in the defeat of Japan. March 1943, Washington, D.C.: Major General George Kenney, commander of...
Kent State University Press, 2014. — 224 p. Little is known about those who openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. While many of those men accepted alternative civilian service, more than 6,000 were incarcerated with sentences ranging from a few months to five years. Some were tried, convicted, and re-imprisoned...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 278 p. Deliver Us From Darkness is a gripping account of the paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion 506th Regiment during Operation Market Garden, drawing on years of research and more than 70 extended interviews with veterans and civilians caught up in the fighting. From the terror of jumping behind enemy lines, to the desperate struggle to stay alive in...
University of Alaska Press, 1995. — 209 p. It is about a thousand miles from Dutch Harbor, near the Alaska Peninsula, to Attu at the far western tip of the Aleutian Island Chain. They are the most brutal thousand miles in the Pacific Ocean. Here, for fifteen months in 1942—43, was fought one of the toughest campaigns of World War II. In the context of global war it was...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. — xv, 696 p., 24 unnumbered; ill. — ISBN-13 9781400040056; ISBN-10 1400040051. A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War. In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler , acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers...
Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1984. — 107 S. 12-я армия, более известная как Armee Wenck, была самой последней надеждой Вермахта в апреле 1945 года и под этим громким названием скрывались остатки разбитых боевых частей, части Freikorps и Hitlerjugend, даже, так называемые, Magenbataillone. Имела задачу деблокировать Берлин, но смогла достичь лишь пригорода Берлина, затем отступила...
Stackpole Books, 2012. — 592 p. — (Stackpole Military History Series). — ISBN10: 0811711625, ISBN13: 9780811711623. Myth-busting account of the summer of 1943 on the Eastern Front, one of World War II's turning points. Includes the Battle of Kursk. Special focus on the notorious 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf". George M. Nipe Jr. is an internationally recognized expert on...
Cambridge University Press, 2005 (Second edition)
Монография американского историка немецкого происхождения, профессора Университета Северной Каролины в Чапел-Хилл, посвящённая истории Второй Мировой войны. Г.Л. Вайнберг является специалистом в области дипломатической и военной истории, а также истории Третьего Рейха. В "World at arms" Г.Л. Вайнберг подробно и с разных сторон...
Casemate Publishers, 2012. — 364 p. This intimately researched work tells the story of the thousand-plus Depression-era civilian contractors who came to Wake Island, a remote Pacific atoll, in 1941 to build an air station for the US Navy--charting the contractors' hard-won progress as they scramble to build the naval base, as well as runways for US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying...
RosettaBooks LLC, 2014. — 950 p. — ISBN: Acrobat e-Book edition: 9780795337314 In the hands of master historian Martin Gilbert, the complex and compelling story of the Second World War comes to life. This narrative captures the perspectives of leading politicians and war commanders, journalists, civilians, and ordinary soldiers, offering gripping eyewitness accounts of heroism,...
Revised Edition. — New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. — 846 p. — ISBN: 0-8050-0534-X, ISBN: 0-8050-1788-7 (An Owl Book: pbk.). In the hands of master historian Martin Gilbert, the complex and compelling story of the Second World War comes to life. This narrative captures the perspectives of leading politicians and war commanders, journalists, civilians, and ordinary...
Berg, 2006. — 288 p. This book examines the social experience of occupation in German- and Italian-occupied Europe, and in particular the strategies ordinary people developed in order to survive. Survival included dealing with hunger, having to work for the enemy, women having relationships with soldiers, preservation of culture in a fascist environment, resistance, and the...
The History Press, 2013. — 352 p. Michael Gill is widely regarded as being one of the finest documentary film-makers of the twentieth century. Working as a junior reporter, he experienced the Second World War at first hand when he and his family were bombed out of their Canterbury home in June 1942. In August that year Michael joined the RAF and swiftly encountered the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 336 p. This book fills a gap in the existing literature on the Second World War by covering the range of challenges, threats, issues, dilemmas, and changes faced and dealt with by Sweden during the conflict. Interest in Sweden's wartime experiences has increased due to its post-war profile as a neutral that both allowed German troops to transit...
Oświęcim: Napoleon V, 2015. — 431 s. Wszystkie wojny faszystowskich Włoch Mussoliniego w syntezie opracowanej przez najbardziej znanego włoskiego historyka wojskowości. Opowieść o mocarstwowej polityce dyktatury Duce i roli, jaką odegrały w tym siły zbrojne aż do katastrofy wojny światowej. Osiem lat nieprzerwanych walk. Etiopia, kruche, szybko utracone Cesarstwo. Wojna domowa...
Fort Leaveworth: Soviet Army Studies Office US Army Combined Arms Center, 1987. — 36 p. One's view of historical reality is inevitably flawed,. While most historians strive to preserve or recreate an objective picture of historical forces and events, a variety of factors affect their work all of which tend to warp objective reality and produce a subjective view of history. This...
Fort Leavenworth: US Army Command and General Staff College, 1983. — 215 p. The 1945 Soviet campaign in Manchuria ended less than two weeks after it had begun. It took the Soviet Army about seven days to crush the Japanese Kwantung Army and end Japanese domination of northeastern Asia. The Soviets executed their self-styled strategic 'Cannae' by launching three separate fronts...
Fort Leavenworth: US Army Command and General Staff College, 1983. — 237 p. Shortly after midnight on 9 August 1945, assault parties of Soviet troops crossed the Soviet-Manchurian border and attacked Japanese positions in Manchuria. This was the vanguard of a force of more than 1.5 million men that was to advance along multiple axes on a frontage of more than 4,400 kilometers,...
London, Portland: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. — 402 p. The Soviet Far East Command’s strategic offensive of August 1945 against the Kwantung Army shattered Japanese defenses around the periphery of Manchuria in seven days and achieved total victory in less than two weeks, ending Japanese domination of northeastern Asia (see Map 1). The command commenced its strategic envelopment...
Dundurn Press, 2005. — 182 p. Nazi Germany's invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 marked the beginning of five years of terror for the Dutch people. They faced oppression and death with remarkable stoicism, but nothing could save them from the Hunger Winter of 1944-1945, when more than 30,000 people died of starvation. In this time of unimaginable despair, Canada came to the...
Pantheon, 2012. — 120 S. Daniel Goldhagen hat mit seiner Studie über die Vollstrecker des Holocaust heftige Debatten ausgelöst. Seine These: Schon lange vor Hitler war der Antisemitismus tief verwurzelt in der deutschen Gesellschaft. Es waren nicht nur einige SS-Leute, sondern ganz gewöhnliche Deutsche, die millionenfach Juden erniedrigten und ermordeten.
Potomac Books Inc., 2004. — 336 p. The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invaluable resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the eminent scholar of Pearl Harbor, who...
Routledge, 1990. — 205 p. Success or defeat in the Second World War turned less on winning or losing battles than on winning or losing campaigns. This volume reassesses the importance of seven major campaigns for the outcome of the war. The authors examine a wide range of factors which influence success or failure including strategic planning, logistics, combat performance,...
The History Press, 2017. — 256 p. In 1942 the battle-hardened troops of the Japanese Army overran Burma with frightening speed, sweeping a tide of refugees before them. For five months British and Indian troops tried to stem the invasion, but with inadequate equipment and numbers they were no match for the enemy. This unexpected invasion triggered an exodus of half a million...
Routledge, 1998. — 312 p. Ian Gooderson presents a study of close air support in World War II, with the analysis focusing on the use of tactical air power by British and American forces during the campaigns in Italy and northwestern Europe between 1943 and 1945. This is a useful but narrowly cast work because Gooderson does not really analyze the relative effectiveness of the...
The Palm Press, Siesta Key, Florida, 2018. — 325 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9796-3256-0. "We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is right and wrong in the world. What kind of...
The Palm Press, Siesta Key, Florida, 2018. — 325 p. — ISBN: 978-1-9796-3256-0. "We Americans have the dangerous tendency in our international thinking to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward other nations. We consider ourselves to be more noble and decent than other peoples, and consequently in a better position to decide what is right and wrong in the world. What kind of...
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 209 p.
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb’s revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the...
Casemate Publishers, 2012. — 224 p. The Second World War was a momentous event in twentieth-century history and it is a fascinating period for family historians to explore. Numerous records are available to researchers whose relatives served in the war, and James Goultys book is an accessible guide on how to locate and understand these sources - and get the most out of them....
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 195 p. What was it really like to serve in the British Army during the Second World War? Discover a soldier's view of life in the British Army - from recruitment and training to the brutal realities of combat. Using first-hand sources, James Goulty reconstructs the experiences of the men and women who made up the 'citizen's army'. Find out about...
Pen and Sword Military, 2004. — 445 p. When the Allies invaded mainland Italy in 1943 they intended only a clearing-up operation to knock Italy out of the war, but Hitler ordered the German armies to defend every foot of the country. The 'Tug of War' was the mysterious force which caused a war to race out of control, and attract vast numbers of men, tanks, guns and aircraft....
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 224 p. After the surrender of the French government in May 1940, the British were concerned that the resources of the French Empire, and particularly the powerful French fleet, would be put at the disposal of the Germans. The British, dependent upon their naval power and the resources of the Empire and Commonwealth to continue the war, sought to...
Harper Collins Canada, 2015. — 228 p. This is the story of the Canadian First Army that fought its way from Juno Beach at D-Day in June, 1944, through Normandy, into the Netherlands to liberate that country, to the terrible battles in the Scheldt area, and finally into Germany in 1945. This is also the story of how Canada, which had no army to speak of in 1939, raised a citizen...
Barnsley, S. Yorks.: Leo Cooper, 2003. - 255 pgs. The turning point of the war in Burma was the Imphal/Kohima campaign of 1944. For four months there was intense and savage fighting. The Japanese plan was to encircle and destroy the British and Indian positions before bursting into the plain and seizing Imphal. They failed in their first aim but the Japanese 15th Army prepared a...
Frontline Books, 2013. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1848326831.
Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round', the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign. This book depicts the experience of that army in Normandy through its own records and documentation. The Wehrmacht Archive is an informative and colourful collection...
Frontline Books, 2013. — 256 p. Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round', the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign. This book depicts the experience of that army in Normandy through its own records and documentation. The Wehrmacht Archive is an informative and colorful collection of translated...
The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010. — 937 p. — ISBN: 978-1-933550-33-6 The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World...
Osceola: Motorbooks International, 1999. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 0760306524, ISBN13: 978-0760306529. Follow every detail of Patton's actions during Germany's famous WWII counteroffensive. From the attacks of the 5th and 6th Panzer Armies at Schnee Eifel and St. Vith to the 3rd Army offensive that forced the Rhine River, the authors capture all of the critical actions of both Allied...
Osceola: Motorbooks International, 1998. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 076030498X, ISBN13: 978-0760304983. Patton: Operation Cobra and Beyond tells the story of this bold - and sometimes controversial - general, his men, and their machines in the drive across France towards the Rhine. More than 200 original photographs and text filled with first-hand accounts put you in the middle of one...
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 209 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-47386-676-8. Expert author Michael Green has compiled a full inventory of the tanks developed and deployed by the Allied armies during the six year war against Nazi Germany and her Axis partners. There were four categories of tank: Light, Medium, Heavy and Super Heavy. Combat experience proved Light tanks (such as the...
Pen & Sword, 2013. — 253 p. — (Images of war). — ISBN: 978-1-78159-183-3. It was the Stalin's tanks and armored fighting vehicles and their crews that finally pushed the German Army back from the outskirts of Moscow in late 1941 and early 1942. Proof of the Red Army tanks' and AFVs' effectiveness came at the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 when they defeated the cream of the...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 321 p. The United States Marine Corps played a leading role in the war against Japan from Pearl Harbor in December 1941 until VJ Day on September 2, 1945. Living up to its motto the "First to Fight," the 1st Marine Division landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal in the south Pacific on August 7, 1942 and fought its way up the central...
Frontline Books, 2013. — 335 p. More than any other campaign of WWII, Operation Weserubing has been shrouded in mystery. Strategic political and legal issues were unclear and military issues were dominated by risk. The German success was the result of improvisation and the application of available forces far beyond the comprehension of their British and Norwegian counterparts....
Combined Books, 1994. — 272 p. In the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East some of World War II's greatest legends were born as Erwin Rommel the "Desert Fox" led his Afrika Korps against the "Desert Rats" of the British 8th Army led by Bernard Montgomery. Both sides recruited local people to their cause, winning stunning victories but planting the seeds of conflicts to...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 273 p. Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 224 p. Born in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade aged just eighteen and began a life of adventure. A soldier throughout the Second World War, he saw action across North Africa, was a driver for the Long Range Desert group and fought at the battle of Alamein. Taken into captivity at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, he was sentenced to...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2014. — 288 p. Dispatches in this volume include that on the Battle of Britain, and air fighting 1940-1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command, Air Operations by Fighter Command between November 1940 and the end of December 1941, the anti-aircraft defense of the United Kingdom between 1939 and 1945,...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2014. — 248 p. Dispatches in this volume include Air Operations in Burma and Bay of Bengal 1 January to 22 May 1942 by General Wavell, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia November 1943 to May 1944, by Air Chief Marshal Sir R.E.C. Peirse, the dispatch on air operations in South-East Asia from June 1944 to May 1945, by Air Chief Marshal Sir...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 224 p. Dispatches in this volume include that on operations in the Middle East August 1939 to November 1940 by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; the dispatch on operations in the Middle East February 1941 to July 1941, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; operations in the Middle East July 1941...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 224 p. Despatches in this volume include the despatch for the campaign from Alamein to Tunis, by Field Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces North Africa; despatch on operation in the Western Desert December 1940 to February 1941, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Commander-in-Chief British land Forces,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 174 p. — ISBN 978 1 78346 2 322. Dispatches in this volume include that on the first and second battles of Narvik in 1940; the dispatch on operations in central Norway 1940, by Lieutenant General H.R.S. Massy, Commander-in-Chief, North West Expeditionary Force; Dispatch on operations in Northern Norway between April and June 1940; the dispatch on...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 192 p. Despatches in this volume include that on the first and second battles of Narvik in 1940; the despatch on operations in central Norway 1940, by Lieutenant General H.R.S. Massy, Commander-in-Chief, North West Expeditionary Force; Despatch on operations in Northern Norway between April and June 1940; the despatch on carrier-borne aircraft...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 292 p. Despatches in this volume include that on the Conquest of Sicily from 10 July 1942 to 17 August 1943 by Field-Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis; the despatch on the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean; despatch on naval operations in connection with the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 224 p. In the spring of 1942, Britain’s far-flung empire was in the greatest peril. North Africa was being overrun by the German Afrika Korps and in Southeast Asia, the forces of Imperial Japan had captured Singapore and were threatening India. Only the most urgent reinforcement of both war fronts could prevent disaster. But Britain’s shipping...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 272 p. Under the codenames Constellation, Condor, Concertina, and Coverlet, the islands of Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney were to be attacked in 1943. The operation against Alderney would be preceded by a bombardment by between 500 and 600 medium/light bombers and an astonishing forty to fifty squadrons of fighters. The official papers which have...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 239 p. War’s Nomads is an evocative account of one man’s experience of life in a mobile radar unit after the battle of El Alamein as Rommel’s AfrikaKorps was relentlessly pursued across the desert through Egypt, Libya and Tunisia by the Eighth Army. It is the only known detailed account in existence of the small radar units who played a key part in...
Casemate, 2011. — 288 p. Although it is known that Allied airborne forces landed into a German buzzsaw on D-Day, far less is known about the troops they encountered in the dark night of June 6, 1944. One of the formations they encountered was a similarly elite group of paratroopers, who instead of dropping from the skies fought on the defensive, giving their Allied counterparts...
Bantam Books, 1980. — 178 p. Masterful pacing, vivid character sketches, and gripping action blend with rigorous historical detail in Samuel B. Griffith's The Battle for Guadalcanal. Launched on August 7, 1942, to protect Allied control of the strategic South Pacific islands, the Guadalcanal operation was the most costly American offensive of World War II in the history of the...
Faber and Faber, 2013. — 348 p. On June 6 1944 - 'D-Day' - Allied troops landed in France, opening a way to eventual victory. In this provocative reappraisal of the Second World War, John Grigg suggests that the Allied invasion could have been launched successfully in the previous year, reducing considerably the scale of the war's human tragedy. By 1943, Grigg notes, we already...
University of Mississippi, Jackson, 2002. — 112 p. W. E. Griggs of Baltimore was drafted and appointed as the official photographer of the 97th Engineer Battalion to document its work in Alaska. This book's ninety fuil-page photographs are a pictorial essay of the 97th from Florida to Alaska where it labored to complete the Alcan Highway.
National Geographic, 2015. — 512 p. Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall, from World War I to World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms who rose from the gruesome hell of the First World War to become the finest generals of their generation during World War II redefined America's...
Presidio, 2005. — 256 p. 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....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 224 p. This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's violent occupation of Slovenia during World War II. Beginning with the decision of the Fascist regime to annex Slovenia as an Italian province in 1941, it moves from the Fascist's naïve attempts to Italianize the population, through local resistance and...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. — 460 p. In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied intent to bring Axis crimes to light led to both the Nuremberg trials and their counterpart in Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Yet the Tokyo Trial failed to prosecute imperial Japanese leaders for the worst of war crimes: inhumane medical experimentation,...
Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. — 217 p. Throughout World War II, the United States played a pivotal role in the development of British maritime aviation. Even before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm pilots were being trained in the United States under a scheme set up by the United States Navy as part of the Lend-Lease agreement. For many young...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 84 p. This study details the events of 10 May 1940 at Fort Eben Emael, Belgium, and the elements which led to the successful seizure of the fort by the German military. The central focus of this thesis is the following question. Was the use of emerging technologies the key to victory at Fort Eben Emael? First, the study focuses on the...
Casemate, 2021. — 484 p. South of the Norman city of Caen, the twin features of the Verrières and Bourguebus ridges were key stepping stones for the British Second Army in late July 1944 - taking them was crucial if it was to be successful in its attempt to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. To capture this vital ground, Allied forces would have to defeat arguably the...
Westholme Publishing, 2018. — 288 p. The Inspiring True Story of a Segregated Unit Whose Exploits Underscore the Forgotten Latino Contribution to the Allied Victory in World War II. As a child, Dave Gutierrez hung on every word his father recalled about his cousin Ramon, "El Sancudo" (the mosquito), and his service in World War II, where he earned a Silver Star, three Purple...
Nowtilus, 2019. — 509 p. El relato apasionante de la batalla más importante de la Guerra del Pacífico. Un análisis detallado de la batalla y las decisiones de los comandantes desde un punto de vista táctico y estratégico. Conozca todos los detalles de lo ocurrido en los estados mayores de Nimitz, en Pearl Harbor; de Yamamoto, en el acorazado Yamato; de Nagumo en el portaviones...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 416 p. This new book documents the German invasion of Norway, focussing on the events at sea. More than most other campaigns of WWII, Operation Weserubung has been shrouded in mystery, legend and flawed knowledge. Strategic, political and legal issues were at best unclear, while military issues were dominated by risk; the German success was the result of...
A Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 2010. — 93 c. The U.S. Navy is building Virginia class submarines, and recently completed the conversion of four Ohio class submarines from Trident Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBN’s) to Guided Missile Submarines (SSGN’s). The Virginia class is the first...
Routledge, 2015. — 230 p. Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 September 1942, but in 1941 Europeans on the island felt still untouched by war, lulled into security by the belief that Singapore was impregnable from the sea. However, the Planning Chief of Imperial Army Headquarters in Tokyo had realised a successful invasion could come from the north, down the Malay peninsula....
Routledge, 2021. — 228 p. This book, first published in 1984, examines the 1941 siege of Tobruk and the experiences of the inexperienced Australian troops facing Rommel’s successful armies. It looks at the follies as well as the bravery; humane acts from both sides, locked as they were in a brutal battle; the tactics of desert warfare and siege warfare; and the challenges both...
Longmeadow Press Promotional, 1994. — 64 p. Describes the Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion ever attempted, told with remarkable battlefield photographs.
Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. — 646 p. In a unique and balanced portrayal, renowned journalist Paul Ham recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the events on the hellish Papuan jungle trail where thousands fought and died during World War II. Based on extensive research in Australia and Japan, and including previously unpublished documents, Kokoda...
Mariner Books, 2019. — 592 p. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness. Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews,...
Pacifica Press, 1994. — 571 p. There was never a military campaign like it, and there never will be another. Here is an opportunity to follow the great crusade as it unfolded in the air over the Nazi empire in North Africa and Europe. This exhaustive chronology sheds a fascinating light on the course of America's air war against Germany and her allies. The Air War Europa...
Pacifica Press, 1998. — 848 p. There was never a military campaign like it, and there never will be another. Here is an opportunity to follow the great crusade as it unfolded in the air over the Japan’s ill-gotten empire in East Asia and the Pacific. This exhaustive chronology sheds a fascinating light on the course of America’s air war against Japan in all the active theaters.
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 288 p. Joe Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" photo is one of the best-known images of US war history—and a powerful symbol of patriotism. But the story of how the flag got there, and even the identity of the soldiers in the photo, has been muddied by history. Here, military historian Eric Hammel sets the record straight—viewing complex...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 344 p. The battle of El Alamein in 1942 was one of the most crucial events in the entire Second World War. Before it, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else, even the Russians. At Alamein the British Eighth Army first thwarted the Axis attempts in North Africa to seize Cairo and the Suez Canal...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 295 p. This is a major reassessment of the causes of Allied victory in the Second World War in the Mediterranean region. Drawing on a unique range of multinational source material, Richard Hammond demonstrates how the Allies' ability to gain control of the key routes across the sea and sink large quantities of enemy shipping denied the Axis...
Böhlau Verlag, 2010. — 389 p. Most writing about the role of women during the First World War tends to focus on generally deal with the wartime experiences of men and women separately. Began about replacing men in auxiliary roles with women, releasing them for The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and Women's Royal Naval Service were The Women's Army Corps (WAC) in which almost...
St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 340 p. Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton. Lieutenant William Frederick “Bill” Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a...
Stackpole Books, 2008. — 238 p. Rare memoir of a risky job performed by relatively few troops. Honest and observant narrative describes the good, bad, and ugly of the war. Covers World War II's closing months in eastern France and Germany. Corporal Bill Hanford had one of the US Army's most dangerous jobs in World War II: artillery forward observer (FO). Tasked with calling in...
Stackpole Books, 2009. — 225 p. Norbert Hanning remembers an attack on a Soviet bomber: 'I side-slipped down towards his tail, got in close behind him, and aimed at his two starboard engines. Pieces flew off his wing as my shells struck home. Bright flames streamed from his engines...an inferno erupted as his wing tanks went up'. - Action-packed memoir of aerial combat - Inside...
Basic Books, 2017. — 720 p. A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya. The Second World Wars examines...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 262 p. — (History of Warfare, 99).
Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 offers a collection of scholarly papers focusing on heretofore understudied aspects of the Second World War. Encompassing the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy from operation TORCH to the end of the war in Europe, this volume...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 324 p. At dawn on Friday 1 September 1939 the Germans launched their land, sea, and air assault on Poland. The world suddenly became aware of the awesome power of Hitler's Third Reich and the limitless and ruthless nature of his ambition. Yet although it directly led to the outbreak of WW2 the campaign has been strangely neglected. A new word...
National Defense University Press, 1991. — 328 p. The cover is an artistic interpretation of George F. Kennan as he may have contemplated the Washington skyline from his office in the National War College. The postwar years of 1946-47, in an innovative academic setting near the symbolic and actual centers of American government, provided a unique time and place for the early...
Casemate Publishers, 2021. — 248 p. — ISBN 978-1-61200-628-4. — (War in the Far East, Vol. 3). The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 216 p. In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia Pacific. In a matter of just months, the soldiers and sailors of the Rising Sun conquered an area even bigger than Hitler’s empire at its largest extent. They seemed invincible. Hawaiians and Australians...
Big Sky Publishing, 2022. — 417 p. War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. War...
Indiana University Press, 2017. — 304 p. In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Erwin Rommel, in three battles at El...
UK: Sutton Publishing, 2003. — 137 pgs. World War II witnessed the greatest mobilization of women in British history for service in the armed forces. For many women, who were often still in their teens, this was their first time away from home. The issue of a uniform and their first night in a barrack hut were experiences that would stay with them for ever, together with the...
Grub Street Publishing, 2009. — 147 p. The story of the first British bombing raid of the Second World War, of why Bomber Command flew by night and of the Wellington Mk.1A are all closely linked together. It is a story of the stone age of strategic bombing. On the 4th of September 1939 Squadron Leader Paul Harris led 149 Squadron to Brunsbüttel, Wilhelmshaven in a Mk. 1 Wellington...
New York: Routledge, 2002. — 320 p. Factories of Death details the activities of the Japanese army scientists that conducted numerous horrifying experiments upon live human beings. It investigates who from the upper echelons of the Japanese military and political establishments knew of the experiments, also the question of whether or not Allied POWs were subjected to such...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — ISBN10: 0521785030, ISBN13: 9780521785037. This book provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers: the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USSR. What contribution did economics make to war preparedness and to winning or losing the war? What was the effect of wartime experiences on...
Gold Medal Books, 1962. — 228 p.
You will note that many of the photographs inside this book are grainy and a little blurred. They were taken in the heat and dust and smoke of battle by men who were there. The soldiers in these pictures do not look very glamorous. They do not stand upright; they crouch-and frequently lie flat on their bellies. They are tough, dirty, scared, and...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 390 p. The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the front are still strong with a rare power to bring...
Osprey, 2002. - 96 Pages. ISBN: 1841763845.
This book examines the seminal Northwest Europe campaign of the Second World War. This hard-fought campaign conducted by the Western Allies against the Germans during 1944-45 represented, for the former, the decisive theatre of the entire Second World War. From the desperate and risk-laden D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 to the rapid...
München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009. — 928 s. — (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte Herausgegeben vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte Band 75). — ISBN 978-3-486-58064-8. „Das Jahrhundert geht zu Ende, und mit ihm lösen sich die Landschaften auf, die es in seiner Sturm-und-Drang Zeit hervorgebracht hat. So müssen wir mit der Hin terlassenschaft des Jahrhunderts leben. Sie...
Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2014. — 232 s. — ISBN 9788371779022 Mało która wojna była taka jak ta. Mało która była tak krwawa, miała tak daleko idące następstwa i zostawiła w pamięci tak głębokie ślady jak ta, którą od 1941 do 1945 roku toczyły ze sobą hitlerowskie Niemcy i stalinowski Związek Radziecki. Chodzi nie tylko o to, że wszystko w tej wojnie było na wielką skalę:...
Irish Academic Press, 2020. — 124 p. The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside all before them and were perched on the northern coastline of France. Outright victory over...
Merrion Press, 2019. — 150 p. Post D-Day, with the Allies on the newly created 'Second Front' driving fast eastwards beyond Paris, and the Russians on the 'Eastern Front' pressing westwards, the fervour of the fanatical Fascist Nazi Regime remained undiminished. For the Third Reich it was intolerable to believe that they must now concede. Instead of ending the war and suing for...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 360 p. Romania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Grant T. Harward shows that, of an estimated 300,000 Jews who perished in Romania and Romanian-occupied Ukraine, more than 64,000 were, in fact, killed by Romanian soldiers. Moreover, the Romanian...
The belknap press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, England. 2005. 382 p. Introduction: Race to the Finish. Triangular Relations and the Pacific War. Stalin, Truman, and Hirohito Face New Challenges. Decisions for War and Peace. Potsdam: The Turning Point. The Atomic Bombs and Soviet Entry into the War. Japan Accepts Unconditional Surrender. August...
Harvard University Press, 2005. — 382 p. With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story—the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan—Hasegawa for the first time puts the last months of the war into international perspective. From April 1945, when...
William Collins Books, 2011. — 748 p. — ISBN: 0007978707 (ISBN13: 9780007978700) From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history – World War II. The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled ‘all hell let loose’....
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. — eISBN: 978-1-4000-4372-9 This is epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by one of Britain’s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy “to stand with that of the best journalists and writers” ( New York Times Book Review ). In September 1944, the Allies believed...
Pan, 2010. — 496 p. — (Pan Military Classics). — ISBN: 0330513613 ; ISBN13: 9780330513616. Bomber Command’s air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany was one of the most epic campaigns of World War II. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF’s attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle in the air began...
London: Pan Publishing, 1981
Das Reich is Sir Max Hastings’s narrative of the atrocities committed by the 2nd SS Panzer Division during June of 1944: first, the execution of 99 French civilians in the village of Tulle on June 9; and second, the massacre of 642 more in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on June
10. Throughout the book, Hastings expertly shifts perspective between...
Knopf, 2011. — 752 p. — ISBN: 0307273598 (ISBN13: 9780307273598) From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max...
Harper, 2020. — 400 p. One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Force’s 617 Squadron. The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Force’s...
Pan, 2012. — 576 p. — ISBN: 9780330528993 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness accounts of survivors on both sides, plus a wealth of previously untapped sources and documents,...
Knopf, 2008. — 615 p. — ISBN: 0307263517 (ISBN13: 9780307263513) With an introduction read by Max Hastings. A companion volume to his best-selling Armageddon, Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of 1944-45 was acted out across the...
2013. — 49 p. At their height, the battles for Normandy and Brittany included 14 American infantry divisions. These arrived between D-Day on 6 June 1944 through the end of August, just as the battles for northern France were coming to a close. Obviously there are too many divisions for each to be featured in Overlord, however as luck and American efficiency would have it, you can...
London: Routledge, 2012. — 216 p. Popular perceptions of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are dominated by images of emaciated figures, engaged in slave labour, and badly treated by their captors. This book, based on extensive original research, shows that this view is quite wrong in relation to the large camp at Changi, which was the main POW camp in Singapore. It...
Bretwalda Books, 2012. — 52 p. In 1940 Hitler’s Germany launched an unprovoked attack on little Denmark. The campaign was meticulously planned and over in hours. It saw the first ever use of paratroops in war, the first German amphibious landings of the war and the threat of terror bombing of cities and towns. The Fall of Denmark is often overlooked by historians as the...
Henry Holt and Company, 2008. — 224 p. Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. The unit, 4,500 men strong, plunged immediately into ferocious combat, and by the time the battled ended, 70 percent of the men in the team's three assault battalions were killed or seriously...
TAMU Press, 1996. — 148 p. For three years during World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union maintained a difficult air pipeline from the northern states, via Alaska and Siberia, almost to the Urals. The Lend-Lease fighters and bombers that were funneled through this route eventually made up 12 percent of the Red Air Force and devastated Hitler's legions. Hays, a onetime...
The History Press, 2016. — 192 p. In the whole course of the war, conceded Britain s chief press censor, there was no story which gave me so much trouble as that of the attempted German invasion, flaming oil on the water and 30,000 burned Germans. Sparked by the Directorate of Military Intelligence and MI6, rumours that Britain had set fire to the English Channel to defeat a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 255 p. Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe their recent ancestors' experiences ranging from a Royal Air Force pilot captured in Yugoslavia and a Spanish communist in the French resistance...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 192 p. Seen as an agricultural utopia within Hitler's Germany, it is often the view that both East and West Prussia had remained relatively untouched during the Second World War. Yet the violence, prejudice and murder associated with the National Socialist regime that brought most of Europe to ruin were widespread throughout Prussia during its...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 208 p. The jungle war against the Japanese was arguably one of the worst terrors that could be inflicted upon a young soldier who had never been away from home before, let alone be faced with a brutal, sadistic and uncompromising enemy in an alien environment. Based on the accounts of three culturally different veterans, Tim Heath investigates the...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 208 p. The jungle war against the Japanese was arguably one of the worst terrors that could be inflicted upon a young soldier who had never been away from home before, let alone be faced with a brutal, sadistic and uncompromising enemy in an alien environment. Based on the accounts of three culturally different veterans, Tim Heath investigates the...
Penguin, 2023. — 257 p. Three legendary fighter pilots from the Pacific War—all recipients of the Medal of Honor—tell their own stories in this remarkable collection. Marine ace Pappy Boyington is perhaps the most celebrated of all American pilots in the war against Japan, fighting in the skies with both the famed Flying Tigers and his own Black Sheep Squadron. Marine Joe Foss...
Presidio Press, 2005. — 288 p. It was a stunning strategic victory of World War II–and one of the most fantastic breaks for the Allies. On March 7, 1945, a small group of American infantrymen, engineers, and tank crews secured the Ludendorff Bridge that crossed the Rhine. The successful mission saved thousands of American lives and spearheaded the invasion of Nazi Germany. The...
University of Missouri Press, 2010. — 400 p. On July 11, 1943, General Lucian Truscott received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross, for valor in action in Sicily. During his career he also received the Army Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Purple Heart....
De Gruyter, 2021. — 360 p. 20 July 1944 is usually associated with the bomb plot to murder Hitler. However, what distinguishes Colonel Stauffenberg's plan from all others is that the attempt on the Führer's life was only to be the initial stage of a full military coup d'état. The aim was to overthrow the murderous regime, and to end the war as soon as possible. The conspiracy...
Historical Section, Division of Public Information, headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1947. — 75 p. This, the first official account of the battle for Wake Island in December 1941, was originally published in 1947 and still remains one of the best historical treatises published on the amazing defense of a thoroughly outnumbered garrison against superior Japanese forces. Coverage...
Seaforth Publishing, 2014. — 256 p. Employing new research from both German and French sources, the author examines the role that the French Atlantic ports played for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. When the Wehrmacht overran France in May and June of 1940, the German navy's dream of access to the Atlantic was realised, and Brest, Lorient, St Nazaire, La Pallice and...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2005. — 100 pp. — (Lancaster Pamphlets). ISBN: 0-203-33227-X Master e-book ISBN. ISBN: 0-415-33261-3 (hbk). ISBN: 0-415-33262-1 (pbk). Updated and expanded throughout to take into consideration the most up-to-date historical research, this new edition of "The Origins of the Second World War" analyzes the reasons for the outbreak of the Second World...
2nd Edition. — London: Routledge, 2005. — 100 p. — (Lancaster Pamphlets). — ISBN: 0-203-33227-X ; ISBN: 0-415-33261-3: ISBN: 0-415-33262-1. Updated and expanded throughout to take into consideration the most up-to-date historical research, this new edition of "The Origins of the Second World War" analyzes the reasons for the outbreak of the Second World War. Experienced...
Whitchurch, Hants.: Portia Press, 1986. — 261 p. John Henslow joined the army in 1941 and passed out from OCTU in 1942 at the age of 19. By April 1943 he was an officer in Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners at Bangalore, and posted to the "fogotten army" in Burma. With 421 Indian Field Company as part of the 7th Indian Division he was at the Battle of Kohima and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 392 p. Between 1940 and 1945, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 years, SOE sent over 500 agents into Norway to carry out a range of operations from sabotage and assassination to attempts to organise an underground guerrilla army. This book is the first...
AEH, 2020. — 308 p. This is a fascinating historical account of action during WW2 as a young British officer travels the world and sends written accounts of his travels and time in action back home to England. This is superb descriptive writing from a mere 21 year old young man. Published by his daughter, Pat's letters describe how he made the most of being in the war,...
Accrington: The Nayler Group, 2004. — 240 pgs. This is the microhistory of Brian Kay Heyworth and 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1939 and 1940. Major Heyworth was a lawyer when called up with his territorial battalion, and was commanding when killed in the defense of Hazebrouck in Belgium, a delaying action that held up the...
Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2003. — 318 p. In mid-December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. Within just a few months British forces were driven from their defences and forced to retreat hundreds of miles to the Indian border. How did the Allies under the leadership of William Slim, Orde Wingate and Louis Mountbatten overcome one of the gravest defeats the British Army ever...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 288 p. Tom Hicks’ story begins when he joins the LMS straight from school and follows his early life on the railways in the 1930s, through enlistment, training as a paratrooper, wartime service, imprisonment and his return to the LMS as an engine driver. Tom volunteered for war service in 1939 and was initially placed in the military railway of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 288 p. An in-depth account of the advance of Heinz Guderian’s Second Panzer Group across the central Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. During the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Heinz Guderian's Second Panzer Group played a leading role, cutting through the defenses on the border,...
Casemate, 2010. — 264 р. Following the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachhead in July 1944, the vaunted German Army seemed on the verge of collapse. As British and US forces fanned out across northwestern France, enemy resistance unexpectedly dissolved into a headlong retreat to the German and Belgian borders. In early September an elated Allied High Command had every...
Stackpole Books, 2004. — 363 p. - Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit. - Dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin. - Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World War II, including the P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38...
University Press of Kentucky, 2009. — 296 p. On October 28, 1940, the Italian army under Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. The British had insisted on guaranteeing Greek and Turkish neutrality, despite the fact that Greece was never more than a limited campaign in an unlimited war as far as they were concerned. The British, however, were never quite sure that Greece was not...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 369 p. Noted aviation historian Robin Higham examines the evolution of the Armée de l'Air and RAF during the interwar period. Although France and England shared a mutual enemy in Germany, the development of the air forces of in each nation shared few commonalities. Higham demonstrates that the Armée de l'Terre dominated strategic and doctrinal...
Berghahn Books, 2020. — ISBN: 978-1-78920-356-1 (ebook) Though best known as the author of the landmark 1961 work The Destruction of the European Jews, the historian Raul Hilberg produced a variety of archival research, personal essays, and other works over a career that spanned half a century. The Anatomy of the Holocaust collects some of Hilberg's most essential and...
London: Blandford , 1991. — 192 p. The author commanded a company of the Royal Berkshire Regiment from training in India through combat in Burma against the Japanese, when the battalion was part of the 19th Indian Division. He won the Military Cross for bravery under fire. Of the 196 members of the company during the campaign, 112 were killed or wounded.
Stroud Gloucestershire: Spellmount, 2007. — 160 p. The Burma campaign ended triumphantly in 1945 with the crushing defeat of the occupying Japanese Army, thanks to the training of Allied soldiers and the use of aggressive tactics under the command of Lieutenant General Sir William Slim. John Hill, commander of B Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, shares the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 234 p. The relationship of policy to strategy is a central issue in international studies. Using the little-known but highly relevant example of British planning for the occupation in 1945, the book provides a case-study in the practicalities of 'liberating' enemy territory. It looks at the way in which policy was developed and then reconciled with...
Omnigraphics Inc., 2009. — 237 p. The events of December 7, 1941—the day the Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor military base, prompting the United States to declare war on Japan and to enter World War II—are provided in this account. The strike, the events that led up to it, and its consequences up to the present day are explored in detail. Collier...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978 1 784S3 182 The story of Anglo-American relations in Saudi Arabia during the Second World War has generally been viewed as one of discord and hegemonic rivalry, a perspective reinforced by a tendency to consider Britain's decline and the ascent of US power as inevitable. In this engaging and timely study, Matthew Hinds calls into question...
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976. — 859 p. Настоящая книга представляет собой 1 том серии "Большая стратегия", входящей составной частью в официальное английское издание "История второй мировой войны". В ней рассматриваются военно-политические вопросы, связанные с планированием военных действий в Европе и Азии на начальном этапе войны. Книга имеет определенный...
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957. — 603 p. Книга представляет собой 2-ой том шеститомной серии "Большая стратегия", входящей составной частью в английскую официальную "Историю второй мировой войны". В книге обстоятельно рассматривается история планирования военных действий в Европе и Азии в период с сентября 1939 года по июнь 1941 года, осуществлявшегося высшими...
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964. — 401 p. Настоящая книга является первой частью третьего тома шеститомного издания "Большая стратегия, 1939-1945", входящего составной частью в английскую официальную "Историю второй мировой войны". Тем не менее этот труд носит характер вполне самостоятельного исторического исследования. Обилие фактов и малоизвестных, но важных...
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972. — 773 p. Настоящая книга является второй частью третьего тома шеститомного издания "Большая стратегия, 1939-1945", входящего составной частью в английскую официальную "Историю второй мировой войны". Тем не менее этот труд носит характер вполне самостоятельного исторического исследования. Обилие фактов и малоизвестных, но важных...
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972. — 772 p. Книга представляет собой четвертый том официального английского издания по истории второй мировой войны. Он охватывает период с августа 1942 года по сентябрь 1943 года. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей западных стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего...
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956. — 634 c. Настоящая книга представляет собой 5 том серии "Большая стратегия", входящей составной частью в официальное английское издание "История второй мировой войны". В ней рассматриваются военно-политические вопросы, связанные с планированием военных действий в Европе и Азии на заключительном этапе войны. Книга имеет определенный...
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956. — 422 p. Настоящая книга представляет собой 6 том серии "Большая стратегия", входящей составной частью в официальное английское издание "История второй мировой войны". В ней рассматриваются военно-политические вопросы, связанные с планированием военных действий в Европе и Азии на заключительном этапе войны. Книга имеет определенный...
Free Press, 2008. — 885 p.
American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from Nazi tyranny. For many years, we have celebrated the courage of Allied soldiers, sailors, and aircrews who defeated Hitler's regime and restored freedom to the continent. But in recounting the heroism of the "greatest generation," Americans often overlook the...
Creative Factory, 2022. — 208 p. One of the last German veterans of World War II recounts his wartime experiences - with the harrowing directness of someone who stood amid the firestorm. Hans Hoeller joined the war in 1941 and was trained as a tank hunter. After his first assignment to North Africa he returned to Germany for officer´s training. Once again, he deployed to the...
Washington: Historical Division, US Marine Corps, 1950. — 286 p. With illustrations. Saipan was one of the key operations in the Pacific War; key because it unlocked vast potentialities to the United States in projecting its might against the Japanese homeland; key because it opened the door of distance which had meant security to the Empire. Invasion of Saipan provided the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. — 262 p. Trained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully liberated Bayeux the following day. It was then employed in the crossing of the River Seine and the assault on Le Havre, before fighting across Belgium and Holland culminating in the final assault on Arnhem in April 1945, by which time the brigade had served in four...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 264 p. The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944, across five sectors of the French coast - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword - constituted the largest amphibious invasion in history. This study analyses in depth the preparations and implementation of the D-Day landing on Gold Beach by XXX Corps. Historians have tended to dismiss the landing on Gold...
Casemate Publishers, 2014. — 255 p. A World War II RAF veteran tells the dramatic story of D-Day, his survival after being shot down by the Germans, and his journey back to Allied lines. The day after D-Day, the most momentous day of the Second World War, Frank Holland was an RAF pilot whose Typhoon aircraft had just been hit by German antiaircraft fire during a low flying...
Independently Publishers, 2020. — 348 p. Discover the history of the 11th Airborne Division, the Angels, in World War II. Written by historian Jeremy C. Holm, this book covers the division's story from Camp Toccoa to Tokyo, including the bloody campaigns to liberate Leyte and Luzon with a focus on the legendary 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Utilizing firsthand experiences...
McFarland and Company, 2015. — 252 p. Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable challenges. Unlike the other islands in the archipelago, Mindanao had a large Moslem (Moro) population. Using Moro and American leadership he brought the Moro people into the movement. Fertig...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 224 p. The one unresolved issue of the Pacific War is the treatment of our prisoners of war, during and after World War II, both by the Japanese and by our own government. Never before in our military history have so many Americans, military and civilian, been taken captive by an enemy at one time. It was a triumph for the Japanese, and an...
New York. Ballantine, 1971. - 158 pgs. This is the history of De Gaulle's struggle to make the Free French a factor in the war against Germany, from the dark days of 1940 to the first vindication of France's resolve in a bitter struggle for a desert outpost in North Africa - Bir Hakim. Here Foreign Legionnaires and colonial troops made the military reputation of Free France as...
DK Publishing, 2009. - 363 p. ISBN10: 0756642787 World War II is divided into nine chronological chapters, each introduced by a general overview of the military and political situation. This is followed by a comprehensive timeline, covering events in all theaters of the war. The opening chapter analyzes the build-up of hostility in the years leading up the war, both in Europe...
London: Carlton Books Limited, 2000. — 400 p. Вторая мировая война в фотодокументах. Уникальные фотографии, интересный текст (english). Содержание книги разбито по годам с 1939 по 1945, соответственно, один год - одна глава. Сама же книга является, скорее, собранием фотографий (надо отметить, отличного качества), нежели научным исследованием.
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 272 p. The first volume covers contributory factors leading up to the outbreak of hostilities. Hitler's amazing success in correcting the real and perceived insults to the German nation resulting from the Great War and the Treaty of Versailles is acknowledged. There followed a military operation – Blitzkrieg – which rocked the world as two super...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 962 p. — ISBN 978 1 52674 440 1. The first volume in this series depicts the contributing factors that led to the outbreak of hostilities, including the rise of fascist dictators across Europe and in Japan. It also details the Blitzkrieg invasions that rocked the world as two superpowers, France and Great Britain, were soundly thrashed on the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 1296 p. — ISBN 978 1 52674 441 8. The first volume in this series depicts the contributing factors that led to the outbreak of hostilities, including the rise of fascist dictators across Europe and in Japan. It also details the Blitzkrieg invasions that rocked the world as two superpowers, France and Great Britain, were soundly thrashed on the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 280 p. The second year was one of almost unrelieved disaster as regards the Allied cause, whilst the Germans could look back with some satisfaction on what their forces had achieved, despite some notable failings by their Italian partners. By the early summer of 1941 Great Britain was faced by a continental Europe that was even more firmly under...
Sterling Publishing, 2013. — 272 p. Based on the popular BBC TV series, Dig WW2 takes an archeological journey through the Allied battle for Europe, unearthing such treasures as a Spitfire buried in a Donegal peat bog and a sealed bunker on a D-Day beach. Delving deeply into these stories, Jean Hood reveals neglected, forgotten, and secretive accounts of Britain's relationship...
Voyageur Press, 2010. — 224 p. This book provides a fresh take on World War II in the Pacific that goes beyond the simple recounting of battles won and lost to synthesize the strategies, politics, and key players that shaped the conduct of the war. The author takes a regional approach to this multifaceted, often nonlinear war conducted on land, sea (and significantly by America...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 95 p. — (Essential Histories). The war in the Pacific began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and ended with the atomic bombs on Hirsoshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which led to the surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. It was a war of great naval battles, such as those in the Coral Sea, at Midway, and at Leyte and of...
Bantam Books, 2004. — 552 p. “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest...
London, New York, Canberra: Rosen Education Service, 2010 - 261 p.
World War II is just one title in this five book series that gives readers a detailed look into America's military history. Military legacies are not just about dates and timelines; they're about our strengths and weaknesses, ignorance and brilliance, and desire for peace or dominance. Students will discover the...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 230 p. Colditz Castle was one of the most famous Prisoner of War camps of the Second World War. It was there that the Germans interred their most troublesome or important prisoners. Hundreds of ingenious escape attempts were made but the most ambitious of all was to build a glider and fly to freedom.Though the glider was built, the war ended before it...
Casemate, 2015. — 225 p. This book, originally published in German in 1956, has now been translated into English, unveiling a wealth of both experiences and analysis about Operation Barbarossa, perhaps the most important military campaign of the 20th century. Hermann Hoth led Germany’s 3rd Panzer Group in Army Group Center―in tandem with Guderian’s 2nd Group―during the invasion...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 225 p. — ISBN 978-1-61200-269-9. This book, originally published in German in 1956, has now been translated into English, unveiling a wealth of both experiences and analysis about Operation Barbarossa, perhaps the most important military campaign of the 20th century.Hermann Hoth led Germany’s 3rd Panzer Group in Army Group Center—in tandem with...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2007. — 412 p. High above the warm, summer fields Churchill's 'few' fought with courage & skill against overwhelming odds - and won. A vivid account of the air battles as well as an explanation of how the campaign developed. Fresh insights into the controversies with the aid of original material as well as recollections of many of the surviving air crew...
The War Vault, 2019. — 352 p. Clive Howard and Joe Whitley were both sergeants and served as correspondents for the Seventh Air Force during World War 2. The men of the Seventh were forced to fly the longest missions in any theater of war, entirely over water and, at first, without fighter escort. They fought at Midway, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Truk, Saipan,...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2008. — 272 p. June 6, 1944, is one of the most famous dates in world history, and, as David Howarth shows, a defining date in countless personal histories. In this intimate chronicle, the 7,000 vessels, 12,000 aircraft, and 750,000 men committed on D-Day are taken for granted. Instead, we see D-Day through the eyes of the men on the ground as Howarth...
Lyons Press, 2008. — 236 p. The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Norwegian Resistors and to rescue refugees all under constant threat by German U-boats and winter storms.
UXL Imprint of the Gale Group, 1999. — 288 p. Introduce your students to 31 noteworthy people who were involved in or affected by World War II. They cover political and military leaders, such as Stalin and Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Rommel, as well as people like Ernie Pyle (American journalist) and Franz Jagerstatter (German Catholic conscientious objector). It also includes...
Praeger, 2002. — 249 p. A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy an assault that was marked by argument and dissent from beginning to end, highlighting the fundamental differences in strategic thinking between the Americans and the British. Winston Churchill favored scrapping what would become the...
Burford Books, 1999. — 336 p. Here is a powerful, incisive portrait of the men who carried out the Japanese suicide missions during the Pacific campaign of World War II. One of the best books out there that bears testimony to the ferocity of the Imperial Armed Forces of Japan and their loyalty to their Emperor; the Kamikazes. Prepossessing and horrifying at the same time the book...
Pen and Sword, 2022. — 152 p. Leutnant Gerhard Ehlert was one of the few survivors of 2. Nachtaufklärungsstaffel, part of the Luftwaffe's 6th Air Fleet, which operated on Eastern Front during the Second World War. Although he came from a family that spoke out against Hitler and the Nazi regime, he volunteered to join the Luftwaffe. He went on to undertake combat patrols under...
Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1990. — xi+145 p.: ill., maps. — (Leavenworth Papers No. 18) [Enhanced e-Version: scanned pages with OCR-layer] Foreword (Leonard P. Wishart III, Lieutenant General, USA Commandant ) In modern military literature, there is no more pernicious theme than that the day of the infantryman has...
History Press, 2011. — 370 p. As the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe unleashed their full might against the island of Malta, the civilian population was in the eye of the storm. Faced with the terror of the unexploded bomb, the Maltese people looked for help to the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Section, who dealt with all unexploded bombs, outside of airfields and the RN...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 312 p. The decision to fortify northeastern France has usually been considered a tragic mistake, an example of bad planning and missed opportunities. Not so, says Judith M. Hughes, who provides a convincing view of how France’s military and political leaders tried to safeguard their nation and why they failed. As critic Michael Hurst writes in The...
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2016. — 187 p. Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II. He was sent to Europe twice. The first assignment in 1940 was short lived, as he joined the hopelessly ill equipped and overwhelmed Allied forces in France. The superior German army pushed them back to the English Channel at Dunkirk, and Hughes was one...
Routledge, 2014. — 288 p. When A Don at War was published in 1966 it was hailed as the first book to be written from the point of view of the Intelligence staff officer in the field with critics remarking on Sir David Hunt's authoritative exposition of British as well as German strategies. Eight years later it was revealed that the British, through the Ultra' system, were able...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 272 p. Blood in the Forest tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of fields and forests in Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Just an hour from the capital...
The History Press, 2014. — 182 p. When Hitler ordered the north of Nazi-occupied Norway to be destroyed in a scorched earth retreat in 1944, everything of potential use to the Soviet enemy was destroyed. Harbours, bridges and towns were dynamited and every building torched. Fifty thousand people were forcibly evacuated – thousands more fled to hide in caves in sub-zero...
Second Edition. — Washington: Center of Military History United States Army, 2006. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0-16-076546-3 Before 7 December 1941, while war was actively being waged in Europe and the Far East, the United States, still a neutral, was expanding its manufacturing facilities to meet the demands for additional war materials, both for the growing U.S. forces and those of the...
Second Edition. — Washington: Center of Military History United States Army, 2001. — 473 p. — ISBN: 0-16-076546-3 Before 7 December 1941, while war was actively being waged in Europe and the Far East, the United States, still a neutral, was expanding its manufacturing facilities to meet the demands for additional war materials, both for the growing U.S. forces and those of the...
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1968. — 225 p. The Cossacks, and more than a million Russians, fought against Communism during World War II, and they still hate Communism today. But they are not pro-American or pro-West. While researching for material for the writing of The East Came West, Mr. Huxley-Blythe discovered why these people do not trust the United States...
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1968. — 225 p. The Cossacks, and more than a million Russians, fought against Communism during World War II, and they still hate Communism today. But they are not pro-American or pro-West. While researching for material for the writing of The East Came West, Mr. Huxley-Blythe discovered why these people do not trust the United States...
New York: Telpic Sales Inc, 1945. — 310 p. 400 Autentic Battle photos. Japs Attack Pearl Harbor U. S. Marines Invade the Solomon Islands U. S. Army Invasion of the Aleutian Islands U. S. Invasion of New Guinea Gen. Doolittle's Surprise Bombing of Tokyo Invasion of Tarawa U. S. Troops Invade the Marshall Islands Invasion of Peleliu Island U. S. Conquest of Guam U. S. Invasion of...
University of Missouri Press, 2021. — 455 p. George S. Patton Jr. lived an exciting life in war and peace, but he is best remembered for his World War II battlefield exploits. Patton’s War: An American General’s Combat Leadership: November 1942–July 1944, the first of three volumes, follows the general from the beaches of Morocco to the fields of France, right before the birth...
University of Missouri Press, 2023. — 489 p. This second of three volumes of Patton’s War picks up where the first one left off, examining General George S. Patton’s leadership of the U.S. Third Army. The book follows Patton’s contributions to both the Normandy and Brittany campaigns—the closing of the Falaise Pocket in Normandy, and racing to the port cities in Brittany. It...
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Winnipeg: Jon Sigurdsson Chapter IODE, 1993. - 44 pgs. This supplement provides additional records of service men and women of Icelandic descent who served in the Second World War. This is a sequel to Minningarrit Islenzkar Hermanna , published by IODE in 1923, which contained records for the First World War. The present supplement contains records and corrections for World War...
Winnipeg: Jon Sigurdsson Chapter IODE, 1990. - 579 pgs. This book provides a record of service men and women of Icelandic descent who served in the Second World War. This is a sequel to Minningarrit Islenzkar Hermanna , published by IODE in 1923, which contains records for the First World War. The present book's first two sections contain the records of men and women in the armed...
Winnipeg: Jon Sigurdsson Chapter IODE, 1990. - 579 pgs. This book provides a record of service men and women of Icelandic descent who served in the Second World War. This is a sequel to Minningarrit Islenzkar Hermanna , published by IODE in 1923, which contains records for the First World War. The present book's first two sections contain the records of men and women in the armed...
Pegasus Books, 2016. — 456 p. In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze. Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 272 p. 'Fortresses must carry out the same tasks as the fortresses of old. They must allow themselves to be surrounded and thus tie down as many enemy forces as possible.' So Hitler directed in March 1944 and, in so doing, sealed the fate of Ternopol', Kovel', Poznan and Breslau, cities in the Ukraine and Poland that were in the path of the Red...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 250 p. In one of history’s most violent battles, Allied troops gathered along the shores of southern England, preparing for the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Facing them—from the Pas de Calais to Brittany—were German troops, dug in, waiting and preparing for the inevitable confrontation. History is often told from the perspective of the victors...
Frontline Books, 2015. — 256 p. This gripping volume charts the progress of the Allied breakout of Normandy through German eyes. Beginning with Operation COBRA and ending with the offensive which led to the liberation of Paris, this critical phase of the war in the west is examined and described by five senior German officers. From staff officers at OKW to divisional generals...
Pen and Sword Books, 2016. — 248 p. The Allied landings on the Normandy beaches in June 1944 were brilliantly executed but proved to be just the opening phase of a desperately fought battle. The German Army responded to the invasion with as much ferocity and force as it could muster, and turned the struggle into a brutal and prolonged campaign. These in-depth reports by German...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 228 p. This memoir is a masterly narrative by a participant at the very centre of British decision-making during the entire Second World War. Major General 'Pug' Ismay was appointed secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence in July 1938 and from there became, in May 1940, Churchill's senior military assistant and an additional member of...
Indiana University Press, 2007. - 408 p. Midway (04-07 June 1942), the most famous naval battle in American history, has been the subject of many excellent books. However, none satisfactorily explain why the Japanese lost that battle, given their overwhelming advantage in firepower. While no book may ever silence debate on the subject, Midway Inquest answers the central mystery of...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — 336 p. The epic story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy’s mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory. At the start of World War II, the US Army had two cavalry divisions—and no mountain troops. The German Wehrmacht, in contrast,...
Routledge, 1994. — 345 р. This collection of essays examines the development of Churchill and Hitler as strategic leaders and analyses in particular the impact of their formative years on their leadership styles, operational codes', views on civil-military relations, and approaches to the conduct of war at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Ultimately, victory depended...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 420 p. A new history of the long-overlooked WWII theater in Iran and Iraq, its unrecognized significance, and its impact on local society and politics This dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Contending that these two countries were more important to the Allied...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 451 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-22196-1 A new history of the long-overlooked WWII theater in Iran and Iraq, its unrecognized significance, and its impact on local society and politics This dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Contending that these two countries were more...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 224 p. November 1943: American flyer George Watt parachutes out of his burning warplane and lands in rural Nazi-occupied Belgium. Escape from Hitler's Europe is the incredible story of his getaway—how brave villagers spirited him to Brussels to connect with the Comet Line, a rescue arm of the Belgian resistance. This was a gravely dangerous...
University Press of Kentucky, 2021. — 310 p. Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced that supporting Chinese resistance against the continuing Japanese invasion would be crucial to an eventual Allied victory in World War II. Within two weeks of that fateful Sunday in...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 293 pages. — ISBN: 0192805509 The Fall of France in 1940 is one of the pivotal moments of the twentieth century. If the German invasion of France had failed, it is arguable that the war might have ended right there. But the French suffered instead a dramatic and humiliating defeat, a loss that ultimately drew the whole world into war. This...
London: Cassell & Co, 1972. - 264 pgs. During the first years of the war, the allied countries were being defeated at every turn. Nothing seemed to work for Poland, France or Britain and, in the Pacific, nothing seemed to work for the U.S. Robert Jackson's book covers these desperate days from the point of view of the RAF Bomber Command. Heading off to fight Nazi Germany in...
Endeavour Press, 2017. — 175 p. Courage of the air, from a valiant low-level attack by RAF bombers on the German fleet on the second day of the war to suicidal Ione dive against a Japanese destroyer by a Navy pilot when the war was almost over. The story of the Second World War is the story of ordinary people performing extraordinary feats, often with great courage. Nowhere was...
Smithmark Publishers, 1991. — 104 p. — ISBN: 978-0-831790-54-7. A study of World War II's great mysteries features tales of Churchill, Hitler, Bormann, Amelia Earhart, Leslie Howard, and Rudolph Hess.
Pen and Sword Books, 2016. — 228 p. The introduction of Italy into the Second World War on 10 June 1940 signalled the start of the siege of Malta, and for the next two and a half years the Axis powers did all they could to batter the small island into submission. Malta's defences were initially verging on non-existent but the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, could not...
Casemate, 2019. — 264 p. First published in 1958, this first German-perspective account of Dunkirk is available in English for the first time. The German Army invaded France on 10 May 1940, and in just over ten days their rapid advance, led by three panzer corps, had left three French field armies, Belgian forces and the British Expeditionary Force with their backs to the sea,...
Scribner, 2014. — 481 p. — ISBN 978-1-4516-1212-7 In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the accused. In December 1948, five of these defendants were hanged while four received sentences of life in prison. The tenth was a...
Publisher: Miroslaw Bily - MBI (Чехословакия); 2004 ; 145 pages.
В книге описаны военные сражения, ход проведения операций и используемая военная техника. Большое количество архивных фотографий и справочных материалов.
Grub Street Publishers, 2012. — 255 p. In the spring of 1941, on an airfield fifty-five miles from Baghdad, a group of RAF airmen and soldiers were outnumbered by the better equipped Iraqi forces—soldiers who were aided by the Germans and Italians. After thirty days, this battle resulted in the first real defeat of the Axis powers in World War II. Hitler’s Gulf War presents the...
Bretwalda Books, 2016. — 28 p. The most famous raid of the Second World War and the subject of perhaps the greatest war movie ever made - the Dambusters. This great raid of 1943 marked the pinnacle of precision bombing by the RAF during the war. The dropping of the bombs called for enormous skill and expertise by the aircrew on the raid, while getting to these targets deep...
Routledge, 2000. — 464 p. This is the second volume of the classified history of air defence in Great Britain. Written while World War II was still being fought, the account has an analysis of the defensive tactics of Fighter Command, and attempts a day-by-day analysis of the action as it took place.
Department of Army, India, 1945. — 85 p. This Section is intended to cover all Japanese Small Arms Ammunition and Aircraft Cannon cartridges up to 25-mm. calibre. Cartridges of calibres above 25-mm. will be dealt with in Section E, under Gun Ammunition.
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 320 p. On 22 May 1940 Alec Jay arrived in Calais with his Battalion, the Queen Victoria Rifles. After four days of intense fighting, he was taken prisoner of war along with those of his colleagues who were not killed. The Calais Garrison was not evacuated. His situation as a POW was exceptionally perilous as he was a Jew. Made to wear distinctive...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. — 357 p. In the autumn of 1944, as Patton's army paraded through Paris, another Allied force was gathering in southern Italy. Spearheaded by over 100,000 American troops, this vast, international army was faced with a grim task - break The Gothic Line, a series of interconnected German fortifications that stretched across the mountains of northern...
Casemate, 2017. — 304 p. George VI’s biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote “The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the first week of July 1942.” This book argues that it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at about 21.00 hrs. on 2 July 1942, when Rommel’s tanks withdrew for the first time since the fall of Tobruk...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 384 p. The fire-bombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre.Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and the motivation for the attack have become...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 672 p. Operation Crusader, launched in November 1941, was the third and final British attempt to relieve the siege of Tobruk and break the German and Italian forces in North Africa. After tough initial fighting, the British made important gains, only to be countered by a stunning breakthrough overseen personally by Lt. General Erwin Rommel. As the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 672 p. Operation Crusader, launched in November 1941, was the third and final British attempt to relieve the siege of Tobruk and break the German and Italian forces in North Africa. After tough initial fighting, the British made important gains, only to be countered by a stunning breakthrough overseen personally by Lt. General Erwin Rommel. As the...
Da Capo Press, 1998. — 327 p. The renowned author of The London Blitz and V for Vengeance, brings fresh insight and new sources to this compelling account of World War II's most famous air campaign, including the true origin of many “Canadian” pilots in the RAF, whose true nationality was disguised due to United States neutrality early in the war.
Prometheus Books, 2015. — 281 p. This is the story of American volunteer pilots who risked their lives in defense of Britain during the earliest days of World War II—more than a year before Pearl Harbor, when the United States first became embroiled in the global conflict. Based on interviews, diaries, personal documents, and research in British, American, and German archives, the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 384 p. When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns and cities across the country, and fifty divisions of the Wehrmacht crossed the border. Yet only two decades earlier, at the end of World War One, Germany had been an utterly and abjectly...
London: Routledge, 2006. — 414 p. This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unpublished photographs, interviews with veterans, newly commissioned maps and new translations of Japanese sources, this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for the Pacific. Detailing the...
Westholme Publishing, 2011. — 255 p. Following their attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines, the Japanese invaded New Guinea in early 1942 as part of their attempt to create a Pacific empire. Control of New Guinea would enable Japan to establish large army, air force, and naval bases in close proximity to Australia. The Australians, with American...
CUP, 2013. — 272 p. Anzacs in the Middle East is a compelling exploration of the experiences of soldiers who fought in the Middle East during World War II. Spurred by a sense of adventure and duty, they set sail to countries of which they knew very little. The book examines the relationships between Australians and their allies, and also how they related to the local people:...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 323 p. In this book I weave together two hugely important parts of twentieth century historiography: the Second World War and the British Empire. The transformation of the UK—from standing ‘alone’ against the rampant Axis powers in the summer of 1940 to a victorious Allied nation in 1945— has been the focus of much debate. Scholars have explained...
John Murray (Publishers), 2015. — Ebook ISBN: 978-1-84854-497-0. May 2015 will be the seventieth anniversary of VE-Day in Europe. For many, in the Allied armed forces and among the civilians who supported the war effort, it will be a last opportunity to connect with a vitally important achievement – the overthrow of Hitler and the Nazi regime. We remember those who sacrificed...
The Brown Reference Group, 2004. — 225 p. Abbreviations ND Preparations for War The spymasters Easy victories The Island Fortress The neutral background War without mercy Special operations The Worldwide web Other services The secret war within Footnotes End notes and sources
Shanti Publishing, 2015. — 284 p. World War II Turning Points is an alternative history of mankind's most crucial military struggle. As such, it does not regurgitate the same, all-too-familiar versions of the past, consistently repeated by mainstream scholars since 1945. Instead, this unconventional revision is the result of newly-discovered and often neglected information...
Wiltshire: Helion and Company, 2006. — 144 p. — ISBN-10 1874622213; ISBN-13 978-1874622215. When the Japanese Empire went to war with the Allies in December 1941, it had already been fighting in China for 10 years. During that time it had conquered huge areas of China, and subjugated millions of people. The Japanese needed to control the Chinese population in these occupied...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 239 p. The Norwegian campaign, fought in 1940, early in the Second World War in Europe, is overshadowed by the campaign in Poland that preceded it and the German blitzkrieg in the Low Countries and France that followed, yet it was a close contest from the military point of view and it had a far-reaching impact on the rest of the war. Philip...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 240 p. A visual record of all the armies involved in the Battle for Burma during the Second World War from the British, American, Chinese, Indian, Burmese Tribal forces as well as the Japanese Imperial Army. The battle for Burma during the Second World War was of vital importance to the Allies and the Japanese. The Allies fought to protect...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 238 p. — ISBN 978-1-52677-527-6. The battle for Burma during the Second World War was of vital importance to the Allies and the Japanese. The Allies fought to protect British India and force the Japanese out of Burma; the Japanese fought to defend the north-west flank of their newly conquered empire and aimed to strike at India where anti-British...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 497 p. Ernst Jünger was one of twentieth-century Germany’s most important―and most controversial―writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war’s horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, Jünger faithfully kept...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 344 p. — ISBN 978 978 1 52674 103 5. When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, it quickly established a blockade around Leningrad that would become one of the longest and most destructive in history. In an attempt to break the blockade in 1943, the Red Army launched an offensive near the town of Krasny Bor. Previous works on the Battle...
Read How You Want, 2017. — 459 p. For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939. After a great deal of hardship, he joins the Polish Resistance and eventually, in 1941, is sent to Dresden, Germany, to take up Underground activities there. Armed with false papers, he works at various jobs, maintains a clandestine...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 299 p. Philip Kaplan presents us here with a riveting account of the Allied experience behind enemy lines, detailing the trials and tribulations experienced by the British and American airmen who were shot down in European skies during World War Two, to be incarcerated 'behind the wire' in enemy camps. With eloquence and a clear enthusiasm for the subject at...
Penn and Sword Books, 2007. — 229 p. This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary German fighter aces of World War II. It explains why only a small minority of pilots - those in whom the desire for combat overrode everything - accounted for so large a proportion of the victories. It surveys the skills that a successful fighter pilot must have - a natural...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 256 p. I do not think that Malan could join a squadron without improving it, however good it was. Not by sword waving, but by a strength of mind and integrity that are at once recognizable and effective...he was the best pilot of the War' – Air Commodore Al Deere, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C. Malan was thirty years of age during the Battle of Britain, old for a...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2013. — 144 p. After its attack on Poland in 1939, Britain and France had declared war on Germany. The Germans were suddenly in a war they had risked and now had to fight, and they planned an invasion of Britain to destroy that enemy's potential for making war. The plan, Operation Sea Lion, called for implementation by the autumn of 1940 and depended on...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 192 р. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1783036387. The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power of the world's greatest navies beginning late in the nineteenth century and continuing into the Second World War. So historically important was this vessel that the arms race between Britain and Germany to build navies with larger, more...
Routledge, 2016. — 202 p. In 1944, the British Fourteenth Army and the Japanese Fifteenth Army clashed around the town of Imphal, Manipur, in North East India in what has since been described as one of the greatest battles of the Second World War. Over 200,000 soldiers from several nations fought in the hills and valley of Manipur on the India–Burma (Myanmar) frontier. This...
Stackpole Books, 2017. — 384 p. After bitter debate, South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire at the time, declared war on Germany five days after the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Thrust by the British into the campaign against Erwin Rommel’s German Afrika Korps in North Africa, the South Africans fought a see-saw war of defeats followed by successes, culminating...
Simon and Schuster, 2010. — 288 p. In September 1943, the German army marched into Rome, beginning an occupation that would last nine months until Allied forces liberated the ancient city. During those 270 days, clashing factions -- the occupying Germans, the Allies, the growing resistance movement, and the Pope -- contended for control over the destiny of the Eternal City. In...
Da Capo Press, 2002. — 432 p. The Maginot Line and the Atlantic Wall are, perhaps, the most famous World War II-era fortification lines in Europe, but in fact, most European countries built fortified defensive lines throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Forts, bunkers, and defensive lines are found throughout the continent, including Central and Eastern Europe....
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 743 p. Hitler's Atlantic Wall, the complex system of coastal fortifications that stretched from Norway to the Spanish border during the Second World War, was built to defend occupied Europe from Allied invasion. Many of its principal structures survive and can be visited today, and this book is an authoritative guide to them. The wall, which was...
Praeger Security International, 2006. — 200 p. The Maginot Line was the last great gun-bearing line of subterranean forts built before World War II. Although it acquired an unjustified reputation as a white elephant, the Maginot Line fulfilled the role for which it was built, allowing the French High Command the opportunity to mass its forces and counter the German invasion....
London: HarperPress, 2010. — 548 p. Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border with Burma, a tiny force of British and Indian troops faced the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. Outnumbered ten to one, the defenders fought the Japanese hand to hand in a battle that was amongst the most savage in modern warfare. An empire at bay The longest road At the edge of the...
New York: Random House, 1995. - 128 pgs. This is a wonderful bibliographic essay in which John Keegan points to what he considers the most important books on the Second World War. Anybody interested in the conflict will want to consult Keegan's list as they add to their personal libraries. Keegan also lays out the war's historiography, pointing out how much still is not known...
Random House, 2011. — 416 p. The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated. In this masterly and highly individual account of that struggle, the reader is subjected to the gruelling ordeals confronted by the combatants -...
Routledge, 2001. — 190 p. Noted historian John Keegan masterfully brings together more than 300 of the most important and key characters (generals, admirals and politicians) from all over the world to provide the most useful one-stop reference on WWII.
Wiley, 2002. — 400 p. An almost bullet-by-bullet, shell-by-shell account, Meeting theFox offers riveting personal experiences from those who fought the Axis forces during the desperate campaign for North Africa. As their unproven commanders struggled to match wits with the wily Desert Fox, 100,000 poorly equipped, undertrained, and inexperienced GIs battled their way across...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1987. — 64 p. — (Warships Illustrated №09). Иллюстрированное множеством фотографий и аннотированных к ним подробных комментариев журнальное издание описывает формирование, командование и прохождение знаменитых Северных Конвоев в СССР (в Мурманск и Архангельск) с грузами союзников по "ленд-лизу" во время Великой Отечественной Войны (1941-1945).
Koehler Books, 2018. — 255 p. On the morning of June 6, 1944, twenty-two-year-old Lieutenant Frank L. Kennard led a Ranger cannon platoon onto Omaha Beach, losing his equipment and half his men. He and his seven remaining men went on to overcome enormous odds to achieve their objective at Pointe du Hoc. Less than one month later, Kennard became the battalion adjutant and served...
Warszawa: RM, 2015. — 456 s. Wodzowie, nawet genialni i operatywni, sami nie wygrają wojny. Ta książka pozwala docenić wysiłek wojenny ludzi drugiego planu, których profesjonalizm i pomysłowość pozwoliły aliantom powstrzymać, a w ostateczności pokonać armię Hitlera i jego koalicjantów.
Rosetta Books, 2014. — 212 p. Japan had mighty ambitions—to control the Western Pacific. The attack on Pearl Harbor devastated the American Pacific fleet, their primary obstacle, and they swept across the region. What ensued was a bitter struggle in which many thousands of soldiers lost their lives on both sides. This is the first book in Paul Kennedy’s chronicle of the Pacific...
Washington: Department of The Army, 1956. — 77 p. The German attack on Poland precipitated World War II, making the Polish campaign one of particular significance to the student of the 1939 s conflict. The lessons learned by the German Army in its operations in Poland were put to use in the later campaigns against the western Allies, the Balkan states, and the Soviet Union. Poland...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 239 p. They were volunteers to a man. These were the airborne troops who dropped into enemy territory ahead of any others, pinpointing the Drop Zone by means of a radio marker. They would then prepare the ground for the main forces that would follow. Once they had marked out the Drop Zones, they then had to defend them, whatever the odds. The...
Kent State University Press, 2011. — 286 p. An extraordinary memoir of an aviator's service in the Pacific Theater — "If you're looking for macho, fighting-man talk, you've picked up the wrong book. This is just an honest narration of some of my experiences during my service in the U.S. Army between 1940 and 1945." —Raymond C. Kerns — The son of a Kentucky tobacco farmer,...
Sterling Publishing; First Edition, 2011. — 192 p. — ISBN-10 1907446648, ISBN-13 978-1907446641 A Nazi scheme to capture the Pope, an IRA plan to invade Northern Ireland, a British plan to attack the Soviet Union after the defeat of Hitler or a Japanese seizure of the Panama Canal – it may sound unbelievable, but during World War II these operations and others as seemingly...
Marshall Cavendish Promotions Ltd., 1975. — 64 p. This is a special supplement to the Marshall Cavendish series on World War II. It covers the fighting in North Africa between the British on one side and the Italians and Germans on the other. Special attention is paid to the tanks used, the tactics, and the influence of air power.
Simon and Schuster, 2019. — 384 p. Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows ten men attempting to carry out D-Day's most critical missions. Their actions would determine the fate of the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe. The ten make a charismatic, unforgettable cast. They include the first American paratrooper to touch down on Normandy soil;...
Not Avail, 2014. — 552 p. From the author of the best-selling "The Bedford Boys," the remarkable story of America's most decorated platoon that miraculously halted Hitler's massive offensive at the Battle of the Bulge during the decisive war's winter from 1944 to 1945 year.
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 352 p. The British evacuation from the beaches of the small French port town of Dunkirk is one of the iconic moments of military history. The battle has captured the popular imagination through LIFE magazine photo spreads, the fiction of Ian McEwan and, of course, Christopher Nolan's hugely successful Hollywood blockbuster. But what is the German view...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 352 p. The British evacuation from the beaches of the small French port town of Dunkirk is one of the iconic moments of military history. The battle has captured the popular imagination through LIFE magazine photo spreads, the fiction of Ian McEwan and, of course, Christopher Nolan's hugely successful Hollywood blockbuster. But what is the German view...
Casemate Publishers, 2011. — 208 p. Surgeon at Arms is without doubt one of the most interesting and dramatic personal memoirs to come out of the Second World War. The author, a surgeon, was parachuted into Arnhem with the First Airborne Division. His professional skill was at once tested to the limit and the modest detachment with which he describes serious operations...
Nebraska: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 98 pgs. Recollections of one man's experiences in the U.S. Army's horse cavalry at Fort Riley later in the China-Burma-India theater. The author, now 89, learned to ride with the reservist cavalry at Fort Omaha at the age of 12. When WWII broke out he enlisted and was sent to Ft. Riley. Already trained in weapons...
Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 159 p. Just eight square miles in size, the Japanese island of Iwo Jima lies some 750 miles due south of Tokyo. Following a preparatory air and naval bombardment which lasted for many weeks, it was there, on the morning of Monday, 19 February 1945, that U.S. Marines launched Operation Detachment, their aim being the capture of the entire island...
Touchstone, 2013. - 400 р.
The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history.
The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project’s secret cities, it didn’t appear on any maps until 1949, and yet at the height of World War II...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1986. — 295 p. British Imperial Economic Policy During the War. Labour Mobilisation in British Colonial Africa for the War Effort, 1939–1946. The Depression and the Second World War in the Transformation of Kenya. The Impact of the Second World War on Tanganyika, 1939–1949. The Impact of the Second World War: the Case of Kweneng in the then Bechuanaland...
James Currey, 2010. — 289 p. During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 104 p. On 9 September 1943 the United States Fifth Army landed at Salerno, commencing a lengthy and costly campaign that would transit the Italian Peninsula. Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark commanded this army. His many supporters, including Winston Churchill and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, considered him a brilliant staff officer and...
Createspace Independent Publishing, 2015. — 245 p. During the 75 years that have now passed since the end of the grand history-altering event known as World War II, only a single narrative of the great conflict has been heard. It is a story which the architects of the New World Order have implanted, no, Pounded into the minds of three subsequent generations. Every medium of...
Sirius, 2021. — 356 p. A gripping account of the Allied liberation of Western Europe, masterfully told by Emmy-award winning writer and historian Martin King. Through the autumn of 1944, Allied troops made their way across Nazi-occupied Europe, liberating towns and villages as they went. Driving Back the Nazis explores this process of liberation, from the arrival of Allied...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 208 p. An infantry company commander in the U.S. Army's heralded 1st Infantry Division, Capt. Joseph Turner Dawson led his men through some of the most brutal battles of World War II. From the invasion of North Africa in late 1942 through Sicily and the assault on Normandy to the push toward the German frontier late in 1944, his length of service...
London: Brassey's, 1992. — 236 p. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the building of the Burma-Siam Railway, this book examines the episode in its strategic, logistic and manpower contexts. Its purposes, planning, construction and ultimate contribution to Japan's overall strategy are assessed from the perspective not only of the Japanese soldiers and the Allied...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 390 p. The British campaign in Norway in 1940 was an ignominious and abject failure. It is perhaps best known as the fiasco which directly led to the fall of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his replacement by Winston Churchill. But what were the reasons for failure? Why did the decision makers, including Churchill, make such poor...
Crown Publishing Group, 2002. — 309 p. The remarkable untold story of France's courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country's most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II. "To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine."--Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d'Argent In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost...
Aachen: Helios-Verlag, 2015. — 391 s. — ISBN: 978-3-86933-127-0 Vor 70 Jahren kehrte der furchtbarste Krieg der Menschheitsgeschichte auf deutsches Staatsgebiet zurück. Im Westen hatten die alliierten Truppen die Reichsgrenze überschritten und drangen unaufhaltsam vor. Im Osten erreichten die Truppen der Roten Armee während einer mächtigen Angriffsoperation bis zu 500 Kilometer...
New York: The Free Press; Macmillan Inc., 1991. — 344 p. — ISBN: 0-02-917425-2. Foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Translated by Deborah Burnstone The title "The Good Old Days" ("Schone Zeiten" in German) comes from the cover of a private photo album kept by concentration camp commandant Kurt Franz of Treblinka. This gruesomely sentimental and unmistakably authentic title...
The History Press, 2011. — 192 p. The battle to keep the nation fed during the Second World War was waged by an army of workers on the land and the resourcefulness of the housewives on the Kitchen Front. The rationing of food, clothing, and other substances played a big part in making sure that everyone had a fair share of whatever was available. In this fascinating book,...
The History Press, 2015. — 208 p. The first book to focus on the men behind the headlines of the famous "Trio" of World War II reporting. Trio tells the story of three war correspondents, two Englishmen and an Australian, all in their thirties, whose friendship was forged during World War II. They became so close that their colleagues dubbed them "The Trio," sometimes out of...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 385 p. This book explores the motives, preparation, objectives, contact and consequences of Italy's war of 1940, which ended the country's role as a great power and reduced it to the status of first among Germany's satellites. What Professor Knox demonstrates more clearly than any previous biographer or historian is the limits of Mussolini's...
New York: Penguin Press, 2009. — 386 p. An epic saga of hubris , cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of World War II. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his white commanding officers, found solace in opium and marijuana. But on one fateful day, Perry shot...
Wydawnictwo „Książka i Wiedza", Warszawa 2003 Wydanie pierwsze Obj. ark. druk. 29,25 + 1 ark. wid. ilustr. Описание участия скандинавских стран в Великой отечественной войне, их роль в поддержке Германии. Книга издана на польском языке.
Liveright, 2017. — 252 p. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 422 p. Of all the resistance organizations that operated during the war, about which much has been written, one stands out for its transnational character, the diversity of the tasks its members took on, and the fact that, unlike many of the known evasion lines, it was not directed by Allied officers, but rather by group of ordinary citizens....
Casemate Publishers, 2013. — 504 p. Hell’s Highway is a history, most of which has never before been written. It is adventure recorded by those who lived it and put into context by an author who was also there. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told through the personal stories of 612 contributors of written and oral accounts of the Screaming Eagles’ part in the attempt...
New York: Stein and Day, 1979. — 338 p. Discloses the full story of the United States' handling of nearly a half million Nazi prisoners in POW camps throughout the country, documenting cases of mass escapes, murders, and political demonstrations. From capture to camp Life behind barbed wire The labor program Escapes Wrestling for the tiller Hearts and minds, 1945 "Thank God...
Warszawa: Bellona, 1996. — 235 s. Spis treści Słowo wstępne Po klęsce Francji Stan obrony powietrznej Wielkiej Brytanii Agresor Preludium Pierwsza faza powietrznej bitwy o Wielką Brytanię: 10 lipca-7 sierpnia 1940 roku Druga faza bitwy: 8 - 23 sierpnia Trzecia faza bitwy: 24 sierpnia - 6 września Czwarta faza bitwy: 7 - 30 września Piąta faza bitwy: 1 - 31 października Nasz...
Издательство: Wydawnictwo Militaria (Militaria 03); Год издания: 1993; Язык: польский ; Страниц: 76; Изображения: цветные и черно-белые фото, цветные рисунки Politically German's European allies were rather strange of bad-fellows only common bond was their attitude towards the Soviet Union. Finland was a parliamentary democracy, Hungary was democratic too, (only with vacant...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 255 p. War is far more than a series of military victories and defeats. Civilians always are the biggest victims and there are often staggering imbalances between casualties on the front lines, and those behind; between the victims and the aggressors. According to recent figures, The Second World War saw the deaths of an estimated 72 million...
Continuum, 2012. — 457 p. Some of the worst military disasters in U.S. history occurred between Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. During this period, the American people faced a barrage of bad news and accounts of defeats and retreats. Yet if they were shocked and dismayed, they showed little panic. Indomitable Will resurrects the legacy of...
Stackpole Books, 2010. — 257 p. This action-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II covers one of the most famous military units of all time under one of the best German's Army commanders.
Stackpole Books, 2011. — 240 p. - Story of one of the best and most battered armored divisions in the German armed forces - Follows the division from Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge to the end of the war - How Germans fought Americans at St. Lô and Bastogne - Includes numerous firsthand accounts based on interviews with veterans - Features Kurowski's trademark you-are-there...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 370 p. In this action-packed account appearing for the first time in English Franz Kurowski straps readers into the harness with German paratroopers, the elite Fallschirmjager, as they jump into the inferno of combat in World War II. When the war erupted, airborne troops joined nose-diving Stukas and thundering panzers as a crucial and fearsome part...
Stackpole Books, 2010. — 337 p. Action-packed stories of legendary tank soldiers in combat You-are-there approach lets readers relive the experiences of German panzer crews First time in English With the same drama and attention to detail that made Panzer Aces and Panzer Aces II such thrilling reads, Franz Kurowski tells the stories of more German armored officers during World War...
Stackpole Books, 2004. — 460 p. With speed, violence, and deadly power, heavily armored tanks spearheaded the German blitzkrieg that stormed across Europe in 1939. Tracks rattling and engines roaring, these lethal machines engaged in some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, from the beaches of Normandy and the Ardennes forest to the snow-encrusted eastern front. In this...
Da Capo Press, 1993. — 386 p. In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the Jews were not dying swiftly enough to suit Heinrich Himmler, who ordered in 1942 that the Warsaw Ghetto be dismantled and the 450,000 inhabitants be...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 414 p. — ISBN 978-0-674-72891-2 The Japanese Army committed numerous atrocities during its pitiless campaigns in China from 1931 to 1945. When the Chinese emerged victorious with the Allies at the end of World War II, many seemed ready to exact retribution for these crimes. Rather than resort to violence, however, they chose to deal with their...
Oregon State University Press, 2017. — 400 p. The Long Shadows is the first book-length work to offer global perspectives on the environmental history of World War II. Based on long-term research, the selected articles represent the best available studies in different fields and countries. With contributions touching on Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, the book has a truly...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 302 p. Faithful Warriors is a memoir of World War II in the Pacific by Lt. Col. Dean Ladd, USMC (Ret.), a combat veteran of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. Written with award-winning author Steven Weingartner, Col. Ladd s book chronicles his experiences as a junior officer in some of the fiercest fighting of the war, during the...
Endeavour Press, 2017. — 547 p. This remarkable study of Montgomery and his campaigns, from Sicily to the German surrender on Lüneburg Heath, provides the most authoritative verdict on a man whose position, character and actions were central to the final defeat of Nazi Germany, but which also brought a fair measure of disaster. As the author shows, the battles Montgomery fought...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 264 p. After Adolf Hitler made plans to create a “model protectorate” out of Denmark, Winston Churchill predicted that the nation would become the Führer’s tame canary. Isolated from the Allies and fueled only by a sense of human decency and national pride, the Danes created an extraordinary resistance movement that proved a relentless thorn in the...
Skyhorse, 2017. — 288 p. In this fascinating book, more relevant than ever in today's political climate of "fake news" and "alternative facts," bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande presents WWII as a drama staged and overseen by four contrasting masters: Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin. Each man had his own script for elaborately produced campaigns of...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 296 p. — ISBN-10: 1403932204; ISBN-13: 978-1403932204. Germany in 1945 was crammed with millions of people displaced by war, deportation, Nazi slave labour, and flight before the advance of the Red Army. Many of them, including Poles and the Baltic peoples of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, refused to return to their communist-controlled...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 224 p. Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretense of protecting him. Their real reason was to turn him into cannon-fodder for use against Hitler’s enemies. Deployed to the collapsing Eastern Front in the last days of the war, Willi, now aged fourteen, and his schoolmates were ordered to stave...
New Page Books, 2001. — 335 p. Everyone knows who were the most famous people of World War II. But who were the most influential? Whose words and deeds had the greatest impact on that war, before, during, or afterward? The most famous individuals of the war like Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hirohito, Adolf Hitler are examined. In addition, there...
Greenwood Press, 1999. — 449 p. An all-encompassing book with more than a thousand quotations, this work breathes life into an era unprecedented in world history. Covering all aspects of the war, the volume includes more than 300 individuals from the Allies, the Axis, and the neutrals. It quotes the major political leaders, including Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt, and Stalin, and...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 500 p. This in-depth historical study reveals fascinating new insight into the famous Wooden Horse escape of three Allied POWs from a Nazi prison camp. In 1943, three British prisoners of war plotted a daring and ingenious escape from Stalag Luft III by making use of a hollowed-out gymnastic vaulting horse. A year before the events of The Great...
An Archival Survey. — Finnish Literature Society, The National Archives of Finland. Helsinki, 2019. In the spring of 1941, Finland began to recruit volunteers to serve in the German Waffen-SS. After the perils of the Winter War of 1939-40, the Finnish government and the military high command wanted support against the continuing existential threat posed by the Soviet Union, even...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 247 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-19506-5. The Chinese peoples' experience of war during the Second World War, as it is known in the West, was one of suffering and stoicism in the face of dreadful conditions. China's War of Resistance began in 1937 with the Japanese invasion and ended in 1945 after eight long years. Diana Lary, one of the foremost...
Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2004. — 191 p. Following the German counterattack at Mortain on August 7, 1944, Generals Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery decided to engage in a wide encircling movement, to trap the enemy divisions that were trying to advance westward. On August 8, American XV Corps entered Le Mans then advanced rapidly northward. Meanwhile, Montgomery had broken the...
John Murray Publishers, 2005. — 610 p. The Burma campaign of WW2 - marked by extremes, contradictions and harsh brutality - is fascinatingly brought to life in this comprehensive military history Through festering jungle and across burning plains to high mountains and lazy rivers, the Burma campaign of the Second World War involved the longest retreat in British history, and...
John Murray Publishers, 2021. — 632 p. The Burma campaign of the Second World War was marked by extremes, contradictions and harsh brutality. Over festering jungle, burning plains and high mountains it involved the longest retreat in British history, vicious hand-to-hand fighting, and the horrors of forced labour. Jon Latimer’s gripping narrative charts this extraordinary...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. — 462 p. It has long been accepted wisdom that Germany's infantrymen possessed superior tactical ability relative to their Anglo-American adversaries in World War II. Now, drawing on newly available information, Stephen Lauer unpacks that assumption, exploring the conscription, classification, and training methods of the US, British, and German...
University of Alabama Press, 2007. — 378 p. The 94th U.S. Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings - with unfortunate consequences for mutual trust and respect. Initially used as part of the force blockading the...
Stackpole Books, 2011. — 336 p. The unexpected arrival of Soviet troops at the end of January 1945 at the ancient fortress and garrison town of Küstrin came as a tremendous shock to the German High Command-the Soviets were now only 50 miles from Berlin itself. The Red Army needed the vital road and rail bridges passing through Küstrin for their forthcoming assault on the capital,...
University Press of Kentucky, 1988. — 320 p. They were the forgotten commanders of World War II. While the names of Bradley and Patton became household words for Americans, few could identify Krueger or Eichelberger. They served under General Douglas MacArthur, a military genius with an enormous ego who dominated publicity from the Southwest Pacific during the American advance...
Casemate Publishers, 2011. — 255 p. When the author was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942 he had no reason to expect special treatment. Instead, because he was a typist and draftsman, he was grabbed up by an outfit desperately in need of those skills. It was the G-3 (Operations) Section of the 82nd Airborne. Len Lebenson thus gained a ringside seat for some of the greatest...
Bantam Books, 2010. — 832 p. — ISBN: 978-0-553-90824-4. Maps. Part One: The Challenge. Part Two: Alone. Part Three: At Bay. Part Four: Crisis. Part Fife: Crux.
Bantam, 2010. — 464 p. From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal. From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of...
Harper Collins, 1989. — 519 p. This is a non-fiction book about World War II written by Robert Leckie, an American author of popular books on the military history of the United States. Each chapter of this book is a biography, yet a narrative runs through the book. The narrative is the history of World War II. The characters appear in the book as they rise to importance in the...
Penguin Books, 1996. — 459 p.— ISBN: 978-1-101-19629-8. Why Okinawa? Japan at Bay The Divine Wind The Japanese Samurai The First Blood for America Kamikaze Strike /Franklin Ordeal The " Americans " Love Day The Marines Overrun the World " Floating Chrysantemus " Fiere Failure at Kakazu Ridge Back to Banzai! Kikusui 2: Kamikaze Crucible Uncle Sam: Logistic Magician Hodge's...
Da Capo Press, 1997. — 576 p. Strong Men Armed relates the U.S. Marines' unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during World War II, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, detailing their struggle to dislodge from heavily fortified islands an entrenched enemy who had vowed to fight to extinction—and did. (All but three of the Marines' victories required the complete...
Ibooks, Inc., 2004. — 176 p. Iwo Jima (1945) is one of the most famous battles in World War II, and the greatest battle fought by the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. From that battle came the most famous image of the war, the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi. Robert Leckie, the bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow has written an extraordinary story of one of the...
I.B. Tauris, 2009. — 272 p. A powerful and unique study of the realities and long-term impact of occupation, Mussolini’s Greek Island reveals the Italian dictator’s imperial vision, the mechanisms of Italian occupation and its tragic consequences. The small island of Syros is a vital entry-point illuminating Italian imperialism--its ethos, fascist connection, pretension and...
Naval Institute Press, 2006. — 255 p. All major theaters are covered and each action is analyzed in this detailed look at what it was really like to fight at the sharp end during World War II. While some authorities maintain that only twenty-five percent of all combat soldiers fired their weapons at the enemy because of the innate human reluctance to take another's life, and...
Greenhill Books, 2020. — 224 p. In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch coast rose up and slaughtered their German masters. Hitler ordered the island to be retaken and fighting continued for weeks, well after the war's end. The uprising had it origins in the bloody history of Georgia in the twentieth century,...
Oslo, 1943. — 161 p. Фотоальбом на тематику добровольцев 5-й дивизии СС "Викинг" из Норвегии на Восточном фронте. Издан органом пропаганды коллаборационистского правительства Видкуна Квислинга в Осло в 1943 г.
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 272 p. Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered barbarous—submarine attacks against civilian...
April 19, 2006. — 110 p. There are many different types of infantry troops. And different types of infantry units. Grenades and Explosives. Explosive charges – generally with melenite. Mine Warfare Equipment. Anti-personnel mines. Flamethrowers. Mortars. Infantry guns. Anti-tank guns. Mountain Artillery. AA Artillery. Field artillery. Characteristics of several guns.
Berghahn Books, 2016. — 318 p. Following their occupation by the Third Reich, Warsaw and Minsk became home to tens of thousands of Germans. In this exhaustive study, Stephan Lehnstaedt provides a nuanced, eye-opening portrait of the lives of these men and women, who constituted a surprisingly diverse population ― including everyone from SS officers to civil servants, as well as...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 417 p. Operation KE explores the air combat that attended the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943 - a topic which has hitherto received very little attention. Operation KE was successful largely because Japanese strategic planning and tactical execution was basically sound. The traditional view holds that the Japanese got away with the...
Frontline Books, 2011. — 205 p. In July 1942, Major Gordon Lett was taken prisoner at the fall of Tobruk. After fourteen months in the notorious prison camps at Bari and Chieti, he escaped at the Armistice of September 1943 from the camp at Veano and took to the mountains above the Cisa Pass. Rather than return to England, he founded and led an entirely non-political band of...
Potomac Books, 2012. — 348 p. From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide is a history of the critical campaigns of World War II that highlights the “visible” turning point battles of the war in 1942 and 1943. By focusing not only on what happened but also on why, Alan Levine’s in-depth approach to the subject questions whether the Axis ever had any hope of winning the war. As...
Greenwood Publishing, 1992. — 235 p. This book is the only full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany published in the last twenty years, and is the only one that treats the British and the Americans with parity. Much of what Levine writes about British operations will be unfamiliar to American readers. He has stressed the importance of winning air...
Praeger, 2000. — 236 p. A brief, yet complete history of the Allied campaign for the liberation of Europe from the Normandy invasion to the surrender of Germany, this study describes not only what happened, but why it happened. While an enormous amount has been written about this campaign, most of it focuses upon a single army or an individual battle. This book stresses a true...
Pen and Sword, 2003. — 208 p. Well-adapted to its environment and with its passionate sense of self-identity and inner unity, the Afrika Korps was a smooth-functioning and militarily efficient fighting force. Since it had the social characteristics of a well-ordered family, Ronald Lewin has written this book as a biography. From February 1941 when Rommel arrived in Tunisia, the...
Avonmore Books, 2013. — 368 p. When the Pacific war began it was a case of “when not if” Darwin would be attacked. But nobody could have predicted the extraordinary scale and ferocity of the 19 February 1942 raid. A massive strike force, blooded at Pearl Harbor just weeks before, hit Darwin in the biggest Japanese air attack ever in the South Pacific. Since then, generations of...
Mondadori, 1997 - 954 pagine, ISBN: 8804421517 Ricostruzione dell'ultimo conflitto mondiale nella complessa contraddittorieta' dei suoi sviluppi militari, in un quadro estremamente accurato e specifico ad opera del sommo storico militare britannico.
Pan Books, 2011. — 848 p. First published in the year after his death in 1970, Liddell Hart's "History of the Second World War" is a classic military tome from one of the best military strategists of his generation. With his distinctive voice, he covers the most famous of all wars with steering insight and authoritative knowledge of tactics and strategy. Few have attempted to...
W. Morrow, 1971. — 188 p. The German Generals who survived Hitler's Reich talk over World War II with Capt. Liddell Hart, noted British military strategist and writer. They speak as professional soldiers to a man they know and respect. For the first time, answers are revealed to many questions raised during the war. Was Hitler the genius of strategy he seemed to be at first?...
Pen and Sword, 2004. — 224 p. Drawing upon a new international archive of the Second World War, the support of veterans world-wide and from archives overseas, the author uses previously unpublished letters, diaries, photographs and reminiscences to tell the story of D-Day in a way which brings the reader closer to the actual experience. from an aerial, naval and land...
The History Press, 2016. — 288 p. The Battle for Hong Kong, 1941-1945 is illuminated by the remarkable personal story of John Harris. An architectural student, he was pitched into battle as a subaltern in the Royal Engineers and was a prisoner of the Japanese for four years. His powerful testimonial describes the appalling struggle to survive in a Japanese prison camp....
US War Department, 1950. Halder F. - Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Command of the German Army (OKH). This journal comprises seven volumes covering the dates 14 August 1939 to 24 September 1942, the date of Halder's dismissal by Hitler. Kept by Halder personally in shorthand it contains notes on conferences, memoranda, staff talks, lectures, reports, etc., as they...
CatMatDog Storytelling, 2021. — 1015. — ISBN 978-0-6453280-4-2. In the hours before the Fall of Singapore in February 1942, the British Military Hospital Alexandra found itself isolated in a no-man’s-land between the Japanese and Allied frontlines. This is the definitive account of what happened next, resulting in up to 300 soldier-patients, nurses, orderlies and doctors being...
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1951. — 416 p. FOR this factually accurate and technically correct account of operations of United States submarines in the Pacific in World War II no more appropriate tide could have been chosen than Sink 'Em All, a statement easily confirmed by the record. As British airmen are credited with saving Britain in those critical days after Dunkirk, so...
Hachette UK, 2009. — 160 p. The true story of the 41,000 British soldiers who were left behind after the evacuation of Dunkirk, May 1940. At 2am on the morning of the 3rd of June 1940, General Harold Alexander searched along the quayside, holding onto his megaphone and called "Is anyone there? Is anyone there?" before turning his boat back towards England. Tradition tells us...
Frontline Books, 2012. — 276 p. The question ‘what if’ Germany had invaded the British Isles has long preoccupied writers, but none have dealt with the subject as comprehensively and effectively as Norman Longmate. Based on a classic television film of the same name, If Britain Had Fallen covers every phase of the subject, from the German pre-invasion maneuvering and...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 352 p. Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War IIOn the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet....
University Press of Kansas, 2022. — 400 p. World War II was a media war. President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the press to a great extent, of course, but as the war progressed, the media also came to influence commanders' decisions on the battlefield. Rescuing General Douglas MacArthur from the Philippines in deference to public opinion forced the Allies to divide the Pacific...
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2008. — 304 p. This author is extraordinarily lucky to be alive! All those who read this splendid Second World War memoir will doubtless come to the same view. After joining up in 1939 with the Queen's Royal Regiment the Author was posted to the North West Frontier of India where he cut his teeth chasing Pathan tribesman bandit gangs for two...
Frontline Books, 2014. — 192 p. Battle groups were key men taken from their units and thrown together to form crack storm troops. The author here relates the action of these groups from the opening shots in 1939 through all theatres until the final collapse in 1945. The book should offer an insight into the heart of the war. An excellent compilation of various battlegroups...
London: Pan Books, 1971. — 212 p. The 'eyes and ears" of the Fourteenth Army, they were unconventional heroes of exhilarating exploits and impressive courage. This is a stirring account of V Force - one of the bravest and most effective units on the Burma front - their commander, Major Denis Holmes, and their brothers-in-arms, 3rd Commando Brigade and the "Black Tarantulas" of...
New York: New American Library, 2011. — 433 p. On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts executed a daring escape from one of Japan's most notorious prison camps. The prisoners were survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March and the Fall of Corregidor, and the prison from which they escaped was surrounded by an impenetrable swamp and reputedly...
Yale University Press, 2001. — 256 p. The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs’s magisterial new book. Lukacs takes us...
Yale University Press, 2006. — 182 p. This brilliant new work by the author of the best-selling Five Days in London, May 1940 is an unparalleled drama of two great leaders confronting each other in June 1941. It describes Hitler and Stalin’s strange, calculating, and miscalculating relationship before the German invasion of Soviet Russia, with its gigantic (and unintended)...
Foreign Affairs, 1989. www.foreignaffairs.com/print/44901 (2002-2009). 8 p. На англ. языке.
Мировые войны XX века сблизили ход истории в Америке и Европе. Анализируются причины Второй мировой войны. В 1939 г. Россия и США вновь стали "европейскими игроками", после 20-летней паузы; их общим врагом был "государственный" национализм Германии и ряда других стран. Это стало основой...
Yale University Press, 2001. — 272 p. During the late spring and early summer of 1940, Hitler was poised on the edge of absolute victory, having advanced rapidly through a large part of Europe—and Britain was threatened by imminent invasion and defeat. From the acclaimed author of Five Days in London, May 1940, this book tells the story of two leaders facing off against each...
Yale University Press, 2001. — 272 p. During the late spring and early summer of 1940, Hitler was poised on the edge of absolute victory, having advanced rapidly through a large part of Europe—and Britain was threatened by imminent invasion and defeat. From the acclaimed author of Five Days in London, May 1940, this book tells the story of two leaders facing off against each...
New York: Hippocrene Books, 2001. — 511 p. Emphasizes that the Polish people, like the Jews, were victims of a German war of annihilation which nearly succeeded. While some Poles helped Jews, others helped the Germans to hunt them down. However, these were condemned by the Polish underground. Ch. 5 (pp. 121-151) argues that Polish failure to save the Jews was due not to...
Casemate Pub., 2011. — 432 p. This book describes the odd coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II, and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. This is a topic often missing in English, though in stark contrast to the numerous books on the shorter and less bloody Winter War. That conflict represented a gallant fight of a democratic "David" against a...
Casemate Pub., 2013. — 289 p. Among the many controversies of World War II, prominent is the debate over Germany’s strategy in the north of the Soviet Union, as the tide of war turned, and gigantic Russian armies began to close in on Berlin. In this long-awaited work, Henrik Lunde—former U.S. Special Forces officer and author of renowned previous works on the campaigns in Norway...
600 pages(420 p. Word), 16 pages b/w photos, 9781935149330, paperback, Casemate, 2009
This book describes the often overlooked World War II campaign for Norway—a complex series of battles in which Hitler out-gambled Churchill in order to secure a vital resource lifeline for the Third Reich.
After Hitler conquered Poland and was still fine-tuning his plans against France, the...
Casemate Publishing, 2010. — 600 p. This book describes the often overlooked World War II campaign for Norway-a complex series of battles in which Hitler out-gambled Churchill in order to secure a vital resource lifeline for the Third Reich. After Hitler conquered Poland and was still fine-tuning his plans against France, the British began to exert control of the coastline of...
David & Charles Publishers, Devon, 1986. — 318 p. This first-hand account describes the retreat by the British Army from Burma in 1942, pushed out by Japanese forces. It is illustrated with authentic photographs and recalls the courage of the men who narrowly escaped annihilation, the actions and the places.
Knox Press, 2022. — 512 p. Activated in May 1942, the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment earned high praise for its very first mission when it effected the first U.S. mass regimental combat jump of World War II in the invasion of Sicily. According to German General Kurt Student, “if it had not been for the Allied airborne forces blocking the tanks of the Hermann Göring Division...
Casemate Publishers, 2014. — 288 p. Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism that still remain unsung. On September, 17, 1944, the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 288 p. The Fourteenth Army was one of the most successful British and Commonwealth forces of the Second World War. It was not only the largest of the Commonwealth armies but was also the largest single army in the world with around half a million men under its command. Operating in the most inhospitable terrain, it drove the previously undefeated...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 560 p. In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia. But change was coming. New commanders were appointed, significant training together with restructuring took place, and new tactics were developed. A War of Empires by acclaimed historian Robert...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 560 p. In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia. But change was coming. New commanders were appointed, significant training together with restructuring took place, and new tactics were developed. A War of Empires by acclaimed historian Robert...
Da Capo Press, 2016. — 304 p. Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, an OSS operative who was also a Soviet double agent, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe"...
Pan Books, 2010. — 310 p. Beginning on 10th April 1941, and lasting for 240 days, the siege of Tobruk is a mesmerising tale of human endurance and heroism. It is an epic story of extraordinary resilience as the Libyan port's 24,000 defenders met increasingly desperate attempts by Rommel's Panzer divisions to break through the hurriedly thrown-up defences. It was a battle of...
The History Press, 2011. — 192 p. A new interpretation of the wider military context of the doomed operation features previously unpublished photographs and documents. Using first hand accounts and official records, this history examines the legend of the Waal Crossing and the truth behind it, revealing how a culture of elitism mixed with national and personal rivalries led to...
Sixth Edition. — Routledge, 2021. — 414 p. Fully revised and restructured, the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history’s bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations, home fronts, brutal regimes, and...
Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1973. - 465 p. Jusqu'en 1943, le dogme quasi-sacré du quartier général du Führer reste que la Waffen SS doit être uniquement recrutée parmi les peuples germaniques. Mais les péripéties et les tempêtes de guerre sur le front de l'Est, où les Russes résistent farouchement et causent des pertes sensibles aux Allemands, font qu'il faut à tout prix de...
Endeavour Press, 2015. — 930 p. On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg, achieving what had been considered impossible -- total surprise. In the most abysmal failure of battlefield intelligence in the history of the U.S. Army, 600,000 American soldiers found...
Endeavour Press, 2015. — 310 p. Many great books have been written about World War Two - but Company Commander describes the war at first hand. As a newly commissioned Captain of a veteran Army regiment, MacDonald’s first combat was war at its most hellish — the Battle of the Bulge.In this plain-spoken but eloquent narrative, we live each minute at MacDonald’s side, sharing in...
Center of Military History. — United States Army, 1993. — 572 p. Prelude to Victory Allied Strategy Allied Versus German Strength Weapons and Equipment Organization and Command Terrain and the Front Line Victory in the Ardennes The First Army’s Attack A Grim Struggle Around Bastogne The Drive on St. Vith Northward Across the Sûre Main Effort in the Eiffel General Bradley’s...
Center of Military History, United States Army, 1993. — 706 p. The Road to Germany Allied Strategy The Shadow of Logistics The Germans in the West The First U.S. Army Weapons and Equipment The Terrain and the West Wall A Pause at the Border V Corps Hits the West Wall The Race for the West Wall Into Germany Battle of the Schnee Eifel Bridgehead at Wallendorf Defense of the...
Routledge, 2014. — 177 p. This is an updated edition of the first truly concise introduction to the history of World War II in the West. The author, S. P. MacKenzie traces the major events on both fighting front and home front, explaining what happened and, just as importantly, why the balance of fortunes swung first towards the Axis and then towards the Allies. Along with...
London: Greenhill Books, 1995. — 260 p. A presentation of various alternative strategies that could have been taken by Germany or the Allies during the Second World War, some more convincing than others: Operation SEA LION: Germany Invades Britain 1940 - Macksey Operation SPHINX: Raeder's Mediterranean Strategy - Perrett Operation WOTAN: The Panzer Thrust to Capture Moscow 1941...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1968. - 158 pgs. Campaign Book No. 1 in the series Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century. In February 1941 things looked black for the Axis in North Africa, following defeat after defeat inflicted upon the Italian army at the hands of a small British tank force. Two months later all that had changed-the British themselves lay in...
London : Cassell, 2002. — 252 p. In this fascinating book, noted historian Kenneth Macksey shows how every high command involved in the Second World War suffered variously from unpreparedness, complacency, delay, over-confidence or plain ineptitude, among other sins.
8th ed. — Future Publishing Limited, 2021. — 148 p. The Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor is one of modern history’s most shocking events – a devastating military strike equal parts daring and appalling. Its signifjcance becomes even greater when considered in the context of what followed: the formal American entry into World War II and the beginning of...
Osning, 2020. — 560 S. Die klassische Militärgeschichtsschreibung fristet in Deutschland nur ein Nischendasein. Auf deutschen Universitäten wird Militärhistorie nicht gelehrt. Das eigentlich zuständige „Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr“ in Potsdam beschäftigt sich nur am Rande mit der Operationsgeschichte. Es sieht Krieg in erster Linie als...
Osning, 2020. — 560 S. Die klassische Militärgeschichtsschreibung fristet in Deutschland nur ein Nischendasein. Auf deutschen Universitäten wird Militärhistorie nicht gelehrt. Das eigentlich zuständige „Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr“ in Potsdam beschäftigt sich nur am Rande mit der Operationsgeschichte. Es sieht Krieg in erster Linie als...
Scarecrow Press, 2013. — 519 p. In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, Kevin A. Mahoney provides a detailed combat history of the crucial role played by this air force from November 1943 through May 1945. Presented by month in chronological order, Mahoney describes all the major bombing and fighter missions carried out by this...
Guilford, CT: Stackpole Books, 2019. — 368 p., b&w photographs, maps. By the summer of 1945, Adm. Bull Halsey’s U.S. Third Fleet had fought its way far enough in the Pacific that its carrier-based fighters could launch attacks on Japan itself in preparation for the invasion of the home islands, planned for the fall of 1945. This mission U.S. Navy fighters, fighter-bombers,...
New Orleans, LA: Welcome One Associates LLC, 2013. — 78 p. Almost no one has heard of The Royce Raid, a little known World War 2 story. On April 11,1942 ten purloined B-25 bombers left Australia on their way to the Philippines for a series of bombing runs from which no one was expected to return. All they had was National Geographic maps to navigate by as they flew low over water...
Endeavour Press, 2013. — 175 p. On the night of October 23, 1942, nearly a thousand guns from British batteries opened fire on the German positions just west of the small Egyptian railway depot of El Alamein. Over the next few weeks, infantry and armored divisions from Britain and the Commonwealth reversed the forward progress of Germany's Afrika Korps. Fought under harsh...
Routledge, 2024. — 217 p. This volume aims to offer a fresh perspective towards the evaluation of the Soviet war crimes trials of Holocaust perpetrators, their representation through various means of media, and their reception in the context of the Cold War. By examining the 1964 Klaipda war crimes trial in Soviet Lithuania through a microhistorical perspective, the book...
Macmillan International Higher Education, 2003. — 280 p. This new study re-examines the controversial debate on Fascist Italy's road to international conflict that has raged for six decades. The author's privileged access to until now unseen archival materials allows him to assess the ideological, geopolitical, domestic and strategic considerations that shaped Mussolini's alliance...
McFarland & Company, 2018. — 250 p. Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors. Some fought back, first by fighting against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War and then by helping the Chinese in their struggle against Japan. There were, however, two rival factions in China. One favored Chiang Kai-shek (the nationalists) and...
London: Verso, 1986. — 210 p. The legacy of destruction left by World War II is staggering. Eighty million people were killed, if one includes those who died of starvation and illness as a direct result of the war - eight times as many as during World War I. Dozens of cities were virtually totally destroyed, especially in Japan and Germany. Material resources capable of...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 218 p. In the years before the outbreak of the war in the Pacific, Guam was a paradise for the Navy, Marine and civilian employees of Pan American Airways, who found themselves stationed on the island. However their apprehension about the fate of the island increased as they anticipated a Japanese attack in the fall of 1941. Shortly after attack...
I.B.Tauris, 2015. — 336 p. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured to death by Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon", is revered alongside Voltaire and Victor Hugo. But Moulin s story is full of unanswered questions, and the truth of...
Day By Day, 2013. — 208 p. This is a book about the 5th Amphibious Tractor Battalion, World War II, three tiny pacific islands, and the story of the 'young men' who became 'legendary men' fighting for their mothers and fathers, flag and country, you and me. It has been updated, correcting some mistakes and including more illustrations from the author. Undoubtedly you know the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. — 215 p. S.L.A. "Slam" Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company, no more than one in four soldiers actually fired their weapons while in contact with the enemy. His contention was based on interviews he...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 265 p. — (Osprey Companion). — ISBN 978-1846032127. The Pacific War Companion' brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians. From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in the Pacific was marked by amazing tactical innovations, such as...
Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2005. — 272 p. Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of V-J Day, 'The Pacific War Companion' brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians. From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in the Pacific was characterised by amazing tactical...
Routledge, 1999. — 291 p. When A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War appeared in 1961 it made a profound impact. The book became a classic and a central point of reference in all discussion on the Second World War. The second edition of this distinguished collection, written by leading experts in the field, is designed to bring the state of the argument up to...
Dundurn Press, 2003. — 192 p. A fast-paced account by a soldier who was twice decorated. Charlie Martin, company sergeant-major in the Queen’s Own, was with his beloved A Company in all of the significant Normandy actions (in 1944). Charles Cromwell Martin became at twenty-four one of the youngest company sergeant-majors in the history of the Queen's Own, Canada's historic rifle...
Parthian Books, 2019. — 248 p. I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this moment that I thought I was going to die because I became remarkably calm.’ Trapped inside a burning Lancaster bomber, 20,000 feet above Berlin, airman John Martin consigned himself to his fate and turned his thoughts to his fiancée back home. In a...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 252 p. In this remarkable oral history collection, thirty-three participants in the turbulent epic that began with the day of infamy at Pearl Harbor and ended with the signing of the surrender documents in Tokyo Harbor tell their stories. Their remembrances of heartbreak, frustration, heroism, hope, and triumph were collected over a period of...
Издательство: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995 г. - 112 с.
язык: английский.
Книга Чарльза Мастерса посвящена малоизвестной странице "Дня Д" - американскому планерному десанту в Нормандии. Невооруженные и небронированные, сделанные из фанеры и полотна планеры называли "летающими гробами". Мастерс, сын десантника 82-й воздушно-десантной дивизии США, провел огромную...
Cassell Military, 2002. — 352 p. This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally...
Washington, Center of Military History USA, 1999. — 456 p. It may seem to the reader that controversy and differences of opinion are stressed and that agreement and co-operative endeavor are slighted. Since planners are occupied with unsettled problems, their work necessarily involves differences of opinion. It is only when all sides of an issue are forcefully presented and the...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. — 664 p. Within a generation the attitude and policy of the United States toward alliances have undergone a revolutionary reversal. The nation has passed from its traditional suspicion and fear of "entangling alliances" to a policy that heavily stakes its security and interests on the co-operation of other powers. In World War...
Matt Walsh. The Battle for Greece and Crete.
Published by Matt Walsh 115 Leacocks Lane Casula 2170 Australia
This booklet is an initiative of the Defence Reserves Association (NSW) Inc. and the Military Police
Association of Australia Inc. as part of their Schools Military History Program.
Big Sky Publishing, 2021. — 452 p. What could induce a young pilot to walk out onto the wing of his burning aircraft at 13,000 feet? Why would a plucky young woman descend into the bowels of a sinking ship knowing that she would almost certainly die there? Why did a family remain on their farm, tending crops while suffering four long years of deadly artillery shelling? How did...
Big Sky Publishing, 2021. — 228 p. — ISBN-13 9780369373991. — ISBN-10 0369373995. The true story of a deeply murderous intent that lurked menacingly beneath the waves during World War Two. The torpedoes strike explosively and nine thousand people die — five thousand of them are just defenceless children. Another ship founders after being attacked by a brutal submarine commander...
Dutton Caliber, 2020. — 304 p. In late December 1941, General Douglas MacArthur, caught off guard by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, is forced to retreat to Corregidor, a jagged, rocky island fortress at the mouth of Manila Bay. Months later, under orders from the president, the general is whisked away in the dark of night, leaving his troops to their fate. It is a...
Washington: Office of Air Force History, 1983. — 506 p. — ISBN: 0-912799-02-1 At the peak of its strength in World War 11, the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) had more than 2,400,000 men and women in uniform. There were pilots, navigators, bombardiers, gunners, and radio operators, clerks and typists, artists and flautists, teachers, mechanics, statisticians, and...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 360 p. In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates how these dramatic events marked a turning point not only in the course of World War II but also in the...
I.B.Tauris, 2000. — 600 p. How did Hitler and his generals manage the swift conquest of France, considering that the French and their allies were superior in every measurable dimension and considering the Germans' own scepticism about their chances? This title is a new interpretation of Germany's lightning attack that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in the spring of 1940. It...
Frontline Books, 2011. — 256 p. The history of the Guinea Pig Club, the band of airmen who were seriously burned in airplane fires, is a truly inspiring, spine-tingling tale. Plastic surgery was in its infancy before the Second World War. The most rudimentary techniques were only known to a few surgeons worldwide. The Allies were tremendously fortunate in having the maverick...
Tucson, Arizona: Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2002. — 304 p. The Navajo language-notoriously difficult to translate under the best circumstances-proved an ideal top-secret medium for confounding the Japanese in World War II and transmitting combat intelligence quickly and accurately. It was the only code that the Japanese were never able to crack. Using first-person accounts,...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. — 224 p. Towards the end of World War II Germany unleashed its weapons of vengeance on the British population - the V-1 flying bomb (a pilotless aircraft) and the V-2 rocket (the precursor of the ballistic missile). In V-Bombs and Weathermaps Brock McElheran remembers his own experience of being under attack by these frightening weapons...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 192 p. Port Said September 1st 1945. As the ship pulled into Alex, the dockside was a hive of activity. The captain had radioed ahead and so there was a battalion of the Kings' African Rifles (KAR)waiting to disarm us as we disembarked. All these KAR's were standing at the order as a staff officer informed us that we were to be placed under arrest and...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 306 p. — (Osprey General Military). This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a single cable wrapped with a telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, photos and letters home,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 228 p. The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by New York Times bestselling author Scott McGaugh. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 711 p. — ISBN 978 1 52672 416 8. The First Polish armored Division was formed in Scotland in February 1942 from Polish exiles who had escaped first Poland and then France. Its commander, Stanislaw Maczek, and many of its men had previously served in Polish 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade (10 BKS), which had taken part in the Polish invasion of...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 167 p. This work is a reexamination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised are, was the uprising necessary and why was it so poorly conducted by a totally indifferent...
Aurum Press, 2012. Качество изначально электронное
This book details the lives of the convert operators that monitored German and Japanese communications, usually coded, and both decoded their transmissions and for the overseas operators, forwarded the information to Bletchley Park. Most operators came under the official secrets act and therefore have been unable to discuss...
Souvenir Press, 2012. — 368 p. A brilliant reconstruction of the struggle that ravaged Normandy throughout the summer of 1944 in the wake of the D-Day landings, this work culls personal accounts of those who took part in the fighting, both Allied and German, and of the French civilians caught in one of the most terrible and heroic episodes of the Second World War. With fearful...
Monography. — Fort Leavenworth: General Staf College, 2014. — 39 p. Over the course of thirty-eight days, the Allies successfully took possession of Sicily and claimed a tactical victory. However, the Axis forces won a moral victory by opposing a numerically superior foe while preserving a significant portion of their fighting force. Military historians lament the Axis evacuation...
Buffalo, New York: University of Buffalo, 1995. - 30 pgs. This is a complete listing of US Army units worldwide, US Army Air Force units, US Marine Corps units, and US Navy ships in Hawaii. Special sections address US Navy aircraft carrier locations, US Coast Guard ships and aircraft, the USAAF B-17 flight from California to Hawaii, and the USAAF B-24 spy mission from Hickum...
The Overlook Press, 2014. — 392 p. Only Britain stood in the way of the complete triumph, and Hitler planned a two-pronged offensive―a blistering aerial bombardment followed by a land invasion―to subdue his final enemy. But for the first time in the war, Hitler did not prevail. As Leo McKinstry details in this fascinating new history, the British were far more ruthless and...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 532 p. A new perspective on the long and bloody Burma campaign, focusing on the four Allied commanders who battled not only the Japanese and their allies but also one another. This book, in essence a quadruple biography, tells the story of the four larger-than-life Allied commanders whose lives collided in the Burma campaign, one of the most...
Dutton Caliber, 2019. — 640 p. An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die . "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the achievements of the Army ground troops", wrote one officer in the fall of 1943, "whereas the Marines are blown up to the skies." Even today, the Marines are celebrated as the victors of...
Dutton Caliber, 2021. — 655 p. In Fire and Fortitude—winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History—John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. Now, in Island Infernos, he explores the Army’s dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by island, throughout 1944, a year that would bring America ever...
Tom Doherty Associates, 2013. — 224 p. Impressively researched, engrossing, lightning quick, and filled with human sorrow and elation, John C. McManus's The Americans at D-Day honors those Americans who lost their lives on D-Day, as well as those who were fortunate enough to survive. June 6, 1944 was a pivotal moment in the history of World War II in Europe. On that day the...
Basic Books, 2021. — 864 p. A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before...
Svojtka&Co, 2003. — 178 s. — ISBN: 80-7237-526-1. Fallschirmjäger je označení pro německého parašutistu, obecně pak pro německé výsadkové jednotky. Ty se začaly v Německu formovat již od konce roku 1936, kdy byla vytvořena v rámci Wehrmachtu 1 výsadková rota. Na konci roku 1937 přibyl výsadkový prapor budovaný v rámci Luftwaffe. V červnu 1938 byla výsadková rota Wehrmachtu...
Metro Books, 2011. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 1435131835, ISBN-13 978-1435131835 War in the Pacific presents a masterful collection of 400 World War II color photographs detailing a generation of ordinary people rising to extraordinary challenges, captured in wartime settings. From armed forays into the steaming jungles of New Guinea and the Solomons to B-29 Superfortresses carrying...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. — 136 p.
"Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings to...
Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2015. — 304 p. — ISBN 978 1 47382 716 5. The Men Behind Monty examines the role played by the staff in the victorious campaigns of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Britain's most successful field commander since the Duke of Wellington. When Monty took command of Eighth Army in August 1942, he inherited the staff of his predecessor. He retained all the...
Eland Publishing, 2019. — 221 p. On September 13th 1943, two young British officers seized the chance to escape their PoW convoy after the capitulation of Italy. This catapulted them onto a two-month, seven-hundred-mile journey through enemy territory down the spine of Italy, helped by many brave local families. This new edition of The Long Walk Home sets the record of this...
Pen and Sword, 1992. — 352 p. The backbone of the British Army has always been the County regiments. This is an account of a typical British regiment from Dunkirk to 1947. This book, as its title suggests, covers the history of four battalions of this English country regiment; namely the 2 Battalion (Regular), 5 Battalion (T.A.), 1 and 2 Battalion the Hertfordshire Regiment...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 224 p. One Marine's War recounts the experiences of Robert Sheeks, a Marine combat interpreter, and how he underwent a remarkable transformation as a consequence of his encounters with the Imperial Japanese Army, Nisei Japanese-American language instructors, Japanese and Pacific Island native civilians, and American Marines. It is the first time...
Presidio Press, 2003. — 336 p. In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” for the duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples. In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare for the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the Fifth Army...
Stackpole Books, 2021. — 400 p. Omaha was the make-or-break Allied beach on D-Day - in (perhaps) the make-or-break campaign of World War II. If American soldiers couldn’t gain a foothold there, then D-Day was unlikely to succeed. On June 6, 1944, U.S. troops on Omaha suffered the worst casualties of any of the five Allied invasion beaches - so many casualties, and so much...
Berlin: Verlag Erich Klinhammer, 1940. — 244 S. Фоторепортаж о боевых действиях Kriegsmarine в первые два года Второй мировой войны. Присутствует большое количество редких фотографий.
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2014. — 50 p. The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first six months of 1942. The Japanese occupied these locations and began the...
Flatiron Books, 2022. — 743 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-88990-4 In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt had a critical goal: a face-to-face sit-down with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This first-ever meeting of the Big Three in Tehran, Iran, would decide some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. Yet when the...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. — 647 p. Among students of military history, the genius of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein (1887–1973) is respected perhaps more than that of any other World War II soldier. He displayed his strategic brilliance in such campaigns as the invasion of Poland, the Blitzkrieg of France, the sieges of Sevastopol, Leningrad, and Stalingrad, and the battles...
Merriam Press, 2017. — 118 p. By the Washington Treaty of 1846 the United States secured the northern boundary of its western lands at 49 degrees north. This placed Puget Sound within the territory of the United States. From the beginning it was clear to all that Puget Sound would be developed into a superb naval base. A naval base, however, demanded seacoast fortifications...
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 2010. — 487 p. — ISBN: 978–0–571–26590–9. Map: The war on THE Eastern front Introduction: True War Stories Marching with Revolutionary Step A Fire Through All the World Disaster Beats Its Wings Black Ways of War Stone by Stone A Land Laid Waste May Brotherhood Be Blessed Exulting, Grieving and Sweating Blood Despoil the Corpse Sheathe the Old Sword...
Cassell, 1999. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0304352241. Germany's defeat in 1918 left the nation resentful-and paved the way for Nazism's ascent and the fierce determination to reverse that loss. Follow the spread of war throughout the world, and the technological developments and refinements of weaponry, as the Germans undertake the blitzkrieg of Eastern Europe in 1939-41; enlist other...
Shepperton, England: Ian Allan Ltd, 1982. - 128 pgs. This book sets out to describe the general course of the Tunisian Campaign, and to show its significance in the context of World War 2 as a whole. It also attempts to portray what the war in Tunisia was like for the individual fighting man. This campaign saw the new American army being bloodied, the last hurrah of the...
Skyhorse, 2011. — 272 p. A charismatic yet notorious character, Sepp Dietrich the man is impossible to separate from Sepp Dietrich the General, who was awarded twenty–four different honors during his service to the Nazi party and was known for his devotion to his men as he led them through some of the fiercest fighting in the war. In this extensively researched book, historian...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. — 207 p. This exciting series opens with "the Desert Fox", the most famous German field marshal in World War II, Erwin Rommel. A hero of the people of the Third Reich and widely respected by his opponents, Rommel proved himself highly adept at blitzkrieg warfare. He consistently outwitted his adversaries in both France and North Africa through his ability...
Banská Bystrica: Dali-BB, 2007. — 296 s. — ISBN: 978-80-89090-37-2. Первый том щедро иллюстрированной четырехтомной монографии на словацком языке об участии словацкой армии в гитлеровской кампании против Советского Союза. 22 июня 1941 г. Тисо издал приказ о мобилизации армии. На следующий день Словакия объявила войну Советскому Союзу, а 24 июня 1941 г. словацкие войска перешли...
Banská Bystrica: Dali-BB, 2008. — 343 s. — ISBN: 978-80-89090-48-8. Второй том щедро иллюстрированной четырехтомной монографии на словацком языке об участии словацкой армии в гитлеровской кампании против Советского Союза. 22 июня 1941 г. Тисо издал приказ о мобилизации армии. На следующий день Словакия объявила войну Советскому Союзу, а 24 июня 1941 г. словацкие войска перешли...
Banská Bystrica: Dali-BB 2009. — 444 s. — ISBN: 978-80-89090-64-8. Третий том щедро иллюстрированной четырехтомной монографии на словацком языке об участии словацкой армии в гитлеровской кампании против Советского Союза. 22 июня 1941 г. Тисо издал приказ о мобилизации армии. На следующий день Словакия объявила войну Советскому Союзу, а 24 июня 1941 г. словацкие войска перешли...
Penguin Books, 1994. — 512 p. This is the first in a series of game books which put you in command of the forces in engaged in some of history's most famous battles. Your tactical skill and ability to make the right command decision will be tested at every turn of the page. Operation Market Garden in September 1944 was one of the most daring Allied plans of the Second World...
Routledge, 2021. — 248 p. This book looks at the significance of alliances in the international system focusing on the dynamics between great and regional powers and on the alliances Nazi Germany made during World War II and their implications for Germany. It examines a variety of case studies and looks at how each of the respective states contributed to or weakened Nazi...
Routledge, 2021. — 248 p. This book looks at the significance of alliances in the international system focusing on the dynamics between great and regional powers and on the alliances Nazi Germany made during World War II and their implications for Germany. It examines a variety of case studies and looks at how each of the respective states contributed to or weakened Nazi...
Casemate, 2013. — 272 p. Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men—along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—who historian Martin Blumenson called “the essential quartet of American leaders who achieved victory in Europe.” Eisenhower nicknamed him the American Eagle. A skilled staff officer, Clark rose...
The History Press, 2011. — 288 p. In the cold morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of German soldiers are in position from Port en Bessin eastwards past Colleville on the Normandy coast, aware that a massive invasion force is heading straight for them. According to Allied Intelligence, they shouldn't be there. 352 infantry division would ensure the invaders would pay a massive...
Simon and Schuster, 2010. — 400 p. Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prize-winning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were...
The History Press, 2020. — 224 p. Drawing from first-hand interviews, diaries and memoirs of those involved in the VE Day celebrations in 1945, VE Day: The People's Story paints an enthralling picture of a day that marked the end of the war in Europe and the beginning of a new era. VE Day affected millions of people in countless ways, and the voices in this book – from both...
3 vols. — 2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 361 + 281 + 375 p. This three-volume study examines the questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Great Britain, Japan and Italy in the period from 1914 to 1945. Leading military historians deal with the different national approaches to war and...
Goose Lane Editions, 2007. — 138 p. The brutal battlefields of Europe during World War II were the testing ground for the young men of the 1st Battalion of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. On June 6, 1944, the soldiers landed on the coast of France as part of the first wave of the D-Day invasion. After securing the eastern flank of the Canadian landing along Juno...
University Press of Kansas, 2014. — 400 p. In the narrative of D-Day the Canadians figure chiefly—if at all—as an ineffective force bungling their part in the early phase of Operation Overlord. The reality is quite another story. As both the Allies and the Germans knew, only Germany's Panzers could crush Overlord in its tracks. The Canadians' job was to stop the Panzers—which,...
Henry Holt and Company, 2019. — 486 p. A chronicle of the first twenty-four hours of the D-Day invasion (1944) shares the perspectives of a diverse range of Allied, German, and French contributors to explore the conflict's strategic mastery and human realities.
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 300 p. In 1939, the Germans stormed into Poland, shocking the world with the speed, the destructiveness, the seeming invincibility of their blitzkrieg. By 1943, the tide had started to turn. Successes still came, but these were increasingly eclipsed by defeats and retreats, setbacks and surrenders. In Blitzkrieg No Longer, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.,...
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2007. — v, 296 p. — (The Stackpole Military History Series). — ISBN: 978-0-8117-3371-7. The last place a German soldier wanted to be in 1944 was the Russian front. That summer, Stalin hurled into battle more than six million men and 9,000 tanks, supported by 16,000 fighters and bombers and more than 12,800 guns and rocket launchers. Despite...
Praeger Trade, 2000. — 302 p. The Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the German defeat in France. Mitcham recaptures the taste and feel of the Wehrmacht in 1944 as the thin gray line in Normandy finally snapped, the 5th Panzer and 7th Armies collapsed, and the survivors fled the Allied steamroller in a mad dash back to the Reich. From the...
Greenwood Publishing, 2008. — 768 p. The Rise of the Wehrmacht is the first comprehensive work to deal with the German war effort in World War II from this point of view. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it covers the entire war effort from the point of view of the German military that actually conducted and fought the war, something that has never been done before on this...
Stackpole Books, 2007. — 368 p. In July 1943 the Allies launched a massive amphibious assault on Sicily. The invasion proved successful, bringing fame to American Gen. George S. Patton and British Gen. Bernard Montgomery, whose "race" to Messina was immortalized in the movie Patton. But according to Mitcham and Stauffenberg, the Allies lost a significant opportunity for total...
Westport, CT: Praeger Security Internation, 2007. — 215 + x p. — ISBN: 0-275-99436-8. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. , is an internationally recognized authority on Nazi Germany and the Second World War. He is the author of twenty-one books, including Rommel’s Lieutenants (Praeger Security International, 2007), Panzers in Winter (Praeger Security International, 2006), and Crumbling...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 300 p. In 1939, the Germans stormed into Poland, shocking the world with the speed, the destructiveness, the seeming invincibility of their blitzkrieg. By 1943, the tide had started to turn. Successes still came, but these were increasingly eclipsed by defeats and retreats, setbacks and surrenders. In Blitzkrieg No Longer, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.,...
Casemate, 2009. — 256 p. This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it. The result is an illuminating look at the personalities behind the carnage, as summer triumph turned to winter crisis, including new insights into the invasion’s many tactical successes, as well as its...
Casemate Publishers, 2009. — 337 p. — ISBN 978-1-935149-15-6. This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it. The result is an illuminating look at the personalities behind the carnage, as summer triumph turned to winter crisis, including new insights into the invasion’s many...
Casemate Publishers, 2009. — 337 p. — ISBN 978-1-935149-15-6. This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it. The result is an illuminating look at the personalities behind the carnage, as summer triumph turned to winter crisis, including new insights into the invasion’s many...
The History Press, 2016. — 287 p. For a period during World War II, the isolated Libyan fortress of Tobruk captured the world's attention. Why did the Allied defenders of Tobruk successfully hold out against Rommel for 9 months in 1941, when they fell to Axis forces in just 24 hours the following year? Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories--and one of the worst Allied...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 216 p. Prior to the outbreak of war in September 1939, the German Army had focused exclusively on the operational, organisational and training preparations needed to wage war in continental Europe. The threat of an Italian collapse in North Africa in early 1941, however, prompted Hitler to reinforce his ally by sending an armoured blocking force...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN 116300647 Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN 116300647 Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN 116300647 Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN 116300647 Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973. — 975 p. — ISBN 116300647.
Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black...
Walter Mönch, 2020. — 121 S. 1. September 1939: Das deutsche Schulschiff "Schleswig-Holstein" hatte den Polenfeldzug mit dem Beschuss eines polnischen Munitionsdepots auf der Westerplatte vor Danzig eröffnet. Die deutsche Wehrmacht stieß in zwei Angriffskeilen mit insgesamt 1,6 Millionen Soldaten und unterstützt von der Luftwaffe in Richtung Warschau vor. Bis zum 6. Oktober...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 378 p. Historians have made widespread use of diaries to tell the story of the Second World War in Europe but have paid little attention to personal accounts from the Asia-Pacific Theater. Writing War seeks to remedy this imbalance by examining over two hundred diaries, and many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese,...
Casemate, 2015. — 486 p. During the fall of 1944, once the Western Allies had gained military advantage over the Nazis, the crown jewel of Allied strategy became the liberation of Paris—the capital of France so long held in captivity. This event, however, was steeped in more complexity when the Allies returned than in 1940 when Hitler’s legions first marched in. In 1944 the...
Aurum Press, 2012. — 640 p. In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War's later collected as his African Trilogy were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account of the tussle between Montgomery's Eighth Army and Rommel's...
Basic Books, 2010. — 464 p. Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitler’s empire, the embodiment of his vision of a world metropolis.” Berlin was also the place where Hitler’s Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin suffered more air raids than any other German city and endured the full force of a Soviet siege. In Berlin at War,...
Vintage Digital, 2019. — 400 p. Drawing for the first time on Polish, German and Soviet sources, First to Fight is the definitive history of the German invasion of Poland, which opened the war in September 1939. Roger Moorhouse provides a dramatic narrative of military events, brought to life by a select cast of generals and politicians, soldiers and civilians from all sides....
Bantam Books, 2007. — 384 p. For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history. Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or...
Basic Books, 2020. — 432 p. For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 176 p. This classic Images of War book covers the dramatic events that befell both the Gilbert and Ellis Pacific island groups using a wealth of well-captioned photos and informed text. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Gilbert Islands were occupied by the Japanese who built a seaplane base at Butaritari. In August 1942...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 255 p. A scholarly exploration of the British armoured regiment and its part in the Allied campaign to liberate Europe during World War II. On June 14, 1944, the tanks of the 144th Regiment Royal armored Corps disembarked on Gold Beach during the Normandy landings. A long and bitter campaign began, taking them across Northwest Europe into the heart of...
Frontline Books, 2013. — 272 p. This is an important reassessment of a critical period in the British Expeditionary Force’s fight against the German armies invading France in 1940. On 25 May Lord Gort, the British commander, took the decision to move 5th Division north in order to plug a growing gap in his Army’s eastern defenses. Over the next three days the division fought a...
Stackpole Books, 2015. — 384 p. The Battle of the Bulge lives in history as the U.S. Army's largest and bloodiest battle of World War II. This innovative study of American military leadership in action during the battle examines the performance of six generals in the days and weeks after the German attack in December 1944.
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 65 p. — (Leadership-Strategy-Conflict). This Osprey Command title looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), perhaps the best-known, most highly respected and most controversial British general of World War II. "Monty's"...
Routledge, 2005. — 295 p. This book focuses on the British Commonwealth armies in SE Asia and the SW Pacific during the Second World War, which, following the disastrous Malayan and Burma campaigns, had to hurriedly re-train, re-equip and re-organise their demoralised troops to fight a conventional jungle war against the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). British, Indian and...
Helion and Company, Solihull, England 2017. — 192 p. The North African campaign was one of the hardest fought episodes of the Second World War, yet the vital part played by the Italian Army - and in particular, its Folgore Parachute Division on behalf of the Axis Alliance - is frequently overlooked. Initially created to emulate the German Fallschirmjäger in order to carry out...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 192 p. The North African campaign was one of the hardest fought episodes of the Second World War, yet the vital part played by the Italian Army - and in particular, its Folgore Parachute Division on behalf of the Axis Alliance - is frequently overlooked. Initially created to emulate the German Fallschirmjäger in order to carry out the planned...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 384 p. War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the surrender of Allied forces in May 1942 and MacArthur's return in October 1944. No book has comprehensively examined the Filipino resistance during this crucial period. Here, James Kelly Morningstar...
Cooper Square Press, 2000. — 228 p. Told in the voices of the soldiers, doctors, and nurses who were the untested but valiant defenders of Corregidor, the tiny island fortress of Generals Macarthur and Wainwright; Corregidor is the remarkable history of forty American and Filipino survivors. Before Pearl Harbor, American servicemen in the Philippines led a life of colonial...
Penguin Group, 2006. — 192 p. The untold story of the massive bombing raid that almost brought Britain to military collapse, The Longest Night reveals just how close the Luftwaffe came to total victory. On the night of May 10, 1941, Nazi Germany sent some five hundred aircraft to drop more than seven hundred tons of explosives on London. This vivid, dramatically told account...
Osprey Publishing, 2011 - 256 p.
Product Description: In his new book, WWII historian Gavin Mortimer, examines the pivotal events of one of the most famous military units of all time. Starting with the unit's formation in July 1941, Mortimer recreates the heady days when a young Scots' Guard officer called David Stirling persuaded MEHQ to give its backing to a small band of 60...
New York: Harper Collins, 2003. - 330 pgs. Mosier argues that the supposedly revolutionary concept of blitzkrieg has been overrated and that most of the victories on both sides were the result of conventional military tactics. He argues that the armored breakthrough in World War II always failed because defending armies could either shift to react or retreat out of the way. Mosier...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 224 p. Soldiers’ first-hand accounts of Second World War active service invariably make inspiring and exciting reading but Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges is exceptional for several reasons. First, Brian Moss’s role as a bomb disposal specialist was especially hazardous. Secondly, he was in the thick of the action from the start, dealing with...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 390 p. In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops, fighting in regions as far apart as the Sahara and the Caucasus, confronted the Allies across lands largely populated by Muslims. Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. Islam and Nazi...
Washington D.C.: Center of Military History of United States Army, 2000. — 568 p.
This volume relates the problems faced by Allies who met in strange lands without the benefit of tested and well co-ordinated policies to govern their diplomatic and military relations. The jealousies and conflicting interests of nations and of government agencies, together with the overlapping of...
Zabrze: Inforteditions, 2016. — 175 s. Sedan 1940 – przełomowa bitwa o przełamanie frontu. Sforsowanie Mozy pod Sedanem przez XIX Korpus Pancerny Guderiana było kwintesencją Blitzkriegu. W ciągu zaledwie 6 dni niemieckie siły pancerne przeszły przez Belgię, pokonały, jak się zdawało, niemożliwy do przebycia dla dużych ilości pojazdów zalesiony masyw ardeński, zepchnęły...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 605 p. Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to one of the most brutal campaigns of World War II: of the estimated 70 million people who died in the war, over 30 million died on the Eastern Front. Although it has previously been argued that the campaign was a pre-emptive strike, in fact, Hitler had been planning a war of...
I.B. Tauris, 2013. — 287 p. When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II, astonishingly one in three men fighting for the Germans in the East was not a native German....
Издательство: Washington, DC. Department of the Army, 1952 г. - 54 с.
Язык: Английский.
Эта брошюра о специфике передвижения бронетехники Вермахта по территории СССР была подготовлена группой бывших немецких генералов, проходивших службу на Восточном фронте во время Второй мировой войны. В группе состояли такие известные личности как генерал Hermann Burkhart Müller-Hildebrand...
Издательство: Washington, DC. Department of the Army, 1952 г. - 54 с.
Язык: Английский.
Эта брошюра о специфике передвижения бронетехники Вермахта по территории СССР была подготовлена группой бывших немецких генералов, проходивших службу на Восточном фронте во время Второй мировой войны. В группе состояли такие известные личности как генерал Hermann Burkhart Müller-Hildebrand...
Friedberg: Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1977. - 160 s. Viele Fotos und Karten, Diagramme usw. Übersetzungen auf englisch ein wenig lückenhaft oder grundlose, aber wenn Ihr gefallt diese Art von Material, dann haben Sie wahrscheinlich bereits einige deutsche Sprachkenntnisse. Farbkunstwerk Platten für Modellbauer enthalten. Neben der deutschen Rüstung, gibt es zahlreiche Fotos von...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 221 p. On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off the River Dyle, to await the arrival of the German Army Group B. Their expected stay was considerably shorter than planned as the German Army Group A pushed its way...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 168 p. This is the first detailed account of the rearguard action that took place between 25 and 29 May 1940 at Cassel and Hazebrouck on the western perimeter of the Dunkirk Corridor. By 25 May the decision to evacuate the BEF via Dunkirk had already been taken, Lord Gort, commanding the BEF in France, had given instructions to Lieutenant General...
Routledge, 2019. — 246 p. Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts is a collection of chapters dealing with various overlooked aspects of the Second World War. The aim is to give greater depth and context to the war by introducing new stories about regions of the world and elements of the war rarely considered. These chapters represent new discussions on...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 656 p. In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. "A War To...
Alabama, Air University-Air University Press- Maxwell Air Force Base, 1983. — 392 p. — ISBN: 1-58566-010-8 As with all military thought, a wide variety of political, historical, and economic factors guided the development of air doctrines in the period between the First and Second World Wars. Yet standing above all other influences was a revulsion against the mud and despair of...
Pen and Sword Books, 2011. — 255 p. Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant). This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras and the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches and his own undignified evacuation are described in some...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 466 p. — ISBN 978 1 39906 813 0. Drawing on a host of internal Soviet Politburo discussions, memoranda and speeches, this book shows that the Soviet Union was a heavily militarized state that incessantly planned to unleash a great, ideologically motivated war.While the myth of Soviet benevolence has now largely been discredited, the idea that...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 466 p. — ISBN 978 1 39906 815 4. Drawing on a host of internal Soviet Politburo discussions, memoranda and speeches, this book shows that the Soviet Union was a heavily militarized state that incessantly planned to unleash a great, ideologically motivated war.While the myth of Soviet benevolence has now largely been discredited, the idea that...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 209 p. About the Allies' victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japan's defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power. But the outcome, Michael W. Myers contends, was actually anything but inevitable. This book is Myers's thorough and deeply informed explanation of...
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2019. — xiv, 385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations. — ISBN: 9781501181115, 9781501181122, 1501181114, 9781501181139, 1501181130. Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski takes a fresh look at the decisive year 1941, when Hitler’s miscalculations and policy of terror propelled Churchill, FDR, and Stalin into a powerful new alliance...
Salamander Books Ltd., 1999. — 272 p. There has never been a war like the one in the Pacific (1941-1945) between the American Allies and the Empire of Japan. Unrivalled in its scope, it was a clash of cultures that turned tropical islands into killing grounds and laid waste cities with weapons of mass destruction. It turned World War II into a global war and ended with Japan's...
University Press of Kentucky, 2017. — 365 p. Before the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944, their aerial reconnaissance discovered signs of German defenses on the Iles St. Marcouf. From these two coastal islands, German artillery could bombard the 4th US Infantry Division and repulse a crucial thrust of Operation Overlord. With the fate of the war on the...
Pen and Sword Books, 2013. — 250 p. Selected by Churchill to command 8th Army in 1942, in place of the sacked Auchinleck, ‘Strafer’ Gott was targeted by German intelligence as he flew to Cairo to take up his new post. Six ME109s intercepted his aircraft and, after shooting it down, deliberately obliterated the crash scene killing Gott in the process. As a result, Montgomery was...
Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies US Army Command and General Staff College, 1988. — 39 p. This monograph discusses the implications of deployment theory in planning deployment operations at the strategic and operational levels of war. It proposes that there are tenets of deployment planning that are interrelated with the principles of war. The tenets for...
Pen and Sword Books, 2003. — 224 p. The defence of Calais in May/June 1940 was a superb example of selfless courage and sacrifice. Sent by Churchill to divert the Germans from Dunkirk and so save the British Army, 30 Infantry Brigade had orders not to evacuate or surrender. Airey Neave, later to be Margaret Thatcher's right hand man until his assassination in 1979, was one of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 320 p. The Third Armored Division, famously known as the "Spearhead Division", had an illustrious combat career in WW2\. One of only two "heavy armored" divisions of the war, the 3rd Armored joined the battle in the ETO in late June of 1944, was bloodied almost immediately and was at the front of the American advance through the hedgerows of...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 224 p. Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy government―a fateful decision that nearly destroyed the Anglo–American alliance. According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the “most shocking single event” of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in...
New York: Overlook Press, 2004. - 388 p.
Eighth Army is Robin Neillands's masterful and thrilling told account of the defeats and triumphs of Eighth Army, considered by many to be the most remarkable fighting force in World War II. Using first-hand source material-including personal accounts and interviews with veterans of Eighth Army-Neillands digs deeply into the details of...
Endeavour Press, 2015. — 408 p. Nijmegen, Arnhem, the Huertgen Forest, the battles along the Channel coast and the River Scheldt, at Aachen, across the Ardennes and in the Saar - each battleground presented its own challenges and even after seventy years the controversies remain. Who was really responsible for the failure at Nijmegen, the destruction of the British 1st Airborne...
Cassell, 2002. — 448 p. What happened to the Allied armies in Normandy in the months after D-Day? Why, after the initial success of the landings, did their advance stall a few miles inland? How did the Germans, deprived of air support, hold off such massive forces for months? A fresh and incisive examination this most crucial campaign-with accounts from veterans on both...
Texas University Press, 2003. — 224 p. Robert Neiman, perhaps the most experienced combat commander of the U.S. Marine Corps’ tank arm, was one of the rare USMC officers to serve in both Iwo Jima and Okinawa battles. In Tanks on the Beaches, Neiman and his coauthor, Kenneth Estes, relay vivid accounts of fighting in the Pacific War, as well as Marine Corps service during the...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 258 p. Roy Nesbit's highly illustrated history of Coastal Command's 217 Squadron - the squadron in which he served - gives a first-hand insight into the hazardous low-level missions the squadron flew against enemy shipping and ports during the Second World War. He chronicles the squadron's operations from the outbreak of war when it patrolled in Avro Ansons...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 440 p. Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources. This first volume covers the tactical organization of Army and Navy ground forces during the 1937-45 war. Using the wartime Imperial...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 312 p. Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources. This second volume covers the armament of the ground forces. It takes advantage not only of postwar Japanese research, but also the...
L.: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. - 254 p.
This study of Sir Nevile Henderson is the first in the English language, and challenges the idea that Henderson was hopelessly pro-Nazi and failed to pass on British warnings to the Hitler government about its behavior. Henderson was sent to Berlin in 1937 to try to build bridges to the Nazi regime, and tried hard to do this. But he...
Random House, 1995. — 512 p.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardThe cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies'...
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 318 p.
This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitler’s assumption of power in January 1933 to 1944, a year following the final Axis defeat in and expulsion from North Africa in May 1943. It does so within the context of two central,...
Hannover, West Germany: Self published, 1990. - 195 pgs. This book is a compilation of Germany Army organizational charts ( Kriegsstärkenachweisungen ) in force at the outbreak of World War II. This volume collects those covering armored and mechanized divisions. No division was the same as another, and some of the charts have portions recreated or extrapolated from other sources...
Greenwood, 2010. — 1322 р. — (Greenwood Encyclopedias of Modern World Wars). — ISBN: 978-0313330506. A comprehensive and integrated military, political, and strategic history of World War II, ranging from the daily life of conscripts and civilians to operational and strategic decision making at the highest levels. Hundreds of concise entries on all facets of World War II,...
Publisher: Helion and Company, 2013 -- 288 p. -- ISBN10: 190767764X, ISBN13: 978-1907677649 Days of Battle describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. Dr Norbert Számvéber the presents detailed accounts of four important clashes of German-Hungarian and Soviet armor north of the river Danube, in the southern territory of the...
Trowbridge, Wilts: Redwood Books, 1998. — 213 pgs. When he was just 19, officer John Nunneley arrived in Kenya to join the King's African Rifles, a famous colonial regiment. He first led his askaris in formerly Italian-occupied Ethiopia and Eritrea, and then in Burma's Kabaw Valley—otherwise known as the "Valley of Death"—where they fought Japan's elite White Tigers. Nunneley's...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 245 p. Over seventy years on the terrible events and outcome of the Second World War remains hugely relevant and important. Far from diminishing interest in this truly global conflict is increasing. The internet has enabled detailed research into ancestors' war records to an extent unimaginable a decade or so ago. There have been countless thousands...
Gen. Editor W.H. Chafe. — Oxford — New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. — 384 p. — (Oxford Student Companions to American History). — ISBN: 978-0-19-510800-2. The Second World War was the most deadly and costly military struggle ever fought. It is estimated that some 60 million people died as a result of it, most of them civilians. But this figure is only a guess. Despite...
Routledge, 2018. — 192 p. How British high school pupils were recruited to learn in 18 months or less what was then considered to be the most difficult language in the world, in order to become translators, interpreters and interrogators for the allied effort in the Pacific War - a staggering 648 experts in the period 1942-1947. Translated by Ann Kaneko.
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 640 p. World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to victory, he argues that in terms of production, technology and economic power, the war...
Harper, 2022. — 575 p. From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O’Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary leadership and strategy led the United States to success during World War II and beyond. By the first half of the twentieth century, technology had transformed warfare into a series of intense bloodbaths in...
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2019. — 360 p. In The Hidden Places of WWII , the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made. These are sites that were thought to be closed or locked away forever or, in some cases, thought never to exist at all, or were ignored by military historians for decades. With historical photos, contemporary photos, and written in a...
Bellona, 1988. — 218 p. Starcie pomiedzy silami niemieckimi a alianckim Korpusem Ekspedycyjnym, pomiedzy 9 kwietnia a 8 czerwca 1940 roku w okolicach portu i miasta Narwik. Wojska alianckie na dalekiej pólnocy, w okolicach Narwiku, stanowily powazne niebezpieczenstwo dla liczacego niewiele ponad 4 tys. zolnierzy zgrupowania niemieckiego dowodzonego przez gen. Eduarda Dietla....
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 373 p. World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch--a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assaults, and the Atlantic's biggest naval battle, fought across a two thousand mile span of coastline in French North Africa. The risk was enormous, the scale breathtaking, the preparations rushed,...
Pomocnik historyczny. — Wydawnictwo: Polityka. — nr 6, 2011. — 122 s. — ISBN 17300525 22 czerwca 1941 roku rozpoczęła się operacja "Barbarossa", która miała być najbłyskotliwszą z błyskawicznych wojen (Blitzkrieg) Hitlera, Miała być zwieńczeniem wizji fuhrera, do której przekonał masy Niemców: zapewnić aryjczykom przestrzeń życiową (Lebensraum) na skolonizowanym Wschodzie...
Washington: War Department, 1944. — 155 p. Separated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the First World War by the Treaty of the Trianon, the Kingdom of Hungary is a constitutional monarchy without a king. Until some future time when a king is crowned. Admiral Horthy Miklós1 rules as Regent. He is head of the government and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. In time of...
Warszawa, Amber, 2007. — 319 s. W roku 1940 wojna pomiędzy Zachodem a Związkiem Radzieckim wisiała na włosku! Czy Stalin spodziewał się ataku Wielkiej Brytanii?Jaki związek miały brytyjskie plany ze zbrodnią katyńską? Dlaczego Brytyjczycy zrezygnowali z uderzenia na ZSRR?Po raz pierwszy ujawnione nieznane zamiary Churchilla zbombardowania radzieckich pól naftowychPakt...
University Press of Kentucky, 2009. — 248 p. In the early years of World War II, it was an amazing feat for an Allied airman shot down over occupied Europe to make it back to England. By 1943, however, pilots and crew members, supplied with "escape kits," knew they had a 50 percent chance of evading capture and returning home. An estimated 12,000 French civilians helped make...
War Department, Washington 25, D. C., 23 April 1945. К началу 1945 года СССР и США были союзниками три с половиной года, но контакты простых американских солдат и красноармейцев долгое время оставались минимальными. По мере того, как Союзники двигались в Европе навстречу друг другу, становилось понятно: скоро контактов между Иваном и Джо будет хоть отбавляй. Американцы не были бы...
München: Oldenbourg, 2000. — 367 s. — (Beiträge zur Militärgeschichte, Band 46). Schon unmittelbar nach Kriegsende haben die Alliierten versucht, die Höhe der deutschen Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg zu erforschen. Es war jedoch bis heute nicht möglich, zu annähernd zuverlässigen Ergebnissen zu kommen. Der Zusammenbruch der Wehrmacht und damit des Meldewesens ab Mitte 1944 und...
Oxford University Press, 2015 - 504 p. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 479 p. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing...
2nd ed. — Penguin Books, 1999. — 464 p. Were leaders in Britain and France so scarred by the carnage of World War I that they failed to stand up to Hitler as he began his march through Europe, thus providing the spark that would become World War II? Was Czechoslovakia abandoned by Britain and France, sacrificed in the face of Hitler's aggression? In The Road to War, acclaimed...
Penguin Books, 2021. — 1040 p. Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before...
Penguin, 2010. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9780141049175. Russia's War is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history. In a vivid, often shocking narrative, Richard Overy describes the astounding events of 1941-45 in which the Soviet Union, after initial catastrophes, destroyed Hitler’s Third Reich and shaped European history for the next half Century. In Russia's...
Penguin Books, 2004. — 224 p. No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain. In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book. Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths and expose the real history of what he does not doubt was a great British victory the...
Allen Lane (Penguin Group), 2013. — 880 p. — ISBN: 9780141003214. The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifically fought a...
Black Dog and Leventhal, 2016. — 624 p. World War II represented a profound challenge to every major newspaper in the democratic world because of its sheer scale, length and complexity. No one in 1939 could possibly have foreseen a war that was to last for six years and cost at least 55 million people their lives. No one in 1939 could have predicted that a war that began with...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 479 p. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing...
Hachette Digital, 2010. — 332 p. Autumn 1940: the Front Line is now Britain itself. With invasion imminent, cities are blitzed nightly as for the first time a nation becomes the target of a campaign of aerial assault. And even after the planes have passed overhead, a deadly menace remains: thousands upon thousands of unexploded bombs. Buried under ground, their clocks ticking...
Icon Books, 2014. — 480 p. When Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess set off for Britain on a peace mission in May 1941, he launched one of the great mysteries of the Second World War. Had he really acted alone, without Hitler’s knowledge? Who were the British he had come to see? Was British intelligence involved? Award-winning historian Peter Padfield presents striking new evidence that...
Potomac Books, 2018. — 416 p. Well there it is. It won’t work, but you must bloody well make it,” said the chief of Britain’s military leaders when he gave orders to begin planning for what became known as Operation Overlord. While many view D-Day as one of the most successful operations of World War II, most aren’t aware of the intensive year of planning and political tension...
Pen and Sword Books, 2009. — 176 p. Bernard Paget enjoyed a hugely successful military career which culminated in his top level appointments in WW2. As C-in-C Home Forces and the C-in-C 21st Army Group he was responsible for preparing the Army for the long awaited Second Front in Europe in 1944. To his lasting chagrin he was not to use in battle the weapon that he had shaped...
Big Sky Publishing, 2010. — 184 p. Between 20 May and 1 June 1941 the Second World War came to the Greek island of Crete. The Commonwealth defenders consisted of Australian, New Zealand and British refugees from the doomed Greek Campaign who had not recovered from defeat. Matched against them were crack German paratroopers and mountain soldiers who had only tasted victory. Over...
Washington: Special Staff US Army, 1950. — 116 p. Pamphlet was prepared by a committee of former German officers at the EUCOM Historical Division Interrogation Enclosure, Neustadt, Germany, in late 1947 and early 1948.
Washington: Departament of Army, 1952. — 98 p. The impact of abrupt climate change on the conduct and course of hostilities on the Eastern front and the unwillingness of the Wehrmacht and the German air force to them.
Armed Forces, Department of the Army Pamphlet, 1945. — 84 p "TO THE AMERICAN SOLDIER — The purpose of the first part of this booklet is to introduce you to the Red Army soldier — the everyday "G.I." of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. You have heard and read a lot about him, now you are seeing and meeting him personally. He is your friend. He is your ally. He has fought...
Armed Forces, Department of the Army Pamphlet, 1945. — 84 p "TO THE AMERICAN SOLDIER — The purpose of the first part of this booklet is to introduce you to the Red Army soldier — the everyday "G.I." of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. You have heard and read a lot about him, now you are seeing and meeting him personally. He is your friend. He is your ally. He has fought...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 192 p. From Calais to Colditz has never been published before but readers will surely agree that the wait has been worthwhile. The author was a young platoon commander when his battalion were ordered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to defend Calais to the last man and so distract German attention from the evacuation of the BEF at Dunkirk. After an...
Da Capo Press, 1991. — 264 p. In this gripping, unusual volume, insight into the Battle of the Bulge is told through firsthand accounts by German officers. The battle, a major German offensive, caught the allied forces off-guard in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg and, lasting from December 1944 – January 1945, had devastating consequences for both sides. There were eighty-nine...
Da Capo Press, 2014. — 480 p. SS Colonel Jochen Peiper was one of the most controversial figures of World War II. Himmler's personal adjutant and Hitler's favorite tank commander, Peiper spearheaded the Ardennes Offensive and became the central subject in the famous Malmédy massacre trial. In Hitler's Warrior, Danny S. Parker crafts both a definitive biography of Hitler's most...
Frontline Books, 2019. — 666 p. ‘A bad reputation has its commitments.’ So wrote home Jochen Peiper from the fighting front in the East in 1943, characterizing his battle-hardened command during the Second World War. Peiper’s War is a new serious work of military history by the renowned author Danny S. Parker which presents a unique view off the Second World War as seen from a...
Third edition. — Fort George G. Meade, Center for Cryptologic History National Security Agency, 2013. — 90 p. This is the story of the U.S. Navy’s communications intelligence (COMINT) effort between 1924 and 1941. It traces the building of a program, under the Director of Naval Communications (OP-20), which extracted both radio and traffic intelligence from foreign military,...
Sceptre, 2019. — 320 p. The triumphant story of a group of young women who helped devised a winning strategy to defeat the Nazi U-boats and deliver a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised by Captain Gilbert Roberts and a...
N.-Y.: Potomac Books Inc. , 2005. - 637p.
Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous...
New York: Potomac Books Inc. , 2005. — 637 p. Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange’s bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike...
Independently Publishers, 2020. — 164 p. The Battle of France (1940), also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. On 3 September 1939 France had declared war on Germany, following the German invasion of Poland. In early September 1939, France began the limited Saar Offensive.
Yale University Press, 2008. — 336 p. Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? How much did Spain assist Jewish refugees? This is the first book in any language to answer these intriguing questions. Stanley Payne, a leading historian of modern Spain, explores the full range of Franco’s...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 368 p. In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island. Over the course of two short months - from 15 September 1943 to 17 November 1943 - almost 1500 men lost their lives and hundreds...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 150 p. When the Burma campaign is discussed, the turning point battles of Imphal and Kohima are most often thought of. However General Bill Slim’s bold but risky plan to outflank the Japanese on the Irrawaddy at Mandalay deserves far more credit. With the Japanese withdrawing, Slim’s 14 Army (with two Corps – XXXIII and IV) risked a punishing...
Casemate, 2015. — 208 p. Gold Run is the true story of arguably one of the greatest gold snatches in history. It is a tale of immense bravery, endurance and great leadership of loyal Norwegians, plus a little good fortune and help from the British against intrigue and overwhelming odds. The German invasion of Norway on the night of April 8th/9th 1940 almost took Norway...
New York: Avon Books, 1968. - 287 pgs. The book is the result of a writing collaboration between a commanding officer and one of his men. Colonel William R. Peers, who would later rise to the rank of Lieutenant General, was commander of Detachment 101 from December, 1943 to July 1945, and before that, the Operations and Training Officer. Dean Brelis, who later became a novelist...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 297 p. — ISBN: 0190944617. While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring and preserving the...
Columbia: University of Missouri, 1993. — 147 p. Perlmutter's hard-hitting, revisionist history of Roosevelt's foreign policy explores FDR's not-so-grand alliance with the ruthless Soviet leader. As the first Western scholar granted access to key foreign ministry documents recently declassified in the former Soviet Union, Perlmutter provides a provocative portrait of a popular...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 272 p. This book tells the story of a war unlike any other in history, fought between a nation that believed itself to be invincible, even when its strength was being systematically destroyed by the greatest industrial power in the world. Prior to the middle of the nineteenth century, the Empire of Japan was content to remain in medieval isolation and,...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 224 p. The British Airborne landings on Sicily are the least known and, without doubt, the most fraught with political and technical strife. Newly formed Air landing troops were delivered into battle in gliders they knew little about. The men of the Glider Pilot Regiment (GPR) had self-assembled the gliders while living in the empty packing cases. They...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 332 p. The Second Battle of El Alamein was a crucial turning point in the Second World War. How had Bernard Montgomery and the Eighth Army been able to turn back the might of Rommel’s Axis forces? Alamein uncovers the actions of Allied and Axis forces before and during the ferocious battle in vivid detail. It explains who the commanders were, what forces...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 295 p. A clear and compelling account of the brutal battle of Kohima that swung the balance of the Burma Campaign in World War Two. An ideal book for readers of Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor and Jonathan Dimbleby. For a fortnight in April 1944 Lieutenant-General Sato threw nearly the whole force of his division towards the Kohima Ridge. Against them stood a...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 245 p. A stirring account of one of the bravest and most effective units in the fight against Japan in World War Two. By 1942 Guam, Wake Island, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Singapore, and Burma had all fallen to Japanese forces. On the Burmese-Indian border the Allies began their fight back, but to do so they needed to know...
Sapere Books, 2021. — 342 p. The Victoria Cross is the British military’s highest and most prestigious award. During the course of World War Two, one hundred and eighty two Victoria Crosses were awarded for valour ‘in the presence of the enemy’ to men who fought on land, at sea and in the air. Although these medals are usually associated with individual acts of heroism, C. E....
Washington: Veterans of Foreign War of US, 1947. — p. 517 - 1023. Story of the Third Year Picture History of the Third Year Story of the Fourth Year Picture History of the Fourth Year
Wm.H.Wise&Co Inc, 1947. — p. 1543 - 2047. A photoghaphic record. Of all theaters of action. Chronologically arranged. Story, september through february Picture history, september-february Story, march through august Picture history, march-august
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 720 p. World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the imagination, with more than 100 million casualties. The war resulted in an almost...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 720 p. World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the imagination, with more than 100 million casualties. The war resulted in an almost...
Издательство: Transpress. 1998 г. - 194 с.
Язык: Немецкий.
Немецкие железнодорожные войска в период Второй мировой войны.
Описание: Во время Второй мировой войны роль железных дорог была огромна. Большое количество военных грузов и войск требовалось перевозить на огромные расстояния при активном противодействии партизан и авиации Союзников. Немецкие гражданские и военные...
München: Südwest Verlag, 1976
ISBN: 3517005487
258 стр., PDF 366 Mb (in 3 parts)
2,7 Millionen Pferde, große und kleine, Warm- und Kaltblüter, zogen für Führer und Vaterland ins Feld, erheblich mehr als im Ersten Weltkrieg, damals waren es "nur" 1,4 Millionen. Immerhin waren es 19 (!) Nationen, die jeweils zum letzen Mal in ihrere Geschichte ihr Kriegsglück auf dem Rücken der...
München: Südwest Verlag, 1976
ISBN: 3517005487
258 стр., PDF 366 Mb (in 3 parts)
2,7 Millionen Pferde, große und kleine, Warm- und Kaltblüter, zogen für Führer und Vaterland ins Feld, erheblich mehr als im Ersten Weltkrieg, damals waren es "nur" 1,4 Millionen. Immerhin waren es 19 (!) Nationen, die jeweils zum letzen Mal in ihrere Geschichte ihr Kriegsglück auf dem Rücken der...
München: Südwest Verlag, 1976
ISBN: 3517005487
258 стр., PDF 366 Mb (in 3 parts)
2,7 Millionen Pferde, große und kleine, Warm- und Kaltblüter, zogen für Führer und Vaterland ins Feld, erheblich mehr als im Ersten Weltkrieg, damals waren es "nur" 1,4 Millionen. Immerhin waren es 19 (!) Nationen, die jeweils zum letzen Mal in ihrere Geschichte ihr Kriegsglück auf dem Rücken der...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 1208 p. In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 1208 p. In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the...
Warszawa: RM, 2020. — 344 s. Pizzuti przygląda się historii drugiej wojny światowej przez pryzmat wydarzeń zapomnianych lub wyciszonych dla wygody. Nie opiera się na domniemaniach. Bada dostępne źródła, zgłębia literaturę przedmiotu, przedstawia fakty, a na końcu proponuje swoją interpretację historii.
Allen Lane, 2019. — 368 p. At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: the US Air Force would establish bases in Soviet-controlled territory,...
Allen Lane, 2019. — 368 p. At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was a second air front: the US Air Force would establish bases in Soviet-controlled territory,...
John Douglas Publishing, 2014. — 338 p. A ‘gritty’ history of the 4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade, from its formation in New Zealand through to its final campaign in Italy in 1945. Author Jeffrey Plowman is a well-established ‘armoured’ buff who has specialised in studying the history of New Zealand armoured fighting vehicles and units that used them. This history includes...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 144 p. Jeffrey Plowman’s photographic history traces the course of the entire Balkan campaign from the first moves of the Italians through Albania and the invasion of Jugoslavia and Bulgaria by German forces through to the battle for Greece and the final airborne assault on Crete. He gives equal weight to every stage of the campaign – he doesn’t just combine...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 160 p. It was an escape from a PoW camp as daring and fraught with danger as any immortalized by Hollywood. Yet the story is less familiar than most – as it concerns the only German prisoner of war to escape from captivity in mainland Britain and make it home during either World War. After being caught in Gibraltar during an earlier attempt to...
Warszawa: Świat Książki, 2020. — 215 s. Do wiadomości czytelników oddawana jest książka „Ucieczka z Auschwitz”. Autor książki, Andriej Pogożew - oficerem radzieckiej artylerii, który został wzięty do niewoli na początku Wielkiej Wojny Ojczyźnianej i był więźniem największego faszystowskiego obozu koncentracyjnego Auschwitz. Pogożew początkowo trafił do obozu jenieckiego, ale w...
Kraków: Avalon, 2013. — 1040 s. — ISBN 978-83-7730-047-3 Konflikt chińsko-japoński lat 1937-1945 można śmiało uznać za najbardziej zapomniany front II wojny światowej. Tymczasem był to front najdłuższy, zarówno w kilometrach, jak i w czasie trwania. Mordercze nieraz walki toczyły się przez 97 miesięcy, kapitulację zaś podpisano dopiero 9 września 1945 r. Do tego czasu tysiące...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 283 p. This book explores the development of tactical air power in Britain between 1940 and 1943 through a study of the Royal Air Force’s Army Co-operation Command. It charts the work done by the Command during its existence, and highlights the arguments between the RAF and Army on this contentious issue in Britain. Much is known about the RAF both in...
New American Library, 2011. — 336 p. A military intelligence expert examines the most formative battle of World War II. The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. Millions of soldiers battling for control of Europe were thrust onto the front lines of a massive war unlike any experienced in history. But the greatest of clashes would prove to...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 288 p. A minute-by-minute account of the morning that brought America into World War II, by the New York Times–bestselling authors of At Dawn We Slept. When dawn broke over Hawaii on December 7, 1941, no one suspected that America was only minutes from war. By nightfall, the naval base at Pearl Harbor was a smoldering ruin, and over 2,000 Americans lay...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 239 p. This book offers a revisionist interpretation of British foreign policy towards Poland and the role of the Anglo-Polish relationship during the period March-September 1939. It challenges and questions hitherto held views on the British determination to defend Poland and oppose German expansion eastwards. It includes a study of foreign...
Casemate Publishers, 2012. — 224 p. When Gen. Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines in 1942 to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later, he did return, retaking the Philippines from the Japanese. The site of his reinvasion was the central Philippine island of Leyte. The Japanese high command decided to make Leyte the "decisive battle"...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 264 p. The Ninth Army came into existence in May 1944, under the command of General William Hood Simpson, himself a rather unknown but highly successful ground commander. By late August, the Ninth Army was ready to join the crusade in Europe. Known by its radio call sign "Conquer," they landed at Utah Beach, France, on August 28 and 29. They were...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 350 p. By the fall of 1944 the Western Allies appeared to be having it all their own way. The summer’s Normandy invasion had finally succeeded and the Germans had been driven out of northern France and most of the Low Countries. In September the invasion of France’s southern coast had met less opposition and Allied divisions had begun lining up...
Casemate, 2012. — 239 p. In July 1944, the 9,000-man Japanese garrison on the island of Tinian listened warily as the thunder of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army and Air Corps, descended on their neighboring island, Saipan, just three miles away. There were 20,000 Japanese troops on Saipan, but the US obliterated the opposition after a horrific all-arms campaign. The...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 224 p. Now available in paperback, Shot from the Sky uncovers one of the great, dark secrets of World War II: neutral Switzerland shot and forced down U.S. aircraft entering Swiss airspace and imprisoned the survivors in internment camps, detaining more than a thousand American flyers between 1943 and the war's end. While conditions at the camps...
Yale University Press, 2015. - 360 p. From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler’s Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain’s defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat. In this cogently argued book, Robin Prior delves into the documents of the time—war...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011. — 400 p. Before 1939, Canada's shipbuilding industry had been moribund for nearly two decades - no steel-hulled, ocean-going vessel had been built since 1921. During the Second World War, however, Canada's shipbuilding program became a major part of the nation's industrial effort. Shipyards were expanded and more than a thousand warships...
Big Sky Publishing, 2022. — 224 p. At the outbreak of World War II, somewhat by accident — and just as the first shots of the war were fired — young Australian airmen from the Royal Australian Air Force were engaged in operations that would become known collectively as the Battle of the Atlantic. Arguably lesser-known than air campaigns in other theatres, large numbers of...
The History Press, 2014. — 256 p. Adolf Hitler would have given anything to see such headlines in 1940. Five years later, half a million German soldiers, sailors and airmen did find themselves in the UK - but as prisoners of the British government. Using recently declassified documents, this book reveals how Britain - in defiance of the Geneva Convention - went on to detain...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 265 p. The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy tells the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of ordinary people who did...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 352 p. The evacuation of Dunkirk has been immortalised in books, prints and films, narrated as a story of an outnumbered, inexperienced RAF defeating the battle-hardened Luftwaffe and protecting the evacuation. This book revives the historiography by analysing the air operations during the evacuation. Raffal draws from German and English sources,...
Greenwood Group, 1998. — 304 p. The China-Burma-India campaign of the Asian/Pacific war of World War II was the most complex, if not the most controversial, theater of the entire war. Guerrilla warfare, commando and special intelligence operations, and air tactics originated here. The literature is extensive and this book provides an evaluative survey of that vast literature. A...
The History Press, 2011. — 160 p. The Battle of the Bulge marked one of the final, desperate struggles between German and Allied forces in Europe during the last stages of the Second World War. If you want to understand what happened and why - read Battle Story. Key profiles explore the Allied forces pitted against the German army. Fifteen detailed maps track the progress of...
The History Press, 2013. — 224 p. Between December 1941 and July 1945 the Allied Heads of State met nine times to decide the ongoing strategy of World War II with their chiefs of staff. President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill decided the strategies for the Mediterranean and the Far East at the Arcadia conference in December 1941, reconvening in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2005. — 295 p. By Spring 1945, with the Russians closing fast on Berlin from the East, the US and British Armies of Patton and Montgomery were faced with one major hurdle, the Rhine. Heavily defended by the Nazis, this obstacle would only be crossed by a massive operation requiring meticulous planning and bold execution. The resulting operation involving...
Random House, 1969. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0895770296, ISBN13: 978-0895770295. The book has a lot of 1st person stories from the war. There are maps, photos & short breakdowns of each theatre of operations & the major battles in them. The combination of good writing and great photography, In this book the editors of the Reader's Digest present in text and photographs the story of...
The History Press, 2013. — 848 p. War in the Wilderness is the most comprehensive account ever published of the human aspects of the Chindit war in Burma. The word ‘Chindit’ will always have a special resonance in military circles. Every Chindit endured what is widely regarded as the toughest sustained Allied combat experience of the Second World War. The Chindit expeditions...
Bennington, Vermont: The Merriam Press, n.d. (c. 1985). - 15 pgs. This is a reprint by Merriam Press (Military Study #167) of a report written in 1948 by Captain George A. Reed, US Army Field Artillery, held in manuscript by The National Archives. It is the almost unknown story of self-propelled 75mm guns on half-tracks, manned by US-Filipino crews, which fought the Japanese...
New York: Public Affairs, 2006. — 327 p. — ISBN10: 9781586483579; ISBN13: 978-1586483579. This vivid and harrowing narrative history of the most notorious concentration camp of the Holocaust preserves the authentic voices of survivors and perpetrators. The largest mass murder in human history took place in World War II at Auschwitz. Yet its story is not fully known. In...
Public Affairs, 2021. — 560 p. An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 312 p. The war in the South Pacific in its entirety has remained remarkably neglected by historians. This is the first comprehensive narrative history covering all land, sea and air operations in the theater to the end of World War II. While Guadalcanal is familiar to most Americans and the Kokoda Trail is well known to Australians, the war in the...
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 176 р. — ISBN: 978-1526700599. Voices of the Second World War: A Child's Perspective is a collection of firsthand accounts from people who experienced the Second World War from all over Europe: stretching from Russia to the Channel Islands, and Norway to Malta. While some children appear to have been hardly aware of the war, for those who lived through...
Routledge, 2019. — 255 p. 50 years ago, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and brought a reluctant America into World War II. Armed with fresh materials, which have become available only in the last decade, Renzi and Roehrs take a critical look at the decisive Japanese-American episodes in "The Great Pacific War". Unlike standard histories of World War II, "Never Look Back" includes...
Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 142. — 54 p. President’s Letter of Transmittal Lend-Lease Authority Lend-Lease Progress Lend-Lease in Action Master Agreements and Reciprocal Aid Mechanics of Lend-Lease Appendix Lend-Lease Act Amounts of Lend-Lease Aid Authorized British Master Agreement British White Paper of September 10, 1941 Declaration by United Nations
Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 142. — 54 p. President’s Letter of Transmittal Lend-Lease Authority Lend-Lease Progress Lend-Lease in Action Master Agreements and Reciprocal Aid Mechanics of Lend-Lease Appendix Lend-Lease Act Amounts of Lend-Lease Aid Authorized British Master Agreement British White Paper of September 10, 1941 Declaration by United Nations
Facsimile Reprint. — General Staff, 1992. — 490 p., ill. The Reports of General MacArthur include two volumes being published by the Department of the Army in four books reproduced exactly as they were printed by General MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters in 1950, except for the addition of this foreword and indexes. Since they were Government property, the general turned over to...
Regnery History, 2019. — 396 p. — ISBN: 978-1-621577-35-X. He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard of. Sidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps. He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 255 p. On 9 April 1940, the German Armed Forces seized Norway and Denmark in an operation remarkable for its precision and boldness. The Chamberlain War Cabinet was caught on the hop and responded with ineptitude. While this book examines the making of grand strategy it is first and foremost the story of this ill-fated campaign. It describes the...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 32 p. The planning and execution of Operation Weserübung 1940 was the first major joint operation of its kind in history utilizing naval, ground, air, and airborne forces. Its conduct proves to be one of the most noteworthy applications of operational art and the principles of war during all of World War II. The principles of surprise and...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 323 p. In this compelling new study of the disastrous 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, Matthew Richardson reconstructs in vivid detail the British army’s defeat as it was experienced by the soldiers of a single battalion, the 2nd/5th Leicesters. These men typified the ill-equipped, under-trained British battalions that faced the blitzkrieg and the...
Lucknow Books, 2015. — 68 p. The objective of this study is to determine if the German “blitzkrieg” and Fall Gelb of 1940 were an expression of operational art. Despite the mythology surrounding Fall Gelb, the campaign does not constitute a major breakthrough in operational art by the Germans. Fall Gelb was not an expression of operational art. This conclusion is based upon an...
Konecky and Konecky, 2008. — 224 р. These are the complete wartime correspondence between the leaders of the Allied Forces. Released with the cooperation of the Russian government, these revealing and often starkly frank communiques between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin add to our understanding of the course of World War II an indispensable horde of information. Through them,...
University Press of Kentucky, 2011. — 528 p. In the winter of 1944--1945, Hitler sought to divide Allied forces in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Luxembourg and Belgium. He deployed more than 400,000 troops in one of the last major German offensives of the war, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge, in a desperate attempt to regain the strategic initiative in the...
University of Toronto Press, 2010. — 410 p. Based on a wide range of sources, The Politics of Command will redefine how military historians and all Canadians look not only at "Andy" McNaughton, but the Canadian Army as well. Early Life and the Crucible of the First World War. The Road to High Command. The Problem of deploying the Army.
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J. Rieber explores the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination. The study takes an original approach to the region based on the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J. Rieber explores the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination. The study takes an original approach to the region based on the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J. Rieber explores the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination. The study takes an original approach to the region based on the...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 224 p. Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, and the British Joint Staff Mission. Readers...
Charles River Publishers, 2015. — 201 p. By the spring of 1943, American military planners had begun to create a plan to dislodge Japan from east and southeast Asia. To do so, parts of the Philippines were considered main strategic points in the potential Allied attack in the Pacific. The end goal of the Allied plan was an invasion of the Japanese home islands, in which heavy...
Online edition, 2009. — 735 p. — ISBN: 9780061874499 Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, George Marshall and Alan Brooke met for the first time in the Oval Office of the White House at noon on Sunday 21 June 1942. Scheduled as a routine strategy session, it was to turn into one of the most significant moments of the Second World War. Roosevelt and Churchill had arrived...
Harper Collins Books, 2014. — 691 p. An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan...
Harper Collins, 2011. — 800 p. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better-told military history of World War II. Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. From the western front to...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 208 p. Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. “I ran into a new problem when we walked,” Stewart wrote, “the shorts and I didn’t get along. They would crawl up on me all the time.” Complaints of physical discomfort like Stewart’s―or...
Монография. — New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995. — 230 p. Книга американского исследователя Робина об одной из самых малоизученных тем истории второй мировой войны - о содержании с 1942 по 1946 гг. немецких военнопленных в лагерях на территории США. Подобные исследования (качественного уровня) можно пересчитать по пальцам даже на Западе, не говоря уже об...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 359 p. To understand the turnaround in Spain’s stance towards Japan during World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich - as London ironically replied when it learned of Spain’s warmongering against one of the Axis...
Routledge, 2003. — 288 p. World War II laid the groundwork for much of the international system that exists today, especially in the Pacific Rim. This brief but comprehensive survey of the War in the Pacific incorporates both United States and Japanese perspectives, providing a global approach to the Asian theater of the conflict. Drawing on decades of new scholarship and...
The History Press, 2017. — 289 p. In autumn 1943 the Italian-held Dodecanese was the setting for the last decisive German invasion of the Second World War – and the last irreversible British defeat. After the Italian armistice that followed the downfall of Mussolini, Churchill seized the opportunity to open a new front in the eastern Mediterranean, thereby increasing the...
London: Greenhill, 2001. - 319 pgs. The Bloody Road to Tunis is a sweeping look at the ejection of the Axis forces from Tunisia by the British and American armies in 1942-1943. Most American readers are familiar with the battles around Kasserine Pass. While these are undoubtedly important for the development of the US Army in World War II, they are but a small part of the overall...
Little, Brown and Company, 1962. — 246 p. The Fortunes Of War: Four Great Battles Of World War II was a quick read. Four battles: Tarawa; Stalingrad; D-Day; Battle of the Bulge are covered in Rooney's quirky way but more seriously than his TV vignettes on 60 Minutes would become. Very American-centric in his reports on these battles but in line with the thinking of the war at that...
London: Arms and Armour, 1992. - 208 p. In the final years of World War II, the campaign against Japan stepped up in a series of bloody battles with each side having much to lose. While much of the history of the period focuses on the Pacific Campaign and the American island hopping, this book studies the 'forgotten war' and the Allied fight to push the Japanese out of Burma....
New Studies in European History. Cambridge UP. 2005. - 526 с. На английском языке. (Отсканированный PDF c OCR слоем). Размышления об альтернативном исходе второй мировой войны. What if the Nazis had triumphed in World War II? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped Berlin for the jungles of Latin America in 1945? What if Hitler had become a successful artist instead of a politician?...
Appleton, WI: Rosholt House II, 1978. - 188 pgs. (Part 1 of 2) In the summer of 1941, months before America was drawn into World War II by the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small group of American military pilots was secretly being recruited to augment China's Air Force. These roughly 100 pilots and 200 support crew were officials known as "The First American Volunteer Group" or...
Appleton, WI: Rosholt House II, 1978. - 188 pgs. (Part 2 of 2) In the summer of 1941, months before America was drawn into World War II by the attack on Pearl Harbor, a small group of American military pilots was secretly being recruited to augment China's Air Force. These roughly 100 pilots and 200 support crew were officials known as "The First American Volunteer Group" or...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 239 p. An exciting, evocative memoir of combat in North Africa, danger behind enemy lines, and two daring escapes. In this action-packed account, a Welch Regiment officer describes his remarkable Second World War experiences. These include his baptism by fire in the Western Desert against Rommel’s armor in 1942; the spontaneous help of nomad Arabs when he...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 64 p. — ISBN10: 1849081751. — ISBN13: 978-1849081757. Following Churchill's directive to 'set occupied Europe ablaze,' the SOE and later its American sister organization, the OSS, were deployed across the continent. Outnumbered, surrounded and in great peril, these brave agents were armed with a wide variety of devices to help them achieve their...
Paperback: 64 pages. Publisher: Osprey Publishing; 1st Ed. edition (April 21, 2009). Language: English. ISBN10: 1846034507. ISBN13: 978-1846034503. Booby traps laid by troops in war zones in World War II (1939-1945) are largely neglected in histories and memoirs, and rarely examined in detail. Yet for a soldier, the threat of booby traps was hugely significant and the ability...
Greenwood Press, 2002. — 477 p. Covering all Pacific islands involved in World War II military operations, this book is a detailed, single source of information on virtually every geo-military aspect of the Pacific Theater. Arranged regionally and, to the extent possible, chronologically according to when islands entered the war, entries provide complete background information....
Concord Publications Company, 2006. — 54 p.
This 54 page photo book from Concord examines the early World War II German soldiers who, as the pioneers of a new type of warfare; the Blitzkrieg, would overrun Western Europe and ultimately take control of Continental Europe. All within 43 days of the spring of 1940.
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 296 p. The defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 Japanese soldiers made the World War II Battle for Malaya an important encounter for both political and military reasons. British military prestige was shattered, fanning the fires of nationalism in Asia, especially in India. Japan's successful tactics in Malaya―rapid marches, wide...
Routledge, 2019. — 277 p. Fighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not. Focusing on the learning culture of the British Imperial Forces, it looks at the Allied campaign during the Second World War against the Afrika Korps of Rommel. The volume highlights the hitherto unexplored yet key role of the British Indian Army, the largest...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 401 p. The Second World War remains a defining chapter in modern world history. Colonial India's involvement in the war has often been studied against the backdrop of the ongoing freedom struggle, the varying attitudes of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, and the formation of the Azad Hind Fauj under Subhas Chandra Bose. Moving...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 459 p. — (History of Warfare 106). During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) suffered one of its greatest defeats in Burma. Both in Malaya and Burma, the bulk of the British Commonwealth forces comprised Indian units. Few people know that by 1944, about 70 percent of the Allied ground personnel in Burma was composed of...
Routledge, 2018. — 288 p. — (Asian States and Empires 15). This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the land war during the Second World War in South-East Asia and the South and South-West Pacific. The extensive existing literature focuses on particular armies – Japanese, British, American, Australian or Indian – and/or on particular theatres – the...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 384 p. Winston Churchill described Wingate as a ‘man of genius who might well have become a man of destiny’. Tragically, he died in an jungle aircraft crash in 1944. Like his famous kinsman Lawrence of Arabia, Wingate was renowned for being an unorthodox soldier, inclined to reject received patterns of military thought. He was a fundamentalist Christian...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. — 357 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-14090-3. During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impact on the course of World War II, remained secret...
Cambridge, Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1979. — 210 p. The author, Vice-Admiral Friedrich Ruge, served in the German navy from 1914 through 1945, then again when it was reborn in 1955. Hence, from his planning of various German naval operations during World War II and then as an intelligence officer researching the Soviet navy during the 1950s, Ruge has the expertise to write on this...
Winged Hussar Publishing, 2018. — 288 p. In September 1939, Nazi Germany initiated the second world war by invading Poland. William Russ has compiled a highly detailed study of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, examining, the actions of every group on a daily basis. This book explores the campaign down to the regimental level from the German perspective, listing...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. - 158 pgs. The Japanese attack on the Philippines started on December 8, 1941, just ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. American aircraft were entirely destroyed on the ground. Japanese troops landed at the Lingayen Gulf on December 22 and advanced across central Luzon towards Manila. MacArthur concentrated his troops on the...
Simon and Schuster, 1995. — 672 p. The classic account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War II. A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day. In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates...
Pen & Sword Military, 2007. — 226 p. Unlike the few other books written on the catastrophic fall of Crete in May 1941, this book concentrates on the military actions between the first German paratroop landing on 20 May and the final defeat and evacuation on 30 May. As well as studying the strengths, tactics, leadership and weapons of both sides, the book contains numerous graphic...
Routledge, 2022. — 224 p. This book discusses the untold story of North East India’s role during the Second World War and its resultant socio-economic and political impact. It goes beyond standard campaign histories and the epicentre of the Kohima-Imphal battlefields to the Brahmaputra and Surma Valley of Assam―the administrative and political hub of the region, where decisions...
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. — XV, 356 p. — ISBN: 1-57806-482-1
I want to emphasize for the reader that «The War of Our Childhood» is not a book about politics or ideology. Nor is it a book about right or wrong, about war or blame. Rather, it is a connected narrative about the consequences of war visited upon children. Although many of the stories reflect the...
Welcome Books, 2010. — 226 p. World War II remains one of the most galvanizing and defining events in the history of America. Seemingly overnight, the entire nation unified behind a singular cause. By 1945, the size of the U.S. armed forces had grown from two to twelve million men and women of every color, religion, and creed. Young people from every walk of life were inducted and...
Frontline Books, 2014. — 224 p. War is the story of individuals painted into a broader tapestry of overpowering events. While examining the wider historical perspective to lay the foundation, this book relates the individual stories of the Second World War of Allied bomber pilots shot down over Germany, of American dog faces fighting to grip a toehold on Iwo Jima, of men...
Pocket Books, 2008. — 224 р. On the battlefields of World War II, the men of the African American 761st Tank Battalion under General Patton broke through enemy lines with the same courage with which they broke down the racist limitations set upon them by others—proving themselves as tough, reliable, and determined to fight as any tank unit in combat. Beginning in November 1944,...
Combat Studies Institute, 1982 — 66 p. (eng)
One of the more perplexing problems contemporary military planners face is that of conducting night operations. Psychologically, night has always been a realm of the unknown and the uncertain, magnified by imagination. While dealing with this psychological barrier to the conduct of battle at night, the soldier must also cope with a...
Pen and Sword Books, 2018. — 176 p. On 21 May 1940 during the ill-fated Dunkirk Campaign the British launched an operation spearheaded by two tank regiments to help secure the city of Arras. This was the only significant armored operation mounted by the British during the campaign.Poorly coordinated and starting badly, the Matilda tanks ran into the flanks of Rommel’s...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 280 p. This is the story of the fighting in Normandy by the veteran desert formations brought back by Montgomery from the Mediterranean in order to spearhead the invasion; 50th Infantry and 7th Armoured divisions, plus 4th Armoured Brigade. Heavily reinforced by individuals and fresh units, their task beyond the beaches was to push south to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 377 p. — ISBN 978-1-52678-423-0. This is the story of the fighting in Normandy by the veteran desert formations brought back by Montgomery from the Mediterranean in order to spearhead the invasion; 50th Infantry and 7th Armoured divisions, plus 4th Armoured Brigade. Heavily reinforced by individuals and fresh units, their task beyond the beaches...
Pen & Sword Military, 2005. — 224 p. In 1942, with the outcome of the war very much in the balance, there was a pressing need for military success on mainland Europe. Churchill ordered Admiral Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations HQ to take the war to the Germans. The Canadians were selected for the Dieppe raid, which, while a morale raiser, was a disaster. Over 3,000 men were...
Pen and Sword, 2022. — 328 p. He who holds Hill 112 holds Normandy’ seemed an unlikely maxim when the hill is viewed from a distance, but on reaching its plateau, the vistas unfold in every direction across a huge swath of Normandy. For the Germans it was their vital defensive ground, but for the British it was an essential stepping-stone en route to the River Orne and access...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 158 p. By late March 1945, Second British Army and Ninth US Army were poised to carry out an assault crossing of the Rhine. In the British part of the operations, Montgomery's best assault divisions were assembled to carry out the British and Canadian part of the attack between Emmerich and Wesel.A commando brigade and two Scottish divisions carried out...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 528 p. In Spring 1945 the outcome of the war was ritually certain but the mighty River Rhine still stood in the way of the Allies. Eisenhower's strategy was to guarantee a crossing in the Ruhr area by allocating the main effort to Montgomery's 21st Army Group. Montys task was to envelope and take out the last German war production and open the...
New York: Garland, 1989. - 1050 p. With over 5,200 entries, this volume remains one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA’s fight against Japan in the Second World War. Including books, articles, and de-classified documents up to the end of 1987, the book is organized into six categories: Part 1 presents reference works, including encyclopedias, pictorial...
Greenhill Books, 2019. — 288 p. It is hard to believe that in the summer of 1940, neither the Allies nor the Axis powers had any experience of large amphibious operations. German planning for Operation Sealion was concerned with pioneering new techniques and developing specialized landing craft. Remarkably, in only two months they prepared an invasion fleet of 4,000 vessels. In...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 205 p. It Investigates the reasons why It took mobile and well supported elements of the U.S. Army ten days to Subdue a defending German military force that was very much in character. After setting the battle In the context of Nazl Germany and the Aschaffenburg region just prior to the fight. The study takes the reader through the battle...
Laterza, 2019. — 340 p. Era il 22 dicembre 1942 quando migliaia di soldati tedeschi e italiani si trovarono fianco a fianco nel tentativo di salvarsi da un violento attacco dell'Armata Rossa ad Arbusov. Vitto, munizioni, medicinali e carburante erano finiti e le truppe sovietiche, in vantaggio numerico, li avevano accerchiati e li bersagliavano senza sosta. Poi un giovane...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 616 p. Hitler's decision to declare war on the United States has baffled generations of historians. In this revisionist new history of those fateful months, Klaus H. Schmider seeks to uncover the chain of events which would incite the German leader to declare war on the United States in December 1941. He provides new insights not...
Washington, National Archives and Records Administration, 2008. — 380 p. This reference information paper describes records relating to the Nazioperated Mauthausen Concentration Camp Complex. These records of both U.S. civil and military agencies include documentation developed through wartime intelligence and reconnaissance, captured during the camps’ liberation, and generated...
Blacksmith Publishing, 2019. — 232 p. December 8, 1941 brought the armed might of Japan to the Philippines as part of Japan’s effort to bring the Filipinos into the Greater East Asia Prosperity Sphere. Japan accepted the surrender of the Philippines in May, 1942. As the occupation of the Philippine nation by Japan commenced, a resistance movement was born among the defeated...
Facts on File, 2003. — 481 p. — (Eyewitness History Series). World War II presents a unique blend of perspectives about what it felt like to be an American during the Second World War and the years that immediately preceded and followed it. This work examines how Americans faced the events and circumstances that shaped their lives during this difficult period. The differences...
The History Press, 2014. — 256 p. In 1942 a Catalina crew of 219 Squadron, based in the Shetlands, was selected to carry out a series of top secret operations, including a flight to the North Pole. They were made at the same time as a Norwegian expedition to Spitzbergen to keep the Germans out of the area. The flights were over 24 hours long and reached the limits of human...
London: Frontline Books, 2009. - 192 p. Erwin Rommel, Hitler’s so-called ‘Desert Fox’, is possibly the most famous German Field-Marshal of WWII. He is widely regarded as the one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare and, in contrast to other leaders of Nazi Germany, is considered to have been a chivalrous and humane officer. The letters of his adjutant provide a...
NYU Press, 2007. — 340 p. Choice Outstanding Academic Title Even in the midst of World War II, Americans could not help thinking of the lands across the Pacific as a continuation of the American Western frontier. But this perception only heightened American soldiers' frustration as the hostile region ferociously resisted their attempts at control. The GI War Against Japan...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 340 p. A new telling of the brutal siege of Bastogne, where vastly outnumbered American forces held off a savage German onslaught and sealed the fate of the Third Reich. Hitler’s last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded, and almost...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 372 p. The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian campaign in the East between 1941 and 1943, as well as how the campaign was...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. — 179 p. What was the relationship between the Alps and the Resistance during the Italian Social Republic? This book explores the function of the Alps as a center of battles, violence, and opposition to fascism, as well as the cradle of political debate destined to forge modern Italian and European democracy.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1943. - 215 pgs. Seagrave was a medical missionary in Burma before World War II. The book begins with stories from his decades in the hill districts of northern Burma. It concludes with the Japanese invasion in 1941 when he became a lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He and his Kachin nurses set up a military hospital and ended up...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 224 p. It's been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened – but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during World War Two (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service. Churchill's Last Wartime Secret reveals the remarkable story...
New York: American Heritage Publishing, Horizon Caravel Book, 1967. -155 pgs. The struggle for the north African coast of the Mediterranean-a struggle for oil and airfields and strategic position-was unlike any other campaign of World War II. This narrative of the three-year-long seesaw battle makes extensive use of eyewitness accounts and is illustrated with photographs,...
New Word City, 2014. — 95 p. The struggle for North Africa was unlike any other campaign of World War II. The desert proved a real test of generalship, pitting Germany's Erwin Rommel against Britain's Bernard Montgomery and America's George Patton. Here, from award-winning military historian Stephen W. Sears, is the dramatic story of the generals, politicians, and soldiers who...
Simon and Schuster, 2007. — 119 p. In the middle of December 1944, at a time when most people thought Germany was finished, the German army launched a surprise attack against the American army in Belgium. Thousands of crack troops and large numbers of tanks breached the thin American lines and drove deep into Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge would be a brutal, bloody struggle...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 720 p. In May of 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany were marching through France. In the face of this devastating advance, one of World War II’s greatest acts of heroism would be a retreat: the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk. In Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man, we are given an unprecedented vision of these harrowing days. Hugh Sebag-Montefiore...
Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2019. — 146 p. — (Images of War). — ISBN: 978-1-52673-157-9. Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945 is a compelling account of the Nazis' ten month struggle against the overwhelming Allied military might on the Western Front. Thanks to the successful Images of War format of authoritative text supported by copious, well captioned contemporary...
Concord Publications Co., 2011. — 54 p. Battles of Smolensk & Roslavl (1941) is written by Hans Seidler and published by Concord Publications Company. The book is an illustrated history of the pivotal battles early during the German invasion of Russia. It comes with commentary and black and white photos. The book features several color plates of soldiers in uniform.
Casemate Publishers, 2022. — 192 p. "Die Wehrmacht im Kampf" Battles and Problems of the Second World War is a series originally edited by Hermann Teske and published in German in the 1950s and 1960s. Written by former members of the German Army in World War II, it provides valuable and historically significant information on the perspective of the German Army of many crucial...
Routledge, 2008. — 584 p. The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II is a concise, comprehensive guide for students, teachers, and history buffs of the Second World War. With an emphasis on the American forces in these theaters, each entry is accompanied by a brief annotation that will allow researchers to navigate through the vast amount of literature on...
The History Press, 2017. — 224 p. For almost sixty years after their deaths, three men, whose brave actions shortened the Second World War by as much as two years, remained virtually unknown and uncelebrated. Two lost their lives retrieving vital German codebooks from a sinking U-boat. The third survived the war, only to die in a house fire soon afterwards. But it was the...
Columbus, 2004. — 194 s. Jazyk: český jazyk. Nejděsivější konflikt v dějinách Kniha je chronologickou historií válečného konfliktu. Jsou v ní popisovány události na všech bojištích, rozhodující bitvy, stejně jako boje ve vzduchu a na moři. Součástí knihy jsou i zvláštní kapitoly pojednávající o klíčových osobnostech války. Vše je doplněno spoustou dokumentárních fotografií....
Harper Collins, 2020. — 368 p. An unforgettable soldier’s-eye view of the Pacific War’s bloodiest battle, by the first American officer ashore Okinawa. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa. The men were there to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. War...
Washington: Marine Corps Historical Center, 1992. — 52 p. In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands triggered a demand for offensive action in the South Pacific. The leading offensive advocate in Washington was Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). In the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 248 p. The German part in the 19 August 1942 Dieppe raid has largely been ignored. Launched by Winston Churchill to appease his Soviet counterparts, Operation JUBILEE was one of the Allies’ greatest debacles of the war. The majority of the 6,100 soldiers and marines dispatched by Lord Louis Mountbatten were captured or killed. Just 2,211 of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 262 p. Cutting-edge case studies examine the partisan and anti-partisan warfare which broke out across German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War Two (1939-1945), showing how it was shaped in varied ways by factors including fighting power, political and economic structures, ideological and psychological influences, and the attitude of the wider...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 664 p. For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 351 p. Germany’s 1941 seizure of Yugoslavia led to an insurgency as bloody as any in World War II. The Wehrmacht waged a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in response, and by 1943 German troops in Yugoslavia were engaged in operations that ranked among the largest of the entire European war. Their actions encompassed massive reprisal shootings,...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 136 p. — ISBN10: 1137347686; ISBN13: 978-1137347688. Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance. This groundbreaking work examines training and combat experiences of soldiers working in Battalion Aid Stations...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2001. — 160 p. — (Battleground Europe Series). — ISBN10: 0850527368, ISBN13: 978-0850527360. The fortunes of war and clear-headed decisions by commanders on the scene combined to make Utah Beach the most successful and least costly of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. Strong ocean currents and the confusion of battle placed the landing force a mile...
Pen and Sword Books, 2008. — 224 p. This is the story of a young officer in the Indian Army who commanded a company in the Burma Campaign of 1943 to 1945. It covers the part played by the author and his unit in the long campaign to recover Burma, starting with the fierce close-quarter fighting in the jungles and rice-fields in the Arakan in which the Japanese suffered their...
Thomas Nelson, 2021. — 528 p. Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower. In the long-awaited follow-up to the widely praised December 1941, Craig Shirley's April 1945 paints a...
Random House, 2013. — 368 p. One of America’s most distinguished military historians offers the definitive account of the greatest tank battle of World War II—an epic clash of machines and men that matched the indomitable will of the Soviet Red Army against the awesome might of the Nazi Wehrmacht. While the Battle of Kursk has long captivated World War II aficionados, it has been...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2009. — 400 p. Determined to secure a quick, decisive victory on the World War II battlefields, Adolf Hitler adopted an attack plan that combined tools with technique- the formidable Panzer divisions. Self-contained armored units able to operate independently, the Panzers became the German army's fighting core as well as its moral focus, establishing...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 304 p. What would have happened if war had come a year earlier in 1938? Or if the Allies had been repulsed on D-Day? There are many points at which the course of the Second World War could have been significantly altered, whether by chance, the weather or the decision of commanders. In this book a team of 19 historians assesses what might have been,...
Infantry journal Press, 1947. — 566 р. An extraordinary job -- this comprehensive picture of all phases of World War II, which, in spite of the many military details of warfare in all parts of the world, never neglects the significance of the individual campaign or battle and its relationship to the overall military picture. Full credit is given each country for its...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 310 р. In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from the savage wartime behaviors so common across Europe. Employing a multi-tiered...
Anchor Books, 2009. — 384 p. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes...
Pen and Sword Books, 2021. — 182 p. In the Second World War, Poznań was a key river crossing and railway junction on the Polish-German border. When the alarm was given indicating the Red Army's approach in January 1945, the city's 80-100,000 German civilians were speedily evacuated, leaving a garrison of some 15,000 men, mostly poorly-armed infantry, to face the rigors of a...
Pen and Sword Books, 1991. — 224 p. On September 11, 1944, the British submarine "Porpoise" slipped quietly from Fremantle Harbour, bound for Indonesia. It was carrying the 23 Australian and British members of Operation Rimau who, under the leadership of the remarkable Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Lyon of the Gordon Highlanders, intended to repeat the successful Jaywick raid of 1943...
Basic Books, 2021. — 528 p. A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States. By early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2017. — 240 p. An alphabetical account of the part in the Second World War played by the ‘Kipper Fleet’ as it was known in the RAF. Coastal Command often lacked resources compared with other home commands, giving it its other nickname of the ‘Cinderella Service’. Its main role was defensive – that of protecting Britain’s vital sea borne supply lines in...
Battlefront miniatures Ltd, 2010. — 87 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9864514-4-7. The Soviet Invasion of Eastern Europe October 1944 - February 1945 Our very latest Late-war Eastern Front book for Flames Of War isStalin’s Europe. It’s a project I’ve been working on over the last year and combines a whole bunch of my favourite World War II subjects. The book covers the Soviet invasion of...
Battlefront Miniatures Ltd., 2008. — 74 p. Great book if you are interested in the German 21st Panzer or several British and Canadian units. Offers great organizational charts for making Tank Companies, Infantry or mechanized lists. Full color. Lots of great pictures and info for Flames of War. This is a campaign book set in the aftermath of Normandy and the focus is the series of...
Wrocław: Ace Publication, 1994. ― 44 s. ― ISBN 8386153059. Wstęp 22 czerwca 1941 roku rozpoczęła się najdłuższa i najbardziej krwawa kampania II wojny światowej. W czasie czterech lat walk front wschodni pochłonął miliony istnień ludzkich, setki tysięcy czołgów, dział i samolotów. Istotną rolę w tych zaciętych zmaganiach odegrało lotnictwo, wielokrotnie decydując o przebiegu...
Wrocław: Ace Publication, 1993. ― 51s. Bitwa o Anglię Latem 1940 Hitler miał przed sobą ostatnią przeszkodę na drodze do panowania nad zachodnią Europą. Wielka Brytania była osamotniona i wobec niemieckiej machiny wojennej pozornie pozbawiona szans. W tej sytuacji Hitler liczył na kapitulację Londynu. Ale Brytyjczycy mieli za przywódcę Winstona Churchilla, który wówczas był...
The Crowood press, 2004. — 200 p. Comparative table of ranks The Bismarck Operation Berlin Preparing for the operation Operation Rheinubung begins First blood After the battle Bismarck alone The Home Fleet`s hunt Night Approaches The Final battle Home Fleet returns Damages to the Bismarck
University of Hawaii Press, 2023. — 368 p. Target: Pearl Harbor takes a fresh look at the air raid that plunged America into World War II by scrutinizing the decisions and attitudes that prompted the attack and left the United States unprepared to mount a successful defense. The core of the book concerns the events of December 7, 1941, as seen through the eyes of participants,...
Routledge Curzon, 2004. — 227 p. The neutrality pact between Japan and the Soviet Union, signed in April 1941, lapsed only nine months before its expiry date of April 1946 when the Soviet Union attacked Japan. Japan's neutrality had enabled Stalin to move Far Eastern forces to the German front where they contributed significantly to Soviet victories from Moscow to Berlin....
Cooper Square Press, 1956. — 622 p. Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated...
Simon Schuster, 2005. — 325 p. A Band of Brothers for the Pacific, this is the gut-wrenching but ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious -- yet largely forgotten -- battle of World War II. Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting on a hellish little coral island in the Pacific. Peleliu...
Simon and Schuster, 2009. — 416 p. The Ultimate Battle tells the full story of the Battle of Okinawa as it has never been told before, utilizing the same up-close narrative style and "grunt's-eye" view of the action that distinguishes Sloan's Brotherhood of Heroes from other war books. It is a gripping story of heroism, sacrifice, and death in the largest land-sea-air operation...
Da Capo Press, 2017. — 304 p. The Battle of Saipan lasted twenty-five hellish days in the summer of 1944, and the stakes couldn't have been higher. If Japan lost possession of the island, all hope for victory would be lost. For the Americans, its capture would result in secure air bases for the new B-29s that would put them within striking distance of the Japanese homeland. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 327 p. From the 1950s onward, Americans were quite receptive to a view of World War II similar to the view held by many Germans and military personnel on how the war was fought on the Eastern Front in Russia. Through a network of formerly high-ranking Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr officers who had served on the Eastern Front, Germans were able to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 276 p. The Battlefield General game books put you in command of the forces engaged in some of history's most famous battles. Your ability to make the right tactical decision will be tested at every turn of the page. The 2nd Battle of El Alamein in October 1942 was one of the crucial turning points of WWII. Here Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery...
Orion Publishing Group, 2010. — 252 p. Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England’s last war against France in 1940-1942. Most people think that England’s last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent conflict than...
Penguin Books, 2006. — 512 p. Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-General Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture...
Broadway Books, 2003. — 384 p. A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war. How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two previously neglected strands of late—World War II history,...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 336 p. Conflict Over Convoys examines the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of Anglo-American diplomacy, deepening our understanding of Allied strategy, British industrial decline, and operations TORCH and OVERLORD. Britain's dependence on American ships and logistical support created controversy over the control of military...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2015. — 378 p. On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000 combatants died, including nearly 22,000 Japanese and 6,821 Americans, making Iwo Jima one of the costliest battles of World War II. Bestselling author Larry Smith lets twenty-two...
Novato: Presido Press, 2000. — 264 p. September 1942: American forces landed on the island of Guadalcanal, engaging the entrenched Japanese in what would be remembered as some of the worst fighting of World War II. The key to victory lay in controlling the ridge overlooking Henderson Field, a vital airfield and the prize of the Guadalcanal campaign. This was the site of a...
Pen and Sword, 2007. — 271 p. The Blackburn Skua was the first monoplane to be designed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. As a result of continued debate, it became a compromise between the Navy's desire for a carrier-based dive-bomber and RAF's preference for a fighter. Despite being the first to shoot down a Luftwaffe aircraft in World War II, early operations in Norway...
New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 2004. — 512 p. : ill., maps. This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific—told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service. In this new book by the authors of Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory of World War II...
Wiley, 2008. — 336 p. Smith's thoroughly researched, detailed account of the brave American and Filipino guerrillas on Negros Island in the Philippines will do much to introduce readers to this little known aspect of World War II in the Pacific. This is a fascinating story well told. The Rescue is a delightful journey with the gallant few who resisted the Japanese occupation of...
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 200 p. The story of the Battle of Arnhem and the unshakeable courage of the First Airborne Division engaged in the fighting have earned a secure place in history. A battle of bloody desperation, it must rank as one of the most heroic epics of the Second World War. The author, a war correspondent from Reuters, was dropped with the Airborne Division at...
Verdun Press, 2014. — 48 p. The German planning process for the 1941 invasion of Soviet Russia is analyzed through the presentation of the major plans developed from July 1940 until June 1941. The final plan is then critiqued within the context of the applicable Principles of War. The planning process was characterized by significant disagreements between Hitler, the German...
New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1101903473; ISBN13: 978-1101903476. • Mark Lynton History Prize, finalist. • Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, winner. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based...
New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2015. - 357 p. ISBN: 9781101903452. "Черная Земля: Холокост как История и Предупреждение" - книга известного американского историка Тимоти Снайдера . Она представляет собой новую интерпретацию истории Холокоста на территории Восточной Европы. Автор анализирует взгляды Гитлера в контексте экологии и выживания рас . Историк также обращает внимание на...
Европа между Гитлером и Сталиным. New York: Basic, 2010. - 766 с. На английском языке. OCR слой. This is a book about the intentional mass murder of over 14 million people between 1930 and 1947 in a general area that encompasses what is now Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia. 14 million number - Mr. Snyder counts only those that were...
Европа между Гитлером и Сталиным. New York: Basic, 2010. - 766 с. На английском языке. This is a book about the intentional mass murder of over 14 million people between 1930 and 1947 in a general area that encompasses what is now Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia. 14 million number - Mr. Snyder counts only those that were outright killed,...
Европа между Гитлером и Сталиным. New York: Basic, 2010. - 766 с. На английском языке. This is a book about the intentional mass murder of over 14 million people between 1930 and 1947 in a general area that encompasses what is now Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia. 14 million number - Mr. Snyder counts only those that were outright killed,...
Европа между Гитлером и Сталиным. New York: Basic, 2010. - 766 с. На английском языке. OCR слой. This is a book about the intentional mass murder of over 14 million people between 1930 and 1947 in a general area that encompasses what is now Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia. 14 million number - Mr. Snyder counts only those that were...
Kraków: Znak Horyzont, 2021. — 704 s. Operacja Chastise stała się legendą już w chwili, gdy ostatni z ocalałych Lancasterów dotykał kołami pasa startowego w Scampton. W nocy z 16 na 17 maja 1943 roku alianckie bombowce całkowicie zaskoczyły wroga, sparaliżowały hitlerowski przemysł i wywołały w Niemcach psychozę strachu. Wzmocniły morale sprzymierzonych i udowodniły Stalinowi,...
Helion and Company, 2013. — 120 p. This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet government and Red Army, to which the author provides some provocative answers. The primary question explored by the author, however, regards the effectiveness of both the Red Army and of the Soviet military economy. Dr....
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 208 p. After seeing service with the Austrian Army in World War I, the author joined the newly created Polish Army in 1918. By September 1939 he was commanding 21st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Warsaw against overwhelming German forces. Taken prisoner, he escaped to join the Polish Army in France before evacuating to England. In 1941 he...
Arcturus Digital, 2019. — 208 p. Our story is about the genesis and evolution of these phantoms and men-who-never-were, these artists and magicians at the front line who operated in stealth and secrecy. Throughout the course of World War II, Allied forces engaged in elaborate deceptions to fool Hitler's armies. A ragtag group of Bohemian artists and creatives were assembled to...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 195 p. This is not just the story of what was perhaps the most daring raid undertaken by the commandos during the war, but it is also the true and remarkable account of a desperate escape by Marine Sparks and Major 'Blondie' Hasler across German-occupied France. For nearly three months, while they desperately sought assistance from the suspicious French...
ABC-Clio Inc., 2005. — 1859 p. — ISBN13: 9781851098576. ABC-CLIO's "World War II: A Student Encyclopedia" captures the monumental sweep of the "Big One" with accessible scholarship, a student-friendly, image-rich design, and a variety of tools specifically crafted for the novice researcher. For teachers and curriculum specialists, it is a thoroughly contemporary and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 306 p. Battle for Crete is a fine account of the political and military prelude to the evacuation of British, Australian and New Zealand forces from Greece to Crete in April 1941, and of the subsequent German offensive against Crete, the first airborne assault in history on a defended island. During two year's research the author visited the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 255 p. Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner's story is different and more compelling in one important respect. It recounts the gripping and dramatic rescue of two senior British generals (one a VC) and an air vice marshal from occupied Italy by the author and his companion who had themselves both...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 108 p. When the German Ardennes Offensive of December 1944 ruptured the front of the U.S. First Army, Major General Troy Middleton committed his VIII Corps to the defense of selected transportation bottlenecks in the path of the German advance. St. Vith, located in the central sector of the Ardennes battleground, was one of these. Although by...
Department of National Defence, Canada, Ottawa, 1948. — 401 p. This volume has been prepared in order that the people of Canada may have in their hands at as early a date as possible an authentic comprehensive outline of the work of their Army in the War of 1939-1945 against Germany, Italy and Japan and their satellites. In no previous conflict did the military forces of Canada...
Ottawa, Published by Authority of the Minister of National Defence, 1960. — 821 p. IS is the third and final volume of the Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. The first and second volumes, dealing respectively with events in Canada, Britain and the Pacific and with the campaign in Italy, were published in 1955 and 1956. A volume dealing with military...
Little, Brown and Company, 2007. — 608 p. To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler's final birthday (1945 April 20), Stafford's chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story. This book highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women,...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — xvi, 440 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-08760-6. In November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, then less than 100 km away. Army Group Centre was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter. From the German perspective, the final drive on Moscow had...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 454 p. The reasons behind Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union are well known, but what about those of the other Axis and non-Axis powers that joined Operation Barbarossa? Six other European armies fought with the Wehrmacht in 1941 and six more countries sent volunteers, as well as there being countless collaborators in the east of various...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — xvi, 483 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-76847-4. Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the East, and the summer of 1941 is...
Stanford, California: Die Wehrmacht, 1972. - 150 pgs. A rather hagiographic collection of pictures apparently from Signal and official photographers. The author wishes to point out the folowing: the Afrikakorps was not specially trained nor equipped; it was sent to Africa with the bulk of the men wearing heavy continental clothing; in the beginning, vehicles were in standard...
Regnery History, 2022. — 228 p. Late in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refugee with the Partisan underground. But the Americans were far from safety. Holed up in a village barely able to feed its citizens, encircled by...
Penguin Random House, 2009. — 308 p. 1942 was a key year in Australia's history. As its people had so long feared, White Australia, an outpost of empire, seemed about to be invaded by the Japanese. In that one year, Darwin was bombed, submarines torpedoed ships in Sydney Harbour and Australian Militiamen died on the Kokoda Trail.Each year, more and more Australians celebrate...
Berghahn Books, 2021. — 345 p. Situated on Europe’s northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between warring powers during World War II. Ultimately, these nations survived the conflict as sovereign states whose wartime experiences have profoundly shaped their historiography, literature, cinema and memory cultures. Nordic War...
New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1980. — 128 p. — ISBN: 0-517-541904, ISBN: 0-517-541912 (pbk.) Edward Steichen was the foremost photographer of ourtime. Atthe age of sixty-three he was called upon by the U.S. Navy to head their Navy Photographic Unit in the Pacific, right after the attack on Pearl Harbor. From then until the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, Captain Edward...
Washington: Operations Evaluation Group Office of The Chief of Naval Operations NAVY Department, 1946. — 193 p. OEG report No. 51 Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were prepared for publication by the Summary Reports Group of the Columbia University Division of War Research under contract OEMsr-1131 with the Office of Scientific Research and Development. This report...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. — 338 с. Fascism as an Alternative Political Culture. Chapter One. Georges Sorel and the Antimaterialist Revision of Marxism. The Foundations of the "Correction" of Marxism. Antirationalism and Activism: The Social Myths. Anti-Cartesianism and Pessimism. The Junction of Sorelianism and Nationalism. Chapter Two. Revolutionary...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 208 p. Peter Stevens was a German-Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi persecution as a teenager in 1933. He joined the RAF in 1939 and after eighteen months of pilot training he started flying bombing missions against his own country. He completed twenty-two missions before being shot down and taken prisoner by the Nazis in September 1941. To escape...
Barnsley : Leo Cooper, 1999. — 224 p., illus., maps. The book analyzes the significant problems faced by the 8th Armes (UK) leaders and soldiers during and during the fighting in North Africa during the period of August 1942 to May 1943. To read many accounts, it would appear that the Eighth Army's victory at El Alamein was quickly followed by its triumphant arrival at Tunis....
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 198 p. As the saying goes ‘it is darkest before the dawn’ and so it was for Churchill and the British people during the Second World War. During February 1942, bad news of disasters came in an unbroken and seemingly endless sequence from the Far East to the Home Front. Some such as the Fall of Singapore and the Royal Navy’s humiliation over the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 224 p. Field Marshal Montgomery showed great skill in choosing his subordinates, whether as staff officers or field commanders. To those he trusted he gave help and guidance as well as a kindness and concern for which he has rarely received credit. In return, they provided services of immense value not only in his own campaigns but in many others...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 264 p. Alex, as he was known whether by Prime Ministers or the rank-and-file, was a legendary figure. A hero from the Great War he saw active service in Russia in 1919 – 1920 and against the Pathans on the North West Frontier in 1935. By 1940 he was a divisional commander with the B.E.F. in France. His conduct during the withdrawal through...
Canelo History, 2022. — 310 p. North Africa was a turning point for the British in the Second World War: a harsh landscape of sand and enemy tanks, but ultimately a place of victory, that Churchill famously called ‘the end of the beginning. When General Montgomery became commander of the Allied Eighth Army in 1942, he found the troops dispirited after a series of defeats by his...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 184 p. On 6 June 1944 British, American, Canadian and French troops landed in Normandy by air and sea. This was one of the key moments of the Second World War, a long-anticipated invasion which would, ultimately, lead to the defeat of Nazi Germany. By the day’s end a lodgment had been effected and Operation OVERLORD was being hailed as a success. In...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 328 p. A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War. Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa against an...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 224 p. For sixty years the dramatic story of the Dunkirk evacuation and the defeat of France (1940) - the story of the German conquest of northwest Europe - has been the focus of historical study and dispute, yet myths and misconceptions about this extraordinary event persist. The ruthless efficiency of the German assault, the 'miracle' of Dunkirk, the...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 320 p. — (Osprey General Military) Leyte was a huge and complex action, actually consisting of four major battles, each of which are broken down in detail in this book, using original sources. The plans of both sides, and how they dictated the events that followed, are also examined critically. So much of the accepted wisdom of the battle has...
Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 400 p. A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1942, the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy was at the zenith of its power. It had struck a severe blow against the US Navy at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, before spearheading the Japanese advance through...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 665 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 92). Swastika over the Acropolis is a new, multi-national account which provides a new and compelling interpretation of the Greek campaign of 1941, and its place in the history of World War II. It overturns many previously accepted English-language assumptions about the fighting in Greece in April 1941 –...
Big Sky Publishing, 2011. — 228 p. On the morning of 3 January 1941, Australians of the 6th Division led an assault against the Italian colonial fortress village of Bardia in Libya, not far from the Egyptian-Libyan frontier. The ensuing battle was the second of the First Libyan Campaign, but the first battle of the Second World War planned and fought predominantly by...
Historical Division U. S. Marine Corps, 1967. — 138 p. This monograph is one of a series concerning important engagements of the Marine Corps in World War II. Within certain limitations it is a factual account based on the records, special action reports, war diaries, journals, etc., of the various units of the 1st Marine Division. In addition, much valuable information was...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. — 272 p. How close did Germany come to winning World War II? Did Hitler throw away victory in Europe after his troops had crushed the Soviet field armies defending Moscow by August 1941? R. H. S. Stolfi offers a dramatic new picture of Hitler's conduct in World War II and a fundamental reinterpretation of the course of the war. Adolf Hitler...
The Great Courses, 2020. — 217 p. The topic of World War II’s European Theater is so vast that it requires an expert historian to make sense of it all. How was the war in Europe fought over the course of seven long, arduous years? What led to Germany’s early sustained gains, and what eventually stymied its advances? Why did the war in Europe unfold the way it did, and what...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 232 p. Faces of the Home Front presents a fascinating insight into the people, wartime organisations, events, life and work on the British Home Front during the Second World War. This is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times told through an array of previously unpublished rare photographs, illustrations and ephemera. If you have...
Collective. — Imagine Publishing, 2019. — 160 р. — (All About History). The Second World War left indelible marks on both the landscape and the people, not just of Britain and Germany, but the world. This book aims to put the well-known stories, memories and ruins of the war into context, and bring to life the events that led to these lasting changes. Find out how the war...
8th Edition. — Collective. — Imagine Publishing, 2019. — 166 р. — (All About History). World War II left an indelible mark on almost every corner of the globe and millions of people on it. In the All About History Story of World War II, you'll discover how the hostilities had their roots in the rise of fascism across Italy and Germany and how this toxic ideology positioned...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 119 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-19-518219-4 World War Two was a war of rapid and far-reaching conquest and movement, and a good sense of world geography is essential to grasping its magnitude and sweep. The Concise Historical Atlas of World War Two: The Geography of Conflict consists of 50 full-color maps that vividly convey not only the key military...
Stackpole Books, 2010. — 432 p. Dramatic story of World War II in the air. How the U.S. built an air force of 2.3 million men after starting with 45,000 and defeated the world's best air force. Vivid accounts of aerial combat. Winner, 2011 San Diego Book Awards for Military & Politics. In order to defeat Germany in World War II, the Allies needed to destroy the Third Reich's...
Arcole Publishing, 2017. — 209 p. Originally published in 1944, the events with which this volume deals form an episode with a certain organic unity and completeness. They include the almost indescribable battle of Stalingrad and the Russian recoil; but they also take in the events in North Africa. They describe, therefore, the ebb and flow of the tide which threatened the...
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2015. — 168 p. The Japanese advance through Thailand, Malaya and Burma appeared unstoppable and the fate of India looked utterly precarious. The garrison of the Kohima outpost numbering some 1500 British and Indian Army soldiers faced over 13,000 fanatical and previously victorious Japanese troops. The following sixteen days marked the turning...
Toruń: Wydawn. Adam Marszałek, 2001. — 275 s. Książka ta zawiera wspomnienia Władysława Studnickiego z czasów okupacji niemieckiej. W tym tragicznym okresie Studnicki obserwował załamanie się wyznawanej przez siebie koncepcji politycznej, spowodowane bezsensownymi okrucieństwami niemieckimi. Mimo podeszłego wieku nie poddawał się, starał się przekonywać Niemców o bezsensie ich...
Kraków: Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych Universitas, 2018. — 234 s. Władysław Studnicki- Gizbert (1867-1953). Polityk, publicysta, inspirator wielu ugrupowań politycznych. W okresie 1888-1889 działacz II Proletariatu. W latach 1890-1896 zesłany na Syberię. Przed I wojna światową związany z obozem niepodległościowym. Założyciel (w roku 1916) i przywódca...
Peter Lang GmbH, 2019. — 696 p. This volume is a collection of thirty papers written by authors from around the world. The writers focus on topics related to their own research interests. As a result, readers obtain a worldwide perspective on World War II from academics working on nearly every continent, proving that World War II was, probably, the first ever truly global...
Stackpole Books, 2019. — 224 p. Dwight Eisenhower called General George S. Patton “mentally unbalanced” and “just like a time bomb,” and indeed, the egotistical, mercurial, aggressive Patton is perhaps as well known for his daring battlefield exploits as for his questionable behavior and eccentric beliefs. In a brief but probing assessment of Patton’s life based on strong...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2009. — 192 p. This little known campaign against the Italian invasion of British Somalia was bravely fought by a small force of elderly RAF and Commonwealth aircraft against almost overwhelming odds. This, against a backdrop of Britain’s meager assets being in demand in the much more prominent and important theatres such as Egypt and, of course, at home...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 400 p. This is the story of the historic air defense of Malta by the WRAF against the combined attacking forces of the Italian and German air forces. The island was poorly equipped when Italy declared war on Britain in June 1940 and its only defense against air attack at the outset of war were 34 heavy and 8 light antiaircraft guns, one radar set and four...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 176 p. — (Images of War). The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7, which suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete, then saw bloody conflict as Hitler’s "Fire-fighters" on the...
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2010. — 208 p. The Battle of Britain and the Atlantic and the Blitz are invariably the focus of books and perceptions of the air war over and around Britain during the Second World War. Yet, it was Britain’s more exposed eastern flank, from the South Foreland in the south to Bridlington in the north that faced nearly six years of unrelenting attacks by the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 112 p. These military photographs are taken from three unpublished albums featuring the German invasion of Poland in 1939. One set was taken by an SS officer, another by a regular officer and a third by a soldier attached to a medical unit. Included are German units on the move, tanks, artillery and aircraft. There are several shots of recently...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 141 p. The Siege of Malta during World War II was one of the greatest dramas of the conflict. Bereft of vital defending aircraft, guns and ammunition this small island endured a succession of air raids from the Italian and German air forces. Valletta was virtually destroyed, the inhabitants took to living in the hills and caves as their houses lay in...
The History Press, 2007. — 208 p. Jack Swaab joined the veteran 51st (Highland) Infantry Division on 3 January 1943. He kept a series of diaries over the following two and a half years, recording the combination of boredom and fear that characterises active service. In mid-March 1943 he saw battle for the first time as Montgomery attacked the Mareth Line. In July that year...
Routledge. 2004. - 283 с. На английском языке. Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947, this book focuses on the heart of the 20th century: Stalinist industrialization, collectivization and political annihilation; Nazi expansionism and genocide; with local nationalism, local nationalist rivalries, and local...
New York: Ballantine, 1968. - 158 pgs. The Long Range Desert Group was formed by Ralph Bagnold in 1940 and played a major part in the Allies victory in North Africa in World War Two. The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) became the forward eyes and ears of the Allies and together with the Special Air Service played a secretive but vital role for the Allies. The LRDG were to get...
New York: Ballantine, 1969. - 158 pgs. Japanese air and naval attacks on British and United States bases in Malaya and the Philippines were coordinated with the December 7, 1941, assault on Pearl Harbor. Japan's Southern Army quickly moved from bases in southern Indochina and Hainan to attack southern Thailand and northern Malaya on December
8. The Japanese easily captured...
University Press of Kentucky, 2009. — 614 p. This annotated edition of General Hodges’s WWII diary offers a unique firsthand account of the First US Army from D-Day to V-E Day: “a fascinating book. During World War II, General Courtney Hicks Hodges commanded the First US Army, taking part in the Allied invasion of France, the liberation of Paris, and the ultimate Allied victory...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 441 p. Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the ships landed the soldiers have become...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 792 р. Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at...
Washington: War Departament, 1943. — 550 p. Air The Me-323 Transport Antiaircraft German Air-Raid Warning System Antitank German AA Guns for Use against Mechanized Vehicles German 76.2-mm Self-Propelled Gun Finnish Tank Traps Over Frozen Rivers Armored Force Pz. Kw. 3 with 75-mm Gun Chemical Warfare Three Japanese Lacrimatory Weapons Engineers Japanese Field Works at Buna...
Washington: War Department, 1943. — 561 p. Air. Junkers; Antiaircraft; Japanese Antiaircraft Gun Installations; Antitank; Tactics of Russian Antitank Regiments; A German Antitank Tactic; Armored; Cooperation of German Infantry and Tanks; Japanese Light Tank; Artillery; Observations on German Artillery Tactics; Chemical Warfare; German Weapon Decontaminant; Engineers; British...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. — 282 p. This book provides a great background of what was going home in the good old U.S. of A. while our soldiers were fighting for freedom and equality in Europe. The main idea of Double Victory is the simultaneous battles that were being fought by American forces and society at the same time. Our military had been sent to Europe in...
Pen and Sword Books, 2009. — 224 p. Although over 330,000 British and French soldiers were evacuated from the Dunkirk beaches between 26 May and 4 June, many thousands remained in France, most under French command. Churchill, now the Prime Minister, and desperate to keep the French in the War, decided to form a Second BEF made up of 51 Highland, 1st Armoured and the Beauman...
Crown, 2012. — 255 p. Arranged in chronological order, this collection of some 100 letters from soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines offers a very personal view of World War II and a sense of immediacy that is remarkable. The correspondence ranges from a GI's final message, written from Bataan, to a private's advice to his unexpectedly drafted father; from a general's letter...
Penguin UK, 1991. — 357 p. — ISBN: 978-0140136722. A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling The Origins of the Second World War overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what...
Second Edition. — Hamish Hamilton, 1963. (В файле 98 с.)
A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling "The Origins of the Second World War" overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war.
One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller....
Nomad Press, 2018. — 130 p. Why did the world find itself immersed in another global conflict only two decades after World War I? World War II: From the Rise of the Nazi Party to the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb introduces kids ages 12 to 15 to the political, military, and cultural forces that shook the globe from 1939 to 1945 and beyond. Middle school students examine the...
W. W. Norton and Company, 2020. — 288 p. A best-selling historian's chronicle of the dramatic months from the Munich Agreement to Hitler's invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II. In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to a massive world war. Drawing on...
Potomac Book, 2018. — 615 p. — ISBN 978-1-64012-147-8 Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 841 p. Traditionally, ‘the right of the line’ is the vanguard, the place of honor and greatest danger in battle. In this history of the Royal Air Force during the European War of 1939-45, John Terraine shows how the RAF, which in 1939 was small and inadequate for the task it was called upon to perform had, by the end of the war, taken up its...
Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1992. — 264 p. A B-24 bombardier's "bird's-eye" view of the China-Burma-India theater of war. Much has been written about the contributions of B-24 Liberators and their bombardiers in Europe in WW II. This book is especially interesting because it provides an interesting narrative and observations of a B-24 Bombardier in the CBI...
Warners Group, 2021. — 164 p. — ISBN-10 191052509X; ISBN-13 978-1910525098. The 80th Anniversary of the momentous Battle of Britain which will be remembered across the country. With only a handful of the brave pilots who flew in the conflict still with us it is likely to be last official memorial of its kind. To mark this momentous event we have produced a unique and stunning...
Washington: OSS, 1941. — 144 p. Upon the outbreak or hostilities, in 1939, the German armed forces totaled about 2 million men. In June 1941 they totaled 9 million, of whoa about half have been engaged on the Eastern front. A tentative estimate places German battle casualties in the war against Russia at 1,500,000 to December 10. To some extent these losses have been filled by new...
London: Future Publishing, 2019. — 132 p. — (Part of the History of War). As morning broke in Hawaii on 7 December 1941, the water was calm. The US Navy’s ships stood proud in the harbour, and their crews were looking forward to a Sunday off. But these would be the last moments of calm before the United States was dragged into a war that was consuming the world. In The Story of...
Pictorial statistics designed by David Ellison. — London: Lawrence & Wishart, [1941]. — 80 p. : plates, ports., diagrs. Pictorial statistics Material resources. Budget of the U.S.S.R. For 1941 Position of the U.S.S.R. In world production New factory construction Output of producers’ goods Output of consumers’ goods Agriculture Transport Railways The Red army and air force Rate...
Pictorial statistics designed by David Ellison. — London: Lawrence & Wishart, [1941]. — 80 p. : plates, ports., diagrs. Pictorial statistics Material resources. Budget of the U.S.S.R. For 1941 Position of the U.S.S.R. In world production New factory construction Output of producers’ goods Output of consumers’ goods Agriculture Transport Railways The Red army and air force Rate...
Washington, D. C.: Foreign Economic Administration; Division of Liberated Areas, 1943. — 14 p. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration What is the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration? Why a United Nations agency? What are the objectives of UNRRA? Why must the United States support such an organization as UNRRA? How will the UNRRA program...
Washington, D. C.: Foreign Economic Administration; Division of Liberated Areas, 1943. — 14 p. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration What is the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration? Why a United Nations agency? What are the objectives of UNRRA? Why must the United States support such an organization as UNRRA? How will the UNRRA program...
Second Edition. — Washington: Infantry Journal Inc, 1944. — 228 p. Materials far the Use of Army Orientation Course. These years were technically years of peace in Europe and Asia. As a matter of fact, there was no actual declaration of war in China until after Pearl Harbor, and Japan chose to call her all-out attack on China "The China Incident." This made it unnecessary for...
Long Akre, London: Odhams Press Limited, 1946. — 256 p. A pictorial record of the 6th year of WWII covering from September 1944 to 2nd September 1945 & the official signing of the Japanese surrender.
Washington: OSS, 1942. — 100 p. Printed for the Board of Analysts. Description of events in the theaters of hostilities of the Second World War for a specified period of time.
Washington: OSS, 1942. — 113 p. Printed for the Board of Analysts. Description of events in the theaters of hostilities of the Second World War for a specified period of time.
Washington: OSS, 1942. — 99 p. Printed for the Board of Analysts. Description of events in the theaters of hostilities of the Second World War for a specified period of time.
McFarland and Company, 2015. — 208 p. On September 25, 1944, Hitler attempted to shore up his faltering forces by creating the Volkssturm or People's Army. His new draft called into service all remaining able-bodied men, including those whose civilian labor had previously been deemed indispensable. Among the latter was an East Prussian farmer named Hans Thiel, who suddenly...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 212 p. During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often and in detail, while the fight for the Scheldt estuary, Walcheren and Antwerp itself has...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 256 p. Air Commodore Peter Malam ‘Pete’ Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC, and Bar (1917-2008) was one of the most heroic and highly praised pilots of the Second World War. Decorated extensively, he secured a total of 16 kills over the course of the conflict, with 10 of these occurring during the Battle of Britain. Pivotal moments in his career include the time, in...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 288 p. Their Finest Hour tells the fascinating stories of six of Churchill's Few', each of whom played an important part in the Battle of Britain. Celebrated and much respected on their own squadrons, all have since faded into obscurity. Their achievements, against all odds, and the fortunes of their comrades-in-arms, many of whom died during the Battle,...
The History Press, 2011. — 240 p. In 1937, Ursula Bower visited Nagaland at the invitation of a friend, and on a dispensary tour encountered the Naga people. She was so taken was with their striking dignity, tribal pride and unique culture that she arranged to live among them to write an anthropological study. But she became more than an observer – living alone among them,...
London: Ebury Press, 2010. — 398 p. From the end of 1941 to 1945, a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theater of World War II—the Burma Campaign. In 1941, the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese—an enemy more prepared, better organized, and more powerful than anyone had imagined. Yet in 1944,...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 338 p. Describes the events surrounding the Battle of Dunkirk (1940) and the rescue of British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk during World War II. A gripping chronicle, Dunkirk recounts the brave stand of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) against the German army and the dramatic rescue of 338,000 British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk at...
Penguin, 2011. — 506 p. In 2010, it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in battles against the German and Italian armies in North Africa, mainland Greece and Crete prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Written by a brilliant storyteller, ANZAC Fury tells the riveting story of how the legendary Anzac...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 240 p. In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training. Some of the Black Watch boys had seen action in Somaliland, Crete and Tobruk. Some of the Cameronians had fought the Japs in the Burma retreat. Even for these, such training...
Regnery History, 2014. — 391 p. This unique A-Z Encyclopedia provides detailed entries for everything you ever wanted to know about D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. Organized alphabetically, the entries give detailed descriptions of weapons, equipment, divisions, air and naval units, geography, terminology, personalities, and more. Every Allied division that crossed the English...
Regnery Publishing, 2014. — 338 p. November 1943—May 1945—The U.S. Army Air Forces waged an unprecedentedly dogged and violent campaign against Hitler's vital oil production and industrial plants on the Third Reich's southern flank. Flying from southern Italy, far from the limelight enjoyed by the Eighth Air Force in England, the Fifteenth Air Force engaged in high-risk missions...
Simon and Schuster, 2010. — 336 p. The first book to fully cover the air war against Japan, Whirlwind examines the human drama of the most important strategic bombing campaign in history. It is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan—the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in...
Washington: Goverment Printing Office, September 30, 1942. — 404 p. General Organization: Supreme Command Higher Organizations Administration Tactical Staffs Infantry Parachute Troops Royal Regiment of Artillery Anti- Aircraft Command Royal Armoured Corps Corps of Royal Engineers Royal Corps of Signals Royal Army Service Corps Royal Army Medical Corps Royal Army Ordnance Corps...
Washington, War Department, United States Government Printing Office, 1941. — 273 p. Recruitment and mobilization Organization Uniforms, insignia, and personal equipment Armament and equipment Ammunition Supply and evacuation Training, efficiency, discipline, and morale Tactics of the Japanese Army Conventional signs and abbreviations Military terms and characters Appendix....
Washington, War Department, United States Government Printing Office, 1942. — 364 p. Recruitment and mobilization Organization Uniforms, insignia, and personal equipment Armament and equipment Ammunition Supply and evacuation Training, efficiency, discipline, and morale Tactics of the Japanese Army Conventional signs and abbreviations Military terms and characters Appendix....
Washington: War Department, United States Government Printing Office, 1943. — 480 p. Distinctive Branches, or Specialties Semimilitary Forces Recruitment and Mobilization System of Conscription and Mobilization Professional Cadre and Officers Training, Efficiency, and Morale Pay and Emoluments Organization Command and Staff Administration Higher Units Infantry Cavalry Land...
Washington: War Department, Government Printing Office, 1944. — 401 p. Recruitment and training. General Conscription system Procurement of officers Training Promotion, pay and awards Morale, discipline, and efficiency Japanese military system. The Japanese High Command Territorial organizations, including depot divisions Field replacement system Field organization. Major...
Doubleday, 1982. — 390 p. The controversial, best-selling investigation of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor acclaimed as "a shocking account of judgments distorted by politics and career hunger and racism fascinating reading. This book is not much about the Japanese 'surprise' attack on Pearl Harbor. It is about the several hearings about who was responsible for U.S....
Modern Library, 2003. — 640 p. A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six...
New York, The Modern Library, 2003. — 2540 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8041-8095-5. Foreword. Part One: The Roots of War. Part Two: The Lowering Clouds. Part Three: Banzai. Part Four: Isle of Death. Part Five: The Gathering Forces. Part Six: The Decisive Battle. Part Seven: Beyond the Bitter End. Part Eight: " One Hundred Millions Die Together ". Epilogue.
NY.: The Modern Library, 2003. — 980 p. — ISBN 978—0—8041—8095—5. After World War II most Westerners felt that General Tojo and other Japanese leaders—indeed the mass of Japanese—were no better than Hitler and his Nazi cohorts, and deserved whatever punishment and misfortune that befell them. Twenty-five years have passed and Japan has recovered from almost total moral and...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 272 p. — ISBN 978 1 52678 585 5. This book tells the true story of Himmler’s plan to use prominent WWII concentration camp prisoners as hostages in an attempt to engage the Western Powers in negotiations. At the center of the tale are five British survivors of the ‘Great Escape,’ two MI5 agents kidnapped by the Nazis, and Irish born...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 272 p. — ISBN 978 1 52678 585 5. This book tells the true story of Himmler’s plan to use prominent WWII concentration camp prisoners as hostages in an attempt to engage the Western Powers in negotiations. At the center of the tale are five British survivors of the ‘Great Escape,’ two MI5 agents kidnapped by the Nazis, and Irish born...
Pen and Sword Books, 2011. — 208 p. The Second World War was the defining conflict of the twentieth century and it is one of the most popular and fascinating areas for historical research and for family historians. More records than ever are available to researchers whose relatives served during the war. And this new book by Phil Tomaselli is the perfect guide to how to locate...
Brill, 2021. — 1374 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 133). During the peak of the German expansion in World War II, more than 230 million people from Norway to Greece and from France to various regions inside the former Soviet Union lived under German occupation. This edited collection of primary sources for the first time gives an insight into the experiences of these ordinary...
Berghahn Books, 2010. — 279 p. The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II. The evidence uncovered...
Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies, 1986. — 40 p. This monograph analyzes the operational sustainment of liommel's forces in North Africa. Rommel's operations are examined from his arrival in North Africa in February 1941 through his last offensive to destroy the British Eighth Army at El Alamein in August - September 1942. The purpose of the study...
Henry Holt, 2020. — 224 p. On May 19, 1942, during WWII, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. The submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia. Most onboard were merchant seamen, but there were also civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children. Fast asleep in their berths, the Downs family had no idea...
Endeavour Press, 2015. — 215 p. Using eye-witness accounts from tank crews and infantry, Ken Tout reveals how on 7 August 1944 a combined Canadian and British force sent four armoured columns south of Caen to close the Falaise gap. Caen had been an objective of the British forces assaulting Sword Beach on D-Day. However, the German defences were strongest in this sector, and...
The History Press, 2011. — 224 р. After D-Day in 1944 British troops in Normandy had been encouraged to believe that the war would be over by Christmas of that year. The German army in Normandy had indeed been destroyed but by Christmas the Allies were still fighting through Holland, whilst the Germans had reorganised and were ready to fight back. Ken Tout, using his own...
The History Press, 2016. — 208 p. The Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 has been much publicised, with its extraordinary parachute drop and gallant defence by Frost's few men of the bridge at Arnhem. Although the campaign came close to success, its relative failure left the Allies trapped within a thirty-mile stretch of road. The Arnhem debacle saw vast stretches of Holland to...
The History Press, 2010. — 152 p. The fierce battle to capture the French village of Tilly-la-Campagne was an exceptionally bloody episode in the story of the allied breakout from Normandy in the summer of 1944. Lying to the South of the city of Caen, Tilly was one of a number of stone-built villages that had been fortified by the Germans to hold up the Allied advance, and it...
London: Hambledon and London, 2000. — 195 p. During the Second World War the Japanese were stereotyped in the European and American imagination as fanatical, cruel and almost inhuman. This view is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognise that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis and it fails to take account of their own historical tradition....
History Press, 2020. — 702 p. The official account of the Royal Artillery’s activities in the Normandy campaign, this is a key book for any serving members of the Regiment: the book will include mention of every Regiment that served, a Roll of Honour, a list of the dead by unit showing where their relatives are buried along with details of how to visit the gunners graves and...
Silvertail Books, 2021. — 489 p. The greatest book on the Battle of Britain ever written. In May 1940, Group Captain Peter Townsend took command of 85 Squadron, tasked with preparing it for the defence of Great Britain against German bombers. It was the beginning of the long, hot, lethal summer in which the RAF and the Luftwaffe fought to the death over England in the furious...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 798 p. — ISBN 978-1477610732. Axis Power: Could Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan have won World War II? Was the Battle of Britain a miraculous victory against incredible odds? Was it a ?close run thing? What about the German invasion of Russia, or the Battle of Midway? Just as important, if the Axis powers had won any of these...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 798 p. — ISBN 978-1477610732. Axis Power: Could Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan have won World War II? Was the Battle of Britain a miraculous victory against incredible odds? Was it a ?close run thing? What about the German invasion of Russia, or the Battle of Midway? Just as important, if the Axis powers had won any of these...
Sutton Publishing, 2004. — 191 p. — (Battle Zone Normandy). On D-Day, British XXX Corps was ordered to break open the German defenses on Gold Beach and advance to capture Bayeux. Its commander, Lieutenant-General G.C. Bucknall, chose the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, a veteran formation blooded in North Africa, to spearhead the landing, supported by 47 Royal Marine Commando....
Amberley Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. Spring 1941 – the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries, and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had withstood the Nazis, but even it was battered and bruised and close to defeat. Then, on 22 June...
Amberley Publishing, 2019. — 408 p. Everyone is familiar with the story of D-Day and the triumphal liberation of France by the Allies: a barbaric enemy was defeated by Allied ingenuity, courage and overwhelming military force, helped by dreadful German command errors and the terrible state of Wehrmacht forces in the West – but is this all true? The Wehrmacht was hugely...
Stroud: The History Press, 2017. — 255 p. Nazi Germany’s assault on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Operation Barbarossa, was the largest invasion in history. Almost 3.5 million men smashed into Stalin’s Red Army, reaching the gates of Leningrad, Moscow, and Sevastopol. But not all of this vast army was German; indeed by the summer of 1942 over 500,000 were Romanians,...
Amberley Publishing, 2020. — 400 p. After the collapse of the German Army in the West in August 1944, the western Allies raced towards the borders of the Reich itself, and in the East the victorious Red Army was doing the same – everyone believed the war would be over by Christmas. But it wasn’t. Somehow, Nazi Germany managed to stave off final defeat until May the following...
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2008. — 214 p. The Second World War was a defining experience in British history. It shaped us, made us what we are, and we are still fascinated by it. And one of the most extraordinary aspects of this unique war was the effect it had on crime - and this is the focus of M.J. Trow's compelling survey. He does not write solely about servicemen who...
Presidio Press, 2007. — 320 p. In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidents–chance events, opportunities seized or cast aside–that can derail the most brilliant military strategies and change the course of history. What if the Japanese had conquered India and driven out the British? What if the strategic link between the United States and Australia had...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 240 p. War is a deadly game of chance where a single detail or decision can have far-reaching consequences. What if Hitlers generals had captured the cream of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk? What if Turkey had sided with Germany and smashed through Russia's back door to claim the prized Caucasus oil fields? What if Rommel had driven the...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 4334 p. — ISBN10: 1851099689, 13 978-1851099689. With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war. Provides a clear understanding of the causes of World War II,...
The History Press, 2019. — 304 p. Two years earlier the Dieppe Raid had ended in disaster – despite their meticulous planning the Allies feared Operation Overlord might go the same way. Instead D-Day proved an incredible success; however, what followed was marred by serious mistakes on both sides resulting in three months of bitter fighting. Established military historian...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 272 p. The destruction of the trapped German forces in the Falaise pocket in August 1944 is one of the most famous episodes of the Normandy campaign. But myths have grown up around accounts of the battle, and its impact on the course of the war is sometimes misunderstood. In this meticulously researched and perceptive study Anthony Tucker-Jones dispels...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 320 p. The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive in the West. Launched in the depths of winter to neutralize the overwhelming Allied air superiority, three German armies attacked through the Ardennes, the weakest part of the American lines, with the aim of splitting the Allied armies and seizing the vital port of Antwerp within a...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 146 p. — ISBN: 1526730057. The support provided by the Allied air armies to the preparations for the invasion of France and the Normandy campaign is overshadowed by the dramatic and protracted fighting on the ground. Yet the air campaign played a key role in blinding and isolating German forces in northern France in the months preceding the D-Day...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 144 p. During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones records them all in graphic detail. The first occurred in 1939 when the Polish army was defeated by the German invaders, and five years of...
Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 304 p. In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm “Willi” Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his command lay directly in the path of a major Allied thrust: the September 17, 1944, launch of the...
Icon Books, 2017. — 320 p. Among the military leaders of the Second World War, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz remains a deeply enigmatic figure. As chief of the German submarine fleet he earned Allied respect as a formidable enemy. But after he succeeded Hitler — to whom he was unquestioningly loyal — as head of the Third Reich, his name became associated with all that was most...
Aurum Press, 2010. — 312 p. Once Britain had demilitarized the idyllic, unspoiled holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed in July the Germans invaded. The following five years in their history offer an intriguing, and often uncomfortable, virtual history of how Britain might have looked under Nazi rule and how British people, more...
Icon Books Ltd, 2019. — 368 p. At the outbreak of war in 1939, ordinary people were quickly forced to adapt to the realities of a nation under dire threat. But it soon became known as the Phoney War, a time when official incompetence reigned supreme. Theatres and cinemas were closed and football matches cancelled, only for the government to realise belatedly that morale was...
Dennis Turner, 2020. — 352 p. A powerful story of seldom-sung heroines in humanity's darkest days and a vivid reminder of the power of conscience. Throughout the occupied territories, Catholic Sisters were active members of The Nazi Resistance. Based on letters and documents written by Catholic Sisters during the Nazi occupation of Belgium, this book tells the remarkable story...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 192 p. Of the US Armies fighting in Europe at the end of World War II, General Patch's Seventh Army has received the least attention from historians. Although over-shadowed by the performance of General Patton and the actions of his US Third Army (breaking out of the Normandy bridgehead, liberating Paris and seizing Remagen bridge), the Seventh...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 200 p. In the pre-dawn darkness of 6 June 1944, the greatest armada the world has ever seen began to disembark an Allied invasion force on the beaches of France’s Normandy peninsula. Invasion ’44 tells the story of that assault from the day over four years earlier, and only a few short weeks after the British disaster at Dunkirk, when a few...
Lucknow Books, 2016. — 132 p. The purpose of this study is to collect all available facts pertinent to the Remagen Bridgehead Operation, to collate these data in cases of conflicting reports, and to present the processed material in such a form that it may be efficiently utilized by an instructor in preparing a period of instruction. The data on which this study is based was...
De Gruyter Saur, 2008. — 383 p. Erstmals wird zum Thema Widerstand gegen Nationalsozialismus und Faschismus in Europa eine umfassende und vergleichende Gesamtschau vorgelegt. Das Handbuch stellt Grundlagen, Formen und Konflikte des Widerstandes dar, setzt ihn zu den europäischen Entwicklungen der Nachkriegszeit in Beziehung und analysiert seine Rezeption nach 1945. Geographisch...
Liveright, 2021. — 336 p. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945―Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 365 p. — ISBN: 1-86064-727-8 This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak. The battle of Budapest in the bleak winter of 1944-1945 was one of the longest and bloodiest city sieges of World War II. From the appearance of the first Soviet tanks on the outskirts of the capital to the capture of Buda Castle, 102 days elapsed. In terms of human...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 365 p. — ISBN: 1-86064-727-8 This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak. The battle of Budapest in the bleak winter of 1944-1945 was one of the longest and bloodiest city sieges of World War II. From the appearance of the first Soviet tanks on the outskirts of the capital to the capture of Buda Castle, 102 days elapsed. In terms of human...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 365 p. This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak. The battle of Budapest in the bleak winter of 1944-1945 was one of the longest and bloodiest city sieges of World War II. From the appearance of the first Soviet tanks on the outskirts of the capital to the capture of Buda Castle, 102 days elapsed. In terms of human trauma, it comes second...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 264 p. After being taken prisoner at Tobruk and transported to Italy, the author was determined to escape and learnt Italian by talking to the sentries. His first escape lasted just one week. He then joined a tunnel party and escaped again. After six weeks on the run he was offered shelter in a Tuscan hilltop village, Montebenichi. There he enjoyed five...
Little Brown, 2013. — 433 p. From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they went, the notoriety of the 'Filthy Fifth' grew -...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 296 p. In the spring of 1940, Stalin's NKVD executed 22,000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other places. When Wehrmacht soldiers discovered some of the graves three years later, the Soviets succeeded in convincing US President Roosevelt of the German perpetration. British Prime Minister Winston...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 296 p. In the spring of 1940, Stalin's NKVD executed 22,000 Polish officers, ensigns and state officials near the Russian village of Katyn and other places. When Wehrmacht soldiers discovered some of the graves three years later, the Soviets succeeded in convincing US President Roosevelt of the German perpetration. British Prime Minister Winston...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 512 p. Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941. The highly regarded military historian Gregory Urwin spent decades researching what happened and now offers a revealing look at the U.S. Marines, sailors, soldiers, and civilian...
Arlington: US Armed Forces, 1944. — 312 p. Information of characteristics of the theatre, enemy forces, and beach sectors are contained in the Intelligence Plan. DRAGON is a n amphibious operation employing United States assault troops, reenforced with large French formations supported by naval forces of United States, Great Britain, France, Greece, Poland and the Mediterranean...
Casemate, 2015. — 368 p. In December 1944 an enormous German army group crashed through the thin American line in the Ardennes forest. Caught by surprise, the Allies were initially only able to throw two divisions of paratroopers to buttress the collapse―the 82nd Airborne, which was rushed to the area of St. Vith, and the 101st, which was trucked to Bastogne. After their...
Casemate Publishers, 2016. — 320 p. This work is the third by Van Lunteren on the 504th P.I.R. In World War II following The Battle of the Bridges and Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper. As readers will see, however, the Italian theater held second place to none in terms of grueling combat and courage against formidable odds, and an extremely expert enemy.
Eumenes Publishing, 2019. — 447 p. Global War, first published in 1946 and fully updated in 2014, is an eminently readable, month-by-month account of the major political and military events of the six years of the Second World War (1939-1945). Included are synopses of the battles on land, sea, and air (from all theaters of the War), and excerpts from important speeches by world...
Annopolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 517 p. One of the largest and most complex military efforts ever undertaken, the Leyte Operation was the Allies' first and most important major combined operation to liberate the Philippine archipelago. The stakes were high: a successful landing at Leyte was critical to a subsequent assault on Luzon and total control of the Philippines....
Hachette, 2017. — 352 p. A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack. Bombing Germany night after night, Barney's 61 Squadron faced continual enemy fighter attacks and anti-aircraft fire - death or capture by the Nazis loomed large. Very few survived...
Hachette Australia, 2019. — 334 p. September 1942 marked the high-point of Axis conquest in World War II. In the Pacific, Japan's soldiers had seemed unstoppable. However, the tide was about to turn. On Sunday, 6 September 1942, Japanese land forces suffered their first conclusive defeat at the hands of the Allies. At Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea, a predominantly Australian...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 240 p. When the Nazis invaded neutral Belgium in May 1940, defeat and occupation were inevitable but Belgian armed forces held out against a vastly superior enemy for 18 days. The elected Government went into exile in London but King Leopold III controversially remained with his people as a prisoner. As described in this authoritative book, Belgians...
Stackpole Books, 2019. — 240 p. Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000 vessels bombarded the Normandy coast, ferried men, tanks, and equipment across the channel, and...
W.W. Norton and Company, 1990. — 304 p. The assassination of Admiral Francois Darlan on Christmas Eve 1942 is one of those events that gets mentioned in history books, but usually without much elaboration beyond that it happened, and that Darlan's death cleared the field for de Gaulle, who wound up leading the Free Frech movement unchallenged. Darlan was Marshal Petain's deputy...
Bad Nauheim: Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, 1981. — 178 S. Der Bildband soll das seit Jahren vergriffene, 1955 erstmalig erschienene Buch der 78. Division ergänzen. Die Division wurde am 26. August 1939 als Division 2. Welle in Stuttgart aufgestellt. Während des Westfeldzuges wurde die Division nicht eingesetzt. Ab dem 22. Juni 1941 nahm die Division am Rußlandfeldzug teil und stieß aus...
University of Nebraska Press, 2011. — 370 p. Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so, why did he withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers are embedded in the cogent analysis of The Pearl Harbor Myth. Based on voluminous data that does not appear in other books on the topic, it discusses in...
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 327 p. Canada got plastered on that day - August 19,1942 - the leadership in Canada's military at the time had backbone but forgot to use it that day. LTG Crerar, LTG McNaughton and the Task Force Commander - MG Hamilton - failed to speak up and protect the military personnel and allowed this disaster happen. Yes Canada's military wanted to meet...
Lulu Press, 2019. — 232 p. Raymond was born on October 13, 1922 in Dampremy (province of Hainaut, Belgium). During the turbulent times of the occupation in Belgium he joined the "Legion Wallonie" on August 8, 1941 at the same time as his father Marcel and Rexist leader Leon Degrelle. He was initially attached to the 1st Platoon, 1st Company as a MG gunner. During his 4 years on...
School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, 2010. — 27 p. This paper focuses on a Finnish women’s paramilitary organization called ‘Lotta Svärd’ in a wartime context, from 1939 to 1944. The aim is to find out what forms of accountability were shared by the women of Lotta Svärd. Three main forms of accountability were observed: Accountability to the nation took a...
Knox Press, 2023. — 464 p. Leading the Way to Victory is the official history of the 60th Troop Carrier Group, featuring unpublished first-person accounts by participating veterans and expertly written by retired USAF Colonel Mark C. Vlahos, combat veteran and former Vice Wing Commander of 314th Airlift Wing at the Little Rock Air Force Base. The December 7, 1941, surprise...
Pen and Sword Military, 2006. — 157 p. Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knight’s Cross. An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he...
Aperture Press, 2012. — 329 p. Sixty-four heroes. One story. Sharon Wells Wagner, author of Red Wells, collaborated with her son, Stephen Wagner, on this extraordinary account of one of history's greatest conflicts: World War II. Told through the eyes of its participants, Ordinary Heroes is a compelling collection of true stories woven into a single narrative spanning the...
Big Sky Publishing, 2010. — 182 p. While the North African campaign has been studied in detail over the years, much of this study has been dedicated to the battles between the British 8th Army and Rommel's Afrika Korps. There has been little serious study of Wavell's campaign against Italian forces in 1940-1941, nor of the role played by the Australian 6th Division in the...
Presidio Press, 2004. — 256 p. For the U.S., Guadalcanal was a bloody seven-month struggle under brutal conditions against crack Japanese troops deeply entrenched and determined to fight to the death. For Charles Walker, this horrific jungle battle–one that claimed the lives of 1,600 Americans and more than 23,000 Japanese–was just the beginning. On the eve of battle, 2nd Lt....
Savas Beatie, 2020. — 456 p. Major General Fred Walker assumed command of the Texas National Guard's 36th Infantry Division in September 1941. He led it for the next 34 months through training, overseas deployment, and World War II's horrific Italian campaign. Throughout, Walker kept a daily journal in which he recorded his experiences on and off the battlefield. The diary was...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 224 p. Although it was the largest and final battle of the Pacific War, the Battle for Okinawa has long been overshadowed by other dramatic events in 1945. The books that have been written about it emphasize the role of infantrymen, armor, and U.S. Marines. This work takes a fresh perspective and focuses on the vital role played by the U.S. Army's...
Washington, D. C. : Center of Military History United States Army, 1990. - 162 p.
he Admiralties: Operations of the 1st Cavalry Division (29 February-18 May 1944) is one of a series of fourteen studies of World War II operations originally published by the War Department's Historical Division and now returned to print as part of the Army's commemoration of the fiftieth...
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1948. — 137 p. The Persia and Iraq Command was a Command of the British Army established during the Second World War in September 1942 in Baghdad. Its primary role was to secure from land and air attack the oilfields and oil installations in Persia (officially Iran) and Iraq. Its further role was to ensure the transport of supplies from...
Birlinn, 2014. — 110 p. A wonderful example of a soldier's memoir. When Ray Ward died in 1999, his sons discovered an old and dusty manuscript in an Afrika Korps ammunition box in the cellar of the family home in Glasgow. These papers contained a collection of their father's memoirs, which detailed his experiences as an infantry officer during the Second World War, when he...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 275 p. After the long winter of the Phoney War (1939-1940) the invasion of the Low Countries and France by Hitler's rampaging armies threw the World into crisis. Chamberlain's Government fell, Churchill became Prime Minister. France was humiliated, the British Expeditionary Force was only saved by the miracle of Dunkirk but many men and huge amounts of...
Report. — Bolling: Air Force History Support Office, 1994. — 29 p. Gives details of the Army Air Forces' contribution to the Battle of the Atlantic. Maps, illustrations, photos, suggested readings. In 1942 the Allied powers faced the most serious challenge to their control of the seas encountered in the Second World War: the menace of the U-boat. Fast, wellarmed, and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 304 p. In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire. The rapid loss of all of Britain's possessions in the Far East was the culmination of a failed attempt to deal with the rise of Japanese imperialism. Britain's bluff was called and millions of Britain's...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 182 p. In November 1943, George Watt, Flying Fortress gunner, parachuted out of his burning bomber and landed in a village in Nazi-occupied Belgium. The villagers risked their lives to hide him in the field, sneaking him past the German patrols, and bringing him safely to Brussels, where he connected with the Comet Line, the rescue arm of...
Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Bellona, 1992. — 242 s. Praca poświęcona jest organizacji polskich wojsk Lądowych w Wielkiej Brytanii w okresie czerwiec 1940 - maj 1945 r. W niniejszej rozprawie opisuję tylko organizację jednostek wchodzących w skład I Korpusu.
Bellona, 2009. — 300 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino) was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The intention was a breakthrough to Rome. Between 17 January and 18 May, Monte Cassino and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 200 p. This book relates a chapter of American military history which many people would rather forget. When the United States came to the aid of Britain in 1942, the arrival of American troops was greeted with unreserved enthusiasm, but unfortunately, wartime sometimes brings out the worst, as well as the best, in people. A small number of the...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 224 p. The London Blitz and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are iconic myths for Britain and America. Few in either nation realize, however, that these artfully constructed narratives of heroic resistance to aerial bombardment both conceal appalling massacres of their own citizens. In Britain, thousands of civilians were killed when the army...
Stackpole Books, 2007. — 256 p. Gives the reader a firsthand look at war from inside a B-17 bomber in World War II Focuses on the 92nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force and includes missions to the Schweinfurt ball-bearing plant and Berlin One of the first accounts of being shot down over Sweden. The Savage Sky is as close as you can get to experiencing aerial combat while still staying...
Casmbridge, UK: Cambridge University Press — 1994 — 1198 p. — ISBN10: 0340398027; ISBN13: 978-0521443173. 1st edition. This is the first general history of World War II to be based both on the existing literature and on extensive work in British, American and German archives. It covers all the theaters of war, the weaponry used, and developments on the home front. Taking a...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 357 p. Far more than a conflict of imperial aggression, World War II was about "blood and soil," a fight to determine who would control the earth's resources and which races would be exterminated because they were deemed inferior or undesirable. This collection of essays, many never before published in English, illuminates the nature of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 320 p. Visions of Victory explores the views of eight war leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt - and compares their visions of the future assuming their side had emerged victorious. While the leaders primarily focused their attention on the strategy...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come to be that there was a Second World War causing twiceas much loss of life and more destruction than any other previous conflict? In this...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2012. — 208 p. On April 9, 1942, thousands of U.S. soldiers surrendered as the Philippines island of Luzon fell to the Japanese. But a few hundred Americans placed their faith in their own hands and headed for the jungles. One of them was twenty-three-year-old Clay Conner Jr., who had never even camped before. The obstacles to Conner’s survival were as...
Regnery History, 2021. — 380 p. Don Malarkey grew up scrappy and happy in Astoria, Oregon - jumping off roofs, playing pranks, a free-range American. Fritz Engelbert’s German boyhood couldn’t have been more different. Regimented and indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth, he was introspective and a loner. Both men fought in the Battle of the Bulge, the horrific climax of World War...
Santa-Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 222 p. Shows in illuminating detail how the Allied and Axis forces used visual images and other propaganda material to sway public opinion during World War II. Gives the reader primary source examples of World War II propaganda, answering the need for the study of images that is necessary in today's history study Includes a comprehensive...
Scarecrow Press, 2013. — 355 p. World War II dominates world history today as it dominated world attention over 60 years ago. In spite of the alliances that bound many of the same participants, the war was essentially two separate but simultaneous conflicts: one involved Japan as the major antagonist and took place mostly in Asia and Pacific; and the other, initiated by Germany...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 256 p. This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish town that ended up putting the ‘special relationship’ itself on trial. The subsequent court martial into what tabloids labeled a ‘wild west’ mutiny became front page news in Great Britain and the USA. Three thousand...
Foreword by Nicholas Werth. — New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 819 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5107-1625-4 In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964. At once a history of facts, a collection of interviews, and a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 272 p. This is the first detailed study of Britain's open source intelligence (OSINT) operations during the Second World War, showing how accurate and influential OSINT could be and ultimately how those who analysed this intelligence would shape British post-war policy towards the Soviet Union. Following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 320 p. — (Osprey General Military). Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon's Grande Armée before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka. This is widely described as the most critical tank battle of the Second World War, which saw...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 320 p. — (Osprey General Military) Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulikovo, where the Mongols were defeated in 1380; Borodino, where Russian troops slowed Napoleon's Grande Armée before Moscow in 1812; the third is Prokhorovka. This is widely described as the most critical tank battle of the Second World War, which saw...
Hachette Books, 2020. — 488 p. A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle—the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign—the last of its kind. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a...
Da Capo Press, 2017. — 400 p. From early August until mid-November of 1942, US Marines, sailors, and pilots struggled for dominance against an implacable enemy: Japanese soldiers, inculcated with the bushido tradition of death before dishonor, avatars of bayonet combat--close-up, personal, and gruesome. The glittering prize was Henderson Airfield. Japanese planners knew that if...
Time Life Books, 2000. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0783557086, 9780783557083. This definitive series chronicles the major junctures, personalities, campaigns, and strategies of the world's most consuming war. Heavily illustrated (photographs). A force unready for war The year that turned the tide The enemy below On special assignment A time of slaughter Picture Essays Evolution of a...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 320 p. If the U.S. Marines gave birth to a legend in the halls of Montezuma in the nineteenth century, they added glorious luster to it with their heroism and victories against the Japanese in World War II. For this vivid, foxhole view of the Marines' war, Richard Wheeler draws extensively on frontline eyewitness accounts of Marines and combat...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 252 p. The story of one of the bloodiest battles in history, resulting in the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, is documented with a personal touch; the author himself was a member of that company. It is a searing and unique account of that battle, told from the perspective of both the gallant U.S. Marines who invaded the island and...
Author House, 2012. — 152 р. At a crucial moment, Ed Whitcomb, a B-17 navigator, made a split-second decision and thereby set off a hair-raising, spine-tingling sequence of narrow escapes, captures, unexpected breaks and bitter betrayals that culminated in his final extrication from enemy territory. Whitcomb reached Clark Field just before its demolition by the Japanese. He...
2nd Edition. — Adams Media, 2007. — 368 р. — (Everything (History & Travel)). From Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 to the official end of World War II on 2 September 1945, The Eveything World War II Book, 2nd Edition provides readers with detailed information about the war that left no nation untouched. Clear maps and vivid photographs bring this war to life and illustrate...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. ― 51 p. ― (Graphic History 01). Relive the terrible attack on Pearl Harbor - the attack that brought the United States into World War 2 and almost destroyed the U.S. Navy. Meet the heroes caught up in this fateful day, including Dorie Miller, Mess Attendant on the West Virginia and Fleet Boxing Champion who fought for his ship and his crewmates as...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 312 p. Spanish Republicans and the Second World War tells the stories of the 500,000 Spanish Republicans that fled across the Pyrenees in 1939 as Catalonia fell to Franco’s victorious army in the final weeks of the Civil War. Many of the exiles played an active part in the Second World War. Some joined the French and British armed forces and saw...
New York: Avon Books, 1986. - 214 pgs. The story of Operation Northwind, Hitler's surprise attempt to smash through Alsace-Lorraine in January 1945, seen through the eyes of the young men who were "at the sharp end." Few except those who fought it know anything about a second Battle of the Bulge, which cost the Americans and their French comrades-in-arms nearly as many casualties....
Dorset, 1987. — 208 p. For a few weeks in February 1943, the action in and around a remote mountain village in North Africa held the attention of the whole world. At Kasserine in French Tunisia, a major US army met the Germans for the first time in battle, and was defeated. In the Pass at Kasserine, the US II Corps, 30,000 inexperienced young American soldiers, commanded by...
The History Press, 2007. — 232 p. The story of Operation Northwind, Hitler's surprise attempt to smash the German's way through Alsace Lorraine in January 1945, seen through the eyes of the young men who were "at the sharp end." Few except those who fought it know anything about a second Battle of the Bulge, which cost the Americans and their French comrades-in-arms nearly as...
Endeavour Press, 2014. — 200 p. The Field Marshal's Revenge is an enthralling and insightful account of the special relationship between two countries - and two men - during the dramatic final chapters of the Second World War. Charles Whiting shines the spotlight on Monty and Ike, two charismatic and inspirational commanders who were often ill at ease with each other on both a...
Combined Books, 1996. — 181 p. By December, 1944, 250,000 German prisoners of war in Britain were being guarded by a small number of over-age reservists. POWs had been very tame for most of the war, but now the German High Command in Berlin began infiltrating agents into the most important camps. First enforcing proper "National Socialist discipline" in the camps, the agents then...
Hippocrene Books, 1990. — 781 p. This is a superb tactical study of the battle for Bataan in 1942 by a lieutenant colonel on the staff of the Pentagon who served in Bataan with the 31st Infantry. The narrow focus facilitates a detailed and perceptive presentation of Japanese and Philippine-American fighting power. Whitman makes an original contribution by concentrating on...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 241 p. This book explores the tumultuous war years through the lens of the British Embassies in Cairo and Baghdad, demonstrating the role that the Second World War played in shaping the political and social map of the contemporary Middle East. The war served as a catalyst for seismic changes in Arab society and the emergence of new movements that provided...
Einaudi, 2018. — 459 p. Per molto tempo la Resistenza nell'Europa occidentale è stata ritenuta un fenomeno nazionale capace di offrire, tanto sul piano politico quanto su quello militare, un notevole contributo alla disfatta nazista. Sulla stessa falsariga, la cooperazione tra angloamericani e forze nazionali - resistenze e poteri in esilio - è stata giudicata esemplare. Nata...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 131 p. — ISBN10: 331975470X; ISBN13: 978-3319754703 This book is the first major study of the blackout in the Second World War. Developing a comparative history of this system of civil defense in Britain and Germany, it begins by exploring how the blackout was planned for in both countries, and how the threat of aerial bombing framed its...
Casemate Publishers, 2010. — 255 p. An award-winning, personal account of US amphibious operations in WWII by a veteran Coast Guardsman—illustrated with photographs and drawings. During World War II, Ken Wiley was a Coast Guardsman on an attack transport in the Pacific. In this work of historical memoir, Wiley relates the complex and often nerve-wracking story of how the United...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 107 p. Often written during imprisonment in Allied War camps by former German officers, with their memories of the World War fresh in their minds, The Foreign Military Studies series offers rare glimpses into the Third Reich. In this study Oberst Wilhem Willemar discusses his recollections of the climatic battle for Berlin from within the...
Pen and Sword, 1988. — 348 p. When in August, 1944, the Allies broke out of Normandy, the world's attention became fixed on the dramatic British and American armoured thrusts into the Rhine. The war in Europe seemed all but over. Far to the left, along the flank of the Allied Expeditionary Force, almost unnoticed, a battle was beginning on whose outcome hung not only victory...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 232 p. At Dunkirk, the withdrawing army left behind most of its equipment, yet only four years later, on D-Day, troops would wonder at the efficiency of supply. This book looks at the lives of some of the men who led the monumental effort which led to this result. The story begins in Victorian south London. It goes out to Portuguese East Africa...
Bennington, Vermont: Merriam Press, n.d. (c.1985). - 7 pgs. Merriam Press Military History Archives Fact File No. F-
54. This short booklet details the member units of the 44th Indian Airborne Division from its formation at Quetta in May 1945 by conversion of the 44th Indian Armoured Division to Indian independence in 1947. During its existence, the division included a British...
London: Pen & Sword Military, 2009. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1844159264; ISBN13: 978-1844159260 Hitler's attack on Poland in 1939 was the first brutal act in six years of world war, but the campaign is often overshadowed by the momentous struggle that followed across the rest of Europe. David Williamson, in this timely and thought-provoking study, reconstructs each stage of the...
Mensch Publishing, 2023. — 270 p. Eighty years after the Battle of Britain this vivid and dramatic book tells the story, in their own words, of six brave young men who fought courageously in the skies above England to prevent Hitler's invasion of Britain. This thin blue line in their Hurricanes and Spitfires were the 'few' to whom Churchill said the nation owed so much. It was,...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 192 p. Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, World War II has been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its history. Yes, battles, bombs and bravery all have a...
Naval Institute Press, 1982. — 510 p. The respected British military historian H. P. Willmott presents the first of a three-volume appraisal of the strategic policies of the countries involved in the Pacific War. Remarkable in its scope and depth of research, his thoughtful analysis covers the whole range of political, economic, military, and naval activity in the Pacific. This...
Blandford Press, 1984. — 230 p. This text analyses military events in every theatre of war during June 1944. It offers insights into the effect on Overlord of the Italian campaign and vice versa, and highlights the competition between the US, Britain and the Soviet Union to determine how the Allied forces should best be applied.
Naval Institute Press, 1983. — 618 p. This detailed book studies and examines the military naval policies of the Allied and Japanese forces and describes the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway (1942).
Cassell, 1999. — 224 p. Until its loss in World War II, Japan had not known failure in centuries of warfare. This record of the conflict goes beyond mere description to illuminate why Japan instigated a conflict with the only nation--the United States--capable of defeating her, as well as the crucial shifts in the nature of naval power and strategy that occurred during the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002. — 200 p. Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was the beginning of the United States' battle with Japan during World War II. In the months following the attack, Japan was successful in a series of victories throughout Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Then, from May 1942 to October 1943, the Japanese and the United States...
Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2010. — 336 p. — ISBN 9781405335201. A new edition of this unique global account of the Second World War in all its brutal intensity Evoking the sheer, epic scale of combat and its appalling impact across the globe, this is a unique telling of the Second World War in all its brutal intensity. Digital maps and timelines cover every major campaign and...
Covent Garden Books, 2008. — 320 р. — ISBN: 978-0756649142. It is arguably the single most dramatic event in human history. Decades after the last shot was fired, the battles may be fading from living memory, but the shock waves of World War II still resonate. This comprehensive history examines not just the many theaters of operations, but also provides a challenging analysis...
Text Publishing Company, 2017. — 464 p. We are thrilled to include Tobruk 1941, a gripping account of the Siege of Tobruk from celebrated war correspondent Chester Wilmot, as a Text Classic in 2017. This is a landmark Australian war story that celebrates resistance, courage, sacrifice, mateship and sheer grit. The Siege of Tobruk was an eight-month battle between a garrison of...
Ballantine Books, 1987. — 288 p. So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the...
Рegasus Books, 2018. — 480 р. — ISBN: 1681778807. The year 1943 saw the beginning of an unprecedented bombing campaign against Germany. Over the next twelve months, tens of thousands of aircrews flew across the North Sea to drop bombs on German cities. They were opposed not only by the full force of the Luftwaffe, but by a nightmare of flak, treacherously icy conditions, and...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. — 417 p. Beginning in late 1945, the United States, Britain, China, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and later the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China convened national courts to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants included ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese who had served...
Routledge, 2022. — 172 p. The U.S. and the War in the Pacific, 1941-1945 analyzes the Pacific War with a focus on America’s participation in the conflict. Fought over a great ocean and vast battlefields using the most sophisticated weapons available, the Pacific War transformed the modern world. Not only did it introduce the atomic bomb to the world, it also reshaped relations...
Osprey Publishing, 2000. — 160 p. The Eastern Front was the decisive theatre of World War 2 and the largest land campaign in history. Ostfront is a detailed account of Hilter's flawed invasion of Russia, where the German army and Luftwaffe fought the Red Army across a 1,200 mile frontier, in conditions ranging from baking heat to -40ºC.
Goose Lane Editions, 2011. — 199 p. Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments. Twentieth century warfare is epitomized by the image of Allied tanks growling across the countryside, engaging their Nazi counterparts. One of the most storied of such regiments is the 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars....
Grub Street Publishing, 2009. — 208 p. On the night of 22/23rd April 1944 Tom Wingham was the bomb aimer in the crew of a 76 Squadron Halifax shot down while on the way to bomb Düsseldorf. Coming to in a tangle of parachute and harness straps he realized the precariousness of his situation and so, dazed and aching with a painful concussion and navigating by the stars alone, he...
Penguin Group, 2006. — 320 p. They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, Dick Winters was their legendary commander. This is his story—told in his own words for the first time....
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 225 p. Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied expeditionary force: You are about to embark upon the great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere are with you. Published to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, The...
University Press of Kansas, 2007. — 528 p. If the Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last gasp, it was also America's proving ground-the largest single action fought by the U.S. Army in World War II. Taking a new approach to an old story, Harold Winton widens our field of vision by showing how victory in this legendary campaign was built upon the remarkable resurrection of our...
Wien: Verlag für Militär und Fachliteratur A. Franz Goth & Sohn, 1939. — 342 s. Bericht zum Polenfeldzug der deutschen Wehrmacht. Eine Chronik Des Krieges In Wort Und Bild.
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 140 p. Torpedo 8 is the epic story of the death and rebirth of the famous bomber squadron led by Lieutenant Harold "Swede" Larsen. VT-8 rose from the ashes of the Battle of Midway to become an indispensable air arm in the series of engagements for the Solomon Islands and beyond. In three months, the crack squadron carried out thirty-nine...
Denton:: University of North Texas Press. - 352 p. ISBN: 1574412817
No published work examines General Henry H. Hap Arnold’s role in depth during the Pacific War of 1944-1945, in the context of planning for the destruction of Japan. In this new study, Herman S. Wolk, retired Senior Historian of the U.S. Air Force, examines the thinking of Hap Arnold, Commanding General, Army...
Stackpole Books, 2007. — 288 p. In May 1944 German Army Group B, headquartered in France, requested weekly reports from its commanders. These accounts included assessments of the general situation, estimates of the Allies situation, casualty figures, equipment losses, and descriptions of resistance activities. Commanded successively by Erwin Rommel, Günther von Kluge, and...
Black White Publishing, 2014. — 255 p. 'Lion Rampant' is the author's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany.
London: Future Publishing, 2020. — 118 p. — (Part of the All about History: Special Issue). Everything You Need To Know About World War II On 1 September 1939, German soldiers marched into Poland; it was the start of a conflict that would consume the world for six years. Soldiers would die for their country, spies would risk life and limb, and millions would be brutally...
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands Department of Victims and Remembrance WWI, 2009. — 46 p. Pensions and Benefits Restitution Looted Art Remembrance Education Research International Judaica Research Heritage of War
New Orleans, The National WWII Museum, 2012. — 39 p. Using critical thinking and observation skills as well as prior knowledge, students will gain familiarity or reinforce knowledge of the chronology of WWII by matching images, descriptive captions and dates of 25 WWII events. This lesson makes a great WWII review.
2011. — 168 p. 168 pages of British intelligence files covering plans by the German intelligence agency, Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, also known as the SD, to install a "stay-behind" organization in Europe for use after the end of combat, to work behind Allied controls to build a Fourth Reich. The Sicherheitsdienst, which translates into English as Security Service, was...
An affiliate of Alexander Autographs. — Chesapeake City: Alexander Auction book, 2013. — 157 p. There’s certainly been a lot of water under the bridge since then. As is the case with everyone, sometimes urgent personal matters call for one’s complete attention, at the cost of time devoted to business. I’m happy to report that that “late unpleasantness” is now behind us, and we’re...
Editors. — DK Publishing, 2001. — 736 р. Witness the 2,175 tumultuous, tragic, and triumphant days that shook the world. " Born to freedom, and believing in freedom, Americans are willing to fight to maintain freedom... we would rather die on our feet than live on our knees." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt's powerful sentiments have come to symbolize the attitude of all...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. — 103 p. — (Battles That Changed the World). Recalls the events leading to the Battle of Midway (04-07 June 1942), in which the U.S. Navy defeated a Japanese fleet, resulting in the Japanese adoption of a defensive strategy instead of an offensive strategy, leading to their eventual surrender.
Pen and Sword Aviation, 2012. — 215 p. Fighter Operations in Europe and North Africa 1939-1945 tells the story of Allied and German fighter pilots in Europe, over the Mediterranean and in North Africa during the Second World War. The book starts with the early skirmishes as each side tested the other’s defenses, moves through the Battle of Britain and then the Blitz, when the...
Pen and Sword, 2003. — 224 p. The strategic importance of Malta sitting astride both the Axis and Allied supply routes in the Mediterranean was obvious to both sides during WW2. As a result the Island became the focal point in a prolonged and dreadful struggle that cost the lives of thousands of servicemen and civilians. After setting the scene for the action, this book tells the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 255 p. During the Summer of 1940, Hitler’s Germany appeared unstoppable. The Nazis were masters of mainland Europe, in alliance with Stalin’s Russia and only the English Channel prevented an immediate invasion. Britain stood alone. The BEF had been routed but, due to the ‘Dunkirk miracle’, most of her manpower had returned albeit without their...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 224 p. Operation BARBAROSSA, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was a turning point second only to Pearl Harbor. Russia became an ally overnight but a most difficult, dangerous and demanding one. Stalin desperately needed oil, equipment and modern technology but the only practical route was round the North Cape to the ports of Archangel and...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2011. — 207 p. The Pacific Naval War 1941-1945 is an account of the war between the Allies and the Japanese. This was primarily a naval war as sea power allowed the Japanese to mount their attack on Pearl Harbor and then advance westwards and southwards, and it was sea power that enabled the Allies to strike back and even take the war to Japan itself. The...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 224 p. The battle of Iwo Jima (1945) was extraordinary for its ferocity. US Marine Corps casualties exceeded by thousands the number of Japanese defenders, who fought almost to the last man over those five desperate weeks. The strategic justification for the mission has been challenged and the iconic photograph of the flag-raising was staged, but there...
Storyteller Books, 2021. — 65 p. In June 1944, American forces had their sights focused on the Marianas islands. Located about 1,500 miles from Japan's major cities, these islands would be used as bases for the new Boeing B-29 heavy bomber which could strike Japan's most important cities. The first island to be invaded was Saipan. Enemy resistance was heavy, as Marines from the...
Storyteller Books, 2021. — 82 p. A vital stepping stone in America’s war against the Empire of Japan. Naval bombardment of the island began on June 14. By late July, once the southern portion of Saipan had been secured, heavy US Army artillery bombed the northern half of Tinian. The landing forces —elements of two Marine divisions and an Army regimental combat team—were drawn...
War History Journals, 2020. — 91 p. A gripping insight into the war for New Guinea and the operation for Cape Gloucester. Determined to capture a pivotal island in their war against the Japanese, the US 1st Marine Division were faced with a challenging task – to land on the fortified peninsula of Cape Gloucester and capture its two vital airfields. Taking the peninsula and the...
War History Journals, 2020. — 116 p. Explore the battle for Tarawa in a fascinating new light. The war for the Pacific rages on. The US has set their sights on the Tarawa atoll - a small yet vital island which, if captured, would give the Allies a powerful stepping stone into the heart of Japanese waters and the rest of the Gilbert Islands. Through a coordinated assault of...
Storyteller Books, 2021. — 156 p. A gripping account of the final campaign of World War II—the victory on Okinawa. The invasion of Okinawa was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater. Codenamed Operation Iceberg, it was also one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific, lasting ninety-eight days. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies planned to use...
Storyteller Books, 2021. — 132 p. By invading Guam, US forces were not only getting access to a fine harbor and a number of airfields to use in future operations but were also liberating a US territory captured by the Japanese in 1941. The attack on Guam was intended to begin only days after the landings on Saipan but was postponed for a month. US forces used the delay to make...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 289 p. The turbulent life of Gregory Pappy Boyington, the top U.S. Marine ace of the Pacific, is captured in memorable detail by the acclaimed author of One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle of Tarawa. Wukovits pulls no punches in describing the controversial World War II fighter pilot, who was a hero to some, and a villain to others in the Corps....
Da Capo Press, 2019. — 322 p. From a top World War II author, the tragic story of the pilots who fought the last fight of the war during the first hour of peace. When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they had no idea they were about to carry out the...
NAL Hardcover, 2006. — 335 p. In November 1943, the men of the 2nd Marine Division watched as bombardments destroyed the Japanese defenses on an islet in the Tarawa atoll. But when the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their protective bunkers and began one of the most brutal encounters of the war. During the ensuing three days of non-stop fighting, the entire island...
Inedita, 2005. — 445 p. Now a prominent military historian, breaking new ground on the assault, relates the compelling events of that day and the heroic struggle that followed. Thanks to the brave Marines stationed there-and the civilian construction workers who selflessly put their lives on the line to defend the island-what was supposed to be an easy victory became a...
Casemate, 2005. — 255 p. Wurst, a rifleman, spent the most of World War II in the European Theater of Operations as a squad leader or platoon sergeant in Company F, 505. He made three of the four regimental combat jumps, dropping into Italy, Normandy, and Holland. Highlights include his baptism of fire in Italy during the Battle of Arnone; the jump on D-Day and the liberation...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. — 312 p. Expanding our understanding of both the formulation and execution of POW policy in both capitals, the book sheds new light on the dynamics in inter-belligerent relations during the war. It suggests that while the Second World War should be rightly acknowledged as a conflict in which traditional constraints were routinely abandoned...
Frontline Books, 2015. — 617 p. The pilots and other aircrew from throughout the British Empire and its allies who flew with the Royal Air Force, Fighter Command, between July 10th and October 31st 1940, and earned the ‘immediate’ award of the 1939-1945 Star with Battle of Britain Clasp.
Frontline Books, 2021. — 136 p. Since it was first published in 1989, Men of the Battle of Britain, the complete third edition of which was published in 2015, has become a standard reference book for academics and researchers interested in the Battle of Britain.
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 224 p. On 19 August 1942, an Allied amphibious raid took place on the coastal town of Dieppe in northern France, when a force of some 6,500 infantry soldiers, predominantly Canadian, and supported by a number of tanks were landed by ships of the Royal Navy under a blanket of cover provided by the RAF. The official reason for the raid was to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 224 p. On 19 August 1942, an Allied amphibious raid took place on the coastal town of Dieppe in northern France, when a force of some 6,500 infantry soldiers, predominantly Canadian, and supported by a number of tanks were landed by ships of the Royal Navy under a blanket of cover provided by the RAF. The official reason for the raid was to...
Pen and Sword Books, 2019. — 224 p. This is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named "Operation Tiger," on the evening of 23/24 April 1943. The second, was the unanswerable question of whether the attacking E-Boats of the German Kriegsmarine had fully grasped the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 176 p. Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of Belgian, British, Dutch, French and Polish troops from the beaches at Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940, was not only a pivotal moment of the war, but one that changed its final outcome. There has been much debate in the years since the end of the war concerning the “Hitler Halt” order,...
Fonthill Media, 2018. — 162 p. — ISBN 978-1-78155-678-8 This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. Manufacture and the use of biological weapons, the entire process of preparation and implementation of germ warfare, with the reflection on war and human nature, medical and ethical issues, is given by the...
Fonthill Media, 2018. — 427 p. — ISBN 978-1-78155-678-8 This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. Manufacture and the use of biological weapons, the entire process of preparation and implementation of germ warfare, with the reflection on war and human nature, medical and ethical issues, is given by the...
Casemate, 2022. — 354 p. — (Casemate Illustrated Special). — ISBN 978-1-63624-098-5. Thousands of volumes have been published about World War II but relatively little attention has been given to the sniper. Drawing from memoirs, government documents and interviews, World War II Snipers incorporates eyewitness accounts to weave a comprehensive narrative of snipers in World War...
Presidio Press, 2003. — 316 p. Advancing at the speed of the infantry, the U.S. Army independent tank battalions ground slowly across the continent during World War II, from the bloody beaches of Normandy; through forests, villages, and cities in France, Belgium, and Germany; and into Czechoslovakia at the war's end. Greater in number than the battalions in the vaunted armor...
Pocket Books, 2010. — 224 р. Shortly after the D-Day invasion, the Allied forces in Europe had stalled. A limited operation was set in motion to punch a small hole in the enemy defenses, starting on July 25, 1944. It was called Operation Cobra, and it would become one of the greatest offensives in all of military history. In the sixty days following the launch of the operation,...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 320 p. Of all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women. Initially the Red Air Force maintained an all-male policy among its combat pilots. However, as the apparently invincible German juggernaut sliced through Soviet defenses, the Red Air Force began to rethink its ban on women....
Paragon Books, 1974. — 290 p. Historical Atlas of the Second World War explores in graphical form, the causes, course, and consequences of this global war. Clear two-colour maps and diagrams are accompanied by a page of explanatory text addressing not just battles and campaigns, but also clarifying the key social, economic and political aspects of the war. These tend to get...
Atlas. — Warszawa: Taktyka i Strategia, 2014. — 122 s. — ISBN 839256765X. Atlas kampanii 9 - 19 wrzesnia 1939 roku. Na pięćdziesięciu arkuszach pokazano zarówno polskie przygotowania do wojny jak i jej przebieg dzień po dniu. Przyjęta skala dywizyjno-brygadowa doskonale ukazuje wszystkie starcia Wojska Polskiego z niemieckim Wehrmachtem. Atlas obejmuje również działania bojowe...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 22). — ISBN 9781472856741. Orígenes de la batalla: El 22 de junio de 1944, tres años y un día después de la invasión alemana de la Unión Soviética, el Ejército Rojo lanzó una ofensiva en masa sobre Bielorrusia. Con el nombre en clave de operación «Bagration», esta campaña alcanzó su clímax cinco semanas más tarde,...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 34). — ISBN 9781472856008. La contraofensiva alemana en las Ardenas de diciembre de 1944 constituyó la campaña decisiva de la guerra en el norte de Europa. La desesperada apuesta de Hitler para cambiar el signo de la guerra en el Frente del Oeste se desvaneció en una quincena. El volumen anterior de esta serie se ocupó...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 26). — ISBN 9781472856789. Los treinta días que mediaron entre el 25 de julio y el 25 de agosto de 1944, que se iniciaron con la operación «Cobra» y terminaron con la liberación de París, fueron uno de los períodos más decisivos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A finales de agosto de aquel año, las fuerzas alemanas en...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 96 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 19). — ISBN 9781472856693. Orígenes de la batalla: El desembarco anfibio de 1944 en Anzio constituyó una de las operaciones más controvertidas de los Aliados en Europa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A pesar de que el objetivo inicial era el de romper el punto muerto al que se había llegado en el teatro de...
Hippocrene Books, 1990. — 195 p. The Polish Campaign of 1939 was the first violent demonstration of the effectiveness of the Blitzkrief tactics of the German Army. This book takes little-known Polish documentary sources to provide a look at the battles from the perspective of the Polish Army.
Иллюстрированный альбом, посвященный вторжению германских и румынских войск в Бессарабию и на Украину (239 страниц). Издательство: Verlag Erich Zander, Berlin, 1943.
Picton Press, 1989. — 388 p. A best seller when it was published in Germany in 1980, and now translated into English by the author, The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945 is the only account to date of the German investigations of war crimes allegedly committed by the Allied armies against the Nazi regime. During World War II the little-known German Bureau on War Crimes...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 1026 p. — (Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History). A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers, providing nearly 60 new...
Casemate, 2017. — 394 p. The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-1941 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the Germans’ secrets, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The false conclusions drawn became myths about the Blitzkrieg that have lingered for decades. It has been argued that rather...
Casemate, 2019. — 480 p. A revised and updated single-source reference book which accurately details the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their losses. Dr. Zetterling provides a sobering analysis of the subject matter and debunks a number of popular myths concerning the campaign (the effectiveness of Allied air power; the preferential treatment of Waffen-SS...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 684 p. This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2012. — 496 p. The ninth book in the Canadian Battle Series, Breakout from Juno, is the first dramatic chronicling of Canada's pivotal role throughout the entire Normandy Campaign following the D-Day landings. On July 4, 1944, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division won the village of Carpiquet but not the adjacent airfield. Instead of a speedy victory, the men...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2015. — 512 p. During the winter of 1944–1945 the Allies desperately sought a strategy for Germany’s quick defeat. From the Swiss border to the North Sea, hundreds of thousands of soldiers in trenches and dugouts suffered through the bitterest European winter in 50 years, while their generals debated and schemed in the war rooms. In this grim environment,...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2006. — 432 p. Following his national best-seller, Juno Beach, and with his usual verve and narrative skill, historian Mark Zuehlke chronicles the crucial six days when Canadians saved the vulnerable beachheads they had won during the D-Day landings. D-Day ended with the Canadians six miles inland the deepest penetration achieved by Allied forces during...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2005. — 352 p. On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among them were 14,500 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile-long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a dangerously exposed beach. Drawing on personal diaries as...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2010. — 416 p. The eighth Canadian Battle Series volume is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, remembered in the Netherlands as the sweetest of springs,” which saw the country’s liberation from German occupation. The Liberation Campaign, a series of fierce, desperate battles during the last three months of the war, was...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2010. — 520 p. July 10, 1943: Aboard over two thousand shipsthe largest armada in historytwo great Allied Armies readied to invade Sicily. This was Operation Husky, the first step towards winning a toehold in fascist occupied Europe. Among the invaders were 20,000 troops serving in the 1st Canadian Infantry Division and 1st Canadian Tank Brigadein their...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2004. — 721 p. A masterful retelling one of the major victories of Canadian troops over the German army’s elite division during WWII. In one blood-soaked, furious week of fighting, from December 20 to December 27, 1943, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division took the town of Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port town...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2007. — 576 p. On September 4, 1944, Antwerp, Europe’s largest port, fell to the Second British Army and it seemed the war would soon be won. But Antwerp was of little value unless the West Scheldt Estuary linking it to the North Sea was also in Allied hands. In his greatest blunder of the war, Field Marshal Montgomery turned his back on the port, leaving...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2018. — 512 p. They thought of themselves as the "Cinderella Army," and international correspondents agreed. This was because First Canadian Army had been relegated to the left flank of the Allied advance toward Germany from the Normandy beaches and given the tough, thankless task of opening the Channel ports from Le Havre to Ostend in Belgium. Then...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2005. — 400 p. Like an armor-toothed belt across Italy’s upper thigh, the Gothic Line was the most fortified and fiercely defended position the German army had yet thrown in the path of the Allied forces. On August 25, 1944, it fell to I Canadian Corps to spearhead the famed Eighth Army’s major offensive, intended to rip through it. The 1st Infantry and...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2004. — 512 p. For the allied armies fighting their way up the Italian boot in early 1944, Rome was the prize that could only be won through one of the greatest offensives of the war. Following upon his book about the battle of Ortona, Mark Zuehlke returns to the Mediterranean theatre of World War II with this gripping tribute to the valiant Canadians who...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2019. — 480 p. The Canadians called it the Promised Land. In late September 1944, the Emilia-Romagna plain before I Canadian Corps stretched to the far horizon―a deceptively wide-open space where the tanks could run free. Throughout British Eighth Army, hopes ran high that once it entered the plain, the Germans could be driven from Italy. As soon as the...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2015. — 208 p. As part of Operation Husky 2013, a group of Canadians walked this route to honour the memory of the nation's soldiers who fought in Sicily seventy years earlier and whose sacrifice has been largely forgotten. Under a searing sun, with Mount Etna's soaring heights always in the distance, a small contingent of marchers trekked each day along...
Douglas and McIntyre, 2013. — 420 p. With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's tenth Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo," Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just entered the war, Britain was under intense...
Доповідь на Канадійському пленумі НТШ. - Друкарня Українських Вістей у Новому Ульмі. - Опубліковано: Б.м., 1961 Сторінок: 36 с. Автор описує трагічний епізод Другої світової війни - видачу козаків у Лієнці, що трапився у місті Лієнц (не плутати з містом Лінц), Австрія у квітні 1945 р. Згідно з домовленостями, що були досягнуті на Ялтинській конференції між Сталіним та...
Опубліковано: Б.м., 1961 Сторінок: 36 с. Опис: Друкарня Українських Вістей у Новому Ульмі
Автор описує трагічний епізод Другої світової війни - видачу козаків у Лієнці, що трапився у місті Лієнц (не плутати з містом Лінц), Австрія у квітні 1945 р. Згідно з домовленостями, що були досягнуті на Ялтинській конференції між Сталіним та Черчиллем, британське керівництво зобов'язалось...
Переводчик: Игоревский Л. А., Редактор: Шенгелая Ю. И. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — 222 с. — (За линией фронта. Военная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4786-8. Эта книга посвящена самым драматичным моментам Второй мировой войны: Смоленск, Москва, Сталинград, Курск, Бреслау. Битвы за эти города вошли в историю как самые кровопролитные и ожесточенные, именно они стали решающими и...
Переводчик: Игоревский Л. А., Редактор: Шенгелая Ю. И. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — 222 с. — (За линией фронта. Военная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4786-8. Эта книга посвящена самым драматичным моментам Второй мировой войны: Смоленск, Москва, Сталинград, Курск, Бреслау. Битвы за эти города вошли в историю как самые кровопролитные и ожесточенные, именно они стали решающими и...
Переводчик: Игоревский Л. А., Редактор: Шенгелая Ю. И. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — 222 с. — (За линией фронта. Военная история). — ISBN 978-5-9524-4786-8. Эта книга посвящена самым драматичным моментам Второй мировой войны: Смоленск, Москва, Сталинград, Курск, Бреслау. Битвы за эти города вошли в историю как самые кровопролитные и ожесточенные, именно они стали решающими и...
Переводчик: Игоревский Л. А., Редактор: Шенгелая Ю. И. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — 222 с. — (За линией фронта. Военная история). — ISBN 978-5-9524-4786-8. Эта книга посвящена самым драматичным моментам Второй мировой войны: Смоленск, Москва, Сталинград, Курск, Бреслау. Битвы за эти города вошли в историю как самые кровопролитные и ожесточенные, именно они стали решающими и...
М.: Яуза, 2006. — 388 с. Настоящая книга - первое уникальное исследование на русском языке об отношениях кавказских эмиграционных организаций с руководством гитлеровского рейха, об особых диверсионных группах и о смешанном специальном формировании Абвера - Бергманн. Основываясь на архивных материалах и мемуарах участников событий, автор раскрывает тайные замыслы и планы...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2007. — 456 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-3290-1, 978-5-9524-3589-6 Книга посвящена главной ударной мощи сухопутных сил - танковым войскам. Автор реконструировал основные танковые сражения Второй мировой войны, подробно рассказал о предыстории создания и послевоенном развитии бронетанковой техники, дал характеристику различных видов и типов танков, уделяя большое...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2007. — 456 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-3290-1, 978-5-9524-3589-6. Книга посвящена главной ударной мощи сухопутных сил - танковым войскам. Автор реконструировал основные танковые сражения Второй мировой войны, подробно рассказал о предыстории создания и послевоенном развитии бронетанковой техники, дал характеристику различных видов и типов танков, уделяя большое...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 152 с. / Перевод с японского М. А. Гусева, В. А. Зломанова, А. Г. Рябкина, Н. Н. Тулинова. ≡ Akiyama H., Tokushu Butai Nanasanichi. — Tokyo: Tokyo: San'ichi shobo, 1956. Аннотация издательства: В книге «Особый отряд 731» автор — очевидец и соучастник чудовищных преступлений японской военщины против человечества — описывает...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 152 с. / Перевод с японского М. А. Гусева, В. А. Зломанова, А. Г. Рябкина, Н. Н. Тулинова. ≡ Akiyama H., Tokushu Butai Nanasanichi. — Tokyo: Tokyo: San'ichi shobo, 1956. Аннотация издательства: В книге «Особый отряд 731» автор — очевидец и соучастник чудовищных преступлений японской военщины против человечества — описывает...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 152 с. / Перевод с японского М. А. Гусева, В. А. Зломанова, А. Г. Рябкина, Н. Н. Тулинова. ≡ Akiyama H., Tokushu Butai Nanasanichi. — Tokyo: Tokyo: San'ichi shobo, 1956. Аннотация издательства: В книге «Особый отряд 731» автор — очевидец и соучастник чудовищных преступлений японской военщины против человечества — описывает...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2006. — 576 с.
Книга петербургского историка K.M. Александрова посвящена истории власовскои армии — вооруженным формированиям Комитета освобождения народов России (1944-1945). Особое внимание автор уделяет структурной организации и боевому использованию частей и подразделений ВС KЦHP. Книга адресована как историкам-профессионалам, так и широкому кругу читателей,...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2006. — 576 с. — ISBN: 5-699-15429-9. Книга петербургского историка K.M. Александрова посвящена истории власовскои армии — вооруженным формированиям Комитета освобождения народов России (1944-1945). Особое внимание автор уделяет структурной организации и боевому использованию частей и подразделений ВС KЦHP. Книга адресована как историкам-профессионалам, так и...
Звенья, 1998. — 160 с. 19 апреля 1943 года началась, быть может, самая героическая и вместе с тем трагическая страница в истории еврейского народа — восстание в Варшавском гетто. Книга ленинградского ученого-историка Валентина Михайловича Алексеева (1924–1994), посвященная истории варшавского гетто и восстанию его обитателей против гитлеровцев, была написана во второй половине...
М.: Воениздат МВС СССР, 1949. — 68 с.
В книге показано, какое большое значение имела артиллерия в борьбе с танками в Великой Отечественной войне. Автором приведен ряд примеров героизма, стойкости, бесстрашия и смекалки, проявленных советскими артиллеристами в бою. Книга рассчитана на массового читателя и главным образом на советскую молодежь.
М.: АСТ, Corpus, 2014. — 416 с.
В 1947 году в Москве должна была выйти из печати "Черная книга" - уникальный сборник документов и рассказов о Холокосте, подготовленный известнейшими советскими литераторами и журналистами (Маргаритой Алигер, Вениамином Кавериным, Рувимом Фраерманом, Виктором Шкловским и другими) под руководством Василия Гроссмана и Ильи Эренбурга.
Однако этого...
Москва: ACТ: Corpus, 2015. — 416 с. В 1947 году в Москве должна была выйти из печати "Черная книга" - уникальный сборник документов и рассказов о Холокосте, подготовленный известнейшими советскими литераторами и журналистами (Маргаритой Алигер, Вениамином Кавериным, Рувимом Фраерманом, Виктором Шкловским и другими) под руководством Василия Гроссмана и Ильи Эренбурга. Однако этого...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. – 495 с.
Серия: На линии фронта. Правда о войне.
ISBN: 5-9524-2143-1
Труд журналиста-международника А. Алябьева - не только история Второй мировой войны, но и экскурс в историю развития военной авиации за этот период. Автор привлекает огромный документальный материал: официальные сообщения правительств, информационных агентств, радио и прессы,...
М.: Наука, 1974. — 624 с. — (Вторая мировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах) В монографии, в которую включена значительная часть материалов книги "Бессмертный подвиг", на основе критического анализа архивных документов, военно-исторической литературы, воспоминаний участников Великой Отечественной войны воссоздаются героические события кануна и первого этапа...
М.: Наука, 1974. — 624 с. — (Вторая мировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах). В монографии, в которую включена значительная часть материалов книги "Бессмертный подвиг", на основе критического анализа архивных документов, военно-исторической литературы, воспоминаний участников Великой Отечественной войны воссоздаются героические события кануна и первого этапа...
Самиздат, 2020. — 154 с. 75 лет победы над Германией. А каков вклад нашего союзника США в победу во Второй мировой войне? Об этом на фактах и цифрах рассказано профессором Анцелиовичем. Американцы оказали реальную и такую нужную помощь сражающимся с агрессорами странам. Они создали антигитлеровскую коалицию. Военные поставки американцев Советскому Союзу во время Великой...
Москва: Яуза, 2023. — 448 с. — (Война на уничтожение. Третий рейх против России). — ISBN 978-5-00155-626-8. Нацистские концентрационные лагеря - одна из самых трагичных страниц в истории человечества. Женский концлагерь Равенсбрюк, со временем, превратившийся в лагерный комплекс, состоявший из мужского и женского отделений, молодежного лагеря Укермарк, выполнял две основные...
Сан-Франциско: Globus Publishers, 1982. — 415 с. Настоящая книга коренным образом отличается от всех публикаций, посвященных событиям последних дней Второй мировой войны, написанных как в самой Чехословакии, так и за границей. Этот труд создавался вне пределов сегодняшней Чехословацкой республики, поэтому автор не считает себя обязанным кого-либо восхвалять или порочить из-за...
Сан-Франциско: Globus Publishers, 1982. — 415 с. Настоящая книга коренным образом отличается от всех публикаций, посвященных событиям последних дней Второй мировой войны, написанных как в самой Чехословакии, так и за границей. Этот труд создавался вне пределов сегодняшней Чехословацкой республики, поэтому автор не считает себя обязанным кого-либо восхвалять или порочить из-за...
Сан-Франциско: Globus Publishers, 1982. — 415 с. Настоящая книга коренным образом отличается от всех публикаций, посвященных событиям последних дней Второй мировой войны, написанных как в самой Чехословакии, так и за границей. Этот труд создавался вне пределов сегодняшней Чехословацкой республики, поэтому автор не считает себя обязанным кого-либо восхвалять или порочить из-за...
Сан-Франциско: Globus Publishers, 1982. — 415 с. Настоящая книга коренным образом отличается от всех публикаций, посвященных событиям последних дней Второй мировой войны, написанных как в самой Чехословакии, так и за границей. Этот труд создавался вне пределов сегодняшней Чехословацкой республики, поэтому автор не считает себя обязанным кого-либо восхвалять или порочить из-за...
М.: РГГУ, 1996.- 490 с.
В предлагаемой читателю книге представлены существующие в отечественной историографии подходы к войне 1939—1945 гг. Ключевые проблемы предыстории, хода и итогов второй мировой войны рассматриваются с различных точек зрения. Для преподавателей вузов и школ, аспирантов, студентов, а также для всех интересующихся историей второй мировой войны.
М.: РГГУ, 1996. — 490 с. — ISBN: 5-7281-0053-8 В предлагаемой читателю книге представлены существующие в отечественной историографии подходы к войне 1939—1945 гг. Ключевые проблемы предыстории, хода и итогов второй мировой войны рассматриваются с различных точек зрения. Для преподавателей вузов и школ, аспирантов, студентов, а также для всех интересующихся историей второй...
М.: РГГУ, 1996. — 478 с. — (Россия. XX век). — ISBN 5-7281-0053-8. В предлагаемой читателю книге представлены существующие в отечественной историографии подходы к войне 1939-1945 гг. Ключевые проблемы предыстории, хода и итогов второй мировой войны рассматриваются с различных точек зрения. Для преподавателей вузов и школ, аспирантов, а также для всех интересующихся историей...
София: Университетско издателство Св. Климент Охридски, 2018. — 348 с. В сборника са представени статии свързани с различни аспекти от развитието на Втората световна война.
Каталог историко-документальной выставки / Вступ. ст. В.О. Печатнова, А.Н. Артизова; перевод на англ. яз. Д. Дынина. — М.: Кучково поле; Музеон, 2020. — 400 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-907174-29-0. В.О. Печатнов, А.Н. Артизов. «Союз, рожденный в огне сражений» Начало Второй мировой войны. Рождение антигитлеровской коалиции Тегеранская конференция глав трех держав. 1943 Ялтинская...
Архангельск: САФУ, 2019. — 146 с. Автор этой книги помнит Вторую мировую войну с четырёх-летнего возраста, когда самолёты Люфтваффе впервые бомбили в 1942 году его родной город Архангельск, упомянутый в гитлеровском плане «Барбаросса». Сегодня с позиций человека, которому за 80, он осмысливает и описывает подтекст множества памятников, посвящённых военным событиям Второй...
Таллин: Ээсти Раамат, 1971. — 126. Эта книга — о деятельности германской разведки в Эстонии в годы буржуазной власти, а также в период Великой Отечественной войны. В работе использованы документы высших командных инстанций вооруженных сил фашистской Германии, показания бывших руководящих деятелей фашистской разведки, отчеты СД, гестапо и других органов, а также советские и...
М.: Экспринт, 2001. — 112 с. — (Военный музей). — ISBN: 5-94038-017-4. Иллюстрированное издание посвящено отражению последнего крупного немецкого танкового наступления в Венгрии в январе - марте 1945 г. В книге рассматриваются действия наземных войск, преимущественно танковых соединений и противотанковой артиллерии. При описании хода сражения использовались, в основном,...
СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2006. - 440 с. Настоящее издание содержит статьи, подготовленные на основе новых разработок историков России, Финляндии и Швеции, а также материалов докладов участников трех международных научных конференций, прошедших в Историко-этнографическом музее-заповеднике "Ялкала" и посвященных проблемам участия Финляндии в войне против СССР. Книга...
М.: Эксмо, 2013. — 352 с. — (Мир танков). — ISBN: 978-5-699-67202-8. Главный бестселлер о танковых асах Второй Мировой. Сравнение лучших танкистов Гитлера и Сталина. Проверив их победные списки по документам обеих сторон, отделив правду от вымысла, реальные успехи от «охотничьих рассказов», ведущий военный историк отвечает на самые сложные и спорные вопросы: каким образом,...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2011. — 352 с. — (Мир танков). — ISBN: 978-5-699-46347-3 Главный бестселлер о танковых асах Второй Мировой. Сравнение лучших танкистов Гитлера и Сталина. Проверив их победные списки по документам обеих сторон, отделив правду от вымысла, реальные успехи от «охотничьих рассказов», ведущий военный историк отвечает на самые сложные и спорные вопросы: каким образом,...
М.: Эксмо; Яуза, 2013. — 423 с. Почему результаты советских танковых асов гораздо ниже, чем у немецких? Виноват ли недостаточный уровень боевой подготовки? Несовершенство приборов наблюдения, прицелов и средств связи? Отставание отечественного танкостроения, с 1942 года утратившего прежнее превосходство над противником? Порочный лозунг: "Танки с танками не воюют"? Или...
Сокр. пер. с англ. Г. Я. Коблова, Е. Б. Пескова. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. — 583 с., 20 л. ил., карт. Настоящая книга является вторым томом пятитомного издания "Большая стратегия, 1939-1945", входящего составной частью в 118-томную британскую официальную "Историю второй мировой войны". Тем не менее этот труд носит характер вполне самостоятельного...
Сокр. пер. с англ. Г. Я. Коблова, Е. Б. Пескова. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. — 583 с., 20 л. ил., карт. Настоящая книга является вторым томом пятитомного издания "Большая стратегия, 1939-1945", входящего составной частью в 118-томную британскую официальную "Историю второй мировой войны". Тем не менее этот труд носит характер вполне самостоятельного...
Сокр. пер. с англ. Г. Я. Коблова, Е. Б. Пескова. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. — 583 с., 20 л. ил., карт. Настоящая книга является вторым томом пятитомного издания "Большая стратегия, 1939-1945", входящего составной частью в 118-томную британскую официальную "Историю второй мировой войны". Тем не менее этот труд носит характер вполне самостоятельного...
Сокр. пер. с англ. В. В. Капалкина и О. Л. Киценко. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1967. —- 566 с., 9 л. карт. Советский перевод 3 тома классической британской официальной истории Второй Мировой войны. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей западных стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего...
Сокр. пер. с англ. В. В. Капалкина и О. Л. Киценко. — Москва: Воениздат, 1967. —- 566 с., 9 л. карт. Советский перевод 3 тома классической британской официальной истории Второй Мировой войны. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей западных стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего политического и военного...
Сокр. пер. с англ. В. В. Капалкина и О. Л. Киценко. — Москва: Воениздат, 1967. —- 566 с., 9 л. карт. Советский перевод 3 тома классической британской официальной истории Второй Мировой войны. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей западных стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего политического и военного...
М.: Эксмо, 2016. — 672 с. — (Глобальная шахматная доска. Главные фигуры). — ISBN: 978-5-699-92942-9. Эта книга — наиболее полное на сегодняшний день исследование взаимоотношений двух ключевых персоналий Второй мировой войны — И.В. Сталина и президента США Ф.Д. Рузвельта. Она о том, как принимались стратегические решения глобального масштаба. О том, как два неординарных...
Монография; [пер. с немецкого С. Липатова]. — М.: Эксмо, 2006. — 480 с. Большинство монографий об истории войн оставляют без внимания жизнь мирного населения, попавшего в эпицентр огненных смерчей фронтов, или лишь вскользь касаются столь неприятных тем. Настало время за полнить этот пробел, и вниманию читателя представляется книга известного современного немецкого автора...
София: Издателство на БЗНС, 1986. — 420 с. В книгата се представя значението на германските генерали при взимането на политическите решения в навечерието и развитието на Втората световна война по времето на Адолф Хитлер.
София: Партиздат, 1982. — 420 с. В книгата се прави опит да се разкрият някои от политическите решения, които довеждат на власт националсоциалистите в Германия и създаването и развитието на Третия Райх на Адолф Хитлер.
М.: Международные отношения, 1983. — 256 с.
Аннотация издательства: Почему остаются безнаказанными многие военные преступники, совершавшие во время второй мировой войны чудовищные злодеяния против народов Европы? Сейчас становится возможным дать документированный ответ на этот вопрос. Американские и иные западные спецслужбы покрывали и покрывают преступников, взяв их на свое...
М.: Международные отношения, 1983. — 256 с.
Аннотация издательства: Почему остаются безнаказанными многие военные преступники, совершавшие во время второй мировой войны чудовищные злодеяния против народов Европы? Сейчас становится возможным дать документированный ответ на этот вопрос. Американские и иные западные спецслужбы покрывали и покрывают преступников, взяв их на свое...
М.: Международные отношения, 1995. — 256 с. — ISBN: 5-7I33-0839-1.
Сколько раз хоронили Гитлера? На этот вопрос стало возможным ответить лишь теперь, когда писателю и историку Льву Беаыменскому стали доступны, уникальные документы из архивов Сталина, Молотова и Берия. Книга посвящена остававшемуся долгие годы засекреченным по воле Сталина эпизоду финала Великой Отечественной...
М.: Международные отношения, 1995. — 256 с. — ISBN: 5-7I33-0839-1. Сколько раз хоронили Гитлера? На этот вопрос стало возможным ответить лишь теперь, когда писателю и историку Льву Безыменскому стали доступны, уникальные документы из архивов Сталина, Молотова и Берия. Книга посвящена остававшемуся долгие годы засекреченным по воле Сталина эпизоду финала Великой Отечественной...
М.: Новости, 1987. — 290 с.: ил. — (Библиотечка АПН). В книге известного публициста Л.А. Безыменского рассматривается острая борьба двух линий американской политики в период второй мировой войны: линии поддержки антигитлеровской коалиции и линии на антикоммунистический сговор, на истощение СССР. Пока Запад оттягивал открытие второго фронта, существовал тайный фронт — а именно...
М.: Родина, 2024. — (Война и мир). В книге дается обстоятельный анализ борьбы на океанско-морских сообщениях между державами «оси» и странами антигитлеровской коалиции; подробно рассматриваются характер и значение океанских перевозок на различных этапах второй мировой войны, формы и методы нападения на сообщения и их защиты, особенности использования в этой борьбе подводных...
Москва: Родина, 2024. — 398 с. — (Война и мир). — ISBN 978-5-00222-530-9. В книге дается обстоятельный анализ борьбы на океанско-морских сообщениях между державами «оси» и странами антигитлеровской коалиции; подробно рассматриваются характер и значение океанских перевозок на различных этапах второй мировой войны, формы и методы нападения на сообщения и их защиты, особенности...
Москва: Наука, 1967. — 768 с. В книге дается обстоятельный анализ борьбы на океанско-морских сообщениях между державами «оси» и странами антигитлеровской коалиции; подробно рассматриваются характер и значение океанских перевозок на различных этапах второй мировой войны, формы и методы нападения на сообщения и их защиты, особенности использования в этой борьбе подводных лодок,...
М.: Военное издательство, 1967. — 485 с В книге рассматриваются предвоенные взгляды на характер строительства и использования военно-морских сил главнейших империалистических держав, их планы войны на море, а главным образом обобщаются боевые действия этих флотов в Атлантике и на Средиземном море во второй мировой войне. Труд рассчитан на офицеров, генералов и адмиралов...
М.: Военное издательство, 1967. — 485 с В книге рассматриваются предвоенные взгляды на характер строительства и использования военно-морских сил главнейших империалистических держав, их планы войны на море, а главным образом обобщаются боевые действия этих флотов в Атлантике и на Средиземном море во второй мировой войне. Труд рассчитан на офицеров, генералов и адмиралов...
Санкт-Петербург: Алетейя, 2017. — 200 с. Книга доктора исторических наук В. В. Белякова основана на уникальных материалах, которые он почти тридцать лет собирал в странах Северной Африки и российских архивах, и восстанавливает неизвестные страницы Второй мировой войны. Читатели узнают о судьбах советских военнопленных, переброшенных в Африку для вспомогательных работ в тылу...
М.: Москва, 1960. — 98 с.
Редакция «Москвы» предлагает вниманию читателей книгу Бержье «Секретные агенты против секретного оружия». Советскому читателю небезынтересно будет познакомиться с тем, что представляло собой французское движение Сопротивления, хотя автор книги и не претендует на то, чтобы дать полную картину организации и размаха этого движения. Однако значение книги и...
М.: Москва, 1960. — 98 с.
Редакция «Москвы» предлагает вниманию читателей книгу Бержье «Секретные агенты против секретного оружия». Советскому читателю небезынтересно будет познакомиться с тем, что представляло собой французское движение Сопротивления, хотя автор книги и не претендует на то, чтобы дать полную картину организации и размаха этого движения. Однако значение книги и...
М.: Москва, 1960. — 98 с.
Редакция «Москвы» предлагает вниманию читателей книгу Бержье «Секретные агенты против секретного оружия». Советскому читателю небезынтересно будет познакомиться с тем, что представляло собой французское движение Сопротивления, хотя автор книги и не претендует на то, чтобы дать полную картину организации и размаха этого движения. Однако значение книги и...
Советский Союз на международных конференциях периода Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 гг. Том VI Берлинская (Потсдамская) конференция руководителей трех союзных держав - СССР, США и Великобритании (17 июля - 2 августа 1945 г.) Сборник документов Москва Издательство политической литературы 1984 Главная редакционная комиссия А.А.Громыко - главный редактор, И.Н.Земсков,...
М.: ACT: ACT Москва: ХРАНИТЕЛЬ, 2006. - 136 с. ISBN: 5-17-037373-2 В книге-альбоме Жоржа Бернажа рассматриваются причины поражения немецких войск в битве за Нормандию, анализируются действия танковых соединений и подробно рассказывается о каждом дне сражения с 5 июня по 20 июля 1944 года. Текст богато проиллюстрирован массой редких фотографий, а также картами и рисунками...
С послесловием Виктора Некрасова. — Лондон: Стенвалли, 1974. — 286 с. Книга посвящена малоизвестной странице истории второй мировой войны - судьбе сотен тысяч советских военнопленных и перемещенных лиц, оказавшихся к концу войны на территории западноевропейских государств. Автор умело и достоверно показывает весь драматизм и поистине грандиозные масштабы насильственной...
Москва: Азбука-Аттикус, 2014. — 157 с. Энтони Бивор – самый авторитетный и самый издаваемый в мире автор, пишущий о Второй мировой. Его книги «Падение Берлина», «Сталинград» и «Высадка в Нормандии» переведены на многие языки и напечатаны миллионными тиражами. «Вторая мировая война» стала итогом тридцатилетней работы автора над темой и самым масштабным его проектом. Впервые...
Пер. с англ. В. Глушаков. — Москва: КоЛибри, 2014. — 1024 с. — (История войн и военного искусства). — ISBN: 978-5-389-07286-2. Энтони Бивор - самый авторитетный и самый издаваемый в мире автор, пишущий о Второй мировой. Его книги "Падение Берлина", "Сталинград" и "Высадка в Нормандии" переведены на многие языки и напечатаны миллионными тиражами. "Вторая мировая война" стала...
Пер. с англ. В. Глушаков. — Москва: КоЛибри, Азбука-Аттикус, 2014. — 1024 с. — ISBN: 978-5-389-05757-9. Масштабное произведение Вторая мировая война воссоздает глобальную картину величайшей трагедии, захлестнувшей все страны и континенты. Автор выстраивает безупречно-точную хронологическую последовательность военных действий, развернувшихся от Сталинграда до Филиппин....
М.: Прогресс, 1981. — 338 с. Предлагаемая вниманию советских читателей книга «Разведка особого назначения», написанная английским автором Патриком Бизли и опубликованная в Лондоне в 1977 г., дополняет довольно широкий и известный в СССР перечень изданных на Западе и частично переведенных на русский язык книг, относящихся к истории второй мировой войны, и в частности войны на море....
М.: Прогресс, 1981. — 338 с. Предлагаемая вниманию советских читателей книга «Разведка особого назначения», написанная английским автором Патриком Бизли и опубликованная в Лондоне в 1977 г., дополняет довольно широкий и известный в СССР перечень изданных на Западе и частично переведенных на русский язык книг, относящихся к истории второй мировой войны, и в частности войны на море....
София: Изток-Запад, 2012. — 385 с. Тази война, която отнема живота на повече от 60 милиона души и засяга цялата планета, илюстрира безпомощността на повечето обикновени смъртни пред непреодолимите сили на историята. В безпощадния си разказ, който проследява събитията от нахлуването на Хитлер в Полша на 1 септември 1939 г. до победата над Япония на 14 август 1945 г., Бийвър...
София: Изток-Запад, 2022. — 448 с. Тази война, която отнема живота на повече от 60 милиона души и засяга цялата планета, илюстрира безпомощността на повечето обикновени смъртни пред непреодолимите сили на историята. В безпощадния си разказ, който проследява събитията от нахлуването на Хитлер в Полша на 1 септември 1939 г. до победата над Япония на 14 август 1945 г., Бийвър...
София: Изток – Запад, 2019. — 326 с. През януари 1945 г., когато най-накрая достига границите на Третия райх, Червената армия има за какво да отмъщава. Изключителната жестокост на Вермахта и SS към цивилното население при военните действия на руска територия намира своя ужасяващ отговор: танкове, премазващи с веригите си колони бежанци, масови изнасилвания, плячкосвания и...
София: Изток-Запад, 2018. — 464 с. Битката за Сталинград е не само психологическата повратна точка на Втората световна война, но и променя облика на съвременното военно дело. През август 1942 г. огромната Шеста армия на Хитлер стига до града, който носи името на Сталин. През последвалите пет месеца на обсада руснаците се борят да задържат Сталинград на всяка цена; по-късно...
М.: АСТ, 2015. — 194 с. — ISBN: 978-5-17-087229-8. Предлагаемый читателю исторический атлас представляет собой собрание цветных карт, содержащих подробную информацию о событиях Второй мировой войны 1939–1945 гг. Наряду с картами книга включает в себя сопроводительные тексты, в которых изложены особенности и итоги военных событий, отраженных на картах. Материал дополнен...
М.: АСТ, 2018. — 195 с. — (Большой иллюстрированный атлас). — ISBN 978-5-17-110729-1. Предлагаемая читателю книга представляет собой собрание цветных карт, содержащих подробную информацию о событиях Второй мировой войны 1939-1945 гг. Наряду с картами книга включает в себя сопроводительные тексты, в которых изложены особенности и итоги военных событий, отраженных на картах....
М.: АСТ, 2018. — 195 с. — (Большой иллюстрированный атлас). — ISBN 978-5-17-110729-1. Предлагаемая читателю книга представляет собой собрание цветных карт, содержащих подробную информацию о событиях Второй мировой войны 1939-1945 гг. Наряду с картами книга включает в себя сопроводительные тексты, в которых изложены особенности и итоги военных событий, отраженных на картах....
М.: АСТ, 2018. — 192 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-17-106362-7. Предлагаемая читателю книга представляет собой собрание цветных карт, содержащих подробную информацию о событиях Второй мировой войны 1939—1945 гг. Наряду с картами книга включает в себя сопроводительные тексты, в которых изложены особенности и итоги военных событий, отраженных на картах. Материал дополнен иллюстрациями,...
М.: Эксмо, 2006. — 192 с. — ISBN: 5-699-15701-8 Книга британского историка посвящена истории иностранных формирований войск СС, в рядах которых во время Второй мировой войны служило не менее 350 тысяч человек.Среди них были граждане государств, оккупированных Германией или воевавших против неё, а также нейтральных стран. Часть их составляли этнические немцы, а остальные были...
М.: Эксмо, 2009. — 192 с.
Книга известного британского военного историка Криса Бишопа представляет собой подробный и авторитетный справочник по организации германских пехотных дивизий Второй Мировой войны. Разделенная по кампаниям, она включает цветные схемы организации пехотных частей германской армии в период со вторжения в Польшу в 1939 и до падения Третьего Рейха в 1945-м....
М.: Эксмо, 2007. – 248 с.
Вторая мировая война 1939-1945 гг., как известно, стала самым кровопролитным и беспрецедентным по жестокости военным конфликтом в истории человечества. Победа в этой войне войск союзников, противостоящих силам Германии, Японии и Италии, вовсе не была предопределена с самого начала, как многим представляется в наши дни. Для разгрома сильного и...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2002. — 624 с. — ISBN 5-9524-0138-4.
X. Болдуин был в годы Второй мировой войны военным редактором газеты `Нью-Йорк таймс`, сам участвовал в сражениях и собрал о них большой фактический материал. В книге рассказывается о малоизвестных русскому читателю сражениях за Крит, Коррехидор, Тараву, в заливе Лейте, а также о битвах за Сталинград и высадке союзников в...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2002. — 624 с. — ISBN 5-9524-0138-4.
X. Болдуин был в годы Второй мировой войны военным редактором газеты `Нью-Йорк таймс`, сам участвовал в сражениях и собрал о них большой фактический материал. В книге рассказывается о малоизвестных русскому читателю сражениях за Крит, Коррехидор, Тараву, в заливе Лейте, а также о битвах за Сталинград и высадке союзников в...
Волгоград : Перемена, 2001. - 109 с. Сборник научных статей по итогам межвузовский научно-практической конференции, посвященной 55-летию Победы. Волгоград, 26 аперля 2000 г. Рассмотрены дискуссионные или малоизученные страницы истории Второй мировой войны, Сталинградской битвы, а также актуальные проблемы преподавания истории войны в вузе и школе. Например , мифы и реальность,...
Москва: Иностранная литература, 1959. — 356 с. История второй мировой войны, различные ее аспекты привлекают большое внимание ученых в социалистических странах. Советские историки, экономисты, юристы и их коллеги в других странах социализма дают подлинно научное освещение проблем второй мировой войны. В их работах разоблачается буржуазная фальсификация истории второй мировой...
Москва: Иностранная литература, 1959. — 356 с. История второй мировой войны, различные ее аспекты привлекают большое внимание ученых в социалистических странах. Советские историки, экономисты, юристы и их коллеги в других странах социализма дают подлинно научное освещение проблем второй мировой войны. В их работах разоблачается буржуазная фальсификация истории второй мировой...
Москва: Иностранная литература, 1959. — 356 с. История второй мировой войны, различные ее аспекты привлекают большое внимание ученых в социалистических странах. Советские историки, экономисты, юристы и их коллеги в других странах социализма дают подлинно научное освещение проблем второй мировой войны. В их работах разоблачается буржуазная фальсификация истории второй мировой...
М.: Международные отношения, 1983. - 288 с.
На основе малоизученных и впервые вводимых в научный оборот источников, обширной мемуарной литературы автор раскрывает вопросы сотрудничества СССР и США в годы Великой Отечественной войны, показывает объективную заинтересованность в таком сотрудничестве советского и американского народов и всего прогрессивного человечества.
М.: Издательство АПН, 1989. — 120 с.: ил. Анализ и сопоставление фактов истории второго фронта приводят автора этой книги к выводу, что Европа могла разделить судьбу японских городов Хиросимы и Нагасаки, подвергнутым атомным бомбардировкам. Вторая мировая война могла закончиться как ядерная не только на Дальнем Востоке, но и в Европе. Предисловие. Операция «Оверлорд» (вместо...
М.: Агентство печати Новости, 1989. — 120 с.: ил. Анализ и сопоставление фактов истории второго фронта приводят автора этой книги к выводу, что Европа могла разделить судьбу японских городов Хиросимы и Нагасаки, подвергнутым атомным бомбардировкам. Вторая мировая война могла закончиться как ядерная не только на Дальнем Востоке, но и в Европе. Предисловие. Операция «Оверлорд»...
Самиздат, 2020. — 48 с. Вклад женщин в военные усилия союзников в 1939-45 был огромен. Кроме их жизненно важных ролей на "домашнем фронте", около 1000000 советских, 500000 британских и 200000 американских женщин и десятки тысяч женщин из других союзных стран служили в форме в вооруженных силах. Представим эти цифры в перспективе: число американских женщин было таково, что...
М.: Воениздат, 1971. — 338 с.
В книге освещаются важные военно-политические события, происходившие в Японии на заключительном этапе второй мировой войны. Автор приводит заявления видных государственных и политических деятелей и документы, характеризующие обстоятельства капитуляции Японии.
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2023. — 479 с. — (Всемирная история. История цивилизаций). — ISBN 978-5-9524-5921-2. Книга историка и дипломата Лестера Брукса посвящена драматическим событиям августа 1945 года, предшествовавшим капитуляции Японии. Опираясь на перехваченные донесения разведки, протоколы допросов военных преступников, материалы Токийского процесса и воспоминания...
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2023. — 479 с. — (Всемирная история. История цивилизаций). — ISBN 978-5-9524-5921-2. Книга историка и дипломата Лестера Брукса посвящена драматическим событиям августа 1945 года, предшествовавшим капитуляции Японии. Опираясь на перехваченные донесения разведки, протоколы допросов военных преступников, материалы Токийского процесса и воспоминания...
М.: Политическая энциклопедия, 2018. — 493 с. В 1950-1951 гг. исследователи из Гарвардского университета провели интервьюирование нескольких сотен послевоенных эмигрантов - бывших советских граждан. Они все еще находились в лагерях для перемещенных лиц на территории Германии. Исследователей интересовала социальная структура советского общества, настроения советских людей. Среди...
М.: Политическая энциклопедия, 2018. — 493 с. — (История сталинизма. Документы). — ISBN 978-5-8243-2289-7. В 1950-1951 гг. исследователи из Гарвардского университета провели интервьюирование нескольких сотен послевоенных эмигрантов - бывших советских граждан. Они все еще находились в лагерях для перемещенных лиц на территории Германии. Исследователей интересовала социальная...
2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — М.: Сказочная дорога, 2014. — 400 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4329-0055-5. Книга капитана дальнего плавания, лауреата Государственной премии СССР, Почетного полярника Г. Д. Буркова посвящена малоизвестным широкой общественности страницам героической обороны Заполярья в годы Великой Отечественной войны, которые по вкладу в разгром фашистской Германии могут...
Нови Сад : Архив Војводине, 2021 — 400 с. — ISBN 978-86-81930-38-0. Рад на пројекту Жртве у Срему 1941–1945. отпочет је у Архиву Војводине крајем 2019. године, уз подршку Покрајинске владе АП Војводине. Основни циљ пројекта је да се постојећи пописи жртава усагласе и допуне, да бисмо добили коначан преглед страдалих са овог подручја током Другог светског рата. С обзиром на то...
Нови Сад : Архив Војводине, 2021 — 439 с., илустр. — ISBN 978-86-81930-39-7. Друга књига. Прва књига : /file/4214989/ Рад на пројекту Жртве у Срему 1941–1945. отпочет је у Архиву Војводине крајем 2019. године, уз подршку Покрајинске владе АП Војводине. Основни циљ пројекта је да се постојећи пописи жртава усагласе и допуне, да бисмо добили коначан преглед страдалих са овог...
М.: ГУ ВШЭ, 2004. — 314 с. — ISBN: 5-7598-0239-9 Книга приоткрывает завесу таинственности ленд-лиза. В ней объективно изложена история экономических отношений между Соединенными Штатами Америки, Великобританией и Советским Союзом во время Второй мировой войны. На основе анализа архивных данных, статистических материалов, обобщения фактов, изложенных в малоизвестных публикациях,...
М.: Издательский дом ГУ ВШЭ, 2004. — 314 c. Автор надеется, "что эта книга позволит в новом ракурсе рассмотреть, проанализировать и по достоинству оценить события, происходившие в истории великих стран (Великобритании, СССР, США) в течение последних 60 лет... Все выводы, представленные в книге, подкреплены соответствующими аргументами и выкладками. Приведены результаты...
Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 1994. — 168 с. — ISBN: 5-7525-0291-8. В монографии исследуются идеологические обоснования ортодоксального и прагматического вариантов национал-социалистического «нового европейского порядка» в годы второй мировой войны, столкновения представителей различных направлений нацистского европеизма на уровнях стратегии и тактики...
Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 1994. — 168 с. — ISBN: 5-7525-0291-8. В монографии исследуются идеологические обоснования ортодоксального и прагматического вариантов национал-социалистического «нового европейского порядка» в годы второй мировой войны, столкновения представителей различных направлений нацистского европеизма на уровнях стратегии и тактики...
М.: Кучково поле, 2019. — 480 с.: 32 л. ил. — ISBN: 978-5-907171-08-4. В книге показан многогранный процесс организации и осуществления на практике программы поставок по ленд-лизу в СССР в годы Второй мировой войны. В центре внимания автора — кипучая деятельность Правительственной закупочной комиссии СССР в США, которая начала свою работу в 1942 г. и завершила в 1948 г....
М.: Кучково поле, 2019. — 480 с.: 32 л. ил. — ISBN: 978-5-907171-08-4. В книге показан многогранный процесс организации и осуществления на практике программы поставок по ленд-лизу в СССР в годы Второй мировой войны. В центре внимания автора — кипучая деятельность Правительственной закупочной комиссии СССР в США, которая начала свою работу в 1942 г. и завершила в 1948 г....
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1985. — 320 с.
В книгу вошли повести и рассказы писателей Чехословакии, в которых воскрешаются эпизоды Словацкого национального и Пражского восстаний, показана решающая роль Советского Союза в разгроме фашизма и освобождении Европы от гитлеровского ига.
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1985. — 320 с.
В книгу вошли повести и рассказы писателей Чехословакии, в которых воскрешаются эпизоды Словацкого национального и Пражского восстаний, показана решающая роль Советского Союза в разгроме фашизма и освобождении Европы от гитлеровского ига.
М. : Яуза-пресс, 2008. — 446 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-903339-14-3. Зимой 1944/45 г. Красной Армии впервые в своей истории пришлось штурмовать крупный европейский город с миллионным населением – Будапешт. Этот штурм стал одним из самых продолжительных и кровопролитных сражений Второй мировой войны. Битва за венгерскую столицу, в результате которой из войны был выбит последний...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2008. — 446 с. — ISBN: 978-5-903339-14-3. Зимой 1944/45 г. Красной Армии впервые в своей истории пришлось штурмовать крупный европейский город с миллионным населением – Будапешт. Этот штурм стал одним из самых продолжительных и кровопролитных сражений Второй мировой войны. Битва за венгерскую столицу, в результате которой из войны был выбит последний союзник...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2008. — 360 с. — (Солдат Третьего Рейха). — ISBN: 978-5-9955-0025-4. В начале 1945 года Гитлер предпринял последнюю попытку переломить ход войны и избежать окончательной катастрофы на Восточном фронте, приказав провести в Западной Венгрии крупномасштабное наступление с целью выбить части Красной Армии за Дунай, стабилизировать линию фронта и удержать венгерские...
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М.: Яуза-пресс, 2008. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9955-0025-4. В начале 1945 года Гитлер предпринял последнюю попытку переломить ход войны и избежать окончательной катастрофы на Восточном фронте, приказав провести в Западной Венгрии крупномасштабное наступление с целью выбить части Красной Армии за Дунай, стабилизировать линию фронта и удержать венгерские нефтяные прииски. К началу...
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М.: Яуза-пресс, 2009. — 288 с. — (Солдат Третьего Рейха). — ISBN: 978-5-9955-0052-0. "Festung" (крепость) - так командование Вермахта называло окруженные Красной Армией города, которые Гитлер приказывал оборонять до последнего солдата. Столица Силезии, город Бреслау был мало похож на крепость, но это не помешало нацистскому руководству провозгласить его в феврале 1945 года...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2009. — 288 с. — (Солдат Третьего Рейха). — ISBN 978-5-9955-0052-0. "Festung" (крепость) - так командование Вермахта называло окруженные Красной Армией города, которые Гитлер приказывал оборонять до последнего солдата. Столица Силезии, город Бреслау был мало похож на крепость, но это не помешало нацистскому руководству провозгласить его в феврале 1945 года...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2009. — 288 с. — (Солдат Третьего Рейха). — ISBN: 978-5-9955-0052-0. «Festung» («крепость») – так командование Вермахта называло окруженные Красной Армией города, которые Гитлер приказывал оборонять до последнего солдата. Столица Силезии, город Бреслау был мало похож на крепость, но это не помешало нацистскому руководству провозгласить его в феврале 1945 года...
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Нью-Йорк: Наши вести, 1963. — 450 с.
Русский Корпус - явление единственное и беспримерное! Нигде и никогда не было случая, чтобы после 20 лет эмиграции, люди, на чужой территории, доблестно сражались, хотя и в чужих мундирах, за свои возвышенные патриотические цели.
Эта книга - не история Корпуса, т.к. для неё историческая перспектива еще не наступила.
Цель книги скромна -...
Нью-Йорк: Наши вести, 1963. — 450 с. Книга посвящена Русскому Корпусу, сформированному из среды белоэмигрантов, которые воевали во время Второй мировой войны в составе немецкого Вермахта. Д. Ковалевский — Во имя Родины Организация Корпуса Вооружение Корпуса A. Невзоров — Как нас вооружали немцы С. Гулевич — Артиллерия. B. Гранитов — Краткий очерк действий Корпуса Обучение М....
Київ: Генеза, 2008. - 248 с.
У монографії на основі системного аналізу широкої джерельної бази та наукової літератури досліджуються та аналізуються основні напрями, форми, наслідки військово-технічного співробітництва СРСР та Веймарської республіки у 1922-1933 рр, періоду, що і на сьогоднішній день залишається найменш дослідженим у історіографії радянсько-німецьких...
Київ: Генеза, 2008. — 248 с. ISBN: 978-966-504-794-0 У монографії на основі системного аналізу широкої джерельної бази та наукової літератури досліджуються та аналізуються основні напрями, форми, наслідки військово-технічного співробітництва СРСР та Веймарської республіки у 1922— 1933 роках, періоду, що і на сьогоднішній день залишається найменш дослідженим у історіографії...
Изд. 2-е, испр. и доп. — М.: Госполитиздат, 1960. — 240 с.
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М.: Соцэкгиз, 1962. - 194 с. (Paris 1960.)
Перевод: В. Гончарова и Л. Найдёновой
Книга Жермены Виллар посвящена периоду 1939 - 1941 годов, которые оставили глубокий след в истории Франции и всей Европы. Она вскрывает причины поражения 1940 года и показывает основные черты вишистского режима, созданного предателями Петэном и Лавалем.
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1962. - 194 с. (Paris 1960.)
Перевод: В. Гончарова и Л. Найдёновой
Книга Жермены Виллар посвящена периоду 1939 - 1941 годов, которые оставили глубокий след в истории Франции и всей Европы. Она вскрывает причины поражения 1940 года и показывает основные черты вишистского режима, созданного предателями Петэном и Лавалем.
М.: Мысль, 1985. — 304 с. Рецензент — канд. исторических наук И. А. Челышев. В работе в строго документированной форме освещаются некоторые актуальные, недостаточно изученные политико-дипломатические проблемы второй мировой и Великой Отечественной войн. Автор показывает неустанную борьбу Советского Союза за мир накануне войны, за создание антифашистской коалиции в военные годы,...
Москва: Мысль, 1985. — 304 с. В работе в строго документированной форме освещаются некоторые актуальные, недостаточно изученные политико-дипломатические проблемы второй мировой и Великой Отечественной войн. Автор показывает неустанную борьбу Советского Союза за мир накануне войны, за создание антифашистской коалиции в военные годы, решающую роль СССР в победе над фашизмом,...
Москва: Мысль, 1985. — 304 с. В работе в строго документированной форме освещаются некоторые актуальные, недостаточно изученные политико-дипломатические проблемы второй мировой и Великой Отечественной войн. Автор показывает неустанную борьбу Советского Союза за мир накануне войны, за создание антифашистской коалиции в военные годы, решающую роль СССР в победе над фашизмом,...
Москва: Политиздат, 1989. — 367 с. — ISBN 5-250-00481-4. На основании советских и зарубежных архивных материалов, документов и мемуаров видный советский историк профессор Ф.Д. Волков рассказывает о малоизвестных страницах Второй мировой войны. Речь идет о дипломатической деятельности и политике как СССР и его союзников по антифашистской коалиции, так и стран фашистского блока....
М.: АСТ, 2002. - 208 с.
ISBN: 5-17-014470-9
В тихоокеанских кампаниях 1941-1945 гг. окинавская операция - захват острова вооруженными силами США - была одной из крупнейших, предрешивших поражение Японии во Второй мировой войне. Описанию этой операции и посвящена данная книга.
М.: АСТ, 2002. - 208 с.
ISBN: 5-17-014470-9
В тихоокеанских кампаниях 1941-1945 гг. окинавская операция - захват острова вооруженными силами США - была одной из крупнейших, предрешивших поражение Японии во Второй мировой войне. Описанию этой операции и посвящена данная книга.
Издательские решения, 2018. — 460 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4493-1216-7. История Второй мировой войны. Вы желаете собрать в единое целое прошлое, чтобы управлять настоящим и будущим. Эта книга подготовлена для вас. Все так и было. History of the Second World War. You want to put together the past in order to manage the present and the future. This book is prepared for you. It all happened.
М.: Просвещение, 1969. — 136 с. с илл., портр. Одна из величайших трагедий XX века - взрыв атомной бомбы. Литераторы и историки не раз еще обратятся к этой теме. Каждый честный человек будет не только помнить о трагедии Хиросимы и Нагасаки, но и сделает все, что в его силах, чтобы предотвратить пожар атомной войны. Работа В.Б. Воронцова посвящена политической истории появления...
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Х.: Клуб сімейного дозвілля, 2016. — 272 с.
За 70 років, що минули від завершення Другої свтової війни, чи ми дізналися всю правду про неї? Багато наших знань досі в полоні міфів, табу та пропаганди.У книжці вибрані 50 сюжетів від 15 авторів. Робота істориків грунтується на довготривалих дослідженнях та опрацьюванні розсекречених документів. ЇЇ результати свідчать: ці сюжети —...
Х.: Клуб сімейного дозвілля, 2016. — 272 с.
За 70 років, що минули від завершення Другої свтової війни, чи ми дізналися всю правду про неї? Багато наших знань досі в полоні міфів, табу та пропаганди.У книжці вибрані 50 сюжетів від 15 авторів. Робота істориків грунтується на довготривалих дослідженнях та опрацьюванні розсекречених документів. ЇЇ результати свідчать: ці сюжети —...
М.: Астрель, 2012. — 192 с.
Книга содержит описания величайших танковых сражений, произошедших во время Второй мировой войны. Читатель узнает все нюансы ведения бронетанковой войны - от стремительного блицкрига до специфики боевых действий в пустыне, от кровопролитных столкновений на Восточном фронте до других, не менее драматичных, событий на Западе. Наряду с описанием...
М.: Астрель, 2012. — 192 с.
Книга содержит описания величайших танковых сражений, произошедших во время Второй мировой войны. Читатель узнает все нюансы ведения бронетанковой войны - от стремительного блицкрига до специфики боевых действий в пустыне, от кровопролитных столкновений на Восточном фронте до других, не менее драматичных, событий на Западе. Наряду с описанием...
Пер. Роман Клочко. — Харків: Книжковий клуб "Клуб сімейного дозвілля", 2019. — 752 с. Цю працю назвали однією з найкращих документальних розвідок про Другу світову війну. Тут зібрано все: інтерв’ю, щоденники, листи, спогади й різноманітні особисті документи. Від Дюнкерка до Іодзіми, від Сталінграда до Гвадалканалу. Описи битв як на суходолі, так і на морі. Майстерно дібрані...
Пер. Роман Клочко. — Харків: Книжковий клуб "Клуб сімейного дозвілля", 2019. — 752 с. Цю працю назвали однією з найкращих документальних розвідок про Другу світову війну. Тут зібрано все: інтерв’ю, щоденники, листи, спогади й різноманітні особисті документи. Від Дюнкерка до Іодзіми, від Сталінграда до Гвадалканалу. Описи битв як на суходолі, так і на морі. Майстерно дібрані...
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М.: Весь мир, 2001. — 688 c. Данный том является продолжением сборника «Катынь. Пленники необъявленной войны», изданного в серии фонда «Демократия» «Россия. XX век». В него включены архивные материалы из фондов И. В. Сталина, ЦК ВКП(б) и его Политбюро, НКВД, НКИД и др. Они раскрывают историю подготовки, проведения и последствий расстрела около 22 тысяч польских военнопленных...
Москва: Знание, 1970. — 49 с. Победа социализма и укрепление обороноспособности СССР. Перестройка советской экономики на военный лад. Ленинские принципы мобилизации народного хозяйства. Развитие слаженного военного хозяйства. Возрождение экономики освобожденных районов. Некоторые выводы.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. - 483 с. Перед вами уникальный очерк истории Второй мировой войны, подготовленный непосредственными участниками событий - старшими офицерами и генералами германского вермахта. В данном издании подробно освещены Польская, Норвежская и другие важнейшие кампании германской армии, война с Советским Союзом, представлен полный профессиональный анализ причин и...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 483 с. — (История мировых войн). — ISBN 978-5-227-02807-5. Перед вами уникальный очерк истории Второй мировой войны, подготовленный непосредственными участниками событий - старшими офицерами и генералами германского вермахта. В данном издании подробно освещены Польская, Норвежская и другие важнейшие кампании германской армии, война с Советским Союзом,...
М.: Воениздат, 1980. — 466 с. Книга представляет собой четвертый том официального английского издания по истории второй мировой войны. Он охватывает период с августа 1942 года по сентябрь 1943 года. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей капиталистических стран автор подробно, хотя и субъективно, рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования...
М.: Воениздат, 1980. - 466 с. Книга представляет собой четвертый том официального английского издания по истории второй мировой войны. Он охватывает период с августа 1942 года по сентябрь 1943 года. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей капиталистических стран автор подробно, хотя и субъективно, рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 256 c. — (За линией фронта. Военная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5068-4. С наступлением Красной армии летом 1944 года Дунайский регион стал театром военных действий между германскими и советскими войсками, в эти действия так или иначе оказались вовлечены и народы Юго-Восточной Европы. Известный венгерский историк Петер Гостони осветил политические и...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 256 c. — (За линией фронта. Военная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5068-4. С наступлением Красной армии летом 1944 года Дунайский регион стал театром военных действий между германскими и советскими войсками, в эти действия так или иначе оказались вовлечены и народы Юго-Восточной Европы. Известный венгерский историк Петер Гостони осветил политические и...
М. : Центрполиграф, 2013. — 256 c. С наступлением Красной армии летом 1944 года Дунайский регион стал театром военных действий между германскими и советскими войсками, в эти действия так или иначе оказались вовлечены и народы Юго-Восточной Европы. Известный венгерский историк Петер Гостони осветил политические и военные события, произошедшие в странах Дунайского региона с...
Под общ. ред. А. А. Гречко. — М.: Политиздат, 1971. — 517 с.: ил., карты. Предисловие. Годы испытаний и побед. Советский Союз в борьбе против фашистской агрессии. Вероломное нападение гитлеровской Германии на Советский Союз и изменение соотношения сил на мировой арене. Эхо великих побед советского народа. Помощь Советского Союза в формировании иностранных воинских частей и их...
Екатеринбург: Уральский государственный педагогический университет, 2018. — 206 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7186-1069-7. Учебно-методическое пособие является дополнением к курсам «Историография», «Историография новой и новейшей истории», «Историография и источниковедение истории стран Запада и международных отношений нового и новейшего времени», «История России», «История стран Запада в...
Любительский перевод. — С оригинала: Pen & Sword Books, 2013. — 304 c. Немецкое вторжение в Данию и Норвегию в апреле 1940 года положило внезапный и шокирующий конец «фальшивой войне» на Западе. За один день несколько морских и воздушных десантов высадили немецкие войска на берег в Норвегии, сокрушив неподготовленные норвежские силы и застигнув союзные державы врасплох. Их...
Харьков, Белгород: Клуб семейного досуга, 2014. — 640 с. (642 с. - электронный вариант)
Военачальники Второй мировой, победители и побежденные. Какими они были, полководцы Красной армии и вермахта, какой видели войну? Основанная на мемуарах и архивных материалах, книга позволяет открыть неизвестные подробности знаменитых сражений, причины великих побед и сокрушительных...
Харьков, Белгород: Клуб семейного досуга, 2014. — 640 с. (642 с. - электронный вариант)
Военачальники Второй мировой, победители и побежденные. Какими они были, полководцы Красной армии и вермахта, какой видели войну? Основанная на мемуарах и архивных материалах, книга позволяет открыть неизвестные подробности знаменитых сражений, причины великих побед и сокрушительных...
Харьков, Белгород: Клуб семейного досуга, 2014. — 640 с. Военачальники Второй мировой, победители и побежденные. Какими они были, полководцы Красной армии и вермахта, какой видели войну? Основанная на мемуарах и архивных материалах, книга позволяет открыть неизвестные подробности знаменитых сражений, причины великих побед и сокрушительных поражений.
М.: ACT: Corpus, 2015. — 768 с. В 1947 году в Москве должна была выйти книга, подготовленная известнейшими советскими литераторами и журналистами (Маргаритой Алигер, Вениамином Кавериным, Рувимом Фраерманом, Виктором Шкловским и другими) под руководством Василия Гроссмана и Ильи Эренбурга. По замыслу Эренбурга, в этот сборник должны были войти “рассказы спасшихся евреев,...
Київ, 2011. — 225 с. Іван Патриляк На крутосхилах історичної пам'яті. Пакт Молотова-Ріббентропа та проблема генези ІІ Світової війни. Шухевич батальйон "Нахтігаль". фабрикації Москви про український визвольний рух. ОУН - поміж колабораціонізмом та резистансом. Поляки та українці під час ІІ Світової війни. Україно-єврейські стосунки під час німецької та совєцької окупації....
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: СПбГАСУ, 2010. — 92 с. Рассматривается участие СССР во Второй мировой войне. Анализируются причины войны, внешняя политика СССР в 1920-1930-е гг., ход боевых действий на фронтах Второй мировой и Великой Отечественной войн, взаимоотношения Советского Союза с союзниками по антигитлеровской коалиции. Особое внимание уделено ходу боевых операций на...
Баку: Афполеграф, 2019. — 230 с. Книга “Азербайджан и Кавказcко-Каспийский регион в период Второй мировой войны (1939-1945)” подготовлена в соответствии с программой для слушателей отдела «Адъюнктуры и Науки» Военной Академии Вооруженных Сил Азербайджанской Республики. В работе комплексно освещены основные цели и замыслы главных участников накануне и в период Второй мировой...
Минск, б.и., 2020 — 60 с. К сожалению, чем больше времени проходит с трагических событий Второй мировой войны, тем меньше о них знают наши дети и внуки. Поэтому так важно, чтобы мы продолжали во всеуслышание говорить правду о Второй мировой, преступниках и жертвах и сопротивлялись любым попыткам искажения истории. Издание предназначено для широкого круга читателей.
Совершенно секретно! Только для командования». Стратегия фашистской Германии в войне против СССР. Документы и материалы. — М.: Наука, 1967. — 752 с. Записи и стенограммы выступлений Гитлера. Доклады, директивы, приказы верховного главнокомандования вермахта. План "Барбаросса", планы наступления через Кавказ, план операции против промышленной области Урала. Данные о потерях и...
М.: Наука, 1973. — 769 с.
Вторая мировая война, порожденная системой империализма и развязанная германским фашизмом, по размаху, напряженности и ожесточенности боевых действий, по числу участвовавших в ней людей, по количеству использованной боевой техники, колоссальным человеческим жертвам и материальным разрушениям не знала себе равных за всю многовековую историю. В нее было...
Москва, изд. Наука, 1973. - 664 с.
8 мая 1945 г. представители верховного главнокомандования вермахта подписали в Берлине акт о безоговорочной капитуляции фашистской Германии. Так плачевно и позорно для германских империалистов закончилась развязанная ими вторая мировая война. Нелегок был путь народов к этой исторической победе над темными силами фашизма. Первый период войны...
Бел. Дзярж. Універсітэт. Мінск. 2012 г.
Параўнаныльны аналіз падаецца ў выглядзе табліцы па асобных плынях (камуністычнай і некамуністычнай) на беларускай мове. Будзе цікава студэнтам ВНУ пры падрыхтоўке па Гісторыі Заходніх славянаў. Аб'ём працы - 7 старонак.
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 448 с. В книге описывается подрывная деятельность, которую вели за пределами Германии различные немецкие организации и учреждения накануне и в ходе второй мировой войны (враждебная пропаганда, подкуп государственных деятелей, шпионаж, диверсии, саботаж). Автор подробно говорит о той роли, которую играли при этом группы немецкого...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 448 с.
В книге описывается подрывная деятельность, которую вели за пределами Германии различные немецкие организации и учреждения накануне и в ходе второй мировой войны (враждебная пропаганда, подкуп государственных деятелей, шпионаж, диверсии, саботаж). Автор подробно говорит о той роли, которую играли при этом группы немецкого...
Пер. с англ. — М.: АСТ, АСТ-Москва, 2008. – 237 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-17-052152-4 (АСТ), ISBN 978-5-9713-9547-8 (АСТ-Москва). В марте 1941 года передовые части немецких войск высадились в Ливии, чтобы оказать помощь итальянской армии. В последующие два года силам Германского Африканского корпуса под командованием Эрвина Роммеля удалось отбросить дивизии британцев и их союзников и...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. - 435 с.
На основе архивных источников, советских и иностранных публикаций автор подробно анализирует военно-политические и дипломатические отношения между странами — участницами второй мировой войны, рассматривает ход войны на разных театрах и решающую роль Советского Союза и его Вооруженных Сил в разгроме гитлеровской Германии.
Монография. — М.: Мысль, 1975. — 439 с.
Основная идея книги — закономерный характер победы Советского Союза над гитлеровской Германией и империалистической Японией в Великой Отечественной войне. В книге рассказано о подвигах воинов на фронтах, партизан и подпольщиков в тылу фашистских войск, тружеников советского тыла. Всесторонне раскрывается роль Коммунистической партии как...
М.: Мысль, 1975. — 871 с. Основная идея книги — закономерный характер победы Советского Союза над гитлеровской Германией и империалистической Японией в Великой Отечественной войне. В книге рассказано о подвигах воинов на фронтах, партизан и подпольщиков в тылу фашистских войск, тружеников советского тыла. Всесторонне раскрывается роль Коммунистической партии как организатора и...
Велико Търново: Абагар, 2007. — 463 с. Въведение. Интерпретация - Пет фактора. Войната - Военните действия в Европа 1939 - 1945 година. Политика - Преди, по-време и след войната. Войници - От мобилизирането до военния гроб. Цивилни - Живот и смърт по време на война. Описания - Втората световна война в картини, литература и история. Нерешени проблеми. Бележки. Допълнителна...
Pluriform Publishing Company, 1993. - 405 с.
В этой книге Лен Дейтон предлагает новый взгляд на события Второй мировой войны. Он известен как автор ряда оригинальных исследований в области военной истории, а также политических детективов - бестселлеров. Его литературное дарование, талант и скрупулезность исследователя, а также, несомненно, опыт и знания, полученные в ходе...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 140 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-1460-5 Эта книга – воспоминания коммандера британских ВМС Д. А. Райнера, который в течение пяти лет командовал различными кораблями эскорта, пройдя путь от командира крошечного траулера до командира группы современных эскортных кораблей. Он рассказывает о людях, служивших в Британском флоте на небольших кораблях, и о морских...
Самиздат, 2022. — 927 с. Неофициальный перевод. Оригинал на английском языке: Tony Robert Judt, Postwar : A History of Europe since 1945, Penguin Press, 2005 (Европейская книжная премия, 2008) Книга Тони Джадта - первая по-настоящему европейская история современной Европы. В этой книге автор раскладывает по полкам послевоенное прошлое как Западной, так и Восточной Европы....
Под общ. ред. В.М. Плоских. — Учебное пособие. — Бишкек: Кыргызско-Российский Славянский университет, 2015. — 178 с. Данное пособие посвящено 70-летию Победы советского народа в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 годов над немецко-фашистскими захватчиками. Оно повествует о мужестве и героизме кыргызстанцев на полях жарких сражений с коварным врагом, о неустанном труде...
Кураре-Н, 1998. - 93 с.
ISBN: 5-93040-002-4.
Вы узнаете, почему так и не была создана фашистская атомная бомба, какие контакты были у Рудольфа Гесса с правительством Британии, как серьезно и тщательно готовились японцы к войне с США и т. д. Много фотографий, документов.
М.: Эксмо, 2008. — 256 с. — ISBN 978-5-699-18121-6
"Атлас операций Второй мировой войны", составленный английскими авторами, включает в себя более 160 карт, на которых отражены все основные операции и битвы, происходящие в 1939-1945 гг. на суше, на морских пространствах и в воздухе. Карты снабжены подробными комментариями и сопроводительным текстом, освещающим общий ход боевых...
Под ред. М. Талалая, пер. М. Талалая. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2010. — 272 c. — (Bibliotheca Italiana). — ISBN: 978-5-91419-272-0. Впервые во всей полноте воссозданы одни из самых трагичных и малоизвестных эпизодов Второй мировой войны и послевоенного периода: Русский поход Муссолини, пленение солдат Итальянской армии в России (ARMIR), их содержание в плену, трудная репатриация для...
Под ред. М. Талалая, пер. М. Талалая. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2010. — 273 c. — (Bibliotheca Italiana). — ISBN: 978-5-91419-272-0. Впервые во всей полноте воссозданы одни из самых трагичных и малоизвестных эпизодов Второй мировой войны и послевоенного периода: Русский поход Муссолини, пленение солдат Итальянской армии в России (ARMIR), их содержание в плену, трудная репатриация для...
Москва: Издательство политической литературы, 1971. — 671 с. Сборник подготовлен Министерством иностранных дел СССР. Значительная часть документов публикуется впервые. Среди них переписка народного комиссара иностранных дел СССР с советскими полномочными представителями в Англии, Франции, Германии и других странах, донесения советских военных атташе и др. Издание рассчитано на...
1940. - 9 с.
Язык: Немецкий
Исторический документ "План Барбаросса", по которому были осуществлены первые наступления на СССР в 1941 г.
Директива №21 План «Барбаросса» (нем. Weisung Nr.21 Fall Barbarossa, в честь короля Германии и императора Священной Римской империи Фридриха I) — план вторжения Германии в СССР на Восточноевропейском театре Второй мировой войны и военная...
Сборник документов из архива немецкого посла в Англии 1938-1939 гг. Дирксена. — Министерство иностранных дел СССР. — М.: Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1948. — 288 с.
Сборник документов из архива немецкого посла в Англии 1938-1939 гг. Дирксена. — Министерство иностранных дел СССР. — М.: Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1948. — 288 с. В числе германских архивных фондов, захваченных в качестве трофеев Советской Армией, имеется архив бывшего германского посла в Москве, Токио и Лондоне Герберта фон Дирксена, находившийся в...
Сборник документов из архива немецкого посла в Англии 1938-1939 гг. Дирксена. — Министерство иностранных дел СССР. — М.: Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1948. — 288 с. В числе германских архивных фондов, захваченных в качестве трофеев Советской Армией, имеется архив бывшего германского посла в Москве, Токио и Лондоне Герберта фон Дирксена, находившийся в...
М.: Эксмо, 2006. — 384 с. — (Иллюстрированная история войн XX века). Книга посвящена центральному событию военной истории XX века. Она включает краткие сведения о вооруженных силах всех стран - участниц войны, описания ключевых кампаний и операций на разных театрах военных действий от Атлантики до Тихого океана, а также биографии наиболее выдающихся военачальников...
М.: Яуза : Эксмо, 2004. — 640 с.
ISBN: 5-699-07025-7
Считается, что лучшими подводными асами были хваленые «Псы Дёница». Дрожжин считает по-другому, и вот почему. Собрав и проанализировав архивные материалы, свидетельства ветеранов, мемуары русских и зарубежных моряков Второй мировой войны, автор доказывает, что советские подводники воевали не только не хуже, но и лучше всех....
М.: Яуза : Эксмо, 2004. — 640 с.
ISBN: 5-699-07025-7
Считается, что лучшими подводными асами были хваленые «Псы Дёница». Дрожжин считает по-другому, и вот почему. Собрав и проанализировав архивные материалы, свидетельства ветеранов, мемуары русских и зарубежных моряков Второй мировой войны, автор доказывает, что советские подводники воевали не только не хуже, но и лучше всех....
The Sunday Times", Великобритания, 7 ноября 2006 года.
Так открывает свою статью видный западный историк Норманн Дэвис (Norman Davies) в "The Sunday Times". Основанием столь откровенного заявления можно считать хотя бы следующий фрагмент в истории британо-американских отношений. 6 декабря 1944 года У. Черчиль в своем послании Президенту США, Т. Рузвельту выразил свое глубокое...
М.: Издательский центр фонда «Историческая память», 2018. — 64 с. — ISBN 978-5-9990-0059-0. Введение Проблема № 1. (Не)преследование нацистских военных преступников Международно-правовые основы преследования нацистских военных преступников Практика преследования нацистских военных преступников в современных странах Балтии Необходимость применения универсальной юрисдикции для...
М.: Фонд «Историческая память», 2011 г. - 24 с. Во время нацистской оккупации Белоруссии на территории этой республике было проведено более 130 крупных карательных операций. Официальной целью этих операций была борьба с оказывавшими сопротивление оккупантам советскими партизанами; результатом их становилось массовое уничтожение местных «расово неполноценных» жителей. Операция...
М.: Фонд «Историческая память», 2011 г. - 24 с. Во время нацистской оккупации Белоруссии на территории этой республике было проведено более 130 крупных карательных операций. Официальной целью этих операций была борьба с оказывавшими сопротивление оккупантам советскими партизанами; результатом их становилось массовое уничтожение местных «расово неполноценных» жителей. Операция...
М.: Фонд «Историческая память», 2011 г. - 24 с. Во время нацистской оккупации Белоруссии на территории этой республике было проведено более 130 крупных карательных операций. Официальной целью этих операций была борьба с оказывавшими сопротивление оккупантам советскими партизанами; результатом их становилось массовое уничтожение местных «расово неполноценных» жителей. Операция...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2011. — 320 с. (Великая оболганная война). — ISBN: 978-5-699-47556-8 В современной России память о Победе в Великой Отечественной войне стала последней опорой патриотизма, основой национальной идентичности и народного единства: 9 Мая - тот редкий день, когда мы всё еще ощущаем себя не «населением», а великим народом. Именно поэтому праздник Победы выбрали...
М.: Издательский центр фонда «Историческая память», 2020. — 32 с. Каждый год 16 марта в центре Риги проходят памятные мероприятия в честь военнослужащих Латышского легиона СС. Высокопоставленные политики, члены латышских националистических и радикальных неонацистских организаций возлагают цветы к памятнику Свободы в сердце столицы, вспоминая сражавшихся якобы за независимость...
Санкт-Петербург: Русско-Балтийский информационный центр (БЛИЦ)», 1995. — 194 с. — (Россия в цифрах и документах).
Коллектив авторов института Российской истории РАН, научного совета Российской Академии наук по исторической демографии и исторической географии, Государственной архивной службы Российской Федерации.
Аннотация издательства: Предлагаемый читателю сборник содержит...
М.: Прогресс, 1971. — 537 с. Настоящий сборник документов, изданный к тридцатилетию со дня начала второй мировой войны, должен помочь сорвать завесу с тайны возникновения второй мировой войны. На основе подлинных материалов того времени в нем показано, что главной движущей силой в подготовке и ведении войны были самые реакционные круги германского монополистического капитала....
М.: Прогресс, 1971. — 537 с. Настоящий сборник документов, изданный к тридцатилетию со дня начала второй мировой войны, должен помочь сорвать завесу с тайны возникновения второй мировой войны. На основе подлинных материалов того времени в нем показано, что главной движущей силой в подготовке и ведении войны были самые реакционные круги германского монополистического капитала....
СПб.: Алетейя, 2015. — 350 с. Книга, написанная на основании широкого круга источников - дневников и воспоминаний, архивных документов и публикаций, - рассказывает о судьбах испанцев, оказавшихся в СССР во время Второй мировой войны и проведших долгие годы в советских лагерях. Среди них были люди разных убеждений - фалангисты и республиканцы, антикоммунисты и антифашисты....
СПб.: Алетейя, 2015. – 350 с.
Книга, написанная на основании широкого круга источников – дневников и воспоминаний, архивных документов и публикаций, – рассказывает о судьбах испанцев, оказавшихся в СССР во время Второй мировой войны и проведших долгие годы в советских лагерях. Среди них были люди разных убеждений – фалангисты и республиканцы, антикоммунисты и антифашисты....
М.: Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, 2001. — 367 с. Книга известного датского историка посвящена одному из самых загадочных эпизодов Второй мировой войны — оккупации Советским Союзом датского острова Борнхольм, пребыванию там советских войск и освобождению острова. На материале российских и зарубежных архивов автор исследует причины и мотивы этих событий,...
М.: Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, 2001. — 367 с. Книга известного датского историка посвящена одному из самых загадочных эпизодов Второй мировой войны — оккупации Советским Союзом датского острова Борнхольм, пребыванию там советских войск и освобождению острова. На материале российских и зарубежных архивов автор исследует причины и мотивы этих событий,...
Предисловие Маршала Советского Союза М. В. Захарова. — М.: Наука, 1966. — 272 с.
Об издании: Автор настоящей работы поставил перед собой скромную задачу собрать, систематизировать и довести до сведения читателей, интересующихся историей минувшей войны, наиболее значительное из того, что говорилось или писалось государственными, политическими и военными деятелями различных...
Пер. с нем. — Ред. коллегия: А. С. Ерусалимский, Е. А. Болтин и Б. Г. Тартаковский. — М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1963. — 807 с.
Издание представляет собой публикацию основных материалов научной конференции Комиссии историков СССР и ГДР, состоявшейся в Берлине с 14 по 19 декабря 1959 года и посвященной теме «Германский империализм и вторая мировая война». Помимо восьми...
М.: Академия наук СССР, 1984. — 225 с. В современной идеологической борьбе история второй мировой войны занимает важное место. Повышенный интерес буржуазных авторов к этой проблеме объясняется прежде всего тем, что Советский Союз вышел из войны победителем, внеся основной вклад в разгром блока фашистских государств. Народы всего мира стали свидетелями грандиозных побед Красной...
М.: Академия наук СССР, 1984. — 225 с. В современной идеологической борьбе история второй мировой войны занимает важное место. Повышенный интерес буржуазных авторов к этой проблеме объясняется прежде всего тем, что Советский Союз вышел из войны победителем, внеся основной вклад в разгром блока фашистских государств. Народы всего мира стали свидетелями грандиозных побед Красной...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 385 с.
В книге на основе марксистско-ленинской методологии сделан комплексный анализ современной буржуазной исторической литературы (США, ФРГ, Англии и других) по проблемам происхождения второй мировой войны, роли СССР и других стран антигитлеровской коалиции в достижении победы над фашизмом, руководства вооруженной борьбой, по проблемам военного искусства,...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 276 с. — (Фронтовой дневник). Художник-график Александр Житомирский вошел в историю изобразительного искусства в первую очередь как автор политических фотомонтажей. В годы войны с фашизмом его работы печатались на листовках, адресованных солдатам врага и служивших для них своеобразным «пропуском в плен». Вражеский генералитет издал приказ, запрещавший...
Материалы для подготовки к уроку «Внешняя политика СССР в 1919—1941 гг.». — Челябинск: Южно-Уральский государственный гуманитарно-педагогический университет, 2022. — 49 с. В учебно-методическом пособии представлены материалы по теме «Внешняя политика СССР 1919–1941 гг.», проведения дискуссии по рассмотрению одного из трудных (дискуссионных) вопросов истории – начала Второй...
Вінниця: Консоль, 2002. — 208 с., іл.
Мета цієї книги - розставити всі крапки над «і», розказати не вигадану, а підтверджену архівними матеріалами правду про вінницьку ставку «Вервольф», а також інші польові ставки Адольфа Гітлера.
Вінниця: Консоль, 2002. — 208 с., іл.
Мета цієї книги - розставити всі крапки над «і», розказати не вигадану, а підтверджену архівними матеріалами правду про вінницьку ставку «Вервольф», а також інші польові ставки Адольфа Гітлера.
М.: Эксмо, 2011. — 320 с. — (Правда Виктора Суворова). — ISBN: 978-5-699-50842-6. Самая неожиданная и скандальная книга серии! Новый поворот в дискуссии вокруг гипотез ведущего военного историка. Автор много лет считался одним из самых убежденных «резунистов», активно участвовал в сборниках «Правда Виктора Суворова», а Суворов, в свою очередь, написал хвалебное предисловие к...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2011. — 320 с. — (Правда Виктора Суворова). — ISBN: 978-5-699-50842-6. Самая неожиданная и скандальная книга серии! Новый поворот в дискуссии вокруг гипотез ведущего военного историка. Автор много лет считался одним из самых убежденных «резунистов», активно участвовал в сборниках «Правда Виктора Суворова», а Суворов, в свою очередь, написал хвалебное...
К.: Фоліант, 2022. — 432 с. — ISBN 978-617-7399-59-8. У монографії здійснено порівняльний аналіз політики Великої Британії та СРСР у сфері залучення жінок до військової служби у роки Другої світової війни. На основі широкого кола першоджерел та історіографічних напрацювань попередніх років окреслено соціальне становище жінок у Великій Британії та СРСР напередодні війни....
Москва; СанктПетербург: РАН, БГТУ ВОЕНМЕХ им. Д. Ф. Устинова, 2024. — 843 с. — ISBN 978-5-00221-093-0. На конференции рассмотрена аргументация выдвинутых западными научными школами и политиками антинаучных утверждений истории фашистской блокады Ленинграда, искажающих роль победы СССР во Второй мировой войне. Представлены научно-практические рекомендации для дальнейших научных...
М.: РАН, Изд-во МПГУ, Изд-во МНЭПУ, 2024. — 201 с. — ISBN 978-5-7383-0430-3. Целью конференции стало научное обсуждение аргументации выдвинутых западными научными школами и политиками антинаучных утверждений истории Сталинградской битвы, принижающих роль победы в ней СССР, как поворотного события во Второй мировой войне. В ходе пленарных и секционных заседаний были обсуждены...
М.: РАН, Изд-во МПГУ, Изд-во МНЭПУ, 2023. — 1626 с. — ISBN 978-5-7383-0429-3. Целью конференции стало научное обсуждение аргументации выдвинутых западными научными школами и политиками антинаучных утверждений истории Сталинградской битвы, принижающих роль победы в ней СССР, как поворотного события во Второй мировой войне. В ходе пленарных и секционных заседаний были обсуждены...
М.: РАН, Изд-во МПГУ, Изд-во МНЭПУ, 2022. — 1573 с. — ISBN 978-5-7383-0429-3. Целью конференции стало научное обсуждение аргументации выдвинутых западными научными школами и политиками антинаучных утверждений истории Сталинградской битвы, принижающих роль победы в ней СССР, как поворотного события во Второй мировой войне. В ходе пленарных и секционных заседаний были обсуждены...
М.: Прогресс, 1967. — 418 с.
Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга польского военного историка
3. Залуского «Пропуск в историю» представляет собой сборник очерков, посвященных участию польского народа в борьбе против фашистских захватчиков за свободную и независимую Польшу.
Автор — в годы войны сражавшийся вначале в рядах Польской армии в СССР, а затем в 1-й армии...
Монография. — В.В. Запарий, С.С. Карамолдоева, А.Д. Кириллов, Г.В. Коваленко, С.И. Ковальская, М.Х. Назарян, Р.О. Погосян, Г. Чжоу, С. Чулуун. — Екатеринбург: Уральский федеральный университет им. первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина (УрФУ), 2020. — 396 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7996-3084-3. Издание включает в себя информацию о вкладе России в целом и Урала, Киргизии, Монголии, Китая,...
М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2005. — 664 с.
В сборнике представлены документы, раскрывающие основные направления работы военных комендатур Советской зоны оккупации Германии в хозяйственно-экономической и социальной областях, а также в правоохранительной сфере в 1945—1949 гг. Подобная комплексная публикация документов осуществляется впервые.
2-е изд., доп. и перераб. — М.: Наука, 1969. — 427 с. — (Вторая ировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах). После выхода первого издания настоящего очерка прошло два года. Актуальность темы и новые материалы, использованные при написании книги, вызвали значительный интерес к ней широкого круга читателей, привлекли внимание военнонаучной критики. Положительно...
2-е изд., доп. и перераб. — М.: Наука, 1969. — 427 с. — (Вторая ировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах). После выхода первого издания настоящего очерка прошло два года. Актуальность темы и новые материалы, использованные при написании книги, вызвали значительный интерес к ней широкого круга читателей, привлекли внимание военнонаучной критики. Положительно...
Пер. с нем. В. П. Гренкова, Г. Я. Рудого и А. М. Членова. Под. ред. Н. А. Захарченко и З. С. Шейниса. Ред. коллегия: А. С. Ерусалимский, Е. А. Болтин и Б. Г. Тартаковский. — М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1961. — 552 с. Настоящее издание представляет собой публикацию основных материалов научной конференции Комиссии историков СССР и ГДР, состоявшейся в Берлине с 14 по 19...
Материалы международной научно-практической конференции (Екатеринбург, 25—28 октября 2017 г.). — Екатеринбург: УрГПУ, 2017. — 220 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7186-0957-8. В сборник включены доклады и сообщения, представленные на международной научно-практической конференции «Начало Второй мировой войны: национальные историографические традиции и историческая память» (Екатеринбург, 25—28...
М.: АСТ: Астрель, 2011. - 733 c.
ISBN: 978-5-17-057776-7, 978-5-271-36772-4.
Книга посвящена асам немецкой ночной истребительной, бомбардировочной, штурмовой и разведывательной авиации периода Второй мировой войны. На основе обширного фактического материала приведены подробные сведения о биографиях и участии в боях наиболее известных летчиков Люфтваффе.
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М.: АСТ, АСТ Москва, 2009. — 416 с. — ISBN: 978-5-17-056011-0, 978-5-403-00167-0. Книга рассказывает о противостоянии немецкой авиации и советского Северного флота, а также союзных конвоев, направлявшихся в Мурманск и Архангельск. На основе архивных материалов, воспоминаний очевидцев и других документальных источников авторы воссоздают обширную панораму событий, происходивших в...
М.: АСТ, АСТ Москва, 2009. — 416 с., ил. — ISBN: 978-5-17-056011-0, 978-5-403-00167-0. Книга рассказывает о противостоянии немецкой авиации и советского Северного флота, а также союзных конвоев, направлявшихся в Мурманск и Архангельск. На основе архивных материалов, воспоминаний очевидцев и других документальных источников авторы воссоздают обширную панораму событий,...
Минск-Москва, Фонд "Историческая память", 2013. - 512 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9990-0020-0 Российский фонд "Историческая память" и Департамент по архивам и делопроизводству Министерства юстиции Республики Беларусь выпустили в свет сборник документов "Зимнее волшебство". Нацистская карательная операция в белорусско-латавийском пограничье, февраль - март 1943 г." «Зимнее волшебство»...
Историографический анализ. — М.: ИДВ РАН, 2011. — 220 с. Весна и осень 1945 года явились временем разгрома не только нацистской Германии, но и милитаристской Японии, с которой связано разжигание самых первых очагов Второй мировой войны. Особую гордость в нашем Отечестве вызывает тот факт, что и на Западе, и на Востоке Евразии победные точки в той войне поставлены воинами...
М.: Воениздат, 1976. — 246 с.
Это - документальное повествование о завершающем периоде Второй мировой войны - разгроме японских милитаристов. Авторы - видные советские военачальники, военные историки и журналисты.
Работа профессионального военного посвящена исследованию причин, условий и последствий военного плена в годы Второй мировой войны. Файл в формате RTF.
Содержание.
От автора.
О количестве военнопленных.
Общечеловеческие факторы.
Страх.
Возможности человека.
Воин и толпа.
Жизнь, смерть, надежда.
Социально-политические факторы.
Национальный фактор.
Качество...
Санкт-Петербург, 1997. – 196 с. Меня, как профессионального военного, теперь уже в отставке, с давних пор волнует проблема военного плена. Ни в военном училище, ни в военной академии, в которых я учился, никогда не говорили об этом предмете. Хотелось бы понять природу этого явления: в чем причины того, что принявшие присягу, взявшие на себя клятвенные обязательства быть верными...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 324 с. В предлагаемой читателю монографии рассматриваются военно-политические события на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке накануне и после вероломного нападения фашистской Германии на СССР, подготовка и осуществление агрессивных планов, предусматривавших захват Кавказа и распространение гитлеровской агрессии на страны Востока. Анализируются германо-итальянские...
М:. Книжный мир, 2023. — 320 с. — ISBN 978-5-6050695-6-0. Политическая история Европы в 1936 – 1941 гг., преддверия и начала Великой Отечественной войны – это эпоха владычества Гитлера над европейским континентом, когда правящие классы Европы потворствовали Германии в её ненасытной экспансии, вступая с Гитлером в союзные, вассальные отношения, лишенные воли противостоять ему....
М.: Воениздат, 1991. — 224 с.
ISBN: 5-203-00584-2.
В публицистической книге Джозефа Инрайта рассказывается о потоплении в конце второй мировой войны американской подводной лодкой, которой командовал автор, японского суперавианосца "Синано". Книга вызовет интерес у широкого круга читателей. Перевод с английского А. Г. Смаля.
М.: Воениздат, 1991. — 224 с. — ISBN: 5-203-00584-2. В публицистической книге Джозефа Инрайта рассказывается о потоплении в конце второй мировой войны американской подводной лодкой, которой командовал автор, японского суперавианосца "Синано". Книга вызовет интерес у широкого круга читателей. Перевод с английского А. Г. Смаля.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 360 с. — ISBN 5-9524-2149-0.
Английский историк Дэвид Ирвинг, изучив документы нацистской Германии и секретные британские документы, раскрывает неприглядную правду об одной из величайших военно-морских катастроф Второй мировой войны. 27 июня 1942 года из Исландии в Архангельск вышел конвой PQ-17 с грузами боевой техники и горючего для поддержки армии...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 360 с. — ISBN 5-9524-2149-0.
Английский историк Дэвид Ирвинг, изучив документы нацистской Германии и секретные британские документы, раскрывает неприглядную правду об одной из величайших военно-морских катастроф Второй мировой войны. 27 июня 1942 года из Исландии в Архангельск вышел конвой PQ-17 с грузами боевой техники и горючего для поддержки армии...
М.: Эксмо, Яуза; 2004. — 481 с.: илл. — (Война и мы. Военное дело глазами гражданина). — ISBN: 5-699-09020-7.
Книга скандально известного английского историка Дэвида Ирвинга «Конвой PQ-17» строго документальна. Автор опровергает неправду о конвое PQ-17, написанную исследователями, которые пытаются свалить вину за неудачу на простых матросов и офицеров и тем самым выгородить...
М.: Эксмо, Яуза; 2004. — 481 с.: илл. — (Война и мы. Военное дело глазами гражданина). — ISBN: 5-699-09020-7.
Книга скандально известного английского историка Дэвида Ирвинга «Конвой PQ-17» строго документальна. Автор опровергает неправду о конвое PQ-17, написанную исследователями, которые пытаются свалить вину за неудачу на простых матросов и офицеров и тем самым выгородить...
М.: Эксмо, Яуза; 2004. — 481 с., с илл.
ISBN: 5-699-09020-7
Серия: Война и мы. Военное дело глазами гражданина
Книга скандально известного английского историка Дэвида Ирвинга «Конвой PQ-17» строго документальна. Автор опровергает неправду о конвое PQ-17, написанную исследователями, которые пытаются свалить вину за неудачу на простых матросов и офицеров и тем самым выгородить...
М.: Эксмо, Яуза; 2004. — 481 с., с илл.
ISBN: 5-699-09020-7
Серия: Война и мы. Военное дело глазами гражданина
Книга скандально известного английского историка Дэвида Ирвинга «Конвой PQ-17» строго документальна. Автор опровергает неправду о конвое PQ-17, написанную исследователями, которые пытаются свалить вину за неудачу на простых матросов и офицеров и тем самым выгородить...
М.: Воениздат, 1971. — 613 с.
В историческом очерке анализируются события, связанные с гибелью большей части судов конвоя, который летом 1942 года направлялся из Англии в северные порты СССР. Автор разоблачает неблаговидную политику руководителей английского адмиралтейства, пытавшихся дезорганизовать доставку военных материалов из Англии в Советский Союз.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2005 г. - 316 с илл.
Переводчик: Игоревский Л.
Британский военный историк Дэвид Ирвинг составил наиболее полную и объективную картину разрушения Дрездена - самой крупномасштабной бомбардировки Второй мировой войны. Автор потратил три года на изучение документов правительственных архивов, собрал подробные статистические данные о составе сил ударной авиации,...
Эл. издание. — Пер. Ю. Бетхина. — Москва: Центрполиграф, 2022. — (Вторая мировая война). — ISBN 978-5-9524-5724-9. Английский историк Дэвид Ирвинг, изучив документы нацистской Германии и секретные британские документы, раскрывает неприглядную правду об одной из величайших военно-морских катастроф Второй мировой войны. 27 июня 1942 года из Исландии в Архангельск вышел конвой...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2022. — 369 с. Английский историк Дэвид Ирвинг, изучив документы нацистской Германии и секретные британские документы, раскрывает неприглядную правду об одной из величайших военно-морских катастроф Второй мировой войны. 27 июня 1942 года из Исландии в Архангельск вышел конвой PQ-17 с грузами боевой техники и горючего для поддержки армии СССР. В своем...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2022. — 369 с. Английский историк Дэвид Ирвинг, изучив документы нацистской Германии и секретные британские документы, раскрывает неприглядную правду об одной из величайших военно-морских катастроф Второй мировой войны. 27 июня 1942 года из Исландии в Архангельск вышел конвой PQ-17 с грузами боевой техники и горючего для поддержки армии СССР. В своем...
Москва: Яуза, 2021. — 384 с. — (Великая Отечественная война. Особое мнение). — ISBN 978-5-00155-376-2. После краха Третьего Рейха битые немецкие генералы попытались переложить всю вину и за военные преступления, и за разгром Вермахта на нацистское руководство и лично Гитлера: из мемуаров в мемуары кочуют проклятия в адрес "бесноватого фюрера", его "роковых решений" и "фатальных...
М.: Эксмо, 2010. — 360 с. — (1945. Год Победы). — ISBN: 978-5-699-41196-2. На излете короткого зимнего дня 26 января 1945 года передовой отряд 5-й ударной армии пересек границу Германии - "студебеккеры" понеслись по "Рейхсштрассе № 1" к Берлину мимо островерхих фольварков и аккуратно расчерченных полей. Казалось, до победы остались считанные недели или даже дни. Однако в Берлин...
М.: Эксмо, 2010. — 360 с. — (1945. Год Победы). — ISBN: 978-5-699-41196-2. На излете короткого зимнего дня 26 января 1945 года передовой отряд 5-й ударной армии пересек границу Германии - "студебеккеры" понеслись по "Рейхсштрассе № 1" к Берлину мимо островерхих фольварков и аккуратно расчерченных полей. Казалось, до победы остались считанные недели или даже дни. Однако в Берлин...
М.: Воениздат, 1956. — 570 с.
Под ред. адмирала флота Советского Союза Исакова И.С.
К весьма немногим источникам, которые могут быть частично использованы для критического изучения событий второй мировой войны на Дальнем Востоке, относится один из 108 официальных отчетов, изданных в Вашингтоне под общим названием: «Война на Тихом океане». Предлагаемый вниманию советского...
М.: Воениздат, 1956. — 570 с.
Под ред. адмирала флота Советского Союза Исакова И.С.
К весьма немногим источникам, которые могут быть частично использованы для критического изучения событий второй мировой войны на Дальнем Востоке, относится один из 108 официальных отчетов, изданных в Вашингтоне под общим названием: «Война на Тихом океане». Предлагаемый вниманию советского...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 288 с. — ISBN 5-9524-0628-9.
В книге рассказывается о событиях Второй мировой войны в Северной Африке близ маленькой железнодорожной станции Эль-Аламейн осенью 1942 года. Автор использует документальные источники: письма Роммеля, телеграммы Гитлера, доклад командования австралийской дивизии о ходе кампании. Детально воссоздана картина боевых действий...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 288 с. — ISBN 5-9524-0628-9.
В книге рассказывается о событиях Второй мировой войны в Северной Африке близ маленькой железнодорожной станции Эль-Аламейн осенью 1942 года. Автор использует документальные источники: письма Роммеля, телеграммы Гитлера, доклад командования австралийской дивизии о ходе кампании. Детально воссоздана картина боевых действий...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 111 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-0628-9. В книге рассказывается о событиях Второй мировой войны в Северной Африке близ маленькой железнодорожной станции Эль-Аламейн осенью 1942 года. Автор использует документальные источники: письма Роммеля, телеграммы Гитлера, доклад командования австралийской дивизии о ходе кампании. Детально воссоздана картина боевых действий...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 111 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-0628-9. В книге рассказывается о событиях Второй мировой войны в Северной Африке близ маленькой железнодорожной станции Эль-Аламейн осенью 1942 года. Автор использует документальные источники: письма Роммеля, телеграммы Гитлера, доклад командования австралийской дивизии о ходе кампании. Детально воссоздана картина боевых действий...
София: Прозорец, 2014. — 398 с. Книгата на Паул Карел е най-издаваната по света германска хроника за войната на Източния фронт през 1941 - 1943 година. Тази хроника започва с началният час на операция Барбароса на 22 юни 1941 година и завършва с капитулацията на най-мощната армия на Вермахта в Сталинград на 2 февруари 1943 година.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 432 с. Книга является продолжением произведения П. Кареля «Гитлер идет на Восток». Автор показывает войну в восприятии немецких солдат, офицеров и генералов. Повествование охватывает события конца 1942—осени 1944 гг. на немецком Восточном фронте: крах планов, потеря завоеваний, отступление Вермахта к границам Рейха. Издание проиллюстрировано фотографиями...
М.: ИВ РАН, 2003. — 449 с. Введение. Расчищая завалы истории За кулисами решения судьбы японских военнопленных СССР и США: дипломатические маневры и политические столкновения по вопросам репарации японских военнопленных из Советского Союза Политические баталии и дипломатические демарши бывших союзиников Поле битвы — Союзный Совет для Японии Вопросы японских военнопленных в...
Документальный очерк. — Сетевая публикация, 2017. — 23 с.: ил. 24 декабря 1943 года в канун Рождества главное командование кригсмарине получило сообщение, что в море находится конвой JW 55В в Мурманск. Трасса JW пролегала по так называемому северному маршруту мимо Гренландии, Исландии, Шпицбергена и вокруг мыса Нордкап в Мурманск. 25 декабря 1945 года контр-адмирал Эрих Бей...
М.: Эксмо, 2006. — 352 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-699-15038-2. Это первое и единственное всестороннее и подробное описание немецких укреплений и оборонительных систем периода Второй мировой войны. Атлантический вал является, вероятно, самой известной фортификационной линией в Европе, но в действительности Германия построила во время войны множество оборонительных рубежей - от прибрежных...
C ориг.: "Germany Must Perish!" by Theodore N. Kaufman. — Newark, N.J.: Argyle Press, 1941. — 125 p. Перевод М. Вебера. Первая редакция этой брошюрки была опубликована в 1940 году. Второе, 96-страничное издание, которое продавалось по 25 центов, было опубликовано издательством "Argyle Press of Newark" в 1941 году, штат Нью-Джерси. Обе редакции были опубликованы в то время,...
Харьков: НПО-АТФ "Ф. Поли", 1998. — 45 с.
Книга о деятельности немецких вспомогательных крейсеров на коммуникациях союзников в годы Второй мировой войны. Не имея возможности противостоять британскому флоту в открытом бою, флот Германии сделал ставку на экономическое подавление противника путем крейсерской войны против британского судоходства. В течение первых двух лет войны в...
Издательство: Текст, 2001. — 210 с. — ISBN: 5-7516-0260-9 Около четверти миллиона цыган Европы были депортированы, заключены в концлагеря и убиты, разделив судьбу евреев. Книга английских журналистов рассказывает о преследованиях цыган нацистами, при этом авторы повествуют и об истории цыганского народа, о том, как цыгане появились в Европе и как возникли в европейских странах...
Издательство: Текст, 2001. — 210 с. Около четверти миллиона цыган Европы были депортированы, заключены в концлагеря и убиты, разделив судьбу евреев. Книга английских журналистов рассказывает о преследованиях цыган нацистами, при этом авторы повествуют и об истории цыганского народа, о том, как цыгане появились в Европе и как возникли в европейских странах антицыганские...
М.: АСТ, 2014. — 639 с. — ISBN 978-5-17-080073-5; ISBN 978-1-59420-314-5. Книга крупного британского историка Й. Кершоу поднимает важнейшие вопросы заключительного этапа Второй мировой войны. Как мог гитлеровский режим продолжать функционировать до последней минуты? Какую роль в условиях растущего беспорядка в системе управления сыграли высококвалифицированные и талантливые...
Пер. с анrл. А. Уткина. — М.: Яуза, 2010 — 544 с.: ил. — (Окопная правда Bepмахта). — ISBN 978-5-9955-0151-0. Уникальная книrа британскоrо историка, созданная на основе мноrочисленных интервью с уцелевшими ветеранами Вермахта, участниками вторжения в СССР. История блицкриrа и ero провала rлазами простых немецких солдат и офицеров, которые на собственной шкуре испытали, что...
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2021. — 141 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-5615-0. В своем исследовании английский историк-публицист Джон Кимхи разоблачает общепринятый тезис о том, что осенью 1939 года Британия и Франция не были в состоянии дать вооруженный отпор фашистской агрессии. Кимхи скрупулезно анализирует документальные материалы и убедительно доказывает нежелание британских и...
М.: Общевойсковая академия, 2006. — 101 с. Причины, характер и периодизация Второй мировой войны. Ход и исход Второй мировой войны. Приложения. Контрнаступление под Москвой 1941—1942 г. Бои в городе Сталинград 1942 г. Курская битва. Контрнаступление. 1943 г. 12 июля — 23 августа. Белорусская наступательная операция. 1944 г. 23 июля — 14 сентября. Берлинская операция. 1945 г. 16...
Пер. с дат. Анатолия Чеканского. — СПб.: Нестор-История, 2022. — 488 с.: ил. Эта книга повествует о К. Ф. Шальбурге, уроженце России, полурусском, полудатчанине, офицере трех армий. Он водил знакомство и дружбу с монархами — Николаем II, Романовыми и королевской семьей Дании. Он пожимал руку злодеям — Адольфу Гитлеру и Генриху Гиммлеру, и в итоге сам служил злу. Книга написана...
Л.: Лениздат, 1991. — 431 с. На основе материалов и документов довоенных, военных и послевоенных лет (до конца 1990 г.) советских и зарубежных публикаций сборник воссоздает картину трагических событий 1939 — 1941 гг. В книге рассматриваются борьба СССР за мир и коллективную безопасность накануне войны, противоречивые аспекты советско-германских отношений 1939 г., подготовка...
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М.: Наука, 1967. — 348 с. — (Вторая мировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах).
В годы второй мировой войны греческий народ вписал яркую главу в многовековую летопись своей борьбы за свободу и независимость. Национально-освободительная война, которую он героически вёл в тот период, занимает также почётное место в истории европейского...
М.: КоЛибри, 2014. — 128 с.: ил. — (История за час). — ISBN: 978-5-389-07045-5. Вторая мировая - самая страшная война в истории человечества. В ней участвовало 61 государство (80 % населения земного шара). Боевые действия велись на трех континентах и четырех океанах. Общие людские потери превысили 60 миллионов человек. Факты, цифры, сражения - самое важное, самое значительное,...
М.: КоЛибри, 2014. — 128 с.: ил. — (История за час). — ISBN: 978-5-389-07045-5. Вторая мировая - самая страшная война в истории человечества. В ней участвовало 61 государство (80 % населения земного шара). Боевые действия велись на трех континентах и четырех океанах. Общие людские потери превысили 60 миллионов человек. Факты, цифры, сражения - самое важное, самое значительное,...
М.: КоЛибри, 2014. — 128 с.: ил. — (История за час). — ISBN: 978-5-389-07045-5. Вторая мировая – самая страшная война в истории человечества. В ней участвовало 61 государство (80 % населения земного шара). Боевые действия велись на трех континентах и четырех океанах. Общие людские потери превысили 60 миллионов человек. Факты, цифры, сражения – самое важное, самое значительное,...
М.: Наука, 1991. - 224 с. В книге рассматриваются национальные особенности развития антифашистского Движения Сопротивления в Западной Европе в годы Второй Мировой войны на примере Италии, Германии, Австрии, Дании, Норвегии, Люксембурга, Нидерландов, Бельгии и Франции. Дана развёрнутая оценка как движению в целом, так и его богатому духовному наследию.
М.: Наука, 1991. - 224 с. В книге рассматриваются национальные особенности развития антифашистского Движения Сопротивления в Западной Европе в годы Второй Мировой войны на примере Италии, Германии, Австрии, Дании, Норвегии, Люксембурга, Нидерландов, Бельгии и Франции. Дана развёрнутая оценка как движению в целом, так и его богатому духовному наследию.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2007. — 255 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-3326-7 В своей книге Комптон исследует, каким образом США влияли на внешнюю политику Гитлера и какую роль это влияние сыграло в превращении европейской войны во Вторую мировую, когда Рузвельт и Гитлер стали противниками уже на поле боя. Автор со всей полнотой раскрыл события, предшествовавшие началу военных действий,...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2007. — 255 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-3326-7. В своей книге Комптон исследует, каким образом США влияли на внешнюю политику Гитлера и какую роль это влияние сыграло в превращении европейской войны во Вторую мировую, когда Рузвельт и Гитлер стали противниками уже на поле боя. Автор со всей полнотой раскрыл события, предшествовавшие началу военных действий,...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2007. — 255 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-3326-7. В своей книге Комптон исследует, каким образом США влияли на внешнюю политику Гитлера и какую роль это влияние сыграло в превращении европейской войны во Вторую мировую, когда Рузвельт и Гитлер стали противниками уже на поле боя. Автор со всей полнотой раскрыл события, предшествовавшие началу военных действий,...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2007. — 255 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-3326-7. В своей книге Комптон исследует, каким образом США влияли на внешнюю политику Гитлера и какую роль это влияние сыграло в превращении европейской войны во Вторую мировую, когда Рузвельт и Гитлер стали противниками уже на поле боя. Автор со всей полнотой раскрыл события, предшествовавшие началу военных действий,...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1988. — 258 с. — (Летопись Великой Отечественной). — ISBN: 5-235-00030-7. Автор этой книги прошел путь профессионального военного: в Великую Отечественную он был и взводным, и ротным, и комбатом на переднем крае, испытав вместе со своими подчиненными всю тяжесть службы в матушке-пехоте. Поэтому даже в мельчайших «подробностях войны», описанных М....
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1988. — 258 с. — (Летопись Великой Отечественной). — ISBN: 5-235-00030-7. Автор этой книги прошел путь профессионального военного: в Великую Отечественную он был и взводным, и ротным, и комбатом на переднем крае, испытав вместе со своими подчиненными всю тяжесть службы в матушке-пехоте. Поэтому даже в мельчайших «подробностях войны», описанных Максимом...
М.: АСТ, 2015. — 550 с., ил. — ISBN: 978-5-17-090225-5. Эта книга представляет собой изложение основных событий Второй мировой войны с раскрытием их смыслового подтекста и некоторых, порой неожиданных, сопоставлений (взаимосвязь Московской битвы и нападения на Перл-Харбор, избрания патриарха Сергия, создания нового гимна СССР и т. д.).
М.: АСТ, 2015. — 550 с., ил. — ISBN: 978-5-17-090225-5. Эта книга представляет собой изложение основных событий Второй мировой войны с раскрытием их смыслового подтекста и некоторых, порой неожиданных, сопоставлений (взаимосвязь Московской битвы и нападения на Перл-Харбор, избрания патриарха Сергия, создания нового гимна СССР и т. д.).
М.: АСТ, 2015. — 550 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-17-090225-5. Эта книга представляет собой изложение основных событий Второй мировой войны с раскрытием их смыслового подтекста и некоторых, порой неожиданных, сопоставлений (взаимосвязь Московской битвы и нападения на Перл-Харбор, избрания патриарха Сергия, создания нового гимна СССР и т. д.). В тексте разобрано большинство «острых»...
М.: АСТ, 2015. — 550 с., ил. ISBN: 978-5-17-090225-5. Эта книга представляет собой изложение основных событий Второй мировой войны с раскрытием их смыслового подтекста и некоторых, порой неожиданных, сопоставлений (взаимосвязь Московской битвы и нападения на Перл-Харбор, избрания патриарха Сергия, создания нового гимна СССР и т. д.). В тексте разобрано большинство «острых» тем:...
М.: АСТ, 2015. — 550 с., ил. ISBN: 978-5-17-090225-5. Эта книга представляет собой изложение основных событий Второй мировой войны с раскрытием их смыслового подтекста и некоторых, порой неожиданных, сопоставлений (взаимосвязь Московской битвы и нападения на Перл-Харбор, избрания патриарха Сергия, создания нового гимна СССР и т. д.). В тексте разобрано большинство «острых» тем:...
М.: Вече, 2010. - 464 с.: ил. - (Актуальная история).
ISBN 978-5-9533-5125-6
По установившимся в исторической науке представлениям Вторая мировая война началась в Европе с нападения 1 сентября 1939 года гитлеровской Германии на Польшу. Однако этому событию предшествовали масштабные военные столкновения в других частях мира, которые необоснованно рассматриваются как...
М.: Вече, 2010. — 464 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5125-6. — (Актуальная история). По установившимся в исторической науке представлениям Вторая мировая война началась в Европе с нападения 1 сентября 1939 года гитлеровской Германии на Польшу. Однако этому событию предшествовали масштабные военные столкновения в других частях мира, которые необоснованно рассматриваются как...
М.: Мысль, 1989. — 271 с. В книге показываются основные направления антисоветской военной политики Японии накануне и в годы второй мировой войны. Раскрытие стратегических и оперативных планов, комплекса мероприятий по подготовке к войне в 1931-1945 гг. дает возможность глубже понять авантюристический характер замыслов агрессии, подлинные причины провала так называемой стратегии...
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В данной статье автор описывает обострение японо-американских отношений осенью 1941 г., повлёкшие начало войны в Тихом океане.
От "Чёрных кораблей" к мосту Марко Поло.
"Нейтралитет" как умиротворение агрессора.
"Новый порядок" в Восточной Азии.
Японская дилемма: Север или.
Нападение на Пёрл-Харбор началось с Курил.
Post...
М.: Международные отношения, 1964. - 162 с.
В книге рассказывается о крупной экономической диверсии "Бернгард" и некоторых других подрывных актах, осуществлявшихся гитлеровской разведкой в годы второй мировой войны.
Брошюра. Автор: Thies Christophersen. Язык оригинала: немецкий. Год написания: 1972. Год издания: 1978. Название на языке оригінала: Die Auschwitz-Luge. Издательство: Kritik-Verlag (Германия). 76 стр. (с иллюстрациями). ISBN: 3880370028. Брошюра "Ложь об Освенциме" (нем. Die Auschwitz-Luge — Ein Erlebnisbericht von Thies Christopherson) немецкого фермера Тиса Кристоферсена,...
Научно-популярное издание / Пер. с англ. А. Марченко. — Смоленск: Русич, 2004. — 384 с.: ил. — (Мир в войнах). — ISBN: 5-8138-0607-5 (рус.), ISBN: 1-85479-736-0 (англ.). Известный западный военный историк Р. Кросс дает в своей книге яркую запоминающуюся картину зимы-весны 1945 г. Читателю будет небезынтересно узнать точку зрения европейцев на ход и итоги смертельной схватки с...
М.: Русич, 2002. — 430 с. — ISBN: 5-8138-0400-5 Некоторые драматические страницы войны на море во время Второй мировой войны слабо освещены в отечественной литературе. Создав мощный военно – морской флот, фашистская Германия бросила вызов «владычице морей» - Великобритании. Британскому Адмиралтейству пришлось приложить отчаянные усилия, чтобы нейтрализовать, а затем и устранить...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 209 с.
Книга посвящена движению Сопротивления и, с другой стороны, политике коллаборационизма в Дании в период фашистской оккупации. Эти проблемы освещаются на фоне борьбы различных политических течений внутри страны и, в частности, внутри правящих группировок.
Работа основана на изучении широкого круга датских архивов, в том числе документов Коммунистической...
3-е изд. — М.: Политиздат, 1966. — 570 с. Они победили смерть: Сборник воспоминаний бывших узниц фашистского женского концлагеря Равенсбрюк. «Они победили смерть» – книга, написанная кровью многих человеческих сердец. Она волнует трагическими картинами пережитого, выстраданного миллионами людей. Что ни воспоминание, то еще один рассказ о боли человеческой души, еще одна...
3-е изд. — М.: Политиздат, 1966. — 570 с. Они победили смерть: Сборник воспоминаний бывших узниц фашистского женского концлагеря Равенсбрюк. «Они победили смерть» – книга, написанная кровью многих человеческих сердец. Она волнует трагическими картинами пережитого, выстраданного миллионами людей. Что ни воспоминание, то еще один рассказ о боли человеческой души, еще одна...
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный экономический университет, 2019. — 99 с. В пособии анализируются причины Второй мировой войны и внешняя политика СССР в 1939-1941 гг., показан справедливый характер войны советского народа против фашистской Германии, ход боевых действий на всех фронтах Второй мировой войны. В работе раскрываются причины поражения...
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный экономический университет, 2019. — 99 с. В пособии анализируются причины Второй мировой войны и внешняя политика СССР в 1939-1941 гг., показан справедливый характер войны советского народа против фашистской Германии, ход боевых действий на всех фронтах Второй мировой войны. В работе раскрываются причины поражения...
М.: Соцэкгиз, 1962. — 290 с. Настоящая работа является попыткой рассмотреть процесс вступления США во Вторую мировую войну в его важнейших внутриполитических и внешних аспектах. США накануне войны. США и "странная война" в Европе (сентябрь 1939 - апрель 1940 гг.). США от окончания "странной войны" до начала Великой Отечественной войны Советского Союза. США в Великую...
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Тема евреев-предателей, вынужденных ради спасения своей шкуры служить нацистам и помогать им в войне, очень интересна и поучительна для граждан России. Нам, кстати, как и прибалтам, украинцам, грузинам и прочим народам бывшего СССР, некоторые «историки» пытаются внушить, что советские предатели, сотрудничающие в годы Великой Отечественной войны с...
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Тема евреев-предателей, вынужденных ради спасения своей шкуры служить нацистам и помогать им в войне, очень интересна и поучительна для граждан России. Нам, кстати, как и прибалтам, украинцам, грузинам и прочим народам бывшего СССР, некоторые «историки» пытаются внушить, что советские предатели, сотрудничающие в годы Великой Отечественной войны с...
Благовещенск: Изд-во БГПУ, 2019. — 346 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8331-0420-0. В книге предпринята попытка исторической реконструкции деятельности «Отряда № 731» и других подобного рода подразделений, созданных до и во время Второй мировой войны в составе Императорской армии Японии с целью проведения исследований в области оружия массового уничтожения, в первую очередь,...
М.: Наука, 1971. — 659 с. — (Вторая мировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах). Введение. Советская историография. Буржуазная историография. Предыстория. Антифашистская коалиция и идея второго фронта (1941 г.). Стратегия коалиционной войны зимой 1941/42 г. Куда же идти: в Западную Европу или в Северную Африку? Упущенные возможности. Продолжение политики обещаний...
М.: Наука, 1971. — 664 с. — (Вторая мировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах). Введение. Советская историография. Буржуазная историография. Предыстория. Антифашистская коалиция и идея второго фронта (1941 г.). Стратегия коалиционной войны зимой 1941/42 г. Куда же идти: в Западную Европу или в Северную Африку? Упущенные возможности. Продолжение политики обещаний...
М.: Вече. 2012. — 384 с.
В истории человечества есть события поистине решающего, судьбоносного значения. С полным основанием к ним можно отнести Великую Победу над Германией и Японией. Она была одержана совместными усилиями 55 государств антигитлеровской коалиции. Но историческая истина состоит в том, что главная тяжесть борьбы выпала на долю Советского Союза.
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М.: Вече. 2012. — 384 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-6016-6. В истории человечества есть события поистине решающего, судьбоносного значения. С полным основанием к ним можно отнести Великую Победу над Германией и Японией. Она была одержана совместными усилиями 55 государств антигитлеровской коалиции. Но историческая истина состоит в том, что главная тяжесть борьбы выпала на долю...
М.: Вече. 2012. — 384 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-6016-6. В истории человечества есть события поистине решающего, судьбоносного значения. С полным основанием к ним можно отнести Великую Победу над Германией и Японией. Она была одержана совместными усилиями 55 государств антигитлеровской коалиции. Но историческая истина состоит в том, что главная тяжесть борьбы выпала на долю...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2007. — 480 с. — (Танки в бою). — ISBN: 978-5-699-22308-4. Мощь германских танковых войск - грозных Панцерваффе, завоевавших для Гитлера пол-Европы, наводивших ужас на весь мир, - держалась не только на танках, но еще и на самоходных орудиях, сокрушавших вражескую оборону, и на грозных истребителях танков, которых под конец войны производилось больше, чем любой...
М: Яуза, Эксмо, 2007. — 384 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-19139-0.
Они были гордостыо Третьего Рейха. Они наводили ужас на всю Европу. Они стали символом блицкрига. Они должны были завоевать для Гитлера весь свет. Немецкие танковые войска считались лучшими в мире — пока не нашла коса на камень. Пока на бескрайних просторах России хваленым германским панцерам не сломали хребет русские...
М: Яуза, Эксмо, 2007. — 384 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-19139-0.
Они были гордостыо Третьего Рейха. Они наводили ужас на всю Европу. Они стали символом блицкрига. Они должны были завоевать для Гитлера весь свет. Немецкие танковые войска считались лучшими в мире — пока не нашла коса на камень. Пока на бескрайних просторах России хваленым германским панцерам не сломали хребет русские...
М.: Трибуна, 2008. — 143 с. ISBN: 978-5-901253-13-7 Книга посвящена малоизвесным страницам истории Великой Отечественной войны. Она рассказывает о союзниках Гитлера, венгерских и хорватских, румынских и словацких армиях, добровольцах из Испании, Скандинавии, республик СССР.
М.: Трибуна, 2008. - 143 с. Книга посвящена малоизвесным страницам истории Великой Отечественной войны. Она рассказывает о союзниках Гитлера, венгерских и хорватских, румынских и словацких армиях, добровольцах из Испании, Скандинавии, республик СССР.
М.: Трибуна, 2008 — 143 с. — ISBN 978-5-901253-13-7
Книга посвящена малоизвесным страницам истории Великой Отечественной войны. Она рассказывает о союзниках Гитлера, венгерских и хорватских, румынских и словацких армиях, добровольцах из Испании, Скандинавии, республик СССР.
М.: Международные отношения, 1964. — 339 с. Книга посвящена истории Франции от Мюнхена до капитуляции перед фашистской Германией и крушения Третьей республики. Используя неизвестные и малоизвестные документы, автор освещает внутреннюю и внешнюю политику французских правящих кругов после мюнхенского сговора, выясняет сущность и цели "странной войны", вскрывает причины военной и...
М.: Международные отношения, 1964. — 339 с. Книга посвящена истории Франции от Мюнхена до капитуляции перед фашистской Германией и крушения Третьей республики. Используя неизвестные и малоизвестные документы, автор освещает внутреннюю и внешнюю политику французских правящих кругов после мюнхенского сговора, выясняет сущность и цели "странной войны", вскрывает причины военной и...
Ташкент: Госиздат УзССР, 1943. — 103 с. В Великой Отечественной войне с озверелыми гитлеровскими полчищами народы Советского Союза героически отстаивали свою свободную землю, свою национальную независимость и советскую государственность, вписывая новые славные страницы в историю русского, украинского, белорусского, латышского, литовского, эстонского, узбекского,...
Институт мирового хозяйства и мировой политики Академии наук СССР. Под ред. акад. Е. Варга. — М.: Государственное Военное Издательстве Наркомата Обороны Союза ССР, 1939. — 99 c. В брошюре освещаются вопросы современного международного положения, создавшегося в связи с начавшейся второй империалистической войной. Брошюра рассчитана на пропагандиста. От первой ко второй...
Мюнхен: KEMA-Offsetdruck, 1970. — 321 с. Вниманию читателей предлагается труд выдающегося казачьего историка-эмигранта А.К. Ленивова "Под казачьим знаменем в 1943-1945 гг. Материалы и документы", в мюнхенском авторском издании 1970 г. Вот как описывал свою задачу по написанию этой книги сам автор: "Задачей настоящего труда, предназначающегося, как для широких кругов читателей,...
Издание автора. — München: KEMA-Offsetdruck, 1970. — 321 с., 65 фотостатов. Январь - февраль 1943 года: отход казаков с территории казачьих земель в направлении на запад. Движение казачьих беженских масс по пространствам Украины и объединение их под главенством походного атамана казачьих войск полковника С.В. Павлова. Декларация германского правительства к казакам от 10 ноября...
Overseas Publications Interchange, 1989. — 280 с. Вольфганг Леонгард, родился в Вене в семье известных коммунистов Сюзанны и Рудольфа Леонгард в 1921 году. После прихода к власти в Германии Адольфа Гитлера Леонгард вместе с матерью в СССР и прожил там вплоть до разгрома Третьего рейха. Будущий писатель получил в СССР (здесь его стали называть Володей) хорошее образование, а в...
Пер. с немецкого Игорь Бурихин. — Overseas Publications Interchange, 1989. — 280 с. — ISBN 1870128 51 6. Вольфганг Леонгард, родился в Вене в семье известных коммунистов Сюзанны и Рудольфа Леонгард в 1921 году. После прихода к власти в Германии Адольфа Гитлера Леонгард вместе с матерью в СССР и прожил там вплоть до разгрома Третьего рейха. Будущий писатель получил в СССР (здесь...
М.: Правда, 1946. — 30 с. Вторая мировая война оставила глубокие следы в жизни участвовавших в ней народов. Война произвела коренные изменения в международной обстановке. Поэтому понятно, что вопрос о причинах и природе этой войны представляет для нас, современников, далеко не отвлечённый интерес. Наоборот, этот вопрос всесторонне связан с оценкой наиболее злободневных проблем...
М.: Воениздат, 1976. — 682 с. Книга известного военного историка и теоретика является военно-политическим и оперативно-стратегическим очерком событий второй мировой войны. Материалы книги разоблачают преступление махинации правящих кругов западных держав, приведшие к развязыванию второй мировой войны. Автор показывает ход вооруженной борьбы на различных театрах военных действий,...
М.: Воениздат, 1976. — 682 с. Книга известного военного историка и теоретика является военно-политическим и оперативно-стратегическим очерком событий второй мировой войны. Материалы книги разоблачают преступление махинации правящих кругов западных держав, приведшие к развязыванию второй мировой войны. Автор показывает ход вооруженной борьбы на различных театрах военных действий,...
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Опубликованная в интернете и собранная вместе подборка сведений о Второй Мировой войне, представляющая собой ответы Фёдора Лисицина в различных интернет-сообществах на вопросы их участников. Затронуты темы участия различных стран во Второй Мировой войне, состав их армий, участие на стороне немцев и других стран контингентов из формально...
Сборник. — М.: Политиздат, 1988. — 463 с. В сборник включены яркие отрывки из не издававшихся в Советском Союзе книг известных западных историков, журналистов, дипломатов: Р. Джексона, Б. Лиддел Гарта, А. Кларка, У. Крейга, Д. Орджилла, Э. Стеттиниуса и других, - в которых рассказывается о роли СССР в разгроме гитлеровской Германии, о подвиге советского народа, мастерстве...
Сборник. — М.: Политиздат, 1988. — 479 с. — ISBN 5—250—00592—6 В сборник включены яркие отрывки из не издававшихся в Советском Союзе книг известных западных историков, журналистов, дипломатов: Р. Джексона, Б. Лиддел Гарта, А. Кларка, У. Крейга, Д. Орджилла, Э. Стеттиниуса и других, - в которых рассказывается о роли СССР в разгроме гитлеровской Германии, о подвиге советского...
[перевод с французского С. Нечаева]. — Москва : Эксмо, 2021. — 184 с. Впервые – наглядно и красочно о главных действующих силах Второй мировой войны от ведущих европейских специалистов по военной истории. От экономического фундамента и человеческого ресурса двух коалиций до соотношения личного состава и техники в ходе решающих операций и сражений. Все театры военных действий....
[перевод с французского С. Нечаева]. — Москва : Эксмо, 2021. — 184 с. Впервые – наглядно и красочно о главных действующих силах Второй мировой войны от ведущих европейских специалистов по военной истории. От экономического фундамента и человеческого ресурса двух коалиций до соотношения личного состава и техники в ходе решающих операций и сражений. Все театры военных действий....
М.: Эксмо, 2005. — 480 с.
Перед вами единственное появившееся за 60 послевоенных лет зарубежное исследование о Великой Отечественной войне на морских и речных театрах. В нем автор на основе боевых документов бывших противников СССР и доступной ему советской военно-исторической литературы описал и проанализировал действия противоборствующих флотов, показал успехи и просчеты...
М.: Эксмо, 2005. — 480 с.
Перед вами единственное появившееся за 60 послевоенных лет зарубежное исследование о Великой Отечественной войне на морских и речных театрах. В нем автор на основе боевых документов бывших противников СССР и доступной ему советской военно-исторической литературы описал и проанализировал действия противоборствующих флотов, показал успехи и просчеты...
М.: Эксмо, 2005. — 480 с.
Перед вами единственное появившееся за 60 послевоенных лет зарубежное исследование о Великой Отечественной войне на морских и речных театрах. В нем автор на основе боевых документов бывших противников СССР и доступной ему советской военно-исторической литературы описал и проанализировал действия противоборствующих флотов, показал успехи и просчеты...
Монография. — Сокр. пер. с англ. Е.М. Федотова ; Под ред. и с предисл. О.А. Ржешевского. - М.: Воениздат, 1979. - 423 с. : схем. В книге американского историка рассматриваются боевые действия армии США в Северной Африке и в Европе на заключительном этапе второй мировой войны. Автор следует в основном принятым в буржуазной литературе взглядам, вместе с тем он высказывает ряд...
[без автора] — [без места] — [без издательства], 1945. — 33 с. Краткое географическое описание. Административное деление. Население. Исторические сведения. Прошлое Маньчжурии. Первые договоры России с Китаем. Японо-китайская война. КВЖД–ЮМЖД. Русско-японская война. "21 требование". Договоры 1924 г. Провокации на КВЖД (1926 г.). Конфликт 1929 г. События 18 сентября 1931 г....
Оперативный отдел штаба Западного фронта, 1941. — 348 с. ЦАМО фонд 208 опись 2511 дело 29 Документы различного характера, собранные оперативным отделом штаба Западного фронта в период с 23 июня по 31 июля 1941г.
М.: Олма Медиа Групп, 2011. — 656 с. — ISBN: 978-5-373-03986-4. Если вы закончили школу до 1985 года, читали мемуары Жукова и других наших полководцев, «Горячий снег» и «Брестскую крепость», смотрели в кино «Освобождение» и «А зори здесь тихие», эта книга все равно будет для вас любопытна и полезна. Если п озже — вы в основном читали о войне Виктора Суворова и Марка Солонина, а...
Берлин, 1942. — 87 c.
Генеральный план «Ост», представленный оберфюрером СС проф. др. Конрадом Мейером (Берлин-Далем, 28 мая 1942 г.) Генеральный план Ост» принадлежит истории – истории насильственного переселения отдельных людей и целых народов. Эта история такая же древняя, как и история самого человечества. Но «план Ост» открыл новое измерение страха. Он представлял собой...
Берлин, 1942. - 87 c.
Генеральный план «Ост» представленный оберфюрером СС проф. др. Конрадом Мейером (Берлин-Далем, 28 мая 1942 г.) Генеральный план Ост» принадлежит истории – истории насильственного переселения отдельных людей и целых народов. Эта история такая же древняя, как и история самого человечества. Но «план Ост» открыл новое измерение страха. Он представлял собой...
Берлин: 1942. — 43 с.
Генеральный план «Ост» представленный оберфюрером СС проф. др. Конрадом Мейером (Берлин-Далем, 28 мая 1942 г.) Генеральный план Ост» принадлежит истории – истории насильственного переселения отдельных людей и целых народов. Эта история такая же древняя, как и история самого человечества. Но «план Ост» открыл новое измерение страха. Он представлял собой...
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Минск: Харвест, 2018. — 482 с. — ISBN 978-985-18-4363-9. Вторая мировая война - крупнейшая в истории человечества, в ней участвовали 72 государства и свыше 80% населения земного шара, военные действия охватили территории 40 стран. В настоящем издании хронологически описываются военные кампании на всех театрах боевых действий и на всех фронтах в период 1939-1945 гг., но при этом...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 448 с. — ISBN 5-89173-065-0.
Э. Миддельдорф много лет служил на командных должностях и в качестве офицера генерального штаба на Восточном фронте, а также работал референтом по обобщению тактического опыта в генеральном штабе сухопутных войск Германии. В своей книге он анализирует особенности ведения боевых действий немецкой и русской армиями в 1941–1945...
М.: Вече, 2011. — 380 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5914-6 В книге обобщается тактический опыт подразделений и частей основных родов войск вермахта в годы Второй мировой войны. Большая часть книги посвящена тактике частей и подразделений в основных видах боя и боевым действиям в особых условиях. В труде, изданном в 50-е годы, даются соображения по наиболее целесообразной организации...
М.: Вече, 2011. — 380 с. — (Вторая мировая. Взгляд врага). — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5914-6. В книге обобщается тактический опыт подразделений и частей основных родов войск вермахта в годы Второй мировой войны. Большая часть книги посвящена тактике частей и подразделений в основных видах боя и боевым действиям в особых условиях. В труде, изданном в 50-е годы, даются соображения по...
М: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 549 с. — (За линией фронта. Военная история). Немецкий военный историк, офицер вермахта и генерал-майор бундесвера Эйке Миддельдорф анализирует особенности ведения боевых действий немецкой и советской армиями в 1941–1945 гг., организацию и вооружение основных родов войск воюющих сторон и тактику подразделений и частей. Книгу характеризует полнота...
М.: АСТ, 2014. — 386 с. Часть2 Эта книга предназначена не только для тех, кто интересуется историей Второй мировой войны, но также для коллекционеров и реконструкторов. На страницах этой книги Дэвид Миллер описывает жизнь обычных солдат арий стран "оси", их снаряжение, вооружение, форму и личные вещи. Цветные фотографии вооружения, предметов обмундирования и снаряжения из музеев и...
М.: АСТ, 2014. — 386 с. Часть1 Эта книга предназначена не только для тех, кто интересуется историей Второй мировой войны, но также для коллекционеров и реконструкторов. На страницах этой книги Дэвид Миллер описывает жизнь обычных солдат арий стран "оси", их снаряжение, вооружение, форму и личные вещи. Цветные фотографии вооружения, предметов обмундирования и снаряжения из музеев и...
АСТ. Москва. 2013 год. 385 страниц. Содержит указатель. ISBN: 5170819633
Оригинальное издание: «Fighting Men of World War II. Allied Forces. Uniforms, Equipment and Weapons» by David Miller.
Из-за большой величины файл разбит на две части.
Эта книга предназначена не только для тех, кто интересуется историей Второй мировой войны, но также для коллекционеров и...
АСТ. Москва. 2013 год. 385 страниц. Содержит указатель. ISBN: 5170819633
Оригинальное издание: «Fighting Men of World War II. Allied Forces. Uniforms, Equipment and Weapons» by David Miller.
Из-за большой величины файл разбит на две части.
Эта книга предназначена не только для тех, кто интересуется историей Второй мировой войны, но также для коллекционеров и...
М.: Иностранная литература, 1957. — 538 с. Weltkrieg 1939-1945. Stuttgart. 1957. Перевод с немецкого А.А. Высоковский, А.И. Дьяконов. Сборник статей. Группа авторов: Генерал-лейтенант Дитмар, генерал-майор фон Бутлар, генерал-полковник фон Рендулич, генерал-фельдмаршал фон Рундштедт, генерал-лейтенант Циммерман, генерал-майон фон Роден, генерал кавалерии Вестфаль, адмирал флота...
Сборник статей. — Перевод с немецкого А.А. Высоковский, А.И. Дьяконов. — М.: Иностранная литература, 1957. — 538 с. Weltkrieg 1939-1945. Stuttgart, 1957. Группа авторов: Генерал-лейтенант Дитмар, генерал-майор фон Бутлар, генерал-полковник фон Рендулич, генерал-фельдмаршал фон Рундштедт, генерал-лейтенант Циммерман, генерал-майон фон Роден, генерал кавалерии Вестфаль, адмирал...
СПб.: Полигон, 2005. — 528 с.
ISBN: 5-89173-318-8
Данная книга по истории Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1945 гг. необычна тем, что ее автор, владея уникальным биографическим материалом, изложил его в форме увлекательных сравнительных жизнеописаний. Пытаясь максимально объективно взглянуть на участников той войны — как на победителей, так и на побежденных, — автор сопоставляет...
М.: Просвещение, 2012. — 192 с. : ил. — (Грабли истории). — ISBN: 978-5-09-020327-2. О причинах и виновниках Второй мировой войны изданы горы книг на множестве языков. Но их авторы с завидным постоянством упускают из виду главное: Вторая мировая началась в тот день, когда закончилась Первая.
М.: Просвещение, 2012. — 192 с. : ил. — (Грабли истории). — ISBN: 978-5-09-020327-2. О причинах и виновниках Второй мировой войны изданы горы книг на множестве языков. Но их авторы с завидным постоянством упускают из виду главное: Вторая мировая началась в тот день, когда закончилась Первая.
Книга публикуется в авторской редакции. В Великой Отечественной войне военная помощь США и Великобритании стала горошиной, упавшей на одну из двух весов военного счастья при том, что на чашах уже лежали совершенно одинаковые пудовые гири тоталитарных империй. Поддерживая СССР, высшие англо-американские политические круги преследовали долгосрочные цели увеличения своего влияния...
Москва: Цейхгауз, 2007. — 48 с. — (Военно-морской фонд). — ISBN 978-5-97710-028-1. Книга повествует об одной из самых драматических страниц войны на Тихом океане - борьбе за обладание островом Гуадалканал. Издание рассчитано на всех интересующихся историей авиации и флота во второй мировой войне. Кроме военно-морского флота в данной книге большое внимание уделено также...
М.: Воениздат, 1972. - 378 с.
В книге известного английского историка подробно анализируются события предвоенного периода. На основании архивных документов, мемуаров видных государственных и политических деятелей, а также материалов судебных процессов над военными преступниками автор убедительно вскрывает махинации правящих кругов западных держав, стремившихся любой ценой...
М.: Воениздат, 1972. — 378 с. В книге известного английского историка подробно анализируются события предвоенного периода. На основании архивных документов, мемуаров видных государственных и политических деятелей, а также материалов судебных процессов над военными преступниками автор убедительно вскрывает махинации правящих кругов западных держав, стремившихся любой ценой...
М.: Вече, 2011. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5719-7. Представляемая читателям книга посвящена наиболее масштабным танковым сражениям Второй мировой войны. Следует сказать, что в современной военно-исторической науке не существует жестких требований к понятию танкового сражения, поэтому подход автора к выбранной теме во многом субъективен, а подбор сражений происходил по...
М.: Вече, 2011. — 380 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-9533-5719-7. Представляемая читателям книга посвящена наиболее масштабным танковым сражениям Второй мировой войны. Следует сказать, что в современной военно-исторической науке не существует жестких требований к понятию танкового сражения, поэтому подход автора к выбранной теме во многом субъективен, а подбор сражений происходил по...
М.: Вече, 2011. — 1176 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5719-7. Представляемая читателям книга посвящена наиболее масштабным танковым сражениям Второй мировой войны. Следует сказать, что в современной военно-исторической науке не существует жестких требований к понятию танкового сражения, поэтому подход автора к выбранной теме во многом субъективен, а подбор сражений происходил по...
Казань : Татарское книжное издательство, 2010. — 159 с., [8] л. ил. — ISBN: 978-5-298-01959-0. Этот сборник научно-популярных статей посвящен 65-летию Великой Победы. В нем рассказывается о переходе 825-го батальона легиона «Идель-Урал» на сторону белорусских партизан в феврале 1943 года. Этот переход означал для фашистского командования провал тщательно подготовленной операции...
Цифровое издание. — Москва: Вече, 2021. — (Военные тайны XX века). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8669-2. Высокая результативность асов немецкой авиации до сих пор вызывает самые жаркие споры среди историков и любителей. В этой книге наряду с судьбами асов рассматривается воздушная война на Восточном фронте, тактика боев и бытовые детали. Особое внимание уделено причинам первоначальных...
М.: Политиздат, 1985. — 195 с. Автор книги - член Коммунистической партии Германии с 1928 года, активная участница антифашистской борьбы - рассказывает о том, как она и другие заключенные вели опасную борьбу в условиях глубокого подполья и конспирации в концлагере Равенсбрюк. С документальной достоверностью переданы эпизоды, свидетельствующие о дружбе и солидарности узниц из...
М.: Политиздат, 1985. — 195 с. Автор книги - член Коммунистической партии Германии с 1928 года, активная участница антифашистской борьбы - рассказывает о том, как она и другие заключенные вели опасную борьбу в условиях глубокого подполья и конспирации в концлагере Равенсбрюк. С документальной достоверностью переданы эпизоды, свидетельствующие о дружбе и солидарности узниц из...
Київ: Дух і Літера, 2023. — 656 с. — ISBN 978-966-378-959-0 Жодна війна XX століття не була такою глибоко трансформаційною та руйнівною як Друга світова. Ця книга — є унікальною та потужною оперативною історією цієї війни, яка відтворює повну картину битв на землі, на морі та в повітрі. Вільямсон Мюррей і Еллан Р. Міллет аналізують операції та тактику ведення війни як на...
Київ: Дух і Літера, 2023. — 656 с. — ISBN 978-966-378-959-0 Жодна війна XX століття не була такою глибоко трансформаційною та руйнівною як Друга світова. Ця книга — є унікальною та потужною оперативною історією цієї війни, яка відтворює повну картину битв на землі, на морі та в повітрі. Вільямсон Мюррей і Еллан Р. Міллет аналізують операції та тактику ведення війни як на...
Москва: Алгоритм, 2017. — 398 с. — (Уроки истории). — ISBN 978-5-906914-99-6. Книга доктора исторических наук М.Ю. Мягкова посвящена одному из важнейших периодов во взаимоотношениях нашей страны и США – 1941-1945 гг. Автор отвечает на вопросы: что стало решающим фактором в решении союзников все же открыть «второй фронт»? кем выстраивалась глобальная система послевоенной...
Ред.-сост. Д.А. Карпухина; пер. Н.С. Васильева [и др.]. — М.: Вече, 2020. — 232, [2] с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-4484-1913-3. Подготовленное Фондом исторической перспективы издание состоит из материалов, публиковавшихся в американских и английских газетах в 1942—1943 гг. и посвященных событиям вокруг Сталинграда, самой битве, общественным настроениям, действиям союзников в этот...
Ред.-сост. Д.А. Карпухина; пер. Н.С. Васильева [и др.]. — М.: Вече, 2020. — 232, [2] с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-4484-1913-3. Подготовленное Фондом исторической перспективы издание состоит из материалов, публиковавшихся в американских и английских газетах в 1942—1943 гг. и посвященных событиям вокруг Сталинграда, самой битве, общественным настроениям, действиям союзников в этот...
Перевод.: Н. Васильева, Д. Карпухина, С. Минин — Москва: Вече, 2013. — 228 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4444-1427-9. Подготовленное Фондом исторической перспективы издание состоит из материалов, публиковавшихся в американских и английских газетах в 1942-1943 гг. и посвященных событиям вокруг Сталинграда, самой битве, общественным настроениям, действиям союзников в этот период, ситуации на...
Перевод.: Н. Васильева, Д. Карпухина, С. Минин — Москва: Вече, 2013. — 228 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4444-1427-9. Подготовленное Фондом исторической перспективы издание состоит из материалов, публиковавшихся в американских и английских газетах в 1942-1943 гг. и посвященных событиям вокруг Сталинграда, самой битве, общественным настроениям, действиям союзников в этот период, ситуации на...
М., Фонд "Историческая память", 2010. - 312с.
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на русском и английском языках, заголовок на английском:
Nazi extermination policy.
in the Nord-West of the USSR:
regional aspect.
International conference papers.
(Pskov, December 10-11, 2009).
Для изучающих историю Второй Мировой войны и...
М.: Изд. АН СССР, 1961. — 162 с. — (Научно-популярная серия). В этой книге рассказано об одном из сложнейших периодов второй мировой войны, получившем в истории необычное название — «странная война», «сумеречная война», «война утраченных возможностей». События, происходившие в первые месяцы войны,— с сентября 1939 г. по апрель—май 1940 г.,— и в самом деле были необычными. Две...
М.: АН СССР, 1961. — 162 с. — (Научно-популярная серия). В этой книге рассказано об одном из сложнейших периодов второй мировой войны, получившем в истории необычное название — «странная война», «сумеречная война», «война утраченных возможностей». События, происходившие в первые месяцы войны, — с сентября 1939 г. по апрель-май 1940 г., — и в самом деле были необычными. Две...
Минск: Литература, 1998. — 480 с. — (Энциклопедия военного искусства). — ISBN: 985-437-361-4. Эта книга является кратким очерком истории формирования и боевого применения воздушно-десантных войск стран-участниц второй мировой войны. Текст, составленный на основе большого количества отечественных и зарубежных источников, позволяет читателям ознакомиться с ранее неизвестными...
Минск: Литература, 1998. — 480 с. — (Энциклопедия военного искусства). — ISBN: 985-437-361-4. Эта книга является кратким очерком истории формирования и боевого применения воздушно-десантных войск стран-участниц второй мировой войны. Текст, составленный на основе большого количества отечественных и зарубежных источников, позволяет читателям ознакомиться с ранее неизвестными...
Сборник научных статей. — Владивосток: Рея, 2016. — 274 с. В сборник включены статьи участников научной конференции «Неоконченная война — незаживающие раны», посвящённой 70-летию со дня окончания Второй мировой войны, прошедшей 25-26 августа 2015 г. во Владивостоке. Рассматриваются особенности социально-экономического, общественно-политического и военного развития Дальнего...
Пер. с нем. Сб. ст. М.: Изд-во Иностранной Литературы, 1957. - 590 с. Книга написана группой генералов и офицеров бывшего немецко-фашистского вермахта, которые освещают подготовку и ведение операций сухопутными войсками, авиацией и морским флотом гитлеровской Германии и ее союзников во второй мировой войне в традиционном свете буржуазной немецкой военной политики и стратегии....
М.: Русич, 1999. — 592 с. — ISBN 5-88590-970-9.
На основе фактических материалов и документов адмирал ВМС США Ч. Нимиц и Э. Поттер рассказывают о наиболее важных морских операциях второй мировой войны в Атлантике, на Средиземном море и на Тихом океане.
Москва: Наука, 1973. — 280 с. — (Вторая мировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах) Изучение истории Норвегии периода второй мировой войны приобретает в советской историографии все более широкий размах. Наряду со сборниками воспоминаний, обзорами в исторических трудах, статьями, анализирующими отдельные проблемы движения Сопротивления и ход боевых действий в этой...
Москва: Наука, 1973. — 280 с. — (Вторая мировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах). Изучение истории Норвегии периода второй мировой войны приобретает в советской историографии все более широкий размах. Наряду со сборниками воспоминаний, обзорами в исторических трудах, статьями, анализирующими отдельные проблемы движения Сопротивления и ход боевых действий в этой...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 248 с., карты. В книге исследуются стратегическое и экономическое значение скандинавского плацдарма во второй мировой войне, борьба за него империалистических группировок, анализируются особенности боевых действий в условиях Заполярья и приморского театра военных действий. Основываясь на большом фактическом материале, в том числе на новых документах из...
Москва: Наука, 1977. — 246 с. В книге исследуются стратегическое и экономическое значение скандинавского плацдарма во второй мировой войне, борьба за него империалистических группировок, анализируются особенности боевых действий в условиях Заполярья и приморского театра военных действий. Основываясь на большом фактическом материале, в том числе на новых документах из зарубежных...
Монография. — М: АПН, 1985. — 167 с.
В книге, подготовленной коллективом видных советских историков и журналистов, убедительно разоблачаются тезисы современных фальсификаторов истории, пытающихся исказить суть происходивших более сорока лет назад событий навязать массовой аудитории на Западе, прежде всего молодежи, свою трактовку причин возникновения второй мировой войны, ее...
Москва, 1989. — 168 с. В книгата се представя подготовката на Втората световна война. Обръща се внимание на отношението на Западните съюзници към агресията на Нацистка Германия към Русия.
Изд. 2-е, доп. М.: «Издательство политической литературы», тираж 100 000 экз., - 384 с., 1975. На рассвете 1 сентября 1939 года германо-фашистские армии вторглись в Польшу. Началась Вторая мировая война. Но еще задолго до этого в глубокой тайне от народов империалисты разных стран приступили к её подготовке. Доктор исторических наук И.Д. Овсяный знакомит читателя с секретными...
В книге московского автора представлены выдержки из многих источников, а также его личные выводы о эффективности немецкой пропаганды и её построении. Много внимания уделяется роли подразделений РОА в функционировании пропаганды.
М.: ИТРК, 2010. - 362 с. ISBN 5-88010-269-3
В книге известного историка, доктора исторических наук, профессора Л.И. Ольштынского, академика Академии военных наук Российской Федерации, на основе фундаментальных зарубежных и отечественных военно-исторических трудов, новейших исследований архивных документов раскрываются подлинные политические цели стратегических решений и...
М.: Вече, 2011. - 320 с.
ISBN: 978-5-9533-5256-7.
В августе 1941 года СССР и Великобритания предприняли первую совместную боевую операцию. Целью её было освобождение Ирана от германского влияния и обретение контроля над стратегически важной для поставок вооружений в Советский Союз территорией. Перед вами первая обширная работа, посвященная этой важной, но оставшейся в тени...
М.: Вече, 2011. - 320 с., ил. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5256-7. В августе 1941 года СССР и Великобритания предприняли первую совместную боевую операцию. Целью её было освобождение Ирана от германского влияния и обретение контроля над стратегически важной для поставок вооружений в Советский Союз территорией. Перед вами первая обширная работа, посвященная этой важной, но оставшейся в...
М.: Вече, 2011. - 320 с., ил. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5256-7. В августе 1941 года СССР и Великобритания предприняли первую совместную боевую операцию. Целью её было освобождение Ирана от германского влияния и обретение контроля над стратегически важной для поставок вооружений в Советский Союз территорией. Перед вами первая обширная работа, посвященная этой важной, но оставшейся в...
М: Молодая Гвардия, 1986. — 241 с.
В книге рассматриваются основные направления буржуазных фальсификаций истории второй мировой войны, призванных извратить ее ход, итоги и уроки, умалить решающий вклад СССР в разгром фашистской Германии и милитаристской Японии. В центре внимания авторов — показ того, как империалистические силы стремятся использовать в своих интересах...
М: Молодая Гвардия, 1986. — 241 с.
В книге рассматриваются основные направления буржуазных фальсификаций истории второй мировой войны, призванных извратить ее ход, итоги и уроки, умалить решающий вклад СССР в разгром фашистской Германии и милитаристской Японии. В центре внимания авторов — показ того, как империалистические силы стремятся использовать в своих интересах...
М: Молодая Гвардия, 1986 — 241 с.
В книге рассматриваются основные направления буржуазных фальсификаций истории второй мировой войны, призванных извратить ее ход, итоги и уроки, умалить решающий вклад СССР в разгром фашистской Германии и милитаристской Японии. В центре внимания авторов — показ того, как империалистические силы стремятся использовать в своих интересах искаженную...
М.: Издательство Института международных отношений, 1961 г. - 267 с.
Переводчик: Томашевский Д.Г.
Документальный рассказ о судебном процессе над Эрихом Кохом.
Содержание: .
Предисловие.
Кем был Эрих Кох?
Эрих Кох о себе.
Первые дни процесса.
Тактика Эриха Коха.
Показания свидетелей.
Документы обвиняют.
Заключения экспертов.
Заключительные речи.
Приговор.
Архивные материалы ЦАМО. Фонд 209. Опись 1089. Дело 16. — 36 с. 20-я горнострелковая дивизия была одним из соединений 44-й армии, сформированной в июле 1941 года в Закавказском военном округе на базе 40-го стрелкового корпуса и предназначенной для прикрытия государственной границы СССР с Ираном. Иранская операция — совместная англо-советская операция Второй мировой войны по...
Архангельск: Агентство С IP Архангельской ОНБ, 2010. — 152 с. — ISBN: 978-5-86279-206-5. Работа посвящена истории советских военнопленных, находившихся в нацистских лагерях на территории Норвегии в годы Второй мировой войны. Рассмотрены вопросы их правового статуса, содержания, использования труда, репатриации в СССР. В монографии использованы ранее неопубликованные архивные...
М.: Правда. — 1944. — 30 с.
Стенограмма публичной лекции вице-адмирала Ю.А.Пантелеева, прочитанной 4 июля 1944 г. в Колонном Зале Дома Союзов в Москве.
Из книги: "6 июня 1944 г. началась одна из грандиознейших по масштабу и замыслу историческая десантная операция союзных войск по вторжению в Северную Францию. Она явилась прямым результатом достигнутого в Тегеране соглашения...
Москва: Терра-Книжный клуб, 1998. — 368 с. Книга посвящена истории доставки ленд-лиза - американской военной помощи - в СССР через Тихий океан в годы Второй мировой войны. Огромная работа советского транспортного флота и Дальнего Востока осталась мало или вообще неизвестной. Автору удалось найти уникальные архивные материалы, ценнейшие свидетельства участников и воссоздать...
М.: Терра—Книжный клуб, 1998. — 372 с. — (Тайны истории в романах, повестях и документах). — ISBN 5-300-02201-2. Книга посвящена истории доставки ленд-лиза — американской военной помощи — в СССР через Тихий океан в годы Второй мировой войны. Огромная работа советского транспортного флота и Дальнего Востока осталась мало или вообще неизвестной. Автору удалось найти уникальные...
Москва: Алгоритм, 2015. — 606, [1] с. — ISBN: 978-5-906789-66-2. Принято считать, что Вторая мировая война началась с нападения Германии на Польшу 1 сентября 1939 года, а закончилась 2 сентября 1945 после сокрушительного поражения японской армии. Так написано во всех учебниках истории, так говорится в исторических справочниках и Википедии. Но как все было на самом деле?...
Москва: Алгоритм, 2015. — 606, [1] с. — ISBN: 978-5-906789-66-2. Принято считать, что Вторая мировая война началась с нападения Германии на Польшу 1 сентября 1939 года, а закончилась 2 сентября 1945 после сокрушительного поражения японской армии. Так написано во всех учебниках истории, так говорится в исторических справочниках и Википедии. Но как все было на самом деле?...
Пер. Н. Мезина, Н Конашенок. — Москва: Individuum, 2023. — 576 с. — ISBN 978-5-6048297-9-0. В годы Второй мировой на солдат Гитлера и Муссолини в Северной Африке и Италии наводило ужас необычное подразделение: появляясь из ниоткуда, лихие парни обстреливали врага с десятка позиций одновременно, сжигали склады и аэродромы, заставляли капитулировать целые гарнизоны. Так...
138 с. Perl, William. The Holocaust Conspiracy: An international Policy of Genocide. Shapolsky Publishers, Inc., 1989. — 261 p. Традиционно полагают, что Союзники по антигитлеровской коалиции недостаточно делали для спасения евреев во время Холокоста. Данная книга приводит факты и документы, убедительно доказывающие, что Союзники организовали Холокост с целью уничтожить евреев...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2008. — (Военно-исторический сборник). — ISBN: 978-5-699-31043-2 В разгар Второй мировой войны Уинстон Черчилль сказал, что никогда ещё столь многое не зависело от столь немногих. Британский премьер имел в виду лётчиков-истребителей, выигравших Битву за Англию, но его слова в полной мере относятся и к диверсионной борьбе. Террор во вражеском тылу никак не...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2008. – 602с. – (Военно-исторический сборник). — ISBN: 978-5-699-31043-2 В разгар Второй мировой войны Уинстон Черчилль сказал, что никогда ещё столь многое не зависело от столь немногих. Британский премьер имел в виду лётчиков-истребителей, выигравших Битву за Англию, но его слова в полной мере относятся и к диверсионной борьбе. Террор во вражеском тылу никак...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2008. – 352 с. – (Военно-исторический сборник).
ISBN 978-5-699-31043-2
В разгар Второй мировой войны Уинстон Черчилль сказал, что никогда ещё столь многое не зависело от столь немногих. Британский премьер имел в виду лётчиков-истребителей, выигравших Битву за Англию, но его слова в полной мере относятся и к диверсионной борьбе.
Террор во вражеском тылу никак...
София: Диос, 2000. — 218 с. Увод Генезис и развитие на некомунистическата съпротива Окупация и окупационни режими Поява и оформяне на двете течения в националната съпротива Концепции за следвоенното държавно устрйство Отношение към другото съпротивително течение и към окупатора В търсене на легитимност Организация, тактика и активност От съпротива към колаборационизъм...
Буэнос-Айрес: 1946. — 150 с. «Отгремела вторая мировая война. Но мир наступает очень медленно, и закончившаяся война, со всеми ее последствиями и отголосками, для нас одновременно и история, и современность. Предлагаемый сборник, конечно, не история войны, в обычном смысле этого слова. Цель его - осветить, в общих чертах и с разных сторон, главным образом, основные...
Монография. — Москва: Воениздат. — 40 с. Настоящий труд "Вторая мировая война. 1939—1945 гг." написан группой советских военных историков. Авторы ставили своей целью дать краткий военно-исторический очерк второй мировой войны, уделив при этом особое внимание Великой Отечественной войне, которая являлась главным и решающим событием этой войны. При написании труда авторы...
Москва : Воениздат, 1958. — 931 с. — (Библиотека офицера). Фундаментальный труд "Вторая мировая война. 1939-1945 гг." написан группой советских военных историков. Авторы ставили своей целью дать краткий военно-исторический очерк второй мировой войны, уделив при этом особое внимание Великой Отечественной войне, которая являлась главным и решающим событием этой войны. При...
Орджиникидзе: Ир, 1969. — 252 с.
Воспоминания дважды Героя Советского Союза, Героя МНР, генерала армии Плиева Иссы Александровича, командира конно-механизированной группы о проведении Маньчжурской операции. Текст иллюстрирован фотографиями.
Орджиникидзе: Ир, 1969. — 253 с. Воспоминания дважды Героя Советского Союза, Героя МНР, генерала армии Плиева Иссы Александровича, командира конно-механизированной группы о проведении Маньчжурской операции. Текст иллюстрирован фотографиями.
Орджоникидзе: Ир, 1973. — 581 с. Несмотря на то, что книга И. А. Плиева написана в чисто военном стиле, строго и лаконично, она будет охотно прочитана не только солдатами и офицерами, но и массой читателей. Особенно хотелось бы рекомендовать такие книги нашей молодежи, — они учат отваге, смелости, воинской стойкости и — самое главное — воспитывают преданность и неизбывную...
Орджиникидзе: Ир, 1969. — 252 с. Воспоминания дважды Героя Советского Союза, Героя МНР, генерала армии Плиева Иссы Александровича, командира конно-механизированной группы о проведении Маньчжурской операции. Текст иллюстрирован фотографиями.
Орджоникидзе: Северо-Осетинское книжное издательство, 1967. — 235 с. Об Отечественной войне нашего народа против гитлеровских захватчиков генералы и офицеры Советской Армии написали много книг. Эти книги-документы, запечатлевшие подвиги славных воинов советской земли, имеют огромное значение для будущих историков, для художников, для юношей, вступающих в жизнь. К их числу...
М.: АСТ: Corpus, 2022. — 400 c. Новая книга известного историка Сергея Плохия посвящена малоизвестной странице Второй мировой войны – истории создания и деятельности трех баз ВВС США в Полтавской области, "где советские и американские солдаты жили и сражались плечом к плечу" и с которых проводились челночные бомбардировки объектов в странах Оси. Здесь есть герои большой...
Пер. Надія Коваль. — Харків: Клуб сімейного дозвілля, 2020. — 320 с. Великий союз XX століття виявився приголомшливо успішним у реалізації його безпосередніх завдань. Американська допомога Британії та СРСР через програму «ленд-ліз», відкриття Другого фронту в червні 1944 року стали найяскравішими епізодами співпраці антигітлерівської коаліції, однак завершився Великий союз...
Пер. Надія Коваль. — Харків: Клуб сімейного дозвілля, 2020. — 320 с. Великий союз XX століття виявився приголомшливо успішним у реалізації його безпосередніх завдань. Американська допомога Британії та СРСР через програму «ленд-ліз», відкриття Другого фронту в червні 1944 року стали найяскравішими епізодами співпраці антигітлерівської коаліції, однак завершився Великий союз...
Пер. Надія Коваль. — Харків: Клуб сімейного дозвілля, 2020. — 320 с. Великий союз XX століття виявився приголомшливо успішним у реалізації його безпосередніх завдань. Американська допомога Британії та СРСР через програму «ленд-ліз», відкриття Другого фронту в червні 1944 року стали найяскравішими епізодами співпраці антигітлерівської коаліції, однак завершився Великий союз...
М. : Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2010. — 380 с. : ил. — (Человек на обочине войны). ISBN: 978-5-8243-1404-5 Мирные советские граждане, находившиеся под оккупацией, до сих пор редко появлялись в серии «Человек на обочине войны», разве что в томе «Нам запретили белый свет…». Авторы этого тома тоже были в оккупации, но вести дневник — такое им даже в голову не...
Сокр. пер. с англ. — М.: Военное изд-во Министерства обороны Союза ССР, 1959. — 528 с.
Книга входит в многотомную работу, издаваемую военно-историческим отделом армии США под общим названием «Армия США во второй мировой войне». Выпущенные в свет книги этой серии освещают вопросы стратегического планирования и подготовки армии США к войне, стратегического планирования в...
Сост. С.Н. Ткаченко. – Феодосия: РИО НИЦ, 2022. – 400 с. В пособии дана подробная хронология событий Второй мировой войны (и Великой Отечественной войны как ее составной части). При этом многие факты хода войны раскрыты более подробно, особенно малоизвестные или мифологизируемые. Особое внимание уделено международным отношениям в годы войны, боевым действиям на разных театрах...
М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН), 2010. — 592 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8243-1504-2.
В книге собраны работы автора о Холокосте, писавшиеся на протяжении последних полутора десятков лет. Сюжеты, казавшиеся изначально разрозненными, неожиданно сложились в книгу.
Они выстроены в порядке развертывания событий, связанных с Холокостом. Реконструкция и анализ предложения...
Москва: АСТ, 2018. Члены «зондеркоммандо», которым посвящена эта книга, это вспомогательные рабочие бригад в Аушвице-Биркенау, которых нацисты составляли почти исключительно из евреев, заставляя их ассистировать себе в массовом конвейерном убийстве десятков и сотен тысяч других людей, — как евреев, так и неевреев, — в газовых камерах, в кремации их трупов и в утилизации их...
Москва: АСТ, 2018. — 672 с. — (История де-факто). — ISBN 978-5-17-109487-4. Члены «зондеркоммандо», которым посвящена эта книга, это вспомогательные рабочие бригад в Аушвице-Биркенау, которых нацисты составляли почти исключительно из евреев, заставляя их ассистировать себе в массовом конвейерном убийстве десятков и сотен тысяч других людей, - как евреев, так и неевреев, - в...
Монография — М.: Алгоритм, 2016. — 304 с.: илл. — ISBN 978-5-906842-72-5. Рецензенты: Куманев Г.А. — академик РАН, Хаустов В.Н. — доктор исторических наук, профессор, В книге ведущего научного сотрудника Института российской истории РАН, доктора исторических наук А.Ю. Попова раскрыты малоизвестные страницы сопротивления советского народа немецко-фашистским оккупантам в годы...
Под общей редакцией генерал-майора Н. Г. Павленко. Военное издательство Министерства Обороны союза сср. Москва, 1960. Книга включает з себя статьи советских военных историков и трофейные документы германского верховного командования, относящиеся ко второй мировой войне. Взаимно дополняя друг друга, статьи и документы ярко показывают, как германские империалисты готовили и...
Пер. с японского Б.В. Раскина. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 510 с. Эта книга — коллективный труд членов известного японского прогрессивного Общества по изучению исторической науки. В создании книги приняли участие крупнейшие японские прогрессивные ученые — историки, экономисты, специалисты в области международных отношений и т.д. Авторы настоящего...
Пер. с японского Б.В. Раскина. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 510 с. Эта книга — коллективный труд членов известного японского прогрессивного Общества по изучению исторической науки. В создании книги приняли участие крупнейшие японские прогрессивные ученые — историки, экономисты, специалисты в области международных отношений и т.д. Авторы настоящего...
М.: Издательство Иностранной литературы, 1958. — 1030 с. Эта книга — коллективный труд членов известного японского прогрессивного Общества по изучению исторической науки. В создании книги приняли участие крупнейшие японские прогрессивные ученые — историки, экономисты, специалисты в области международных отношений и т. д. Авторы настоящего исследования показывают роль Японии в...
Сборник второй. — СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета, 1999. — 460 с.: 20 с. вкл. — ISBN 5-288-02307-73. Первая книга под этим названием вышла в свет в Нью-Йорке в 1963 году. Настоящий, второй сборник, не является её продолжением, но посвящен той же теме: эпопее Русского Корпуса — воинского формирования, созданного в Сербии бывшими офицерами, солдатами и...
Сборник второй. — СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета, 1999. — 460 с.: 20 с. вкл. — ISBN 5-288-02307-73. Первая книга под этим названием вышла в свет в Нью-Йорке в 1963 году. Настоящий, второй сборник, не является её продолжением, но посвящен той же теме: эпопее Русского Корпуса — воинского формирования, созданного в Сербии бывшими офицерами, солдатами и...
2-е изд., доп. — М.: Наука, 1989. — 584 с. Книга посвящена истории германского фашизма — его зарождению, подъему, преступлениям и полной катастрофе. Внешняя и внутренняя политика нацистов, их политическая и военная стратегия освещаются с точки зрения исследования исторических корней германского фашизма, его классовой и социально-политической сущности. В книге рассказывается о...
М.: ACT; СПб.: Terra Fantastica, 2004. — 477 с. Эта книга открывает серию работ, посвященных войне в Восточной и Западной Европе в 1939–1941 годах. В результате молниеносных бросков танковых армий и массированных ударов немецкой авиации весной 1940 года пали Дания и Норвегия, капитулировали Бельгия, Нидерланды и Люксембург, летом под оккупационным режимом оказалась Франция. Но...
Перевод с немецкого Л. Л. Зактрегер, Г. В. Кычаковой, А. Л. Ларионова. — М.: Прогресс, 1975. — 332 с. Предлагаемый сборник документов "Анатомия агрессии" является прямым продолжением и дополнением изданного в Берлине в 1969 году и появившегося вскоре (1971 год) в русском переводе сборника документов "Анатомия войны", в котором на обширном документальном материале всесторонне...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 304 с. — ISBN 5-9524-0880-X.
Классическое произведение Корнелиуса Райана, одного из самых лучших военных репортеров прошедшего столетия, рассказывает об операции "Оверлорд" - высадке союзных войск в Нормандии. Эта операция навсегда вошла в историю как день "D". Командующий мощнейшей группировкой на Западном фронте фельдмаршал Роммель потерпел...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 304 с. — ISBN 5-9524-0880-X.
Классическое произведение Корнелиуса Райана, одного из самых лучших военных репортеров прошедшего столетия, рассказывает об операции "Оверлорд" - высадке союзных войск в Нормандии. Эта операция навсегда вошла в историю как день "D". Командующий мощнейшей группировкой на Западном фронте фельдмаршал Роммель потерпел...
Английская буржуазная историография о происхождении войны, внешней политике Англии
и международных отношениях 1939 - 1945 гг.
М., "Международные отношения", 1970. 2-е изд. 304 с.
О подготовке второй мировой войны, легендах и фальсификациях, которые нагромождают вокруг нее английские буржуазные историки, публицисты и государственные деятели, о внешней политике Англии и...
М.: Международные отношения, 1969. — 280 с. О подготовке второй мировой войны, легендах и фальсификациях, которые нагромождают вокруг нее английские буржуазные историки, публицисты и государственные деятели, о внешней политике Англии и международных отношениях в 1939-1945 годах рассказывает эта книга. Используя мемуары Черчилля и Идена, Монтгомери и Алана Брука, и также работы...
Английская буржуазная историография о происхождении войны, внешней политике Англии и международных отношениях 1939 - 1945 гг. — 2-е изд. — М.: Международные отношения, 1970. — 304 с. О подготовке второй мировой войны, легендах и фальсификациях, которые нагромождают вокруг нее английские буржуазные историки, публицисты и государственные деятели, о внешней политике Англии и...
Москва: МГИМО МИД России, 2017. — 152 с. Хрестоматия представляет собой сборник переводов разделов о Второй мировой войне из учебников истории, по которым ведется преподавание в Соединенных Штатах Америки, Великобритании, Франции, Норвегии, Чехии, Болгарии, Объединенных Арабских Эмиратах, Иране, Афганистане, Индии, Китае и Японии. Сборник подготовлен студентами МГИМО МИД России...
М.: Мысль, 1990. — 508 с. — ISBN 5-244-00282-1. В предлагаемой коллективной монографии с привлечением нового документального и историографического материала рассматриваются события, которые привели ко второй мировой войне, противоборство сил мира и агрессии на международной арене в 30-е годы. Основное внимание сосредоточено на анализе предвоенного политического кризиса 1939 г....
М.: Мысль, 1990. — 508 с. — ISBN: 5-244-00282-1. В предлагаемой коллективной монографии с привлечением нового документального и историографического материала рассматриваются события, которые привели ко второй мировой войне, противоборство сил мира и агрессии на международной арене в 30-е годы. Основное внимание сосредоточено на анализе предвоенного политического кризиса 1939 г....
София: Прозорец, 2018. — 496 с. нигата на Лорънс Рийс е един от най-драматичните разкази за Холокоста. Авторът проследява развитието на нацистките антисемитски възгледи и гоненията срещу евреите от годините преди Втората световна война до унищожаването на около шест милиона души в лагерите на смъртта. В центъра стои въпросът как се е случил Холокостът. Макар Хитлер да е бил...
М.: Астрель, 2013. — 574 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-42260-7. Почти всю вторую половину XX в. руководители Запада без особой охоты признавали факт тесного союзничества их стран со Сталиным. Внимание фокусировалось на героизме западных союзников — на Дюнкерке, битве за Англию и Дне «Д». Но ведь не только перечисленные события составляют историю Второй мировой войны. Почему ни Черчилль,...
М.: Астрель, 2013. — 574 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-42260-7. Почти всю вторую половину XX в. руководители Запада без особой охоты признавали факт тесного союзничества их стран со Сталиным. Внимание фокусировалось на героизме западных союзников — на Дюнкерке, битве за Англию и Дне «Д». Но ведь не только перечисленные события составляют историю Второй мировой войны. Почему ни Черчилль,...
Ивахненко А. (пер.) — М.: КоЛибри, 2014. — 456 с.
Из концентрационного лагеря для польских политических заключенных Освенцим превратился в место, где произошло крупнейшее в истории массовое убийство. Разыскав свидетелей тех событий, изучив документальный материал Лоуренс Рис опровергает ряд заблуждений, касающихся Освенцима и Холокоста, и дает исчерпывающую картину того, что...
Ивахненко А. (пер) — «КоЛибри», 2014. — 456 с., — ISBN: 978-5-389-05754-8. Из концентрационного лагеря для польских политических заключенных Освенцим превратился в место, где произошло крупнейшее в истории массовое убийство. Разыскав свидетелей тех событий, изучив документальный материал Лоуренс Рис опровергает ряд заблуждений, касающихся Освенцима и Холокоста, и дает...
К.: Темпора, 2010. — 444 с. — ISBN: 978-966-8201-33-2. Книга присвячена подіям Другої світової війни. Автор розкриває логіку розгортання війни, спираючись на мемуаристику безпосередніх учасників та свідків тогочасних подій. Поєднання цих двох перспектив дає цілісне уявлення про Другу світову війну. Книга розрахована на істориків, політологів, усіх, хто цікавиться запропонованою...
К.: Темпора, 2010. — 444 с. — ISBN: 978-966-8201-33-2. Книга присвячена подіям Другої світової війни. Автор розкриває логіку розгортання війни, спираючись на мемуаристику безпосередніх учасників та свідків тогочасних подій. Поєднання цих двох перспектив дає цілісне уявлення про Другу світову війну. Книга розрахована на істориків, політологів, усіх, хто цікавиться запропонованою...
М.: АСТ, Астрель; 2011. — 892 с. — ISBN: 978-5-17-071616-6, 978-5-271-36874-5 Книга известного военного историка Эндрю Робертса, изобилует деталями и подробностями, показывающими в новом свете характеры и логику поведения главных действующих лиц мировой войны с обеих сторон конфликта. Автор, используя уникальные, ранее не публиковавшиеся документы, рассказывает о малоизвестных...
Москва: АСТ: Астрель, 2011. — 828 с. (илл. и карты)
ISBN: 78-5-17-071616-6, 978-5-271-36874-5
Переводчик: Перевод с английского: И. Лобанов
Качество: OCR без ошибок
Оригинальное название: "The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War"
Серия (цикл): Историческая библиотека
Книга известного военного историка Эндрю Робертса, изобилует деталями и подробностями,...
М.: Эксмо, 2008. — 303 с. — ISBN 978-5-699-23496-7.
Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга написана известным специалистом в области пропаганды времен Второй мировой войны. В ней рассматриваются практически все виды пропаганды, которую вели основные государства - участники самого грандиозного военного конфликта в истории человечества: плакаты, кинофильмы, газетные полосы с...
М.: Международные отношения, 1990. — 384 с. — ISBN: 5-7133-0189-3 В книге предстает история последних месяцев и недель второй мировой войны, показана как бы изнутри агония «третьего рейха». Автор вводит читателя в кабинеты нацистских бонз, в подземелье имперской канцелярии. Раскрываются попытки гитлеровцев и подлинных властителей фашистской Германии — заправил монополий и...
М.: Политиздат, 1981. — 228 с. В книге доктора исторических наук Г.Л. Розанова рассказывается о том, как на заключительном этапе второй мировой войны усилиями советской дипломатии были сорваны попытки нацистов внести раскол в ряды антигитлеровской коалиции с целью избежать разгрома третьего рейха. В ней разоблачаются авантюристические происки антисоветских, антикоммунистических...
М.: Международные отношения, 1966. - 138 с.
В ФРГ говорят, что каждый военный преступник, осужденный в этом государстве, получает за каждое совершенное им убийство всего-навсего десять минут тюремного заключения. Приблизительно так и получается на многочисленных процессах военных преступников, которые проходят в последние годы в Западной Германии. Одному из этих процессов —...
М.: ИВ РАН, 2019. — 520 с., 7 илл. — ISBN: 978-5-89282-744-7. В коллективной монографии рассматриваются актуальные и малоизученные факты участия стран и народов Востока (Азии и Северной Африки) во Второй мировой войне. Наряду с этим центральное место занимает роль Советского Союза в войне, цена его победы в Великой Отечественной войне как составной части Второй мировой. Авторы...
В исторической литературе тема использования мусульманских легионов в Третьем рейхе практически не получила освещения. Мусульманские "восточные" формирования, являясь полноценными боевыми частями, представляли особую категорию среди иностранных легионов, что было связано с политическими, религиозными и идеологическими фактами и причинами их создания. В германских вооруженных силах...
В исторической литературе тема использования мусульманских легионов в Третьем рейхе практически не получила освещения. Мусульманские "восточные" формирования, являясь полноценными боевыми частями, представляли особую категорию среди иностранных легионов, что было связано с политическими, религиозными и идеологическими фактами и причинами их создания. В германских вооруженных силах...
В исторической литературе тема использования мусульманских легионов в Третьем рейхе практически не получила освещения. Мусульманские "восточные" формирования, являясь полноценными боевыми частями, представляли особую категорию среди иностранных легионов, что было связано с политическими, религиозными и идеологическими фактами и причинами их создания. В германских вооруженных силах...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2019. — 223 с. — (За линией фронта. Мемуары). — ISBN 978-5-227-08523-8. Ефрейтор, а позднее фельдфебель Ганс Рот начал вести свой дневник весной 1941 г., когда 299я дивизия, в которой он воевал, в составе 6й армии, готовилась к нападению на Советский Союз. В соответствии с планом операции "Барбаросса" дивизия в ходе упорных боев продвигалась южнее...
М.: Госполитиздат, 1952. — 210 с. Сегодня особое значение приобретает правильное понимание истории Польши. Некоторым вопросам этой истории в годы второй мировой войны посвящены статьи, включённые в настоящий сборник, написанные по материалам диссертаций, защищённых при кафедре международных отношений Академии общественных наук при ЦК ВКП(б). Авторы статей — В. Фомин, М....
М.: Госполитиздат, 1952. — 210 с. Сегодня особое значение приобретает правильное понимание истории Польши. Некоторым вопросам этой истории в годы второй мировой войны посвящены статьи, включённые в настоящий сборник, написанные по материалам диссертаций, защищённых при кафедре международных отношений Академии общественных наук при ЦК ВКП(б). Авторы статей — В. Фомин, М....
АСТ, Полигон»,1998. - 400 с. В данной книге описываются события на всех морских театрах военных действий с 1939 по 1945 год. Книга основана на документах и материалах, большинство которых неизвестно российскому читателю. Также приводятся воспоминания ряда руководящих деятелей германского флота — участников Второй мировой войны. Предисловие Введение Основы Предыстория Исходная...
Под ред. В.А. Алафузова. — Москва: Воениздат, 1957. — 414 с. Настоящая книга является одним из первых трудов по истории второй мировой войны, в котором дается описание событий на всех морских театрах в период 1939-1945 гг. Книга написана на основе документов и материалов, значительная часть которых неизвестна советскому читателю. Автор использовал также воспоминания ряда...
М.: Яуза; Эксмо, 2014. — 416 с., с илл. — ISBN: 978-5-699-68927-9 Книга от автора бестселлера «Линия Сталина» в бою». Подлинная история всех укрепрайонов и оборонительных полос Второй Мировой войны и боевых действий при их прорыве. Линия Маннергейма и линия Мажино, линия Молотова и Восточный вал, линия Сталина и линия Зигфрида, советские и японские укрепрайоны на Дальнем...
М.: Яуза; Эксмо, 2014. — 416 с., с илл. Книга от автора бестселлера «Линия Сталина» в бою». Подлинная история всех укрепрайонов и оборонительных полос Второй Мировой войны и боевых действий при их прорыве. Линия Маннергейма и линия Мажино, линия Молотова и Восточный вал, линия Сталина и линия Зигфрида, советские и японские укрепрайоны на Дальнем Востоке и т.д. и т.п. — в этой...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2014. — 708 с. — (Война и мы). Новая книга от автора бестселлера «Линия Сталина» в бою». Подлинная история всех укрепрайонов и оборонительных полос Второй Мировой войны и боевых действий при их прорыве. Линия Маннергейма и линия Мажино, линия Молотова и Восточный вал, линия Сталина и линия Зигфрида, советские и японские укрепрайоны на Дальнем Востоке и т. д. и...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2008. - 480 с. ISBN: 978-5-9955-0021-6. "Почему мы проигрываем войну?" - самые проницательные и дальновидные из немецких генералов начали задаваться этим вопросом уже поздней осенью 1941 года. Почему, несмотря на внезапность нападения и чудовищные потери Красной Армии, Вермахту так и не удалось сломить сопротивление советских солдат? Почему сокрушительная машина...
М.: Вече, 2020. — 448 с. — (Военные тайны XX века). — ISBN 978-5-4484-2057-3. Вопрос о том, почему Великая Отечественная война началась для СССР весьма неудачно, по-прежнему является предметом бурных дискуссий. Ответы на него давались самые разные, от самых банальных до весьма абсурдных. При этом почти у всех авторов исторических трудов фактор соотношения сил и средств сторон...
Южно-Сахалинск: Сахалинское книжное издательство, 2007. — 80 с., ил. ISBN: 978-5-88453-162-1. Книга рассказывает об использовании долговременной фортификации японцами в системе сухопутной и береговой обороны Карафуто. Это Котонский укрепрайон, прикрывавший сухопутную границу между Северным и Южным Сахалином, комплексы укреплений полевых командных пунктов, а также ряд...
Москва: Наука, 1966. — 440 с. С 14 по 16 апреля 1965 г. в Москве проходила Научная конференция в ознаменование 20-й годовщины победы над фашистской Германией. Конференция была созвана Академией наук СССР, Институтом марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС, Министерством обороны СССР и Главным политическим управлением Советской Армии и Военно-Морского Флота с целью рассмотрения важнейших...
Москва: Наука, 1966. — 440 с. С 14 по 16 апреля 1965 г. в Москве проходила Научная конференция в ознаменование 20-й годовщины победы над фашистской Германией. Конференция была созвана Академией наук СССР, Институтом марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС, Министерством обороны СССР и Главным политическим управлением Советской Армии и Военно-Морского Флота с целью рассмотрения важнейших...
Москва: Наука, 1966. — 404 с. С 14 по 16 апреля 1965 г. в Москве проходила Научная конференция в ознаменование 20-й годовщины победы над фашистской Германией. Конференция была созвана Академией наук СССР, Институтом марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС, Министерством обороны СССР и Главным политическим управлением Советской Армии и Военно-Морского Флота с целью рассмотрения важнейших...
Москва: Наука, 1966. — 404 с. С 14 по 16 апреля 1965 г. в Москве проходила Научная конференция в ознаменование 20-й годовщины победы над фашистской Германией. Конференция была созвана Академией наук СССР, Институтом марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС, Министерством обороны СССР и Главным политическим управлением Советской Армии и Военно-Морского Флота с целью рассмотрения важнейших...
Москва: Наука, 1966. — 345 с. С 14 по 16 апреля 1965 г. в Москве проходила Научная конференция в ознаменование 20-й годовщины победы над фашистской Германией. Конференция была созвана Академией наук СССР, Институтом марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС, Министерством обороны СССР и Главным политическим управлением Советской Армии и Военно-Морского Флота с целью рассмотрения важнейших...
Москва: Наука, 1966. — 345 с. С 14 по 16 апреля 1965 г. в Москве проходила Научная конференция в ознаменование 20-й годовщины победы над фашистской Германией. Конференция была созвана Академией наук СССР, Институтом марксизма-ленинизма при ЦК КПСС, Министерством обороны СССР и Главным политическим управлением Советской Армии и Военно-Морского Флота с целью рассмотрения важнейших...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 584 с. На пути к войне . Назревание мирового конфликта. Противники коллективной безопасности. Канун войны. Начало Второй мировой войны . Стратегия агрессоров. Нападение на Польшу. «Странная война». Западный фронт рушится. События в Африке и бассейне Средиземного моря. На атлантических коммуникациях. Перед суровыми испытаниями . Враг готовит нападение. Советский...
М.: Наука, 1980. - 728 c. От издателя: Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга дает краткое освещение событий предвоенных лет и периода мировой войны 1939-1945 гг. В жестких рамках одного тома трудно, конечно, раскрыть их гигантское историческое содержание. Поэтому автор стремился нарисовать лишь общую картину событий, проследить их главные направления и тенденции, показать...
Исторический очерк. - 2-е изд. - М.: Наука, 1982. - 727 с. По сути - изложение последовательности событий Второй мировой войны с официальной советской точки зрения. На пути к войне Перед суровыми испытаниями Германский фашизм развязывает войну против СССР В бассейне Тихого океана На новом этапе мировой борьбы Первое стратегическое поражение Третьего Рейха На главном фронте...
М.: Яуза-каталог, 2019 Созданный на территории оккупированной Сербии Русский охранный корпус Вермахта до сих пор остается малоизученной страницей истории Второй мировой войны на Балканском театре. Несмотря на то, что он являлся уникальным прецедентом создания властями Германии обособленного формирования из русских эмигрантов, российские и зарубежные историки уделяют крайне мало...
М.: Яуза-каталог, 2019. Созданный на территории оккупированной Сербии Русский охранный корпус Вермахта до сих пор остается малоизученной страницей истории Второй мировой войны на Балканском театре. Несмотря на то, что он являлся уникальным прецедентом создания властями Германии обособленного формирования из русских эмигрантов, российские и зарубежные историки уделяют крайне мало...
М.: Яуза-каталог, 2019. Созданный на территории оккупированной Сербии Русский охранный корпус Вермахта до сих пор остается малоизученной страницей истории Второй мировой войны на Балканском театре. Несмотря на то, что он являлся уникальным прецедентом создания властями Германии обособленного формирования из русских эмигрантов, российские и зарубежные историки уделяют крайне мало...
М.: Яуза-каталог, 2019. — 512 с. — ISBN: 978-5-00155-025-9. Созданный на территории оккупированной Сербии Русский охранный корпус Вермахта до сих пор остается малоизученной страницей истории Второй мировой войны на Балканском театре. Несмотря на то, что он являлся уникальным прецедентом создания властями Германии обособленного формирования из русских эмигрантов, российские и...
М.: Яуза-каталог, 2019. — 512 с. — ISBN: 978-5-00155-025-9. Созданный на территории оккупированной Сербии Русский охранный корпус Вермахта до сих пор остается малоизученной страницей истории Второй мировой войны на Балканском театре. Несмотря на то, что он являлся уникальным прецедентом создания властями Германии обособленного формирования из русских эмигрантов, российские и...
М.: Яуза-каталог, 2019. — 512 с. — ISBN: 978-5-00155-025-9. Созданный на территории оккупированной Сербии Русский охранный корпус Вермахта до сих пор остается малоизученной страницей истории Второй мировой войны на Балканском театре. Несмотря на то, что он являлся уникальным прецедентом создания властями Германии обособленного формирования из русских эмигрантов, российские и...
Без выходных данных. — 22 с. Лекции, читанные на телеканале "Культура" в рамках научно-познавательного проекта "ACADEMIA" 1 -- 2 сентября 2010 года. Здравствуйте дорогие друзья, тема сегодняшней моей лекции -- "Дипломатия и война. 1939 -- 1945". Я не случайно выбрал эту тему и этот период. В этом году много говорили о войне, о героизме, о победе и я думаю, что необходимо говорить...
Свирин М., Баронов О., Коломиец М., Недогонов Д.
Экс Принт НВ, 1999 г. - 82 с.
Бои у озера Балатон представляют особенный интерес как пример последней крупной оборонительной операции советских войск в ходе Второй Мировой войны. Ход операции можно разделить на две фазы, в течение которых Красная Армия последовательно отразила три контрудара и одно контрнаступление немецких...
Свирин М., Баронов О., Коломиец М., Недогонов Д.
Экс Принт НВ, 1999 г. - 82 с.
Бои у озера Балатон представляют особенный интерес как пример последней крупной оборонительной операции советских войск в ходе Второй Мировой войны. Ход операции можно разделить на две фазы, в течение которых Красная Армия последовательно отразила три контрудара и одно контрнаступление немецких...
М.: Экс Принт НВ, 1999. — 82 с., ил.
Вашему вниманию предлагается иллюстрированное издание, посвященное отражению последнего крупного немецкого танкового наступления в Венгрии в январе-марте 1945 г.
В данной публикации рассматриваются действия наземных войск, преимущественно танковых соединений и противотанковой артиллерии. При описании хода сражений авторы использовали в...
Санкт-Петербург: 2013. — 44 с. Авт. коллектив: А.А. Седельников, А.Н. Несмеянов, Г.С. Савельева Первое печатное издание «Книги Памяти. Памятники Второй мировой войны 1939–1945, г. Санкт-Петербург», подготовленное в рамках проекта «Книга Памяти. Памятники Второй мировой войны 1939–1945, г. Санкт-Петербург и Ленинградская область». Начиная с 2010 года в электронный каталог Книги...
София: Държавно военно издателство, 1960. — 416 с. В книгата много подробно е разгледана Втората световна война от нейното избухване през 1939 до 1943 година.
М.: Воениздат, 1953. — 156 с. Издание представляет советскую точку зрения на боевые действия в Северной Африке и искусственное затягивание открытия второго фронта в Европе. Книга рассчитана на офицеров Советской Армии.
М.: Воениздат, 1978. — 185 с. На страницах этой книги — высказывания американских политических, государственных, военных и общественных деятелей о бессмертном подвиге советского народа и его воинов, совершённом в годы Великой Отечественной войны, о решающей роли Советского Союза в разгроме фашистского агрессора, о плодотворном военно-политическом сотрудничестве СССР и США во...
2-е изд. — Минск: НАРБ, 2024. — 332 с. Без срока давности. Беларусь: преступления нацистов и их пособников против мирного населения на оккупированной территории БССР в годы Великой Отечественной войны. «Зимнее волшебство». Нацистская карательная операция в белорусско-российско-латвийском пограничье. Февраль— март 1943 г. : документы и материалы. Операция «Зимнее волшебство»...
М.: РОССПЭН, 2000. — 863 с. — ISBN 5-8243-0070-4.
Известный российский военный историк доктор исторических наук, профессор, академик Академии военных наук М. И. Семиряга подсчитал, что число тех граждан, которые в оккупационных странах Европы сотрудничали с врагом, было примерно таким же, как и участников движения Сопротивления, сражавшихся с этим же врагом. Почему так...
М.: Наука, 1980. — 240 с. На богатом фактическом материале автор книги рассказывает о национальном унижении, терроре, экономическом ограблении, перекраивании государственных границ, насильственном переселении, геноциде, которые осуществляли гитлеровские оккупанты в захваченных странах Западной и Северной Европы, о сопротивлении народов этих стран гитлеровскому оккупационному...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 357 с. — (Вторая мировая война в исследованиях, воспоминаниях, документах).
Монография посвящена описанию участия советских граждан в движении Сопротивления в европейских странах во время Второй мировой войны; отдельно рассмотрено движение в фашистских лагерях.
София: Народна просвета, 1970. — 157 с. В книгата са представени дипломатически преговори и решения на Великите сили в навечерието на Втората световна война.
Мн.: Алкиона, 1994. — 496 с. Операция «Нептун» была одной из фаз операции «Оверлорд», и заключалась в форсировании Ла-Манша. Для этого все военно-морские силы Союзников, задействуемые в операции Overlord, были собраны под командованием английского адмирала Бертрама Рэмсея, который имел опыт подобных крупномасштабных морских операций по транспортировке живой силы и военной...
М.: Весь Мир, 2009. — 352 с. — ISBN: 5-7777-0300-3.
Литература о Второй мировой войне поистине необозрима, но поток публикаций не иссякает, потому что история войны до сих пор исследована далеко не полностью и потому, что она тесно связана с важнейшими проблемами современности. Автор этой книги, доктор исторических наук, профессор Исторического факультета МГУ В.П. Смирнов, не...
М.: Весь Мир, 2009. — 352 с. — ISBN: 5-7777-0300-3.
Литература о Второй мировой войне поистине необозрима, но поток публикаций не иссякает, потому что история войны до сих пор исследована далеко не полностью и потому, что она тесно связана с важнейшими проблемами современности. Автор этой книги, доктор исторических наук, профессор Исторического факультета МГУ В.П. Смирнов, не...
Горький : Волго-Вятское книжное издательство, 1966. - 214, [2] с., [4] л. ил. Было в Тюрингии, в восьми километрах от Веймара, место, овеянное поэтической легендой, — поросшая дубами и буками гора Эттерсберг. Здесь любил бывать великий Гете, здесь он обдумывал свои произведения, оттуда смотрел на светлые пейзажи милого края, на живописные леса, холмы, долины. Кончилось...
Горький : Волго-Вятское книжное издательство, 1966. - 214, [2] с., [4] л. ил. Было в Тюрингии, в восьми километрах от Веймара, место, овеянное поэтической легендой, — поросшая дубами и буками гора Эттерсберг. Здесь любил бывать великий Гете, здесь он обдумывал свои произведения, оттуда смотрел на светлые пейзажи милого края, на живописные леса, холмы, долины. Кончилось...
Горький : Волго-Вятское книжное издательство, 1966. - 214, [2] с., [4] л. ил. Было в Тюрингии, в восьми километрах от Веймара, место, овеянное поэтической легендой, — поросшая дубами и буками гора Эттерсберг. Здесь любил бывать великий Гете, здесь он обдумывал свои произведения, оттуда смотрел на светлые пейзажи милого края, на живописные леса, холмы, долины. Кончилось...
Горький : Волго-Вятское книжное издательство, 1966. - 214, [2] с., [4] л. ил. Было в Тюрингии, в восьми километрах от Веймара, место, овеянное поэтической легендой, — поросшая дубами и буками гора Эттерсберг. Здесь любил бывать великий Гете, здесь он обдумывал свои произведения, оттуда смотрел на светлые пейзажи милого края, на живописные леса, холмы, долины. Кончилось...
М.: Астрель, 2003. — 252 с. — ISBN: 5-17-030319-Х Книга о история пикирующего бомбардировщика который оказал решающее влияние на ход Второй мировой войны с 1941 по 1945 год. Исследования английского историка Питера Ч. Смита посвящены боевому применению пикирующих бомбардировщиков на европейском и тихоокеанском театрах военных действий. Содержание: Я спикировал прямо на баржу....
М.: Астрель, 2005. — 252 с.
Книга известного историка Питера Чарльза Смита, которая посвящена операции "Пьедестал". Книга о прорыве самого крупного английского конвоя на осажденную Мальту в августе 1942-го года. Ни один подобный конвой ранее не обладал таким эскортом, и ни один не встречал такого мощного противодействия вооруженных сил. Оси. Питер Смит подробно, с привлечением...
Сборник статей. — Перевод с немецкого Л.К. Комоловой. — М.: Издательство Иностранной литературы. Редакция литературы по военным вопросам, 1957. — 641 с. Настоящая книга является попыткой группы немецких военных специалистов и государственных деятелей обобщить опыт, накопленный во время войны 1939—1945 годов, и сделать некоторые выводы на будущее, главным образом на основе...
Сборник статей. Пер. с нем. Л. К. Комоловой. — М.: Изд-во иностранной литературы, 1957. — 640 с. В книге предпринята попытка группы немецких специалистов обобщить опыт войны 1939—1945 годов, и сделать некоторые выводы на будущее, главным образом на основе анализа решений оперативного руководства вермахта в важнейшие моменты войны на суше, на море и в воздухе. В книге освещены...
М.: Воениздат, 1973. — 227 с. Аннотация издательства: В очерке исследуются роль и место советских танковых войск в крупнейших сражениях Великой Отечественной войны, анализируются способы ведения боевых действий танковых войск и показан их боевой путь. Авторы рассказывают о героизме и высоком воинском мастерстве солдат, сержантов и офицеров, об организаторских способностях...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2011. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9955-0226-5. "Неизвестная война" - так назвали в американском прокате знаменитый документальный телесериал Романа Кармена о Второй Мировой, снятый на излете советской эпохи. Но даже сегодня, через 65 лет после Победы, Великая Отечественная остается во многом неизвестной войной, история которой насквозь мифологизирована, - мы судим о...
М.: Весь Мир, 2012. — 392 с. В книге норвежского историка, сотрудницы мемориального Центра Фальстад, подробно проанализированы все обстоятельства, связанные с размещением нацистской Германией 100 тысяч советских военнопленных на территории Норвегии в годы Второй мировой войны. Марианне Солейм отмечает, что в течение длительного времени изучение проблемы не велось ни в Норвегии,...
София: Прозорец, 2019. — 238 с. Трите плана на другаря Сталин. Женският бунт в Иваново, 1941. Двете блокади - Ленинград и Западен Берлин. Украински националисти. Пролетта на победата. Едно забравено престъпление.
Антология. — М.: Наука, 1995. — 458 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009601-6. Коллективный труд, совместно подготовленный известными историками России, США и Великобритании, освещает недолговременный, но в целом успешный опыт сотрудничества главных государств антигитлеровской коалиции в период Великой Отечественной войны. Наряду с показом военного и экономического вклада союзников в достижение...
Антология. — М.: Наука, 1995. — 458 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009601-6. Коллективный труд, совместно подготовленный известными историками России, США и Великобритании, освещает недолговременный, но в целом успешный опыт сотрудничества главных государств антигитлеровской коалиции в период Великой Отечественной войны. Наряду с показом военного и экономического вклада союзников в достижение...
Киев: Фонд ветеранов внешней разведки, 2021. — 504 с. Эта коллективная монография продолжает проект «История специальных служб» БО «Фонд ветеранов внешней разведки». На протяжении десятилетий авторы изучают историю СС-Аненербе (с 1942 г. — Главное управление «А» РСХА). Эта инновационно-венчурная структура-спецслужба содействовала как развитию науки и техники, так и...
Иностранная литература. — 2014. — №9. — ISSN: 0110-6545. В разделе «70 лет Варшавского восстания» опубликована повесть польского писателя и кинематографиста Ежи Стефана Ставинского (1921–2010) «Венгры». Повести предпослана статья отечественного историка и переводчика Виктора Костевича «Всесожжение романтиков», где он, среди прочего, пишет: «„Венгры“… выглядят вещью...
М.: Воскресенье, 2005. — 671 с. В настоящем издании публикуется переписка Председателя Совета Министров СССР И. В. Сталина с Президентом США Ф. Рузвельтом, Президентом США Г. Трумэном, с Премьер-Министром Великобритании У. Черчиллем и Премьер-Министром Великобритании К. Эттли в годы Великой Отечественной войны и в первые месяцы после победы — до конца 1945. За пределами...
М.: КоЛибри, 2023. — 496 с. — (История войн и военного искусства). Книга Николаса Старгардта, оксфордского профессора, одного из самых авторитетных историков нацизма, является уникальным исследованием, где впервые представлена социальная история нацистской Германии глазами детей. Серьезный исторический труд основан на оригинальных документах – дневниках подростков, школьных...
М: КоЛибри, 2023. — 496 с. Серия: История войн и военного искусства. Книга Николаса Старгардта, оксфордского профессора, одного из самых авторитетных историков нацизма, является уникальным исследованием, где впервые представлена социальная история нацистской Германии глазами детей. Серьезный исторический труд основан на оригинальных документах – дневниках подростков, школьных...
М.: Воениздат, 1964. — 366 с. «Некоторые современные империалистические деятели, — говорил в докладе о 45-й годовщине Советских Вооруженных Сил Министр обороны СССР Маршал Советского Союза Р. Я. Малиновский, — с раздражением вспоминают наши напоминания о прошлом. Но что поделаешь? Страниц правды из истории не вычеркнешь!». Настоящая книга — это еще одно напоминание об уроках...
М.: Воениздат, 1964. — 366 с. «Некоторые современные империалистические деятели, — говорил в докладе о 45-й годовщине Советских Вооруженных Сил Министр обороны СССР Маршал Советского Союза Р. Я. Малиновский, — с раздражением вспоминают наши напоминания о прошлом. Но что поделаешь? Страниц правды из истории не вычеркнешь!». Настоящая книга — это еще одно напоминание об уроках...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2012. — 480 с. — (Самые запретные книги о Второй Мировой). Как сторонники, так и враги всегда считали Виктора Суворова «знаменем » антисталинизма, а его сенсационное открытие, что летом 1941 года Сталин готовился первым нанести удар по Германии, - главным обвинением против кремлевского диктатора и его агрессивной политики. Однако сам Суворов никогда не...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2011. — 576 с. — (Самые запретные книги о Второй Мировой). Сколько бы ни травили Виктора Суворова цепные историки на службе у кремлевского агитпропа, как бы ни бесновалась историческая охранка, отстаивая сталинские мифы о Второй Мировой, на которых держится тоталитарный режим, - с каждым годом суворовские открытия получают все новые подтверждения, армия его...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2012. — 416 с. — (Самые запретные книги о Второй Мировой). «ПРО.ЛИ ВОЙНУ» — в отчаянии проговорил Сталин, осознав масштабы катастрофы и разгрома Красной Армии летом 1941 года. Но ведь если бы, как до сих пор твердит официальная пропаганда,он готовился к обороне, поражение на границе отнюдь не означало проигрыша войны — учитывая промышленный и мобилизационный...
Архангельск: Поморский государственный университет, 2001. — 368 с. — ISBN: 5-85879-075-5. В сборник включены материалы международной конференции, посвящённые событиям Второй мировой войны в Арктике. Особое внимание уделено её неизвестным и малоизвестным страницам. Уникальны фотографии и документы, публикуемые в сборнике. Издание осуществлено при поддержке Поморского научного...
София: Партиздат, 1984. — 447 с. В книгата в превод на български са представени документите на Съюзниците от Втората световна война по време на Московската конференция от 1943 година.
София: Партиздат, 1984. — 214 с. В книгата са представени в превод на български език официални документи на Съюзниците, насочени срещу Нацистка Германия по време на Техеранската конференция от 1943 година.
София: Партиздат, 1985. — 326 с. В книгата в превод на български език са представени документи от конференцията от Дъмбартън Оукс, конференция на Съюзниците насочена срещу Нацистка Германия.
София: Партиздат, 1985. — 366 с. В книгата в превод на български език са представени документите от Кримската конференция, конференция на Съюзниците насочена срещу Нацистка Германия.
София: Партиздат, 1987. — 591 с. В този том са представени в превод на български език документите от Потсдамската конференция от 1945 година, оформяща статуквото след края на Втората световна война.
Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1948. — 238 с. Предлагаемая советскому читателю книга Р. Сэсюли выделяется из ряда западных книг подобного рода. Прежде всего, потому что ее автор лично принимал участие в расследовании деятельности ИГ Фарбениндустри, а также возглавлял отделение информации и связи финансового отдела американской секции Союзного контрольного...
М.: Московский клуб истории флота, 1995. — 109 с.
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Переводчик: Александр Бушуев. — М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2008. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-28993-6. В годы Второй Мировой войны Вермахт устроил в Европе настоящий "танковый грабеж". Германская армия захватила в качестве трофеев более 16600 иностранных танков и бронеавтомобилей - чешские "Шкоды", французские "Гочкисы" и "Сомуа", британские "Матильды", американские "Шерманы", советские...
Москва: Старая Басманная, 2015. — 408 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906470-40-9. Монография впервые комплексно представляет участие в боевых действиях 1943‒1945 гг. на территории Италии выходцев из России / СССР (их всех называли «русскими»). В рядах Сопротивления таковых сражалось около 5 тыс. человек, в то время как коллаборационистов (казаков, легионеров, проч.) насчитывалось более 30...
Мн.: Харвест, 2002. — 544 с.
ISBN: 985-13-0751-3.
В этой книге дано краткое описание боевых действий на всех морских театрах Второй мировой войны — в Атлантике, Северном, Средиземном, Балтийском и Черном морях, в Арктике, в Индийском и Тихом океанах.
Описаны действия эскадр и флотилий, кораблей-рейдеров, палубной авиации, подводных лодок, сил противолодочной обороны в ходе...
Мн.: Харвест, 2002. — 544 с.
ISBN: 985-13-0751-3.
В этой книге дано краткое описание боевых действий на всех морских театрах Второй мировой войны — в Атлантике, Северном, Средиземном, Балтийском и Черном морях, в Арктике, в Индийском и Тихом океанах.
Описаны действия эскадр и флотилий, кораблей-рейдеров, палубной авиации, подводных лодок, сил противолодочной обороны в ходе...
Калитва: 2014. — 243 с.
Автор на примере второй итало-абиссинской войны раскрывает возрастающую роль ВВС в будущих локальных и глобальных войнах. Книга является описанием действий и роли ВВС в военном поражении и оккупации Абиссинии. Написана перед самым началом Второй мировой войны и рассчитана на начальствующий состав РККА.
М.: Воениздат, 1940. — 196 с. Книга является описанием действий и роли ВВС в военном поражении и оккупации Абиссинии. Автор делает ряд выводов по использованию ВВС в будущей войне и поднимает некоторые вопросы в порядке обсуждения. Книга рассчитана на начальствующий состав РККА.
М.: Мысль, 1995. — 158 с. Для Тейлора характерно стремление делать выводы самостоятельно, а не следовать общим тенденциям в исторической науке. Поэтому он объективно оценивает вклад нашей страны в победу во Второй мировой войне. Вклад этот – решающий. Тейлор не просто "рассказывает", как оно всё было, но и уделяет большое значение причинам событий. Также Тейлор приводит много...
Для Тейлора характерно стремление делать выводы самостоятельно, а не следовать общим тенденциям в исторической науке. Поэтому он объективно оценивает вклад нашей страны в победу во Второй мировой войне. Вклад этот – решающий. Тейлор не просто «рассказывает», как оно всё было, но и уделяет большое значение причинам событий.
Часть книги "Вторая мировая война: Два взгляда" (М.: Мысль, 1995); перевод с англ. языка книги автора "The Second World War" (1975). 83 с.
Автор изложил версию этой войны, во многом не совпадающую с её официальным толкованием эпохи 1950-х - 60-х годов. Хотя авторская версия не бесспорна, она обесценила упрощённые подходы к проблеме Второй мировой войны.
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Пер. с англ. Мухин В.С. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2022. — 351 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-5856-7. В своей книге историк Герберт Фейс описывает события победного 1945 года, длительные переговоры, предшествовавшие Потсдамской конференции, и саму конференцию, опираясь на воспоминания ее участников – руководителей государств, военных лидеров и дипломатов, на документальные материалы...
Самиздат, 2022. — 222 с. Содержание книги шире чем сказано в ее названии, в ней рассказывается о действиях японских подводных лодок у берегов США и Австралии. До прочтения этой книги я знал, что один маленкий самолет сбросил одну зажигательную бомбу на территорию США, которая тут же погасла. Фамилия летчика была Фуджита. Что же такое план Фуджита? Этот морской летчик предложил...
Алма-Ата: Казахстан, 1979. — 217 с. Предлагаемая книга посвящена разоблачению политических и литературно-эстетических спекуляций нацизма и неонацизма. На обширном фактическом материале, главным образом драматургии и кинематографии, раскрывается антигуманистическая политика «третьего рейха», в области искусства, которая привела к уничтожению искусства в подлинном смысле слова....
Любительский перевод. — С оригинала: Ian Allan Printing, 2002. — 160 с. Автор подробно описывает строительство, укомплектование персоналом и оборону Атлантического вала в решающий период до и во время вторжения союзников в июне 1944 года. Опираясь на архивы Великобритании и Германии, он дает захватывающее представление о природе Атлантического вала с точки зрения тех, кто его...
М.: АСТ: АСТ Москва, 2008. - 237 с.
ISBN: 978-5-17-052152-4, 978-5-9713-9547-8
В марте 1941 года передовые части немецких войск высадились в Ливии, чтобы оказать помощь итальянской армии. В последующие два года силам Германского Африканского корпуса под командованием Эрвина Роммеля удалось отбросить дивизии британцев и их союзников и выйти к Нилу. То, что началось как...
Харків: Фоліо, 2020. — 347 с. Видання присвячено подіям Другої світової війни на Середземному морі, головним аспектом яких стала боротьба противників за панування на комунікаціях. Поряд з конвойними битвами висвітлені також десантні операції, удари по військово-морських базах, операції підводних човнвів і сил спеціальних операцій тощо, тобто увесь спектр бойових дій на морі....
Хельсинки, Финляндия RME Group Оу; СПб.: Алетейя "Историческая книга", 2009. - 640 с.
ISBN: 978-952-5761-04-7 (RME Group Оу).
ISBN: 978-5-91419-199-0 (Издательство «Алетейя»).
Монография профессора Д. Д. Фролова, работающего в Национальном архиве Финляндии, представляет уникальное научное исследование проблем захвата, содержания и возвращения советских и финских военнопленных...
Хельсинки, Финляндия RME Group Оу; СПб.: Алетейя "Историческая книга", 2009. - 640 с.
ISBN: 978-952-5761-04-7 (RME Group Оу).
ISBN: 978-5-91419-199-0 (Издательство «Алетейя»).
Монография профессора Д. Д. Фролова, работающего в Национальном архиве Финляндии, представляет уникальное научное исследование проблем захвата, содержания и возвращения советских и финских военнопленных...
М.: Иностранная литература, 1957. - 590 с.
Книга написана группой генералов и офицеров бывшего немецко-фашистского вермахта, которые освещают подготовку и ведение операций сухопутными войсками, авиацией и морским флотом гитлеровской Германии и ее союзников во второй мировой войне в традиционном свете буржуазной немецкой военной политики и стратегии. Особого внимания заслуживают...
М.: Иностранная литература, 1957. — 590 с.
Книга написана группой генералов и офицеров бывшего немецко-фашистского вермахта, которые освещают подготовку и ведение операций сухопутными войсками, авиацией и морским флотом гитлеровской Германии и ее союзников во второй мировой войне в традиционном свете буржуазной немецкой военной политики и стратегии. Особого внимания заслуживают...
Политотдел войск НКВД Западного фронта, 1941. — 75 с. Конференция представителей трех великих держав — СССР, Великобритании и Соединенных Штатов Америки, открывшаяся в Москве 29 сентября, закончила свои работы 1 октября. Конференция состоялась на основании совместного послания президента США Рузвельта и премьер-министра Великобритании Черчилля на имя Председателя Совета Народных...
Политотдел войск НКВД Западного фронта, 1941. — 75 с. Конференция представителей трех великих держав — СССР, Великобритании и Соединенных Штатов Америки, открывшаяся в Москве 29 сентября, закончила свои работы 1 октября. Конференция состоялась на основании совместного послания президента США Рузвельта и премьер-министра Великобритании Черчилля на имя Председателя Совета Народных...
Санкт-Петербург: Полигон, 2005. — 560 с. В своей книге, написанной в послевоенные годы, известный английский военный теоретик и историк Дж. Ф. С. Фуллер под впечатлением от недавнего военного противоборства мировых держав сделал стратегический и тактический обзор боевых действий на фронтах Второй мировой войны 1939–1945 гг. Весьма неортодоксальные выводы автора являются...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2010. — 416 с. — ISBN 978-5-699-42575-4
Конец немецкой подлодки был ужасен. Два прожектора держали рубку преследуемой субмарины в перекрестии лучей. Очевидно, в какой-то момент они ослепили ее командира - капитан-лейтенант Адольф Кельнер допустил ошибку, и U-357 оказался прямо перед форштевнем эсминца "Хеспирус". Разрубленная "охотником" пополам, подлодка...
Пер. с англ. / Общ. ред. и предисл. О.А. Ржешевского. — М.: Прогресс, 1989. — 472 с.: ил. В книге рассказывается о самой крупной десантной операции второй мировой войны ‒ высадке англо-американских войск летом 1944 г. в Северной Франции, рассматриваются действия как западных союзников, так и немецко-фашистского командования и войск на различных этапах операции. Предисловие От...
Пер. с англ. / Общ. ред. и предисл. О.А. Ржешевского. — М.: Прогресс, 1989. — 472 с.: ил. В книге рассказывается о самой крупной десантной операции второй мировой войны ‒ высадке англо-американских войск летом 1944 г. в Северной Франции, рассматриваются действия как западных союзников, так и немецко-фашистского командования и войск на различных этапах операции. Предисловие От...
М.: Прогресс, 1989. — 462 с.
В книге рассказывается о самой крупной десантной операции второй мировой войны — высадке англо-американских войск летом 1944 г. в Северной Франции, рассматриваются действия как западных союзников, так и немецко-фашистского командования и войск на различных этапах операции.
Книга М. Хастингса основывается главным образом на американских, английских и...
// Академия наук СССР, Институт истории. — М.: Государственное издательство политической литературы (Госполитиздат), 1959. — 84 с. Брошюра, подготовленная Институтом истории АН СССР к 20-й годовщине начала второй мировой войны, в популярной форме рассказывает об официальной точке зрения на причины и обстановку возникновения войны 1939—1945 гг. Брошюра основана на известных к...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2014. — 698 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91671-352-7. "Вторая мировая война. Ад на земле" по праву считается лучшей книгой автора и лучшим однотомником о Второй мировой войне. Более 35 лет своей жизни Хейстингс посвятил Второй мировой войне, считая ее одним из самых страшных человеческой истории. В динамичном, захватывающем повествовании Хейстингс виртуозно сочетает...
Max Hastings, 2011, This edition is published by arrangement with The Peters Fraser and Dunlop Group Ltd and The Van Lear Agency LLC М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2014. — 698 с., ил. — ISBN: 978-5-91671-352- 7. В данном формате — 519 с. Автор книги — Макс Хейстингс, британский военный историк. Содержание Предисловие Преданная Польша Ни мира, ни войны Блицкриги на Западе Британия в...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2015. — 698 с. В Европе «Вторая мировая война» британского военного историка Макса Хейстингса — самый известный и авторитетный однотомник об этой войне. В динамичном, захватывающем повествовании Хейстингс виртуозно сочетает масштабность видения с выразительностью деталей. На гигантском полотне отчетливо и ярко различимы подробности сражений и экономики...
София: Изток-Запад, 2019. — 607 с. Написана от изтъкнат съвременен историк, "Тайната война" проследява един от най-важните, но недостатъчно проучени аспекти на Втората световна война - разузнаването. Тя разкрива как успехите и провалите в шпионажа на САЩ, Великобритания, СССР, Германия и Япония са повлияли върху хода на войната и крайния и резултат.
Архангельск, 2008. — 416 с.: фотогр.
В документальном повествовании о конвойных плаваниях на Север России во время Второй мировой войны автор приводит свидетельства очевидцев и материалы, которые до недавнего времени оставались вне поле зрения официальной истории. Книга помогает представить себе жертвы, на которые шли союзники, направляя конвои в Россию, а также дает...
Вниманию читателей предлагается сокращенный перевод работы —
Hillgruber A. Die Raumung der Krim 1944. Wehrwissenschaftlichen Rundschau. Heft 9, —1959.
Переводчик с немецкого — С. А. Липатов, редактирование осуществлено М. Э. Морозовым.
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Описывается война в Крыму в 1944 году, а также эвакуация немецких войск с неизвестной широкой общественности точки зрения -...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 496 с. — ISBN 5-9524-2446-5 Захват Дании и Норвегии вооруженными силами Германии представлял собой единую операцию, завершенную через несколько недель после ее начала. Это был первый пример современного комбинированного ведения войны тремя родами войск. Без объявления войны 9 апреля 1940 года немецкие военные корабли высадили десант сразу в нескольких...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 460 с. — (За линией фронта. Военная история). — ISBN: 5-9524-2446-5. Захват Дании и Норвегии вооруженными силами Германии представлял собой единую операцию, завершенную через несколько недель после ее начала. Это был первый пример современного комбинированного ведения войны тремя родами войск. Без объявления войны 9 апреля 1940 года немецкие военные...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 460 с. — (За линией фронта. Военная история). — ISBN: 5-9524-2446-5. Захват Дании и Норвегии вооруженными силами Германии представлял собой единую операцию, завершенную через несколько недель после ее начала. Это был первый пример современного комбинированного ведения войны тремя родами войск. Без объявления войны 9 апреля 1940 года немецкие военные...
М.: Родина, 2020. — 464 с. — (Великие вспоминают). — ISBN 978-5-907351-58-5. Воспоминания У. Черчилля, Ш. де Голля, К. Хэлла, У. Леги и Д. Эйзенхауэра посвящены сотрудничеству СССР и стран антигитлеровской коалиции во время Великой Отечественной войны. В те годы они стояли в центре политических и военных событий, играли определяющую роль в формировании политики своих стран,...
М.: Родина, 2020. — 1408 с. — (Великие вспоминают). — ISBN 978-5-907351-58-5. Воспоминания У. Черчилля, Ш. де Голля, К. Хэлла, У. Леги и Д. Эйзенхауэра посвящены сотрудничеству СССР и стран антигитлеровской коалиции во время Великой Отечественной войны. В те годы они стояли в центре политических и военных событий, играли определяющую роль в формировании политики своих стран,...
М.: Родина, 2020. — 1379 с. — (Великие вспоминают). — ISBN 978-5-907351-58-5. Воспоминания У. Черчилля, Ш. де Голля, К. Хэлла, У. Леги и Д. Эйзенхауэра посвящены сотрудничеству СССР и стран антигитлеровской коалиции во время Великой Отечественной войны. В те годы они стояли в центре политических и военных событий, играли определяющую роль в формировании политики своих стран,...
М.: Терра, 1995. — 804 с. — (Тайны истории в романах, повестях и документах). — ISBN: 5-300-00235-6. В этой книге опубликованы послания, которыми обменялись Франклин Д. Рузвельт и Уинстон С. Черчилль во время второй мировой войны. Это была настолько секретная корреспонденция, что ее содержание было известно только наиболее близким советникам президента США и премьер-министра...
М.: Терра, 1995. — 804 с. — (Тайны истории в романах, повестях и документах). — ISBN: 5-300-00235-6. В этой книге опубликованы послания, которыми обменялись Франклин Д. Рузвельт и Уинстон С. Черчилль во время второй мировой войны. Это была настолько секретная корреспонденция, что ее содержание было известно только наиболее близким советникам президента США и премьер-министра...
М.: Наука, 2001. — 495 с. — ISBN: 5-02-008734-3. Труд, подготовленный российскими и зарубежными учеными, посвящен начальному периоду второй мировой войны. Предлагаются оригинальные, порой не совпадающие трактовки событий, причин и последствий поворота сталинского руководства к связям с гитлеровской Германией. Привлечены документы из архивов Российской Федерации, Германии,...
М.: Наука, 2001. — 495 с. — ISBN: 5-02-008734-3. Труд, подготовленный российскими и зарубежными учеными, посвящен начальному периоду второй мировой войны. Предлагаются оригинальные, порой не совпадающие трактовки событий, причин и последствий поворота сталинского руководства к связям с гитлеровской Германией. Привлечены документы из архивов Российской Федерации, Германии,...
Государственное военно-морское издательство НКВМФ СССР, 1940. - 36 с.
Данная брошюра капитана 1 ранга Е.Е. Шведе яаляется описанием Средиземноморского морского театра военных действий, с физико-географическими данными и с описанием базирования военно-морских флотов европейских стран на 1940 год.
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2009. - 288 с. (Великая Отечественная. Гриф секретности снят)
ISBN: 978-5-699-33176-5
Этот фронт Великой Отечественной фактически забыт.
Это сражение осталось в тени грандиозной Сталинградской битвы.
Но именно здесь, на Астраханском направлении, осенью 1942 года решалась судьба войны.
После того как немцы вышли к Волге в районе Сталинграда, сделав...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2009. - 288 с. (Великая Отечественная. Гриф секретности снят)
ISBN: 978-5-699-33176-5
Этот фронт Великой Отечественной фактически забыт.
Это сражение осталось в тени грандиозной Сталинградской битвы.
Но именно здесь, на Астраханском направлении, осенью 1942 года решалась судьба войны.
После того как немцы вышли к Волге в районе Сталинграда, сделав...
Самиздат, 2021. — 77 с. Книга рассказывает, как американцам удалось взломать японские шифры, а затем, используя полученную информацию, выиграть битву у Мидуэя и начать постепенное сокращение японской военной мощи. Перехватив сообщение о поездке командующего Объединенным флотом адмирала Ямамото по линии фронта, американцы организовали перехват и уничтожение его самолета....
Самиздат, 2021. — 77 с. Книга рассказывает, как американцам удалось взломать японские шифры, а затем, используя полученную информацию, выиграть битву у Мидуэя и начать постепенное сокращение японской военной мощи. Перехватив сообщение о поездке командующего Объединенным флотом адмирала Ямамото по линии фронта, американцы организовали перехват и уничтожение его самолета....
Москва: Редакция Елены Шубиной, 2016. — 783 с. — (Народная книга). — ISBN: 978-5-17-096303-4. "…Воспоминания о войне живут в каждом доме. Деды и прадеды, наши родители - они хранят ее в своей памяти, в семейных фотоальбомах, письмах и дневниках своих родных, которые уже ушли из жизни. Это семейное наследство - пожалуй, сегодня самое ценное и важное для нас, поэтому мы должны...
Москва: АСТ: Редакция Елены Шубиной, 2016. — 782, [1] с.: ил. — (Народная книга). — ISBN: 978-5-17-096303-4. Захар Прилепин, Марина Степанова, Леонид Юзефович и 100 авторов из народа. …Воспоминания о войне живут в каждом доме. Деды и прадеды, наши родители – они хранят ее в своей памяти, в семейных фотоальбомах, письмах и дневниках своих родных, которые уже ушли из жизни. Это...
М.: Вече, 2010. — 440 с. — ISBN 978-5-9533-4632-0.
Обобщающее исследование известного военного историка Н.А. Шефова посвящено предпосылкам, ходу и итогам Второй мировой войны 1939-1945 гг. Автор подробно и во многом по-новому осветил крах Версальской системы, процесс формирования двух блоков (стран "оси" и держав антигитлеровской коалиции), нацистские планы передела мира и...
М.: Вече, 2010. — 408 с.
Исследование известного военного историка Н.А.Шефова посвящено предпосылкам, ходу и итогам Второй мировой войны 1939-1945 гг. Автор подробно и во многом по-новому осветил крах Версальской системы, процесс формирования двух блоков (стран "оси" и держав антигитлеровской коалиции), нацистские планы передела мира и порабощения народов оккупированных стран....
М.: Вече, 2010. — 440 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-4632-0. Обобщающее исследование известного военного историка Н.А. Шефова посвящено предпосылкам, ходу и итогам Второй мировой войны 1939-1945 гг. Автор подробно и во многом по-новому осветил крах Версальской системы, процесс формирования двух блоков (стран "оси" и держав антигитлеровской коалиции), нацистские планы передела мира и...
Переводчик: Ржешевский Олег. — Москва: АСТ, 2015. — 1216 с. — (История войн и военного искусства). — ISBN: 978-5-17-078704-3 , 978-5-17-089952-4. Эту книгу "Нью-Йорк таймс" назвала "одной из важнейших работ в области новейшей истории". Эту книгу удостоили Национальной книжной премии, перевели практически на все языки, переиздавали уже более 30 раз - и она по-прежнему находит...
Переводчик: Ржешевский Олег. — Москва: АСТ, 2015. — 1216 с. — (История войн и военного искусства). — ISBN: 978-5-17-078704-3 , 978-5-17-089952-4. Эту книгу "Нью-Йорк таймс" назвала "одной из важнейших работ в области новейшей истории". Эту книгу удостоили Национальной книжной премии, перевели практически на все языки, переиздавали уже более 30 раз - и она по-прежнему находит...
Интернет-издание, 2019. Война в воздухе за Средиземноморье началась в июне 1940 г. после вступления Италии во Вторую Мировую Войну. В прошлом среди историков имелись значительные разногласия относительно подробностей военных действий в воздухе. Например, известно, что Мармадьюк Пэттл, которого многие считают лучшим асом британских Королевских ВВС за всю войну, именно здесь одержал...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 285 с. — ISBN: ISBN: 5–9524–0672–6. Книга рассказывает о боевых действиях арктических конвоев в годы Второй мировой войны. Северный морской путь, по которому союзники поставляли в Советский Союз необходимые боеприпасы и продовольствие, был самым коротким, но самым опасным. Автор повествует о решающих сражениях, анализирует расстановку сил враждующих...
Пер. с англ. Л. А. Игоревского. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 285 с. Книга рассказывает о боевых действиях арктических конвоев в годы Второй мировой войны. Северный морской путь, по которому союзники поставляли в Советский Сюоз необходимые боеприпасы и продовольствие, был самым коротким, но самым опасным. Автор повествует о решающих сражениях, анализирует расстановку сил...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. - 433 с.
Редакционная коллеги: Штерн Л., Ерусалимский А., Шрейнер А., Болтин Е., Дернберг С., Тартаковский Б.
Протокол Научной сессии в Лейпциге с 25 по 30 ноября 1957 года.
Сборник, в основном, посвящен историографическим аспектам истории Второй мировой войны: разоблаченииям восточногерманских и советских историков...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. - 433 с.
Редакционная коллеги: Штерн Л., Ерусалимский А., Шрейнер А., Болтин Е., Дернберг С., Тартаковский Б.
Протокол Научной сессии в Лейпциге с 25 по 30 ноября 1957 года.
Сборник, в основном, посвящен историографическим аспектам истории Второй мировой войны: разоблаченииям восточногерманских и советских историков...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2004. — 400 с.
В своей книге Милтон Шульман дает возможность посмотреть на события Второй мировой войны глазами врага. Анализирует причины побед и поражений германской армии от падения Франции до битвы за Берлин. На основе множества документов изучает военные ошибки Германии, а также роль Гитлера и его генерального штаба во взлете и падении Третьего рейха.
Ташкент: Госиздат УзССР, 1943. — 76 с.
Работа посвящена отношениям США и Японии в конце 30-х-начале 40-х гг.: дипломатическая история, готовность стран к войне, инцидент в Перл-Харборе, война на Тихом океане.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — ISBN 978-5-227-01969-1
Специалист по операциям германской армии во Второй мировой войне и на Восточном фронте Кристофер Эйлсби в своей книге рассматривает основные направления Восточной кампании Третьего рейха: сражения за Украину, наступление на Ленинград, попытку захвата Москвы.
Анализируя данные о проведении расистской политики Гитлера на Востоке,...
Enver Redzic. Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Second World War.
Издательство: Frank Cass (New York), 2005 г. - 272 с.
язык: английский
В течение Второй Мировой Войны на территории Боснии и Герцеговины воевали пять основных сил: Германские и Итальянские оккупационные войска, Сербские Чётники (участники националистического Великосербского движения) во главе с генералом Д....
Пер. с англ. Е. Б. Пескова и др. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 633 с., 11 л. карт. Советский перевод 5 тома классической британской официальной истории Второй Мировой Войны. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей капиталистических стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего политического и...
Пер. с англ. Е. Б. Пескова и др. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 633 с., 11 л. карт. Советский перевод 5 тома классической британской официальной истории Второй Мировой Войны. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей капиталистических стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего политического и...
Пер. с англ. Е. Б. Пескова и др. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 633 с., 11 л. карт. Советский перевод 5 тома классической британской официальной истории Второй Мировой Войны. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей капиталистических стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего политического и...
Перевод с английского Г. Я. Коблова. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 404 с., 12 л. ил., карт. Советский перевод 6 тома классической британской официальной истории Второй Мировой Войны. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей западных стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего политического и...
Перевод с английского Г. Я. Коблова. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 404 с., 12 л. ил., карт. Советский перевод 6 тома классической британской официальной истории Второй Мировой Войны. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей западных стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего политического и...
Перевод с английского Г. Я. Коблова. — Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1958. — 404 с., 12 л. ил., карт. Советский перевод 6 тома классической британской официальной истории Второй Мировой Войны. На основе документов и мемуаров видных государственных деятелей западных стран автор подробно рассматривает вопросы стратегического планирования высшего политического и...
Пер. с англ. Н.А. Феногенова, худож. К. Лильс. — Москва: АСТ, Астрель, 2005. — 62, [2] с, 8 цв. ил. — (Солдаты). — ISBN 5-17-027662-1, 5-271-10458-3, 0-85045-524-3. Во время Второй мировой войны довольно большое количество иностранцев служило в армейских, военно-морских и военно-воздушных силах Германии. Антикоммунизм был наиболее важной причиной, заставившей такое большое...
Москва: Яуза, 2023. — 512 с. — ISBN 978-5-00155-563-6. Эта книга - первое в отечественной историографии комплексное исследование феноменологии нацистских концентрационных лагерей (Концентрационного мира), как особой системы, глобально трансформировавшей всё, что оказывалось в орбите её влияния - от времени, истории и пространства до человеческой антропологии и психологии....
Москва: Яуза, 2023. — 512 с. — (Война на уничтожение. Третий рейх против России). — ISBN 978-5-00155-563-6. Эта книга - первое в отечественной историографии комплексное исследование феноменологии нацистских концентрационных лагерей (Концентрационного мира), как особой системы, глобально трансформировавшей всё, что оказывалось в орбите её влияния - от времени, истории и...
Москва: Яуза, 2023. — 512 с. — (Война на уничтожение. Третий рейх против России). — ISBN 978-5-00155-563-6. Эта книга - первое в отечественной историографии комплексное исследование феноменологии нацистских концентрационных лагерей (Концентрационного мира), как особой системы, глобально трансформировавшей всё, что оказывалось в орбите её влияния - от времени, истории и...
М.: Мысль, 1995.
В книге представлены взгляды двух известных историков Запада: западногерманского учёного Г.-А. Якобсена и английского учёного А. Тейлора — на события Второй мировой войны. Исключительную ценность представляют также материалы справочно-энциклопедического и мемуарно-документального характера, большая часть из которых впервые публикуется на русском языке. Издание...
М.: Учпедгиз, 1961. - 156 с.
Вторая мировая война началась 1 сентября 1939 г. нападением гитлеровской Германии на Польшу. Этот день положил начало гигантскому военному конфликту, втянувшему в пучину войны почти все народы мира. Но 1 сентября 1939 г. только дата начала вооруженной схватки, вторая мировая война готовилась империалистами разных стран в течение многих лет. Орудия...
М.: Учпедгиз, 1961. - 156 с.
Вторая мировая война началась 1 сентября 1939 г. нападением гитлеровской Германии на Польшу. Этот день положил начало гигантскому военному конфликту, втянувшему в пучину войны почти все народы мира. Но 1 сентября 1939 г. только дата начала вооруженной схватки, вторая мировая война готовилась империалистами разных стран в течение многих лет. Орудия...
М.: Учпедгиз, 1961. - 156 с. Вторая мировая война началась 1 сентября 1939 г. нападением гитлеровской Германии на Польшу. Этот день положил начало гигантскому военному конфликту, втянувшему в пучину войны почти все народы мира. Но 1 сентября 1939 г. только дата начала вооруженной схватки, вторая мировая война готовилась империалистами разных стран в течение многих лет. Орудия...
М.: Издательство политической литературы, 1991. — 227 с., с илл. Как мир пришел ко второй мировой войне? Кто несет ответственность за неслыханную катастрофу в истории человечества? В предлагаемой читателю книге сделана попытка дать ответ на эти и по наше время злободневные вопросы, рассказать о трагических событиях тех лет. В ней помещены документы (некоторые публикуются...
Кучково поле, 2008. — 657 с. — ISBN 978-5-901679-31-9
Эта книга не просто сборник немецких документов предвоенных и военных лет, опубликованных в 90-е гг. прошлого века. На основе их анализа, автор дает ответ на ряд вопросов, волнующих не только профессиональных историков, но и миллионы россиян: Кто явился виновником войны — Германия или СССР? Готовил ли Советский Союз...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2006. — 400 с. — ISBN: 5-224-05553-9 Как на самом деле развивались события, приведшие к началу Великой Отечественной войны? Кто реальные герои водружения знамени Советского Союза над Рейхстагом? Зачем и кому понадобилось переписывать историю взятия цитадели Третьего рейха? В книге на основе недавно рассекреченных архивных документов и авторских исследований...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2006. — 400 с. — ISBN: 5-224-05553-9 Как на самом деле развивались события, приведшие к началу Великой Отечественной войны? Кто реальные герои водружения знамени Советского Союза над Рейхстагом? Зачем и кому понадобилось переписывать историю взятия цитадели Третьего рейха? В книге на основе недавно рассекреченных архивных документов и авторских исследований...
М.: Политиздат, 1991. — 240 с.
Сборник «Катынская драма» построен на документальных и научно-публицистических материалах советских и польских авторов об одной из трагических страниц второй мировой войны — гибели интернированных в лагерях НКВД польских офицеров под Смоленском, в Харькове и Калининской области. Работа польского историка Ч. Мадайчика и выявленные в последнее время...
М.: Прогресс, 1986. — 296 с.
Перевод на арабский язык сделан по книге: Ибрагимбейли Х.М. Крах «Эдельвейса» и Ближний Восток. — М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1977.
В монографии рассматриваются военно-политические события на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке накануне и после нападения фашистской Германии на СССР, подготовка и осуществление агрессивных...
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