BATTLE AT WAR 1939-45
Author | : ADRIAN AND SARAH. HALL |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9781912020737 |
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Author | : ADRIAN AND SARAH. HALL |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9781912020737 |
Author | : Philip Jowett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782001255 |
In the face of Soviet invasion in 1939–40, and once again in 1941–44, the armies raised by Finland – a tiny nation of only 4 million people astonished the world by their effective resistance. At the end of both these campaigns – the Winter War, and the Continuation War – the fiercely patriotic defiance of vastly stronger Soviet forces by Marshal Mannerheim's soldiers won their country a unique prize: although forced to accept harsh terms, Finland was never occupied by the Red Army, and retained its independence. This book explains and illustrates, for the first time in English, the organization, uniforms, equipment and tactics of Finland's defenders.
Author | : H. F. Joslen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 199? |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9781843424741 |
Author | : Norman Davies |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0330472291 |
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 at those six years and to discard the usual narrative of Allied good versus Nazi evil, reminding us that the war in Europe was dominated by two evil monsters - Hitler and Stalin - whose fight for supremacy consumed the best people in Germany and in the USSR . The outcome of the war was at best ambiguous, the victory of the West was only partial, its moral reputation severely tarnished and, for the greater part of the continent of Europe, ‘liberation’ was only the beginning of more than fifty years of totalitarian oppression. ‘Davies writes with real knowledge and passion.’ Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard ‘Punchy and compelling' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph
Author | : H. F. Joslen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2003-04-01 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9781843424741 |
Complete Order of Battle of British Army and Colonial Formations and Units in all theatres of war. Details include composition, subordinations, theatres in which served, names of commanders all with dates, including those of any changes. War establishment of all types of divisions and brigades with details of changes authorised during the war. Included is a supplement listing all formations and units engaged in the Battle of El Alamein and the D Day Landings in Normandy on 6/7 June 1944. A monumental work of reference, originally published in a limited edition, and virtually unobtainable since then. The original 2 volumes are published as one volume containing all that was in the original two volumes as follows: Volume I: Divisions Composition and War Establishment of Divisions Armoured, Cavalry, Tank and Motor Machine Gun Brigades Volume II: Infantry Brigades Parachute and Airlanding Brigades Colonial Brigades Miscellaneous Brigades (including Special Forces) GHQ., Army Group, Army and Corps Troops British Units which served under Indian Army Command Formations and Units engaged in the Battle of El Alamein and The Assault Landings in Normandy.
Author | : Richard Hough |
Publisher | : Canelo + ORM |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1800325355 |
This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in history ‘The Second World War demanded more of its sailors than any other war in history, in endurance and unremitting need to face danger - danger from increasingly lethal weapons and an ever-increasing need for vigilance by day and night.' The war at sea - the longest battle of the Second World War - never ceased. From the Arctic Circle to the Pacific, the enemy threat was ever-present, on the surface, in the skies, and lurking beneath the waves. In this comprehensive and compelling history, Richard Hough brings the titanic struggle to life. Using personal accounts from veterans of all sides, his book tells the story of the Second World War at sea, including the Battle of the Atlantic and the U-boat menace, the infamy of Pearl Harbor, the American triumph at Midway, naval operations in support of D-Day, and the greatest naval battle of all time, Leyte Gulf. The definitive book about naval power in the Second World War, Richard Hough’s masterpiece is essential reading for followers of Max Hastings and James Holland. ‘We are in Richard Hough’s debt’ New York Times ‘Utterly absorbing’ Financial Times
Author | : Christopher Chant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : Richard Hough |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780330300742 |
Author | : Gordon Rottman |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
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Word Bird experiences hot soup, cold snow, and wet clothes on a snowy winter day.
Author | : Max Hastings |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 1091 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307957187 |
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 Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context. Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century.