Gebirgsjäger Vs Soviet Sailor

Gebirgsjäger Vs Soviet Sailor
Author: David Greentree
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 1472819799

Fully illustrated with specially commissioned full-color artwork, this work examines the origins, combat roles, and battlefield performance of the German Gebirgsjäger and Soviet naval ground forces who fought one another in the harsh conditions of the Arctic Circle.

Gebirgsjäger

Gebirgsjäger
Author: Gordon Williamson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2012-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782000089

Few branches of the German armed forces were represented on so many fronts as the mountain infantrymen, or Gebirgstruppen. From the Blitzkrieg campaigns of 1940, through the invasions of the Balkans and Russia and the North African campaign, to the defence of the Reich 1944-45, the Gebirgsjäger earned a reputation for reliability and courage. Typically each trooper was a supremely fit individual: the need to cover difficult terrain in full kit, without the back-up of a motorised baggage train, demanded this. This new volume examines the recruitment, training, and combat experiences of the common Gebirgsjäger.

German Mountain & Ski Troops 1939–45

German Mountain & Ski Troops 1939–45
Author: Gordon Williamson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780967918

Fighting in every theatre from the burning sands of North Africa to the icy wastes above the arctic circle the German Army's Gebirgstruppen troops were some of the most effective in the whole of the Wehrmacht. Their esprit de corps and morale were extremely high and their commanders, men such as Eduard Dietl, the 'Hero of Narvik', and Julius 'Papa' Ringel, were idolised by their men. Dietl himself was the first soldier of the Wehrmacht to be awarded the coveted Oakleaves to the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. In this book Gordon Williamson details the uniforms, organisation and combat histories of these elite troops.

Crete 1941

Crete 1941
Author: Peter Antill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782007105

Operation Mercury, the German airborne assault on the island of Crete in May 1941, was the first strategic use of airborne forces in history. The assault began on 20 May, with landings near the island's key airports, and reinforcements the next day allowed the German forces to capture one end of the runway at Maleme. By 24 May, the Germans were being reinforced by air on a huge scale and on 1 June Crete surrendered. This book describes how desperately close the battle had been and explains how German losses so shocked the Führer that he never again authorised a major airborne operation.

German Mountain Warfare

German Mountain Warfare
Author: United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Division
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1944
Genre: Military art and science
ISBN:

Alpine Elite

Alpine Elite
Author: James Sidney Lucas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1980
Genre: Germany
ISBN: 9780710600639

Archaeologies of Internment

Archaeologies of Internment
Author: Adrian Myers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1441996664

The internment of civilian and military prisoners became an increasingly common feature of conflicts in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Prison camps, though often hastily constructed and just as quickly destroyed, have left their marks in the archaeological record. Due to both their temporary nature and their often sensitive political contexts, places of internment present a unique challenge to archaeologists and heritage managers. As archaeologists have begun to explore the material remains of internment using a range of methods, these interdisciplinary studies have demonstrated the potential to connect individual memories and historical debates to the fragmentary material remains. Archaeologies of Internment brings together in one volume a range of methodological and theoretical approaches to this developing field. The contributions are geographically and temporally diverse, ranging from Second World War internment in Europe and the USA to prison islands of the Greek Civil War, South African labor camps, and the secret detention centers of the Argentinean Junta and the East German Stasi. These studies have powerful social, cultural, political, and emotive implications, particularly in societies in which historical narratives of oppression and genocide have themselves been suppressed. By repopulating the historical narratives with individuals and grounding them in the material remains, it is hoped that they might become, at least in some cases, archaeologies of liberation.

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade
Author: Sir John Kincaid
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2018-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780353203037

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Corps Commanders

Corps Commanders
Author: Douglas E. Delaney
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 077482090X

Corps Commanders explains how five very different Second World War British and Canadian generals fought their battles, and why they fought them in similar fashion.