Название: Barbarossa & the Retreat to Moscow: Recollections of Fighter Pilots on the Eastern Front
Автор: Artem Drabkin
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 243
Размер: 3,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The onset of war in the summer of 1941 was a disaster for the Soviet Air Force. In a few weeks, faced by the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, most of the Soviet frontline aircraft were destroyed, and the casualty rate among the pilots was cripplingly high. Yet the surviving few gained precious battle experience and they formed the core of the fighter force that turned the tables on the Germans and eventually won air superiority over the Eastern Front.

Название: Girl with a Sniper Rifle: An Eastern Front Memoir
Автор: Yulia Zhukova
Издательство: Greenhill Books
ISBN: 1922387431
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 2,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this vivid first-hand account we gain unique access to the inner workings of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School, near Podolsk in Western Russia.
Luliia was a dedicated member of the Komsomol (the Soviet communist youth organisation) and her parents worked for the NKVD. She started at the sniper school and eventually became a valued member of her battalion during operations against Prussia.

Название: Death on the Don: The Destruction of Germany's Allies on the Eastern Front 1941-44
Автор: Jonathan Trigg
Издательство: The History Press
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 370
Размер: 4,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

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, Italians, Hungarians, Slovaks and Croatians – Hitler’s Axis allies.

Название: Sniper Ace: From the Eastern Front to Siberia
Автор: David L Robbins
Издательство: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1848325487
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 19,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Throughout World War II, German snipers were obliged to carry a 'Scharfshutzen Buch' which recorded every kill. Each success noted had to be verified by a witness and signed by a superior officer. The journal of Sutkus is one of only a few such books to have survived the war. It records more than 200 kills, placing him as one of the war's most successful snipers. A large part of his journal is reproduced for the first time here.
As a Hitler Youth member his skill as a marksman was quickly noted and, in July 1943, aged 19, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht.

Название: Images of War - German Army on the Eastern Front - The Advance
Автор: Ian Baxter
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473822661
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 160
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

German Army on the Eastern Front – The Advance is a highly illustrated record of the extraordinary feat of arms that saw the Nazi armies drive deep into the vast terrain of the Soviet Union, to the gates of Stalingrad and Moscow. It traces the campaign from these hopeful beginnings until, on the brink of victory, the defenders and the winter contrived to slow and then halt the advance. It vividly conveys the appalling conditions endured by the invaders. By early 1943 the German advance finally petered out, leaving some 1.5 million dead from the battle of Stalingrad alone. The long and costly retreat was about to begin.

Название: The Eastern Front 1914-18: Suicide of the Empires
Автор: Alan Clark
Издательство: Windrush Press
ISBN: 1900624230
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 111
Размер: 51,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the western front soon became bogged down in the mud at Flanders. But on the wide plains and forests of Eastern Europe the three great Empires - Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary - grappled in a series of battles involving millions of men and hundreds of miles of front. Shortly after the outbreak of war the Russian "steamroller" had lurched into Prussia only to be hurled back amind the marshes of Tannenberg. For the next three years the fighting swung indeterminately back and forth. This work describes the campaigns which provoked the downfall of three great empires and left the world changed forever.

Название: Roman Seas: A Maritime Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Economies
Автор: Justin Leidwanger
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190083654
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 336
Размер: 13,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

That seafaring was fundamental to Roman prosperity in the eastern Mediterranean is beyond doubt, but a tendency by scholars to focus on the grandest long-distance movements between major cities has obscured the finer and varied contours of maritime interaction. This book offers a nuanced archaeological analysis of maritime economy and connectivity in the Roman east.