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: The Drive on Moscow, 1941: Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis of World War
Автор: Anders Frankson, Niklas Zetterling
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 1612004334
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 4,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive. Facing them was an equally large Soviet force, but whose soldiers were neither as well trained nor as confident.