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Unknown Eastern Front
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Author : Rolf-Dieter Müller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-06-26
Unknown Eastern Front written by Rolf-Dieter Müller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-26 with History categories.
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. Hitler's declaration of the 'struggle against Bolshevism' reverberated throughout all of Europe - it attracted convinced fascists as well as non-Russian eastern Europeans seeking to regain their independence from the USSR. Many of these volunteers subsequently became involved in the atrocities of the Wehrmacht and the SS. Many historical accounts of the war in the East, the bloodiest struggle in world history, not only overlook the role of local helpers and thereby unwittingly play up to subsequent Stalinist propaganda; they also underestimate the importance of German-allied armies fighting on the Eastern Front. Yet it was not just Eastern Europe which provided volunteer soldiers for the Wehrmacht - a number of men from occupied countries, such as France, Norway and Denmark also signed up as volunteers, as well as a small number from neutral countries. For the first time, this book tells the story of these men. Vilified by Hitler for their supposed failures, condemned and forgotten by their homelands for treason and collaboration, their involvement in the war has been largely ignored or swept aside by historians. Rolf-Dieter Müller here offers a fascinating new perspective on a little-known aspect of World War II.
Enemy In The East
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Author : Rolf-Dieter Müller
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-12-03
Enemy In The East written by Rolf-Dieter Müller and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-03 with History categories.
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 World War II, 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 intervention against the USSR ever since he came to power in 1933. Using previously unseen sources, acclaimed military historian Rolf-Dieter Muller shows that Hitler and the Wehrmacht had begun to negotiate with Poland and had even considered an alliance with Japan soon after taking power. Despite the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, at the declaration of war in September 1939, military engagement with the Red Army was still a very real and imminent possibility. In this book, Muller takes us behind the scenes of the Wehrmacht High Command, providing a fascinating insight into an unknown story of World War II.
The Unknown War
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Author : Sir Winston Churchill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
The Unknown War written by Sir Winston Churchill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
The Unknown War
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Author : Winston Churchill (Politiker, Grossbritannien)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
The Unknown War written by Winston Churchill (Politiker, Grossbritannien) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
The Eastern Front
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Author : Nick Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-03-28
The Eastern Front written by Nick Lloyd and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-28 with History categories.
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war': the vast conflict in Eastern Europe and the Balkans that brought about the collapse of three empires. Much has been written about the fighting in France and Belgium, yet the Eastern Front was no less bloody. Between 1914 and 1917, huge numbers of people - perhaps as many as 16 million soldiers and two million civilians - were killed, wounded or maimed in enormous battles that sometimes ranged across a front of 100 km in length. Through intimate eyewitness reports, diary entries and memoirs - many of which have never been translated into English before - Lloyd reconstructs the full story of a war that began in the Balkans as a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and which sucked in Russia, Germany and Italy, right through to the final collapse of the Habsburg Empire in 1918. The Eastern Front paints a vivid and authoritative picture of a conflict that shook the world, and that remains central to understanding the tragic, blood-soaked trajectory of the entire twentieth century, including the current war in Ukraine.
The Unknown Eastern Front
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Author : Rolf-Dieter Müller
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2014-03-27
The Unknown Eastern Front written by Rolf-Dieter Müller and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with History categories.
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. Hitler's declaration of the 'struggle against Bolshevism' reverberated throughout all of Europe - among convinced fascists as well as among non-Russian eastern Europeans seeking to regain their independence from the USSR. Many of these volunteers subsequently became involved in the atrocities of the Wehrmacht and the SS. Vilified by Hitler for their supposed failures, condemned and forgotten by their homelands for treason and collaboration, their involvement in the war has been largely ignored or swept aside by historians. Rolf-Dieter Müller here offers a fascinating new perspective on a little-known aspect of World War II.
The Unknown War
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Author : Winston Churchill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
The Unknown War written by Winston Churchill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
In The Hell Of The Eastern Front
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Author : Arno Sauer
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2020-09-30
In The Hell Of The Eastern Front written by Arno Sauer and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Nazi infantryman recalls the horrors of combat against the Soviet Union in this WWII memoir as told to his son. Friedrich “Fritz” Sauer was posted to the Eastern Front in 1942. A soldier in the 132nd Infantry Division, he was deployed in Hitler’s grand invasion of Russia. But instead of the swift knockout blow the Germans had anticipated, Operation Barbarossa ground on for almost four years. Sent first to the Crimea and then the region around Leningrad, Fritz experienced horrors of all kinds. In this memoir, Fritz recalls losing his best friend to a sniper, rescuing the body of a fallen comrade from No Man’s Land, enduring Soviet tank assaults, and his own wounding during a counterattack. Fritz was later transferred to a tank assault regiment where, on a mission to contact another unit, he lost his way in the snow. After sheltering with a farmer’s family, Fritz headed west to flee the advancing Red Army. His subsequent journey home took many twists and turns.
The Eastern Front
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Author : Steve Crawford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-03-01
The Eastern Front written by Steve Crawford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Eastern Inferno
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Author : Christine Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Eastern Inferno written by Christine Alexander and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with History categories.
“Remarkable personal journals . . revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before . . . a harrowing yet poignant story” (Military Times). Hans Roth was a member of the anti-tank panzerjager battalion, 299th Infantry Division, attached to the Sixth Army, as the invasion of Russia began. As events transpired, he recorded the tension as the Germans deployed on the Soviet frontier in June 1941. Then, a firestorm broke loose as the Wehrmacht tore across the front, forging into the primitive vastness of the East. During the Kiev encirclement, Roth’s unit was under constant attack as the Soviets desperately tried to break through the German ring. At one point, after the enemy had finally been beaten, a friend serving with the SS led him to a site—possibly Babi Yar—where he witnessed civilians being massacred. After suffering through a brutal winter against apparently endless Russian reserves, his division went on the offensive again when the Germans drove toward Stalingrad. In these journals, attacks and counterattacks are described in you-are-there detail. Roth wrote privately, as if to keep himself sane, knowing his honest accounts of the horrors in the East could never pass Wehrmacht censors. When the Soviet counteroffensive of winter 1942 begins, his unit is stationed alongside the Italian 8th Army, and his observations of its collapse, as opposed to the reaction of the German troops sent to stiffen its front, are of special fascination. Roth’s three journals were discovered many years after his disappearance, tucked away in the home of his brother. After his brother’s death, his family discovered them and sent them to Rosel, Roth’s wife. In time, Rosel handed down the journals to Erika, Roth’s only daughter, who had emigrated to America. Roth was likely working on a fourth journal before he was reported missing in action in July 1944. Although his ultimate fate remains unknown, what he did leave behind, now finally revealed, is an incredible firsthand account of the horrific war the Germans waged in Russia.