Download or read book From Barbarossa to Odessa written by Denes Bernad and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of two volumes and covers a less well known element of the air war in the East where Soviet air power was able to respond effectively to the Axis attack

Download or read book From Barbarossa to Odessa written by Dénes Bernád and published by Midland Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New, and often unexpected and controversial, information continues to emerge on the massive air campaign fought over the Russian Front during World War II. This text, the second of two volumes, presents a study on the air combat that took place on the southern flank of the Eastern Front following Operation Barbarossa.

Download or read book Barbarossa Through German Eyes written by Jonathan Trigg and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the world’s largest ever invasion through the voices of the men – and women – who witnessed it first-hand.

Download or read book Odessa 1941 44 written by Nikolai Ovcharenko and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens' ordeal during the Second World War. In the process, he describes the heroism of the city's defenders and residents in the summer of 1941 on the land, sea and in the sky, when defending against insistent Romanian attacks. Exploiting the numerous estuaries on the Black Sea coastline, which served as natural defensive lines, under the weight of numerically superior Romanian forces, Odessa's defenders successively, fell back into the city of Odessa itself. Once the situation became critical, a valiant counterattack in part with naval infantry gained valuable space and time for Odessa. Eventually, at a time when German forces had advanced far to the east and were approaching the critical naval base of Sebastopol in the Crimea, the decision was made to evacuate the remaining Soviet forces from Odessa. There ensued more than two years of occupation and underground resistance; the partisans and activists made use of the extensive catacombs underneath the city of Odessa. The occupiers scored successes against the underground movement, which Ovcharenko details in succeeding chapters using contemporary newspapers and interviews with surviving eyewitnesses, but were never able to stamp out resistance completely. Finally, in the spring of 1944, Odessa was liberated by forces of the advancing Third Ukrainian Front. Ovcharenko describes this offensive against forces of the resurrected German Sixth Army.

Download or read book Odessa 1941 1944 written by Alexander Dallin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Barbarossa to Odessa The Luftwaffe and Axis Allies Strike South East June October 1941 written by Dénes Bernád and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Barbarossa to Odessa: The Luftwaffe Strikes South-East, June-October 1941 is the first of two volumes on the air combat which took place on the southern flank of the Eastern Front following Operation Barbarossa.

Download or read book The Defeat of the Luftwaffe written by Jonathan Trigg and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941 the Luftwaffe was the most powerful air force in the world. This is the story of how it was utterly defeated on the Eastern Front

Download or read book War Without Garlands written by Robert Kershaw and published by Crecy. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's Soviet Russia. The German army quickly advanced far into Russian territory as the Soviet forces suffered defeat after defeat. With brutality and savagery displayed on both sides, the Eastern front was a campaign in which no quarter was given. Although Hitler's decision to launch 'Barbarossa' was one of the crucial turning points of the war, at first the early successes of the German army pointed to the continuing triumph of the Nazi state. As time wore on, however, the Eastern front became a byword for death for the Germans. In War Without Garlands, Robert Kershaw examines the campaign largely through the eyes of the German forces who were sent to fight and die for Hitler's grandiose plans. He draws on German war diaries, post-combat reports and secret SS files. This original material, much of which has never before been published in English, sheds new light on operation 'Barbarossa', including the extent to which the German soldiers were genuinely surprised at the decision to attack Russia, given the well-publicised non-aggression pact. ‘Barbarossa’ was a brutal, ideologically driven campaign which decided the outcome of World War II. This seminal account will be required reading for all historians of World War II and all those interested in the course of the war.

Download or read book Odessa and Its Inhabitants by an English Prisoner in Russia W B Barker written by William Burckhardt Barker and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. TschogolofFs letter--Announces the death of Auguste Potocki in the battle of Alma--Journey to Sevastopol by way of Perekop--Rest one day at Kherson--Then at Perekop, and proceed by night to Lushin--Arrival at Simpheropol--Proceeds after the battle of Alma into Sevastopol--Communicates with General Nachimoff--The Russian escort surprised by the English army--Lord Cardigan and Captain Maude--Menschikoff 's carriage--Sent to Constantinople--Political conclusions of a Russian--Private matters in conclusion. This is a translation of the letter to which I referred in the work, Chapter XVI. It is dated--Constantinople, October, 5, 1854. Dear Julian, I Write to you under a sense of oppression from grief, in which I am sure you will participate. Our dear friend, Auguste, is no more! he died fighting bravely for his Emperor. The account is a sad one, but short. At the battle of Alma, when the flag of the enemy was being planted on the top of the Telegraph Tower, poor Auguste, following his natural impulse of bravery, stepped out of the ranks, and cut down the flag-bearer, --only, in his turn, to be cut down by a powerful opponent. I was myself, at that time, engaged, by order of our general, to recall his company, but arrived too late to avert the fate of my young friend. Peace to his soul! His was indeed a career of glory nipped in the bud! Our journey to Sevastopol was most hurried, and we underwent much suffering; but he bore up with every privation without the appearance of being even incommoded by it. As there were not enough horses for the whole company, we walked as long as we could: some wore out their shoes, and on being provided with new ones, if they happened not to fit, they became lame, and had to hobble on as well as they could. With the exce...

Download or read book Operation Barbarossa written by David M Glantz and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed his forces on the Soviet Union. Spearheaded by four powerful Panzer groups and protected by an impenetrable curtain of air support, the seemingly invincible Wehrmacht advanced from the Soviet Union's western borders to the immediate outskirts of Leningrad, Moscow and Rostov in the shockingly brief period of less than six months. The sudden, deep, relentless German advance virtually destroyed the entire peacetime Red Army and captured almost 40 percent of European Russia before expiring inexplicably at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad. An invasion designed to achieve victory in three to six weeks failed and, four years later, resulted in unprecedented and total German defeat. David Glantz challenges the time-honoured explanation that poor weather, bad terrain and Hitler's faulty strategic judgement produced German defeat, and reveals how the Red Army thwarted the German Army's dramatic and apparently inexorable invasion before it achieved its ambitious goals.

Download or read book Operation Typhoon written by David Stahel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1941 Hitler launched Operation Typhoon the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and three of Germany's four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in huge victories at Viaz'ma and Briansk - among the biggest battles of the Second World War. David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged. Germany's hopes of final victory depended on the success of the October offensive but the autumn conditions and the stubborn resistance of the Red Army ensured that the capture of Moscow was anything but certain.

Download or read book How Things Were Done In Odessa written by Maurice Friedberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Soviet-Jewish immigrants to the United States in the 1970s, more than 10,000 came from the Black Sea port and resort of Odessa. In this book, Dr. Friedberg has drawn upon many hours of conversation with more than a hundred of these immigrants to convey the flavour of the Soviet city's cultural life in the middle decades of the 20th century. The study was conducted under the auspices of the Soviet Interview Project headquartered at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.

Download or read book Barbarossa written by Christer Bergström and published by Midland Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an account of the massive aerial campaign fought in the skies over the Soviet Union following the launch of Operation Barbarossa. This book includes information from both Russian and German sources. It features eye-witness material, photographs, biographical studies of major players in the conflict, data tables, and technical assessments.

Download or read book The German Campaign in Russia written by George E. Blau and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Magyar Warriors written by Dénes Bernád and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the comprehensive, two-volume reference covering all aspects of the Hungarian military from the interwar period through WWII. During the First World War, Hungary lost territories containing sizable Magyar ethnic populations. In the years following the war—and especially in the 1930s—the country attempted to regain portions of these territories through a series of border wars. The corresponding buildup of armed forces, with assistance from Italy and Germany, positioned Hungary as a valuable, if secondary, member of the Axis powers. This comprehensive reference provides a complete picture of the Hungarian armed forces between the years 1919–1945. It starts with a brief history of the Magyars, describes the political situation in Hungary before and during WWII, the building of the armed forces, the growth of domestic arms manufacturers, the organization of the armed forces units, and how they changed during the war. The various campaigns of the war are described in great detail, illustrated with more than 500 photographs, as well as numerous tables and maps.

Download or read book Leaving Odessa written by Gerda Fadden and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Gerda Fadden, Odessa, the city of her birth, was a lifelong enigma. "Deep inside me," she wrote, "is a longing for a continuous connection" with the harbor city on the Black Sea. She left Odessa as a small child, when her family fled from Stalin's Russia and arrived in Germany at a time when Hitler was preparing the country for war. Gerda survived countless bombing raids, separation from her mother and father, and humiliating abuse for being half-Russian. In 1949, Gerda arrived in America, where she would begin a new life, one rich in accomplishments. But she never turned her back on those who had been left behind. Leaving Odessa is not only her story. In these pages, she also tells of her aunt who was subjected to unimaginable torture in a Russian Gulag, and the plight of other family members who were caught in the crossfire of war. In this, her Memoir, she has, in painstaking detail, renewed her connection with the past. Leaving Odessa is about love and war and family. Most of all, it is a testament to a little girl's largeness of spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.

Download or read book A Satellite Empire written by Vladimir Solonari and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation during World War II. Transnistria was the only occupied Soviet territory administered by a power other than Nazi Germany, a reward for Romanian participation in Operation Barbarossa. Vladimir Solonari's invaluable contribution to World War II history focuses on three main aspects of Romanian rule of Transnistria: with fascinating insights from recently opened archives, Solonari examines the conquest and delimitation of the region, the Romanian administration of the new territory, and how locals responded to the occupation. What did Romania want from the conquest? The first section of the book analyzes Romanian policy aims and its participation in the invasion of the USSR. Solonari then traces how Romanian administrators attempted, in contradictory and inconsistent ways, to make Transnistria "Romanian" and "civilized" while simultaneously using it as a dumping ground for 150,000 Jews and 20,000 Roma deported from a racially cleansed Romania. The author shows that the imperatives of total war eventually prioritized economic exploitation of the region over any other aims the Romanians may have had. In the final section, he uncovers local responses in terms of collaboration and resistance, in particular exploring relationships with the local Christian population, which initially welcomed the occupiers as liberators from Soviet oppression but eventually became hostile to them. Ever increasing hostility towards the occupying regime buoyed the numbers and efficacy of pro-Soviet resistance groups.