The Red Army at War

Author: Artem Drabkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the Eastern Front? How far is the common perception of Red Army heroism and sacrifice borne out by historical reality? And what was the daily experience of the individual soldier caught up in this immense and ruthless conflict? The 160 contemporary photographs from the Russian archives that have been selected for this book give a striking insight into all sides of wartime service for the Soviet soldier. The whole range of military experience is portrayed here, from recruitment and the rigors of training to transport, marching and the ordeal of combat.

The Russian Army in the First World War

Author: Nik Cornish
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848847521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
For 100 years little attention has been paid to the Russian army that fought the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians in the First World War on the Eastern Front. Yet the Tsar's army played a critical part in the global conflict and was engaged in a sequence of shattering campaigns that were waged on a massive scale on several fronts across eastern Europe. ??Nik Cornish, in this heavily illustrated account, seeks to set the record straight. In a selection of almost 200 archive photographs he gives a graphic impression of the Russian army of the time, of the soldiers and commanders, and of the conditions in which they fought. He describes the key stages in the struggle - the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes, the Przemysl siege, the Gorlice-Tarnow and Brusilov offensives and the Romanian and Turkish campaigns.??His book is a fascinating photographic record of the army under the Tsar Nicholas II, then under the Provisional Government and the Bolshevik rule that succeeded him. The impact of the Russian revolution is also revealed in the photographs which take the story through from the initial outbreaks of discontent and the abdication of the Tsar to Lenin's take-over and the end of Russia's war - and of the imperial army _ in 1917.

The Red Army at War

Author: Artem Drabkin
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844688844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213

The Fall of Berlin

Author: Ian Baxter
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
ISBN: 9781526737878
Category : Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
By March 1945, the Red Army had closed in on Berlin. Marshal Zhukov, with almost a million soldiers and 20,000 tanks and guns at his disposal, launched his assault of the Seelow Heights. While costly with 30,000 Russians killed, it brought the Russian Army to the gates of the capital. On 20 April, Hitler's 56th birthday, Soviet artillery began a massive bombardment of the doomed city. The Fuhrer ordered every soldier, Hitlerjugend and Volksstrum to fight to the death. The house-to-house fighting that followed was brutal and savage with heavy casualties for both military and civilians. Using superb Russian and German imagery this fine Images of War series book describes the Russian assault and Nazi last-ditch defense of Hitler's capital during the final days of the Third Reich.

The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad

Author: Ian Baxter
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
ISBN: 9781526747952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The scale of death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad during late 1942 and early 1943 remains unprecedented in the history of warfare. The annihilation of General von Paulus' 6th Army epitomised the devastating defeat of Hitler's ambition to conquer Stalin's Soviet Union. After the successful Operation Blue offensive 6th Army reached the River Volga north of Stalingrad in summer 1942. With over-extended supply lines and facing steely opposition, increasingly desperate attempts to seize the city repeatedly failed. Slowly 6th Army became encircled. The German High Command attempted a number of relief attempts, notably Field Marshal von Manstein's 'Winter Storm' but all were defeated by the tenacity of the enemy and the Russian winter. To their credit the men of 6th Army fought to the end but by February 1943 the last pockets of German resistance were either destroyed or had surrendered. Thanks to a superb collection of unpublished photographs, this Images of War book provides an absorbing insight into the dramatic events of the last months of 6th Army's doomed existence.

Stalingrad

Author: Nik Cornish
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844159345
Category : Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was decisive for World War II as a whole, and the story of the battle on the banks of the Volga has fascinated historians ever since. However, it has rarely been recorded photographically. These photographs give us glimpses of the lives and deaths of soldiers who participated in one of the most terrible battles in h

Red Army Auxiliary Armoured Vehicles, 1930-1945

Author: Alexey Tarasov
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
ISBN: 9781526785985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
During the 1930s in the Soviet Union a remarkable range of auxiliary armoured vehicles were produced for the Red Army which have rarely had the attention they deserve, and Alexey Tarasov's photographic history is the ideal guide to them. These innovative designs demonstrate the diversity and innovation of the Soviet arms industry. Among them were armoured flails, ambulances, bridge-layers, flame-throwers and amphibious cars which prefigure similar designs made by western engineers during the Second World War. As this selection of rare photographs shows, Soviet designers were in many ways ahead of their time and it was short-sighted internal policy and the shortcomings of Soviet industry which led to the cancellation or postponement of many of these promising projects. As a result, when faced with Operation Barbarossa in 1941 the Red Army lacked the auxiliary armour that would have helped to stem the German advance. Alexey Tarasov's in-depth research and the rare photographs he has assembled give a fascinating insight into a little-known aspect of the history of Soviet armoured vehicles.

The Battle for Warsaw, 1939-1945

Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
ISBN: 9781526741509
Category : Warsaw (Poland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The tragic history of Warsaw during the Second World War documented in 200 graphic wartime photographs. During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones records them all in graphic detail. The first occurred in 1939 when the Polish army was defeated by the German invaders, and five years of occupation followed. The second was sparked by the Jewish Ghetto Uprising in 1943 which was ruthlessly suppressed by 1,200 SS troops and led to the deaths of 13,000 people. In the third the Red Army's advance was beaten back at the gates of the city in the summer of 1944 and the fourth was fought at the same time when the Nazis crushed the rising of the Polish Home Army and sought to destroy the city in an act of revenge. The failure of the rising consigned the country to decades of communist rule. The photographs and the detailed narrative give the reader a powerful impression of the experience of the people of Warsaw during this tragic period in their history and document the widespread devastation the fighting left in its wake.

The Crushing of Army Group North 1944-1945

Author: Ian Baxter
Publisher: Pen & Sword Archaeology
ISBN: 9781473862555
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
* The latest in the ever popular Images of War Series. * Describes the bitter fighting and extreme conditions of the Eastern Front. * Superb and rare images of Axis and Russian armour and other weapons/equipment in action. * Compiled by our foremost Images of War author and photographic collector.

The Red Army and the Second World War

Author: Alexander Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316720519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 757

Book Description
In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.