Author: United States. Army, Europe. Historical DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Supplement to Guide to Foreign Military Studies 1945-54 Catalog & Index
Author: United States. Army, Europe. Historical DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Guide to Foreign Military Studies, 1945-54
Author: Wilbur Sturtevant NyeGuide to Foreign Military Studies, 1945-1954
Author: United States. Army, Europe. Historical DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Guide to Foreign Military Studies 1945-54
Author: World War II Guide to Records Relating to U.S. Military Participation
Author: Rebecca L. CollierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Guide to the National Archives of the United States
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
The Wehrmacht Retreats
Author: Robert M. CitinoPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700623434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chronicles this weakening Wehrmacht, now fighting desperately on the defensive but still remarkably dangerous and lethal. Drawing on his impeccable command of German-language sources, Citino offers fresh, vivid, and detailed treatments of key campaigns during this fateful year: the Allied landings in North Africa, General von Manstein's great counterstroke in front of Kharkov, the German attack at Kasserine Pass, the titanic engagement of tanks and men at Kursk, the Soviet counteroffensives at Orel and Belgorod, and the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy. Through these events, he reveals how a military establishment historically configured for violent aggression reacted when the tables were turned; how German commanders viewed their newest enemy, the U.S. Army, after brutal fighting against the British and Soviets; and why, despite their superiority in materiel and manpower, the Allies were unable to turn 1943 into a much more decisive year. Applying the keen operational analysis for which he is so highly regarded, Citino contends that virtually every flawed German decision-to defend Tunis, to attack at Kursk and then call off the offensive, to abandon Sicily, to defend Italy high up the boot and then down much closer to the toe-had strong supporters among the army's officer corps. He looks at all of these engagements from the perspective of each combatant nation and also establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt the synergistic interplay between the fronts. Ultimately, Citino produces a grim portrait of the German officer corps, dispelling the longstanding tendency to blame every bad decision on Hitler. Filled with telling vignettes and sharp portraits and copiously documented, The Wehrmacht Retreats is a dramatic and fast-paced narrative that will engage military historians and general readers alike.
Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States: Record groups 171-515
Author: United States. National Archives and Records AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Special Bibliographic Series
Author: US Army Military History Research CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives
Author: Charles G. PalmPublisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817925932
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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