The successes of the german Blitzkrieg in 1939–41 were as surprising as they were swift. The author fits these narratives into a broader perspective to give the reader a better understanding of why the Germans were so successful in 1939–41. This book focuses on the experience of the enlisted men and junior officers in the Blitzkrieg operations in Poland, Norway, Western Europe and Russia.
The false conclusions drawn became myths about the Blitzkrieg that have lingered for decades. It has been argued that german victories in the early part of the war rested less upon newly developed tanks and aircraft and more on German military traditions: rather than creating a new way of war based on new technology, the Germans fitted the new weapons into their existing ideas on warfare.
These doctrines focused on independent action, flexibility, initiative, decentralized decision-making and mobility. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them.
How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII
. Dispersion became relevant, as the Japanese decided to divide their forces while the Americans concentrated theirs. A world of tactical dehydration, amphetamine pills, and illegal smoking is explored, as well as the measures pilots implemented to reduce their risk of death in the event of being hit. The major carrier battles of the war are considered, from Coral Sea to Leyte Gulf, with a focus on how the tools of carrier operations were employed.
With a focus on the conflict in the Pacific between the U. S. In november 1921 the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the launch of the British Hermes. Navy and the imperial japanese fleet, this title examines how aircraft carriers fought during World War II by first considering all the tools and building blocks of carrier operations, and then discussing the various battles that involved aircraft carriers to explore how carrier operations evolved during war.
Every aspect of carrier operations is covered; from the technology used on the carriers and in aircraft including for navigation and communication, to what life was really like in the cockpit for the pilots. At the battle of Midway the debate of concentration vs.
How to Lose a War at Sea: Foolish Plans and Great Naval Blunders How to Lose Series
Some blunders were the result of insufficient planning, overinflated egos, espionage, or miscalculations; others were caused by ideas that didn't hold water in the first place.
First Kills: The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Władysław Gnyś
It tells władek's story from his childhood in rural Poland, through his time flying in three Allied air forces during World War II, to his reconciliation with Neubert and his commemoration as a national war hero in Poland. During the latter part of operation Overlord of June 1944, Władek was shot down over France and crash landed.
They reconciled their differences and remained friends until their deaths. Wounded, he was taken prisoner but then escaped, his life spared by the enemy on more than one occasion. Fifty years after the invasion of poland, Gnyś and Neubert met and shook hands, in the summer of 1989, making news around the world.
On this day, as gnyś' squadron took off near Kraków to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neubert attacked, killing the captain. Polish pilot władysław władek gnyś was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. An experienced fighter pilot, gnyś fought in the battle of Poland with the Polish Air Force, the Battle of France with the French Air Force and the Battle of Britain and beyond with the Royal Air Force.
To War with the 4th
The 2nd battalion 12th Infantry Regiment saw heavy combat throughout. The 4th infantry division has always been there in America’s modern wars. They experienced a series of major engagements that would entail 33 consecutive days of vicious, close-quarters combat in the battle of Dak To in 1967. They would go over the top on uneven ground to be blown to pieces by German artillery and fall in their hundreds to the spitting of German machine guns, yet nevertheless win the day.
In world war ii on d-day they scrambled ashore across the sands of Utah beach and remained fighting in Europe until Hitler was dead and Germany had surrendered. In vietnam they would execute precarious “search and destroy” missions in dense jungles against a determined and resourceful enemy. From the normandy campaign to the hell of the hürtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, no other American division suffered more casualties in the European theater than the 4th, and no other division accomplished as much.
For their actions in Indochina they would receive no less than 11 Medals of Honor. They fought in iraq to topple saddam hussein, and in may 2009, at the height of Operation Enduring Freedom, the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team deployed to Afghanistan for a 12-month combat mission.
The Kaiser's Pirates: Hunting Germany?s Raiding Cruisers in World War I
Instead, they were ordered to attack Britain’s vital trade routes for as long as possible. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
. The next year saw a battle of wits which stretched across the globe, drawing in ships and men from six empires. By the end, the kaiser’s Pirates” were no more, and Britain once again ruled the waves. Including vivid descriptions of the battles of coronel and the falklands and the actions of the Emden, the Indian Ocean, the Karsrühe and the Königsberg, The Kaiser’s Pirates tells a fascinating narrative that ranges across the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Goeben and the Breslau, and the Caribbean.
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The kaiser’s pirates is a dramatic and little-known story of World War I, when the actions of a few men shaped the fate of nations.
The Kaiser’s Battlefleet: German Capital Ships 1871–1918
The book is arranged as a chronological narrative, construction schedules and ultimate fates tabulated throughout, with technical details, thus avoiding the sometimes disjointed structure that can result from a class-by-class approach. Heavily illustrated with line work and photographs, many from German sources, the book offers readers a fresh visual look at these ships, beyond the limited range of images available from UK sources.
A key objective of the book is to make available a full synthesis of the published fruits of archival research by German writers found in the pre-WW2 books of Koop & Schmolke, Großmer’s on the construction programme of the dreadnaught era, Forstmeier & Breyer on WW1 projects, and Schenk & Nottelmann’s papers in Warship International.
. The battleships of the third reich have been written about exhaustively, but there is little in English devoted to their predecessors of the Second Reich.
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956–1990
Special forces berlin was a one of a kind unit that had no parallel. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets. The massive armies of the soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. Us military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the juggernaut they expected when and if a war began.
Highly trained and fluent in German, each man was allocated a specific area. It left a legacy of a new type of soldier expert in unconventional warfare, one that was sought after for other deployments including the attempted rescue of American hostages from Tehran in 1979. It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.
S. The first 40 men who came to berlin in mid-1956 were soon reinforced by 60 more and these 100 soldiers and their successors would stand ready to go to war at only two hours’ notice, in a hostile area occupied by nearly one million Warsaw Pact forces, until 1990
The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II
The two apostles for these new theories were the Englishman J. C. F. All of these actions saw the clash of the breakthrough theories with the realities of conventional military tactics, and the military leaders on both sides, and Mosier's novel analysis of these campaigns, the failure of airpower, is a challenging reassessment of the military history of World War II.
Hitler, rommel, von manstein, Montgomery and Patton were all seduced by the breakthrough myth or blitzkrieg as the decisive way to victory. A bold reinterpretation of some of the most decisive battles of World War II, showing that the outcomes had less to do with popular new technology than old–fashioned, on–the–ground warfare.
The book includes maps and photos. He also reinterprets rommel's north african campaigns, d–day and the normandy campaign, Patton's attempted breakthrough into the Saar and Germany, Montgomery's flawed breakthrough at Arnhem, and Hitler's last desperate breakthrough effort to Antwerp in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
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The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
Finally, o’connell reveals how cannae’s legend has inspired and haunted military leaders ever since, and the lessons it teaches for our own wars. National bestsellerfor millennia, carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B. C. O’connell, one of the most admired names in military history, tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time, giving us a stirring account of this apocalyptic battle, its causes and consequences.
O’connell brilliantly conveys how rome amassed a giant army to punish Carthage’s masterful commander, how Hannibal outwitted enemies that outnumbered him, and how this disastrous pivot point in Rome’s history ultimately led to the republic’s resurgence and the creation of its empire.
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
S. Complex systems fall by the wayside. Military could overcome this through training, discipline, and above all, communication. This book was incredibly well received by generals, military historians and analysts:“Finally, it is the volume of fire that counts. Parade ground formations disappear. This is one of the great volumes on fighting published since World War II and should be required reading for every staff officer as well as every combat officer of the arms which fight on the ground.
Things have to be that simple. A penetrating analysis of behavior and leadership of men in active combat. Foreign affairs“a criticism of the present methods of infantry training is the author's challenge to the inadequacies of orientation courses, of present preparation for conditions on the field of combat, both physical and psychological.
Kirkus ReviewsS. The good men which we had at the beginning are gone.