Book Description
The book tells the story of the air battles over Hungary that took place from October 1944 to March 1945 between the Red Army Air Force and the Luftwaffe, in which the Air Forces of Hungary and Romania also played a part.
Author : Dmitriy Khazanov
Publisher : Helion
Page : pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2020-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913336202
The book tells the story of the air battles over Hungary that took place from October 1944 to March 1945 between the Red Army Air Force and the Luftwaffe, in which the Air Forces of Hungary and Romania also played a part.
Author : Daniel Horvath
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781915070876
Meticulously researched and presented at the pilot-versus-pilot level, the true nature of aerial combat and the claiming accuracy of the world's leading aces are brought to light over the Hungarian skies.
Author : R. J. Overy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 1428915850
Author : Nick Beale
Publisher : Airlife Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
This is the first account of the Luftwaffe and their allies from the liberation of Rome to the Axis surrender in Italy. It covers not only fighter combats but includes details of an Italian torpedo attack on Gibraltar.
Author : Balázs Mihályi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1472848373
A gripping and detailed study of the brutal urban battle for Budapest, which saw German and Hungarian troops struggling to halt the joint Soviet-Romanian offensive to take the key city on the Danube. The 52-day-long siege of Budapest witnessed some of the most destructive urban fighting of the war. The Transdanubia region was strategically vital to Nazi Germany for its raw materials and industry, and because of the bridgehead it allowed into Austria. As a result, Hitler declared Budapest a fortress city in early December 1944. The battle for the city pitted 90,000 German and Hungarian troops against 170,000 Soviet (2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts) and Romanian attackers. The operations to take the city ran across several phases, from the initial Soviet approach to Budapest commencing in late October 1944, through the encirclement of city first on the Pest side of the Danube, and then on the Buda bank, and on to the savage urban fighting that began in December 1944 for the Hungarian capital. This superbly detailed work analyses the background, chronology and consequences of the siege from both a military and political perspective, and documents the huge losses in military and civilian casualties and material damage.
Author : Stephen L. Renner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0253023394
This “outstanding piece of research” on Hungary’s secret air force program “fills a critical gap in our understanding” of pre-WWII military advancement (John H. Morrow Jr., author of The Great War). In the aftermath of World War I, Hungary was officially banned from maintaining a military air service. Despite this mandate, however, the embattled nation was determined to rearm itself. Drawing upon a wealth of previously untranslated documents, this fascinating history reveals the story of how Hungary secretly built an entire air force during the interwar years. In the early 1920s, Hungarian officials managed to evade and obstruct Allied inspectors at every turn. Unable to pursue domestic manufacturing, the clandestine rearmament program secretly bought planes from Italy and Germany. Great efforts were made to stockpile equipment from the Great War, and the Hungarian government promoted the development of commercial aviation—partly as a front for military flight operations. During the late 1930s, the Hungarian air force went from a secret branch of the army to an independent modernizing force in its own right. But this success came at a heavy cost: increasing German support brought a growing Nazi influence over the country. Hungary entered the Second World War on the side of the Axis in 1941, with its air force soon becoming little more than a Luftwaffe auxiliary force. Besieged by Allied bombings, the Hungarian air force ended the Second World War much as they had the First—salvaging aircraft parts from downed invaders and fighting until they no longer had airfields from which to operate.
Author : Janusz Piekałkiewicz
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Christer Bergström
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2008
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9781903223918
Describes how the German Army Group centre developed a 'master of defence' strategy, which inflicted atrocious losses on the Red Army's attack formations in 1942 and 1943. Explores the German defensive operations around the River Dnepr and Sea of Azov in September 1943, as well as the subsequent German retreat and the air bridge operation to Cherkassy in early 1944. Examines the major Soviet offensive in mid 1944, the fall of Romania and the autumn battles in Poland, Courland and on the Vistula, ending with the major Soviet winter offensive of early 1945 against the Neisse and Oder rivers and last-ditch battles over Berlin itself.
Author : Roger Hurkmans
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2022
Category :
ISBN : 9788417846664