Book Description
Two volume British record of the victorious Allied campaign in North-West Europe during World War II.
Author : Lionel Frederic Ellis
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 1968
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Two volume British record of the victorious Allied campaign in North-West Europe during World War II.
Author : Lionel Frederic Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 1962
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : L. F. Ellis
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783315338
The final stages of the liberation of western Europe in 1944-45.
Author : L. F. Ellis
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Major L. F. Ellis
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474537339
VICTORY IN THE WEST VOLUME II: THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY The second of two books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War dealing with the final stages of the liberation of western Europe in 1944-45.
Author : L. F. Ellis
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : L. F. Ellis
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Lyle Fullam Major Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Ernest R. May
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1466894288
Ernest R. May's Strange Victory presents a dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940. Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book, Strange Defeat, about the treatment of his nation at the hands of an enemy the French had believed they could easily dispose of. In Strange Victory, the distinguished American historian Ernest R. May asks the opposite question: How was it that Hitler and his generals managed this swift conquest, considering that France and its allies were superior in every measurable dimension and considering the Germans' own skepticism about their chances? Strange Victory is a riveting narrative of those six crucial weeks in the spring of 1940, weaving together the decisions made by the high commands with the welter of confused responses from exhausted and ill-informed, or ill-advised, officers in the field. Why did Hitler want to turn against France at just this moment, and why were his poor judgment and inadequate intelligence about the Allies nonetheless correct? Why didn't France take the offensive when it might have led to victory? What explains France's failure to detect and respond to Germany's attack plan? It is May's contention that in the future, nations might suffer strange defeats of their own if they do not learn from their predecessors' mistakes in judgment.
Author : Milton Shulman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1789121760
THE STORY OF THE COLLAPSE OF THE GERMAN ARMIES IN THE WEST AND A STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II, AS TOLD FROM THE GERMAN POINT OF VIEW In 1945, the once mighty Wehrmacht was reduced to a pathetic shadow of its former self as the thousand-year Reich lay in ruins. The war in the West had been lost and its protagonists scattered in prisoner of war camps across Europe. Author Milton Shulman joined the Canadian Army HQ three months before D-Day as a major and was promoted to intelligence officer by war's end. As part of his duties, he made close personal contact with the German Army throughout intelligence operations in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. While still in uniform, he also interviewed many of the captured German generals in the following months and years, including Gerd von Rundstedt, ‘Sepp’ Dietrich and Kurt Meyer—26 in all. From them, Major Shulman learnt why it was that such a superbly armed body of fighting men suffered such a calamitous defeat. This absorbing book is the result of those interviews. First published in 1947, it was the first account to reveal the truth of what happened in the war: how Hitler and his General Staff planned their campaigns, how the discipline and ignorance of the German military machine served Hitler well and Germany badly—and why victory finally slipped from their hands. “The best and most vivid account of the German collapse”—Hugh Trevor Roper, The Sunday Times