Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II (Edele Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II (Edele Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two. Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, the Soviet Union's war was both considerably longer and more

Tupolev Tu-4: The First Soviet Strategic Bomber (Gordon Yefim)(Pevná vazba)

After World War II, the Soviet Union and the USA, who had been allies in the war, started moving towards political and military confrontation. The Soviet Union urgently needed a strategic bomber capable of striking at the USA. Thus, the windfall of three battle-damaged B-29s forced to land in

Soviet & Russian Military A/C Asia (Gordon Yefim)(Pevná vazba)

After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union tried to exert its political influence on the Asian continent. A major pillar of this cold-war policy was the widespread supply of arms to the Continent including many combat, transport, training and utility aircraft. Soviet and Russian Military

Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II (Hirsch Francine)(Pevná vazba)

Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes -- and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this immersive, gripping, and

Sex and the Nazi Soldier: Violent, Commercial and Consensual Encounters During the War in the Soviet Union, 1941-45 (Mhlhuser Regina)(Pevná vazba)

Sexual violence was a widespread reality during the war and the occupation in the Soviet Union: Wehrmacht soldiers and SS men made women and girls victims of sexual torture, committed rape and sexual enslavement. They also visited both 'secret' prostitutes and official military brothels, andhad

Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front During World War II (Goldman Wendy Z.)(Pevná vazba)

The first history of the Soviet home front experience during World War II and of the civilians who bore the burden of total war and played a critical role in the global victory over fascism. After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet

Iron Curtain - The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 (Applebaum Anne)(Paperback / softback)

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: Communism

The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War Against Japan (Casey Steven)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After almost two years slogging with infantrymen through North Africa, Italy, and France, Ernie Pyle immediately realized he was

Bletchley Park's Secret Source: Churchill's Wrens and the Y Service in World War II (Hore Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place?This is the extraordinary

Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union (Games Warlord)(Paperback)

Stalin's Russian Winter War against Finland, and his World War II campaigns on Nazi Germany's eastern front (around Kiev, Lenningrad, Moscow, Kharkov, Stalingrad, Kursk, Byelorussia, the Balkans, East Prussia, Warsaw, Hungary, and Berlin) constitute the largest land war in world history in terms of

Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality (Sinelnikov Leonid)(Pevná vazba)

A look at Soviet tobacco enterprises through the Russian Civil War and beyond. Smoke and Mirrors tells the story of a world that is no more. The once-mighty Soviet Union dissolved decades ago, and on the site of its famous Java tobacco factory, founded before the Russian Revolution in 1917, there

In the Shadow of the Red Banner: Soviet Jews in the War Against Nazi Gemany (Arad Yitzchak)(Pevná vazba)

Over 500,000 Jews fought under the Soviet banner in World War Two, of which an approximate 40 percent gave their lives - the highest percentage of all the nations of the Soviet Union and among all the other nations that fought in the Second World War. Dr. Arad now sets the record straight on the

Panzer 38(t) Vs Bt-7: Barbarossa 1941 (Zaloga Steven J.)(Paperback)

The tank battles in the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941 were the largest in World War II, exceeding even the more famous Prokhorovka encounter during the Kursk campaign. Indeed, they were the largest tank battles ever fought. This book examines two evenly matched competitors in this

The Medic: A World War II Story of Imprisonment, Hope, and Survival (Swedberg Claire E.)(Pevná vazba)

Henry Chamberlain was one of the longest-term prisoners of war in World War II. Taken prisoner in the American surrender at Bataan in April 1942, he remained in Japanese captivity until September 1945. During three and a half years of imprisonment, as a medic he was a unique and unfortunate witness

Stalin's War: A New History of World War II (McMeekin Sean)(Pevná vazba)

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin--not Hitler--was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II (Wein Elizabeth)(Paperback)

Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II--from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name VerityThis nonfiction book is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially during

Hot Skies of the Cold War: The Bulgarian Air Force in the 1950s (Mladenov Alexander)(Paperback)

After the end of the Second World War, Bulgaria fell in total dependency upon the Soviet Union as a direct result of the 1944 Yalta agreement on the 'spheres of influence' division of Europe. The Bulgarian Air Force was radically reformed in the Soviet style and rapidly re-equipped with huge

Klotsvog (Khemlin Margarita)(Paperback)

Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II--and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demons of one strikingly vain woman. Maya Abramovna Klotsvog has had quite a life, and she wants you to know all about it. Selfish, garrulous, and

Spad Fighters: The Spad A.2 to XVI in World War I (Wilkins Mark C.)(Pevná vazba)

Revolution in Bavaria, 1918-1919: The Eisner Regime and the Soviet Republic (Mitchell Allan)(Pevná vazba)

The tangled affairs in Bavaria at the close of World War I constitute a unique and important part of the early Weimar Republic. This study of the 1918 revolution, based on archival sources such as cabinet protocols and bureaucratic records, traces in detail the overthrow of the Wittelsbach dynasty

Cold War Resistance: The International Struggle Over Antibiotics (Landas Marc)(Pevná vazba)

In June 1941 a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a precious commodity--penicillin--and the knowledge that it would change history. Once the U.S. government had been debriefed, the Office of Science Research and Development,

Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us about Our History and Ourselves (Lowe Keith)(Pevná vazba)

A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder what monuments built to commemorate WWII say about

The German Army Medical Corps in World War II (Fleischer Wolfgang)(Pevná vazba)

This is the only book in English to present a detailed look at the German medical corps in World War II. Among the topics covered are training, structure of the corps, equipment, transport, medical care in a variety of combat zones, and a selection of personal memoirs from

The Global Cold War (Westad Odd Arne)(Paperback)

The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of