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Hitler's Russian & Cossack Allies 1941-45 by Nigel Thomas
epub |eng | 2015-04-12 | Author:Nigel Thomas

Cossack Security units, June 1941–December 1942 The first Cossack units were designated Security Bns, while the mounted regts were intended for the planned 1st Cossack Division. By Dec 1942, 15 ...
( Category: Military April 12,2018 )
The Soviet Union at War 1941-1945 by David Stone
epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:David Stone [Stone, David]

In the Red Army’s organization the same general pattern of crisis, retrenchment and growing success was repeated. The first stage, simplifying the Red Army’s units and organization, was a direct ...
( Category: Russia April 12,2018 )
The Russian Army in the First World War by Nik Cornish
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Nik Cornish

One of the older conscripts, the so-called borodachi (bearded ones), called up during 1915. The mobilisation orders of that year caused widespread unrest as they deprived families of their breadwinners. ...
( Category: Military April 12,2018 )
Russian Armour in the Second World War by Michael Green
epub |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:Michael Green

From the loader’s side of this T-34-85 Model 1945 tank is this view of the vehicle commander’s radio mounted against the side of the turret wall. To the left of ...
( Category: Military April 12,2018 )
Everyday Stalinism by Fitzpatrick Sheila;
epub |eng | 1999-04-12 | Author:Fitzpatrick, Sheila;

Neglected Children The upbringing of children is normally considered women’s business, and so it was in Soviet Russia in the 1930s. It was women, not men, who wrote again and ...
( Category: Russia April 12,2018 )
Tanks and Combat Vehicles of the Warsaw Pact (Weapons and Equipment of the Warsaw Pact Book 1) by Russell Phillips
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Russell Phillips [Phillips, Russell]

Armament: 1x 85mm D-70 gun (45 rounds) 1x 7.62mm SGMT MG (2,000 rounds) 1x 12.7mm DShKM MG (later vehicles) 2P26 The first Soviet anti-tank guided missile, the AT-1 Snapper, used ...
( Category: Military April 12,2018 )
Balaclava 1854 by John Sweetman
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:John Sweetman

The Charge To the spectators on the Sapoune Ridge, the scene was pure theatre. Elliot in his cocked hat rode beside Scarlett, who wore a blue frocked coat and burnished ...
( Category: Russia April 12,2018 )
Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942-1943 by Hope Hamilton
mobi |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Hope Hamilton [Hamilton, Hope]

Yet, at other times when a mule fell wounded or exhausted, Antonio Marino observed a “surreal example of human solidarity” as mule handlers hitched themselves to sleds, taking the place ...
( Category: Military April 11,2018 )
Kharkov 1942 by Robert Forczyk
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Forczyk

14 May 14 May brought another warm, sunny day and the Luftwaffe made the most of it. In addition to more fighters, StG 77 returned from the Crimea with about ...
( Category: Europe April 11,2018 )
Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union by Peter Sasgen
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Peter Sasgen [Sasgen, Peter]

13 ______ EYES AND EARS “SONAR, ANYTHING?” “Negative, Captain. Just garbage.” Several hours spent in and around the intercept box had turned up a Norwegian fishing fleet but not much ...
( Category: Military April 10,2018 )
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich Keith Gessen (translator)
epub |eng | 2008-10-19 | Author:Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen (translator) [Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen (translator)]

MONOLOGUE ABOUT WRITING CHERNOBYL The ants are crawling along the tree branch. There’s military equipment everywhere. Soldiers, cries, curses, swearing, helicopters rattling. But they’re crawling. I was coming back from ...
( Category: Russia April 10,2018 )
Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia by Gaidar Yegor
epub |eng | 2007-04-10 | Author:Gaidar, Yegor

Loss of Control over the Economic and Political Situation In 1989–90, the Union leadership lost even more control over the country’s fate. The mounting economic difficulties, the shortages in the ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 10,2018 )
Barbarossa Derailed, Volume 1 by David Glantz
epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:David Glantz

See Map 50. Armeegruppe Guderian’s assault, 5 August 1941. As tragic as it was to Timoshenko, Group Kachalov’s defeat elicited a distinctly vindictive reaction from an irate Stalin, who on ...
( Category: Military April 10,2018 )
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:Helen Rappaport [Rappaport, Helen]

In the summer of 1918, the road out to the Koptyaki Forest – a dense area of ancient birch and pine forest nine miles north-west of Ekaterinburg – would take ...
( Category: Historical April 10,2018 )
Inside the Cold War From Marx to Reagan by Sven F. Kraemer
epub |eng | | Author:Sven F. Kraemer

4. Reagan’s START Revolution in Strategic Arms Control: “Eureka”—May 1981–June 1982 Reagan’s presidential campaign and early presidential statements on accelerated Soviet strategic modernization and increased numbers of Soviet forces, focused ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 10,2018 )

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