Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before published in English, from one of the great Russian writers of the 20th century – a vivid eyewitness account of the Eastern Front and “the ruthless truth of war.”

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Red Army’s newspaper. A Writer at War – based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered raw material for his articles – depicts the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. It also includes some of the earliest reportage on the Holocaust. In the three years he spent on assignment, Grossman witnessed some of the most savage fighting of the war: the appalling defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine and much more.

Historian Antony Beevor has taken Grossman’s raw notebooks, and fashioned them into a narrative providing one of the most even-handed descriptions – at once unflinching and sensitive – we have ever had of what he called “the ruthless truth of war.”

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Od początku wojny w rejonie Morza Śródziemnego Włosi żądali od Niemców pomocy materialnej, ci jednak wzbraniali się przed tym, przekonani, że najlepsze wsparcie powinno mieć formę udziału niemieckich jednostek. Już w lipcu 1940 r. zaoferowali, że bombowce dalekiego zasięgu będą operować z Rodos przeciwko żegludze na Kanale Sueskim. Zaproponował i również inne rozwiązania, łącznie z zajęciem Gibraltaru. Zadziwia to, że nie opracowano żadnych planów dotyczących Malty - być może dlatego, że oczekiwano jej szybkiego upadku, ponieważ Brytyjczycy byli zajęci działaniami w Egipcie. Lato trwało, a plany inwazji na Wyspy Brytyjskie traciły na aktualności. Rozważano inne sposoby uderzenia na Wielką Brytanię, łącznie z użyciem Luftwaffe we wschodnim rejonie Morza Śródziemnego, oraz propozycję wysłania zmechanizowanych korpusów, aby wzmocnić włoską inwazję na Egipt. Działo się to przy wsparciu Kriegsmarine, dla której Kanał Sueski stanowił cel najwyższej wagi. Adolf Hitler wysłał gen. mjr. Wilhelma von Thomę, dowódcę Wojsk Szybkich, aby zbadał sytuację. Tymczasem 3. Dywizja Pancerna (DPanc.) została postawiona w stan gotowości, by w każdej chwili mogła wyruszyć do Aftyki.

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"Lunde has thoroughly dissected both ground and naval battles and managed to make a complex politico-military situation clear. . . . military collections will want to acquire this excellent effort."-Library Journal
This book describes the often overlooked World War II campaign for Norway-a complex series of battles in which Hitler out-gambled Churchill in order to secure a vital resource lifeline for the Third Reich.
After Hitler conquered Poland and was still fine-tuning his plans against France, the British began to exert control of the coastline of neutral Norway, an action that threatened to cut off Germany's iron-ore conduit to Sweden and outflank from the start its hegemony on the Continent. The Germans responded with a dizzying series of assaults, using every tool of modern warfare developed in the previous generation. Airlifted infantry, mountain troops and paratroopers were dispatched to the north, seizing Norwegian strongpoints while forestalling larger but more cumbersome Allied units.
The German navy also set sail, taking a brutal beating at the hands of Britannia, while ensuring with its sacrifice that key harbors could be held open for resupply. As dive-bombers soared overhead, small but elite German units traversed forbidding terrain to ambush Allied units trying to forge inland. At Narvik, some 6,000 German troops battled 20,000 French and British, until the Allies were finally forced to withdraw by the great disaster in France, which had then gotten underway.
Henrik Lunde, a native Norwegian and former U.S. Special Operations colonel, has written the most objective account to date of a campaign in which 20th-century military innovation found its first fertile playing field.
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"While it's almost impossible to find a new book about a hitherto unexplored WWII-related subject, it's almost as unlikely to discover a new book that turns out to be the best yet written on the topic. . . . Henrik Lunde's new Hitler's Pre-Emptive War is certainly not the first book about the 1940 invasion of Norway and the battles around Narvik, but it sure looks like the best."-Stone and Stone Second World War Books
"Well written with an unbiased eye. . . . Every aspect is covered, with British, French, German and Norwegian viewpoints, decisions and actions all being taken fairly into account. . . . It's an interesting story and one I would recommend." - Military Modeling, 06/2009
"..a detailed, well laid out history... essential reading; a must-have in your military library and a job very well done by the author." Military Model Craft International, 07/2009
"This large book will fuel debate. . . . Exhaustive research and intellectual detachment enable the author to bring objectivity and a fresh interpretation to a subject that has been until now laden with national self-justification. . . . Holds the reader's interest while progressing seamlessly from political and strategic decisions to theater operations and tactics of the various national forces engaged, including describing and analyzing combat on land, at sea, and in the air. . . . This book is a gem."-Parameters

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Zajęcie Danii i Norwegii początkowo nie było uwzględnione w planach Hitlera dotyczących podbojów i dominacji w Europie. Jednakże Kriegsma-rine, nauczona doświadczeniem blokady Kilonii i Wilhelmshaven podczas I wojny światowej, zaczęła napierać na podjęcie operacji mającej na celu zabezpieczenie norweskich portów - szczególnie w Narwiku i Trondheim wkrótce po pokonaniu Polski.

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In September 1944 the Soviet Army poured into German territory, flooding the martial heartland of the Reich, Prussia. Hopelessly outnumbered by the human wave of the Red Army, the Wehrmacht fought on with determination, but was gradually beaten back. This book describes the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of Prussia, from Memel to Konigsberg, the Heiligenbeil Pocket to Danzig. Using accounts never before published in English, Prit Buttar looks at the campaign both from a command level, and from the perspective of normal soldiers on the front line.

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A startling omission from the extensive literature on the Pacific events of World War II is an analysis of Allied psychological operations. Allison B. Gilmore makes a strong case for the importance of psychological warfare in this theater, countering the usual view of fanatical resistance by Japanese units. Gilmore marshals evidence that Japanese military indoctrination did not produce soldiers who were invulnerable to demoralization and the survival instinct.
The Pacific War was particularly brutal, racist on both sides, and often fought without regard to so-called civilized norms of warfare. Yet Gilmore offers her study as "the story of how psywar personnel attempted to convince Japanese and Americans alike that their assumptions about the other were misleading and counterproductive." To do so, she focuses on combat propaganda-activities conducted in support of military operations and intended to demoralize Japanese combatants-and examines the objectives of the psywar campaign. She outlines the process by which propaganda was created, evaluates the policies that guided that creation, and offers criteria for judging the relative success of these efforts. The work also examines the Imperial Army's training, the strengths and weaknesses of Japanese morale, and the Allies' attempts to exploit the Japanese military structure and ethos. Allison B. Gilmore is an assistant professor in the Department of History at The Ohio State University at Lima. This is her first book.

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Spis treści:
Wprowadzenie, Rozwój ekwipunku, Ekwipunek z okresu przed powstaniem Wehrmachtu, Ekwipunek polowy wojsk lądowych, Ekwipunek tropikalny, Ekwipunek innych służb, Zaopatrzenie i dystrybucja ekwipunku, Ekwipunek podstawowy, Pas główny, Szelki pasa głównego, Szlufki dodatkowe, Ładownice, Ładownice, Chlebak, Manierka, Menażka, Saperki, Żabka do bagnetu, Maski przeciwgazowe, Płachta przeciwgazowa, Tornistry, Plecak bojowy, Płachta namiotowa Zwój płaszcza, Torba na ubranie, Opatrunki osobiste, Racje polowe, Ekwipunek związany z uzbrojeniem, Ładownice na magazynki MP38/MP40, Ładownice na magazynki MP43/MP44, Kabury na pistolety, Akcesoria karabinu maszynowego MG 34/MG 42, Akcesoria granatników, Akcesoria lekkiego moździerza, Akcesoria pistoletów sygnałowych, Pasy nośne broni, Ekwipunek specjalistyczny, Ekwipunek dowódców oddziałów, Ekwipunek oddziałów konnych, Ekwipunek oddziałów artylerii, Ekwipunek oddziałów saperów, Ekwipunek oddziałów saperów, Ekwipunek oddziałów górskich, Ekwipunek wojsk łączności, Ekwipunek jednostek medycznych, Ekwipunek różny, Tablice barwne

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The German Police were an essential arm of the Nazi regime; as soon as Hitler achieved power the previous decentralized provincial system was unified into a single state apparatus, integrated at the command levels with the SS. While it may have been centrally controlled, it was still separated into a bewildering range of different departments and functions, many with their own uniform distinctions. This book offers a concise introduction to the organization, responsibilities, uniforms and insignia of the various branches of this machinery of repression, from Police generals to rural constables, transport policemen and factory watchmen.

Contents
Introduction · Ordnungspolizei: Schutzpolizei (National & Municipal Police) - Gendarmerie (Rural Police) - Traffic Police - Administrative Police - Colonial Police - Water Protection Police - Fire Protection Police - Air Defence Police - Technical Emergency Service. · Sonderpolizei (Special Police): Railway Police - Postal Police - Broadcasting Police - Mines Police - Dams Police - Police Auxiliaries. · Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) - Border Police - Customs Police - Criminal Police

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Historia torped i opis radzieckiej torpedy wz. 53-38. 1870-1960.

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The 100th title in the Fortress series, this book describes and examines the Fuhrerhauptquartiere – the 14 or so headquarters built for Hitler. Revealing their locations and how they were used to direct the Nazi war apparatus, this is a fascinating insight into a range of historical sites from Berghof to the Wolf’s Lair. With a map showing the locations of all of Hitler’s bunkers and fortifications on the eastern and western fronts and illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned artwork, this book is an essential introduction to Hitler’s command structures and recreates numerous bunkers and buildings which were destroyed by Allied bombing raids or by fleeing German troops.

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During the winter of 1943-1944, the Red Army mounted major offensive operations against Hitler's Wehrmacht. By January 1944 the Red Army had penetrated the vaunted "Eastern Wall" along the Dnepr river and was preparing to lunge deep into the Ukraine. In mid-January 1944, Stalin ordered his 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts to crush German forces defending the last portion of the Eastern Wall in German hands, the salient around Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii. The ensuing offensive destroyed a major portion of two German army corps and precipitated the subsequent fighting withdrawal of German forces from the entire Ukraine.
This volume is an unexpurgated translation of the originally classified Soviet General Staff Study No.14.

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In WWII fifteen U-boats were sunk by British submarines and three British submarines were lost to U-boats. This book examines these eighteen episodes chronologically, describing the careers of the boats and their commanders, and unfolding their final actions.

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The officers and men of the Kriegsmarine are portrayed in this text, with the vessels in which they undertook such effective offensive action in the 1939-45 war.

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The camp held a number of prisoners such as Gunter d'Alquen, the journalist; Otto Kretschmer, the 'Wolf of the Atlantic'; and Paul Werner Hoppe, former commandant of Stutthof Concentration Camp in Poland. The history of its inception and creation are described, as is the daily life of the prisoners. Although some were allowed out of the camp to work on local farms others, who were labelled as 'black', denoting their high-risk status, were not. However, all of them had the opportunity to learn new skills or study the many varied courses that were on offer behind the barbed wire.Numerous escape attempts were made but all of the prisoners returned to the camp, either through choice or necessity. Local people give their account of the camp with many having fond memories of the theatre groups and orchestras; one of which played at a local girl's wedding!The camp had a profound effect on Caithness which endures to this day through the friendships built up over its time as Prisoner of War Camp 165. It brings together a plethora of information with links to other camps, not only in the UK. The role of the London District Cage, infamous for its interrogation of prisoners of war, is also explored as is its impact on the camp's history, including the case of the scientist Paul Schroder who worked on the V2 bomb. The Polish soldiers stationed in Caithness, who lived for a short time in the camp before its status changed, are also included in the book as they too had a considerable impact on Caihtness and its people. "Camp 165 Watten" will be of special interest to many people in Caithness, those with local connections and anyone interested in military history.

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