V. E. Tarrant Livres

By November 1942, Adolf Hitler's empire reached its peak, stretching from North Africa to the Arctic and from the English Channel to Stalingrad. The German Army appeared invincible, but from November 19 to 23, a massive Russian counter-offensive changed everything. Over a million men, 1,560 tanks, and 1,327 aircraft launched an assault that not only obliterated two Rumanian armies but also encircled the elite German 6th Army, commanded by General Friedrich Paulus, at Stalingrad. Despite being trapped in a vast cauldron (Der Kessel), the 269,000 troops of the 6th Army resisted for seventy-two harrowing days under dire conditions. Lacking adequate winter clothing and facing temperatures as low as minus 35 degrees Celsius, they survived on meager rations of bread and watery soup. The soldiers endured immense suffering, including frostbite, dysentery, and typhus, all while being relentlessly bombarded by Russian artillery. When the 6th Army finally surrendered on February 2, 1943, only 91,000 remained alive, and they were taken to Siberian prison camps. However, surrendering to the Russians proved fatal, with only 5,000 surviving captivity to return to Germany. The author utilizes a wealth of German and Russian sources to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of this pivotal battle, providing a balanced account from both perspectives.

This volume outlines the pursuit by the Germans of The Red Orchestra, a group of Soviet agents operating in Nazi Germany during World War II. It features new research and gives full coverage of the spy ring in Switzerland, the Low Countries and in Germany itself.

For the Germans, the Battle of Jutland in 1916 should have been a simple set piece that lured the British Grand Fleet into a lethal trap. Instead, it turned into a confused, rambling conflict. The Royal Navy suffered higher losses, but the German fleet never again ventured out of harbor to fight. Using previously unseen records, action reports, letters, plus charts and drawings of major warships, a naval historian tells this absorbing tale from the German perspective. It sheds new light on just what happened. 5 X 7 3/4.

Between May 1944 and May 1945, the Luftwaffe declined from a resilient force, eagerly waiting to use new aircraft and weaponry, to a destroyed air arm. This study focuses on this period, showing how close the German air force was to resurgence.

Během dvou světových válek se 1150 německých ponorek zúčastnilo 6274 bojových operací, při nichž potopilo 8209 obchodních lodí o celkové tonáži 27 200 687 BRT. V roce 1917 a potom znovu v letech 1914 až 1942 se U-bootům podařilo odříznout Británii od jejích životně důležitých tepen, námořních cest přes Atlantik, a tím ji takřka srazit na kolena... Autor prozkoumal mnoho nezveřejněného materiálu, britského i německého, a chronologicky shrnul taktický a strategický vývoj německých ponorkových operací. Ukazuje, jak se ponorky, původně určené k obraně pobřeží, změnily ve významnou zbraň globální války. Podrobně popisuje prostředky spojenecké protiponorkové obrany a jejich vývoj, jenž vyústil v porážku U-bootů, největší hrozby transatlantické plavby. Fotografie, mapky, tabulky, nákresy a grafy doplňují statistiku přesněji než kdykoli předtím. Obsahují rovněž údaje o příčinách ztráty každé německé ponorky.