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At Leningrad's Gates
“A first-rate memoir” from a German soldier who rose from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front of World War II (City Book Review). William Lubbeck, age nineteen, was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1939. As a member of the 58th Infantry Division, he received his baptism of fire during the 1940 invasion of France. The following spring, his division served on the left flank of Army Group North in Operation Barbarossa. After grueling marches amid countless Russian bodies, burnt-out vehicles, and a great number of cheering Baltic civilians, Lubbeck’s unit entered the outskirts of Leningrad, making the deepest penetration of any German formation....
The Red Army and the Second World War
In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.
Hitler's Panzer Generals
Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This biographical study of four German panzer army commanders serving on the Eastern Front is based upon their unpublished wartime letters to their wives. David Stahel offers a complete picture of the men conducting Hitler's war in the East, with an emphasis on the private fears and public pressures they operated under. He also illuminates their response to the criminal dimension of the war as well as their role as leading military commanders conducting large-scale operations. While the focus is on four of Germany's most important panzer generals - Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt - the evidence from their private correspondence sheds new light on the broader institutional norms and cultural ethos of the Wehrmacht's Panzertruppe.
Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front
The contradictory behaviour of the German Army in the east resulted from its adherence to the concept of military necessity.
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is well-known for the German army's unprecedented victories and advances. Yet the German Blitzkrieg depended almost entirely upon the motorised Panzer groups, particularly those of Army Group Centre. Using archival records, in this book David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front. Stahel's research provides a fundamental reassessment of Germany's war against the Soviet Union, highlighting the prodigious internal problems of the vital Panzer forces and revealing that their demise in the earliest phase of the war undermined the whole German invasion.
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Iron & Steelmaker
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Před branami Leningradu
William Lubbeck (nar. 1920 a původně pojmenovaný Wilhelm) byl v roce 1939 povolán do německého wehrmachtu. V řadách 58. pěší divize podstoupil bojový křest při vpádu do Francie v roce 1940. Následující jaro byla jeho divize poslána na levé křídlo skupiny armád Sever při operaci Barbarossa – útoku na Sovětský svaz. V září 1943 si Lubbeck vysloužil Železný kříž první třídy a byl převelen do důstojnické školy v Drážďanech. V době, kdy se vrátil ke své jednotce, již skupina armád Sever ustupovala. Ve funkci velitele roty prošel mnoha neúprosnými ústupovými boji střídanými divokými protiútoky. V dubnu 1945 jeho rota uvízla v dopravní koloně a byla téměř zničena sovětským leteckým útokem. Lubbeck sám však válku přežil, odešel do zahraničí a po letech o svých zážitcích ve spolupráci s Davidem B. Hurtem vydal svědectví, které patří do zlatého fondu druhoválečných memoárů. Druhé české vydání je doplněno o rozsáhlou obrazovou přílohu tvořenou reprodukcemi unikátních dobových fotografií a dokumentů.
