Lightning War
Title | Lightning War PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald E. Powaski |
Publisher | Castle Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780785820970 |
This is the dramatic story of the German defeat of the Allies in northern France and the Low Countries in 1940. Covering the campaign as a whole, it examines the issues from all sides, including those of the French, British, German and other involved nations.
Germany's Lightning War
Title | Germany's Lightning War PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Gilbert |
Publisher | Motorbooks International |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Germany's campaigns in Poland, Norway, the Low Countries, France, and North Africa from 1939 to 1942 ushered in a new era of warfare during which the practice of Blitzkrieg, or Lightning War, was employed with devastating effect. This authoritative text is complemented by full-color maps explaining the movement of German forces and color artwork depicting Wehrmacht uniforms and the armored fighting vehicles, aircraft, and naval vessels that took part in the campaign. In addition, specification tables accompany all drawings of the hardware. Sidebars offer insight to the famous commanders who directed the campaigns -- Rommel, Rundstedt, and Student, for example -- while detailed appendices contain essential information on specific battles, German losses, and equipment.
Blitzkrieg
Title | Blitzkrieg PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd Clark |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | 526 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0802190340 |
A “masterly account” of the juggernaut offensive that conquered France—but also marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany in World War II (Kirkus Reviews). In the spring of 1940, the German forces launched an attack on France that combined superb intelligence, cutting edge strategy, and new technology—the blitzkrieg, or “lightning war.” In just six weeks, it would achieve what their fathers had failed to do in all four years of the First World War. It was a stunning victory. But here, leading British military historian and academic Lloyd Clark argues that much of our understanding of this victory is based on myth. Far from being a foregone conclusion, Hitler’s plan could easily have failed had the Allies been even slightly less inept or the Germans less fortunate. The Germans recognized that success depended not only on surprise, but also avoiding a protracted struggle for which they were not prepared—making defeat a very real possibility. Their surprise victory proved the apex of their achievement; far from being undefeatable, Clark argues, the Battle of France revealed Germany and its armed forces to be highly vulnerable. And Hitler dismissed this fact as he planned his next move—and greatest blunder: the invasion of the Soviet Union. In this eye-opening reassessment, complete with maps and illustrations, Clark “presents a well-balanced narrative that highlights the knife-edge victory of the German forces” and reveals how very close the Nazi war machine came to catastrophe in the early days of World War II (New York Journal of Books).
Blitzkrieg! Hitler's Lightning War
Title | Blitzkrieg! Hitler's Lightning War PDF eBook |
Author | Earle Rice Jr. |
Publisher | Mitchell Lane |
Total Pages | 79 |
Release | 2020-02-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1545749213 |
An introduction to Adolf Hitler's tactic of combining air attacks with swiftly moving ground forces.
Lightning War
Title | Lightning War PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald E. Powaski |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Lightning war |
ISBN |
P-38 Lightning at War
Title | P-38 Lightning at War PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Christy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This classic title traces the history of the Lightning from the earliest Lockheed "Model 22" through the severe compressibility problems of the prototype YP-38, to the P-38L-5, the fighter-bomber-reconnaissance aircraft of the USAAF in Italy and the Pacific. Graphically illustrated with over 200 action photographs and many eyewitness accounts, this book tells the story of a unique and innovative aircraft, revered for its adaptability and ability to limp home on one engine where other aircraft would have been destroyed.
Lightning War
Title | Lightning War PDF eBook |
Author | Time-Life Books |
Publisher | Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Chronicles the rise and eventual fall of Nazi Germany during World War II.