Assalto al fronte orientale. L'invasione sovietica della Prussia 1944-1945

This is a very good account of the Russian offensives into Prussia during the final stages of WW2. The book is well researched and full of first-hand accounts from German soldiers and civilians plus a few from Russian soldiers who were involved in the fighting. There are a number of B&W photograph’s Leggi tutto

Ahhh-the titanic battles of WWII's Eastern Front. The time is from the end of Operation Bagration till the end of Nazi Germany. The setting Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania, and the Eastern portion of Germany. I still marvel at the troop numbers on opposing sides. The overwhelming Soviet Armies pitted ag Leggi tutto

This is a dense, analytical and very interesting book. I really enjoyed reading it, but only give it 3 stars because of a few serious niggles: -the text is a mixture of very vivid, very interesting and oftentimes moving personal reports with rather arduous descriptions of battle orders and unit movem Leggi tutto

Using this one for serious research, I'm struck by a number of things. The prose is good, but that probably means the book is more intended for light reading than a researcher. The map coverage is mostly terrible. Whoever designed the maps has confused standard NATO symbols for "battalion" with "divi Leggi tutto

This part of the second world war has been largely ignored by historians in favour of the bagration and Berlin offenses so to see a full book on it is rare (certainly in the the UK anyway) but this is not an easy read. Some of that may have been due to the kindle formatting which meant you could not Leggi tutto

Battleground prussia by Paul Buttar I was looking for The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Epic Siege at the Heart of WWII’s Greatest Battle at the library, and the algorithm recommended this book, as a substitute; I hope that the light house is better written; this book gives a smidgeon of history and Leggi tutto

It is good to read a book which describes the evacuation of East Prussia in January 1945 (Operation Hannibal). This little known operation which saved between 800,000 and 900,000 civilians as well as 350,000 soldiers from the russian advance was a far greater 'truimph' than Dunkirk and should be mor Leggi tutto

Una buona cronaca della parte più violenta della più violenta guerra dell'Uomo Bianco. Da tutte le parti in campo sembra esserci una spinta a commettere atrocità. La lettura è appesantita dai continui e quasi meccanici rimandi ai nomi delle unità militari e degli apparati di partito. A parte questo Leggi tutto