The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942
Title | The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942 PDF eBook |
Author | Clayton Donnell |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2016-02-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473879264 |
This vividly detailed WWII history chronicles one of the hardest-fought battles of the Crimea Campaign. In December 1941, while America was reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and the offensives of the German Army Groups North and Center were stalled in the brutal Russian winter, the German Eleventh Army encircled the vast fortress of Sevastopol in the Crimea. The Red Army faced massive air, artillery and land attacks against their heavily defended positions in one of the most remarkable campaigns in the history of modern warfare: The Siege of Sevastopol. Drawing on his expert knowledge of the history of modern fortifications, Donnell describes the design and development of the Red Army’s formidable base at Sevastopol. He then chronicles the sequence of attacks mounted by the Wehrmacht against the city’s strongpoints. The forts and bunkers had to be taken one by one in a bitter six-month struggle with sever casualties on both sides. Using documentary records and a range of personal accounts, Clayton Donnell reconstructs the events and experience of the campaign in vivid detail.
The Defence of Sevastopol 1941-1942
Title | The Defence of Sevastopol 1941-1942 PDF eBook |
Author | Clayton Donnell |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9781473879256 |
Sevastopol 1942
Title | Sevastopol 1942 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Forczyk |
Publisher | Osprey Publishing |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2008-01-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781846032219 |
In late July 1941, Hitler ordered Army Group South to seize the Crimea as part of its operations to secure the Ukraine and the Donets Basin, in order to protect the vital Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti from Soviet air attack. After weeks of heavy fighting, the Germans breached the Soviet defenses and overran most of the Crimea. By November 1941 the only remaining Soviet foothold in the area was the heavily fortified naval base at Sevastopol. Operation Sturgeon Haul, the final assault on Sevastopol, was one of the very few joint service German operations of World War II, with two German corps and a Romanian corps supported by a huge artillery siege train, the Luftwaffe's crack VIII Flieger Korps and a flotilla of S-Boats provided by the Kriegsmarine. This volume closely examines the impact of logistics, weather and joint operational planning upon the last major German victory in World War II (1939-1945).
6538
Title | 6538 PDF eBook |
Author | Amber Books Ltd |
Publisher | Concord Publications |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-10-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789623611787 |
This volume by Hans Seidler tells of the ferocious battle between German and Russian forces during World War II. Brimming with photographs this work takes the reader through Erich von Manstein's campaign to capture the naval fortress of Sevastapol.
Black Sea Inferno
Title | Black Sea Inferno PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Glantz |
Publisher | Spellmount, Limited Publishers |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2002-12 |
Genre | Sevastopol, Battle of, Sevastopolʹ, Ukraine, 1944 |
ISBN | 9781862271616 |
The author Glantz is a world expert on the Red Army in the WWII, he describes here how the Soviets' self-sacrifice and mass heroism in the defence of Sevastopol, played a crucial role in the defeat of the Germans, by tying down their defences, enabling Allied victories elsewhere.
Sevastopol, November, 1941 - July, 1942. Articles, Stories and Eye-witness Accounts by Soviet War-correspondents, Etc. [With Plates.].
Title | Sevastopol, November, 1941 - July, 1942. Articles, Stories and Eye-witness Accounts by Soviet War-correspondents, Etc. [With Plates.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Sevastopol |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1943 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Blood and Iron
Title | Blood and Iron PDF eBook |
Author | C. G. Sweeting |
Publisher | Potomac Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-10 |
Genre | Sevastopol (Ukraine) |
ISBN | 9781574887976 |
Narrates the epic World War II battles for the most strongly fortified city in the world.