Автор: Smyth Denis
Название: Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat
ISBN: 0199233985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199233984
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In the pre-dawn darkness of April 30, 1943, the body of a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the south-western coast of Spain, part of an incredible plot to mislead the German High Command about the Allies' impending Mediterranean invasion. What made this ruse unique--and macabre--was that the "Major" was actually a deceased Welsh laborer, who drifted lifelessly ashore carrying false documents indicating that the Allies were set to launch an attack on Greece, rather than Sicily.
Codenamed "Mincemeat" and immortalized in the film The Man Who Never Was, this audacious, high-stakes scheme is renowned as the most spectacular episode in the annals of deception. In this accurate and in-depth retelling of the story behind the operation, Denis Smyth draws on a vast collection of previously unavailable documentary sources to expertly bring all phases of "Mincemeat" to life. He reveals how the architects of the plan navigated a maze of medical, technical, and logistical issues to deceive the enemy at the highest strategic levels. Before planting the corpse in the Spanish coastal waters via a stealthy submarine operation, the planners not only gave their dead messenger a new military identity, but also a private one--as the fiancA(c) of an attractive young woman named "Pam." The discovery of her photo and love letters in the pockets of the deceased's uniform, along with a government briefcase containing the deceptive documents, was enough for the Nazi intelligence apparatus to "swallow Mincemeat whole." The Germans deployed their forces to meet the fictional Allied threat in Greece, falling for a ruse which ultimately saved thousands of American lives.
Filled with eye-opening revelations, Operation Mincemeat will delight aficionados of military history, wartime intrigue, and covert operations.

Автор: Stahel
Название: Operation Typhoon
ISBN: 1107501954 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107501959
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Fascinating new account of Hitler`s Operation Typhoon, launched in October 1941, and its significance for the wider German war effort.

Автор: Hartmann Christian
Название: Operation Barbarossa
ISBN: 0199660786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199660780
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Описание: The story of the struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union - the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century, and a conflict without precedent in human history in its destructive impact.

Автор: Sharp David H.
Название: The CIA`s Greatest Covert Operation: Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub
ISBN: 0700619410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700619412
Издательство: Eurospan
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Описание: Project AZORIAN - the audacious six-year mission to recover a Soviet sub and learn its secrets - has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation. Previous accounts have not had significant access to CIA personnel or documents. Now David Sharp, the mission`s Director of Recovery Systems, draws upon his own recollections and personal records, ship`s logs, declassified documents, and conversations with team members to shine a light on this remarkable enterprise.

Автор: Symonds Craig L.
Название: Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings and the Allied Invasion of Europe
ISBN: 0190462531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190462536
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Описание: Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the ships landed the soldiers have become immortal: Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah, and especially Omaha, the scene of almost unimaginable human tragedy. The sea of crosses in the cemetery sitting today atop a bluff overlooking the beaches recalls to us its cost.
Most accounts of this epic story begin with the landings on the morning of June 6, 1944. In fact, however, D-Day was the culmination of months and years of planning and intense debate. In the dark days after the evacuation of Dunkirk in the summer of 1940, British officials and, soon enough, their American counterparts, began to consider how, and, where, and especially when, they could re-enter the European Continent in force. The Americans, led by U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, wanted to invade as soon as possible; the British, personified by their redoubtable prime minister, Winston Churchill, were convinced that a premature landing would be disastrous. The often-sharp negotiations between the English-speaking allies led them first to North Africa, then into Sicily, then Italy. Only in the spring of 1943, did the Combined Chiefs of Staff commit themselves to an invasion of northern France. The code name for this invasion was Overlord, but everything that came before, including the landings themselves and the supply system that made it possible for the invaders to stay there, was code-named Neptune.
Craig L. Symonds now offers the complete story of this Olympian effort, involving transports, escorts, gunfire support ships, and landing craft of every possible size and function. The obstacles to success were many. In addition to divergent strategic views and cultural frictions, the Anglo-Americans had to overcome German U-boats, Russian impatience, fierce competition for insufficient shipping, training disasters, and a thousand other impediments, including logistical bottlenecks and disinformation schemes. Symonds includes vivid portraits of the key decision-makers, from Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill, to Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, and Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who commanded the naval element of the invasion. Indeed, the critical role of the naval forces--British and American, Coast Guard and Navy--is central throughout.
In the end, as Symonds shows in this gripping account of D-Day, success depended mostly on the men themselves: the junior officers and enlisted men who drove the landing craft, cleared the mines, seized the beaches and assailed the bluffs behind them, securing the foothold for the eventual campaign to Berlin, and the end of the most terrible war in human history.

Название: Evacuation from dunkirk, operation dynamo 26 may-4 june 1940
ISBN: 0714681504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714681504
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This work is the Naval Staff History of "Operation Dynamo", originally published internally in 1949. 001 0714681202

Автор: Bryant Michael
Название: Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966
ISBN: 1621900495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621900498
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Описание: One of the deadliest phases of the Holocaust, the Nazi regime's "Operation Reinhard"
produced three major death camps--Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor--which claimed the
lives of 1.8 million Jews. In the 1960s, a small measure of justice came for those victims
when a score of defendants who had been officers and guards at the camps were convicted
of war crimes in West German courts. The conviction rates varied, however. While all but
one of fourteen Treblinka defendants were convicted, half of the twelve Sobibor defendants
escaped punishment, and only one of eight Belzec defendants was convicted. Also,
despite the enormity of the crimes, the sentences were light in many cases, amounting to
only a few years in prison.
In this meticulous history of the Operation Reinhard trials, Michael S. Bryant examines
a disturbing question: Did compromised jurists engineer acquittals or lenient punishments
for proven killers? Drawing on rarely studied archival sources, Bryant concludes
that the trial judges acted in good faith within the bounds of West German law. The key
to successful prosecutions was eyewitness testimony. At Belzec, the near-total efficiency
of the Nazi death machine meant that only one survivor could be found to testify. At Treblinka
and Sobibor, however, prisoner revolts had resulted in a number of survivors who
could give firsthand accounts of specific atrocities and identify participants. The courts,
Bryant finds, treated these witnesses with respect and even made allowances for conflicting
testimony. And when handing down sentences, the judges acted in accordance with
strict legal definitions of perpetration, complicity, and action under duress.
Yet, despite these findings, Bryant also shows that West German legal culture was
hardly blameless during the postwar era. Though ready to convict the mostly workingclass
personnel of the death camps, the Federal Republic followed policies that insulated
the judicial elite from accountability for its own role in the Final Solution. While trial
records show that the "bias" of West German jurists was neither direct nor personal, the
structure of the system ensured that lawyers and judges themselves avoided judgment.

Автор: David Stahel
Название: Operation Typhoon Hardback
ISBN: 1107035120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107035126
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: In October 1941 Hitler launched Operation Typhoon the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and three of Germany's four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in huge victories at Viaz'ma and Briansk – among the biggest battles of the Second World War. David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged. Germany's hopes of final victory depended on the success of the October offensive but the autumn conditions and the stubborn resistance of the Red Army ensured that the capture of Moscow was anything but certain.

Автор: Zuroff Efraim
Название: Operation Last Chance
ISBN: 0230108059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230108059
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Описание: Sixty years after the end of World War II, members of the Nazi party and their collaborators are still alive - and are increasingly difficult track down. 'Operation Last Chance' is the gripping personal story of one man's vast campaign to find the biggest Nazi criminals and bring them to justice, before it's too late.

Автор: Zuroff Efraim
Название: Operation Last Chance
ISBN: 0230617301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230617308
Издательство: Palgrave
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Описание: Sixty years after the end of World War II, members of the Nazi party and their collaborators are still alive - and are increasingly difficult track down. 'Operation Last Chance' is the gripping personal story of one man's vast campaign to find the biggest Nazi criminals and bring them to justice, before it's too late.

Автор: Stahel, David
Название: Operation barbarossa and germany`s defeat in the east
ISBN: 0521768470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521768474
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: 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 previously unpublished archival records, David Stahel presents a new 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.

Автор: Richards, Brooks
Название: Secret flotillas clandestine sea operations to brittany, 1940-1944
ISBN: 0714653160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714653167
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Описание: This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place around Brittany during WWII.