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Free Download Endgame at Stalingrad: December 1942 February 1943 The Stalingrad Trilogy by David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
English | June 9, 2014 | ISBN: 0700619550 | 768 pages | PDF | 29 Mb
In Book Two of the third volume of his magisterial Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz continues and concludes his definitive history of one of the most infamous battles of World War Two, the Stalingrad campaign that signaled Germany’s failure on the Eastern Front and marked a turning point in the war. Book Two finds Germany’s most famous army-General Friedrich Paulus’s Sixth-in dire straits, trapped in the Stalingrad kessel, or pocket, by a Red Army that has seized the initiative in what the Soviets now term the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army’s counteroffensive, Operation Uranus, is well underway, having largely destroyed the bulk of two Romanian armies and encircled the German Sixth and half of the German Fourth Panzer Army.

Free Download Armageddon in Stalingrad: September-November 1942, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2 (Modern War Studies) by David M. Glantz, Jonathan House
English | November 23, 2009 | ISBN: 0700616640 | 920 pages | EPUB | 24 Mb
The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmacht’s flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin’s order: "Not a Step Back!" The Soviets’ resulting tenacious defense of the city led to urban warfare for which the Germans were totally unprepared, depriving them of their accustomed maneuverability, overwhelming artillery fire, and air support-and setting the stage for debacle.

Free Download Fortune’s Turn: The Desperate Year of 1942 by David Pollard
English | July 9, 2024 | ISBN: 8332541441 | 350 pages | PDF | 1.91 Mb
The year 1942 began with disaster for the Allies but paved the way to victory.

Free Download Monty’s Greatest Battles 1942-1945 by Adrian Stewart
English | July 21, 2024 | ISBN: 1399046012 | 272 pages | MOBI | 15 Mb
Examines both the strengths and weaknesses of one of Great Britain’s most renowned military leaders.

Free Download Japanese Combined Fleet 1942-43
by Mark Stille
English | September 26, 2024 | ISBN: 1472860527 | 80 Pages | epub | 13,12 MB

Free Download Schriften 1942-1949: Herausgegeben von Peter Gostmann und Claudius Härpfer
Deutsch | 2024 | ISBN: 3658434864 | 279 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
Albert Salomon (1891-1966), deutsch-jüdischer Soziologe und Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Die Gesellschaft", war nach seiner Emigration 1935 Professor an der New School for Social Research in New York, wo er in alteuropäischer Tradition eine humanistische Soziologie begründete. Diese fünfbändige textkritische Edition ist die erste Ausgabe seiner gesammelten Werke.

Free Download Harry Waldman, "Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942"
English | ISBN: 1476680795 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 41 MB
From 1933 until America’s entry into World War II in 1941, nearly 500 Nazi films were shown in American theaters, accounting for nearly half of all foreign language film imports during the period. These poorly disguised propaganda films were produced by Germany’s top studios and featured prominent pro-German and Nazi actors, directors and technicians. The films were replete with overt and covert anti-Jewish imagery and themes, but in spite of this obvious intent to use the medium to justify Nazi ascendancy, viewers and film critics from such prominent publications as the New York Times, Variety, the Washington Post and the Chicago Times consistently overlooked the films’ anti-Semitic message, dubbing them harmless entertainment.

Free Download A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942 by Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk
English | December 15, 2022 | ISBN: 150176683X | 258 pages | MOBI | 3.98 Mb
In A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia. Eager to combat disease, Dutch physicians and officials integrated the traditional Javanese house into the "rat-flea-man" theory of transmission. Hollow bamboo frames and thatched roofs offered hiding spaces for rats, suggesting a material link between rat plague and human plague. Over the next thirty years, 1.6 million houses were renovated or rebuilt, millions more were subjected to periodic inspection, and countless Javanese were exposed to health messaging seeking to "rat-proof" their beliefs along with their houses.

Free Download Japan Runs Wild, 1942-1943: War in the Far East, Book 2 (Audiobook)
English | September 21, 2021 | ASIN: B09FBXS4R5 | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 57m | 231 MB
Author: Peter Harmsen | Narrator: Walter Dixon
In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler’s empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians feared a future under Hirohito. The fate of half of mankind was hanging in the balance.
But by the end of 1943, the tables had turned entirely. The American-led military machine had kicked into gear, and the Japanese were fighting a defensive battle along a frontline that crossed thousands of miles of land and sea. In Japan Runs Wild, 1942-1943, historian Peter Harmsen details the astonishing transformation that took place in that period, setting the Allies on a path to ultimate victory over Japan.

Free Download Robert M. Citino, Tom Beyer (Narrator), "Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942"
English | ASIN: B0D6P7GQNT | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~16:10:00 | 445 MB
For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of that crucial year, Robert Citino shows that the German army’s emerging woes were rooted as much in its addiction to the "war of movement"-attempts to smash the enemy in "short and lively" campaigns-as they were in Hitler’s deeply flawed management of the war.
From the overwhelming operational victories at Kerch and Kharkov in May to the catastrophic defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Death of the Wehrmacht offers an eye-opening new view of that decisive year. Building upon his widely respected critique in The German Way of War, Citino shows how the campaigns of 1942 fit within the centuries-old patterns of Prussian/German warmaking and ultimately doomed Hitler’s expansionist ambitions. He examines every major campaign and battle in the Russian and North African theaters throughout the year to assess how a military geared to quick and decisive victories coped when the tide turned against it. More than the turning point of a war, 1942 marked the death of a very old and traditional pattern of warmaking, with the classic "German way of war" unable to meet the challenges of the twentieth century.
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