Stalingrad to Berlin; The German Defeat in the East

Ziemke, Earl F.

Verlag: United States Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington, DC, 1968

Beschreibung

xiv, 549, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices. Sources. Glossary. Code Names. Index. Cover has some wear. This is the first to be completed of three projected volumes covering military operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in Europe. Earl Frederick Ziemke (December 16, 1922 - October 15, 2007) was an American military historian whose work was mainly on World War II and especially the Soviet-German clash in Eastern Europe. Earl Ziemke served in the Marines during World War II. He fought in the Battle of Peleliu and then won the Purple Heart for wounds received in the assault on Okinawa. After his discharge, he used the G.I. Bill to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. From 1955 to 1967, he was an official historian for the United States Army's Office of the Chief of Military History. In 1967, he went to the University of Georgia as a full professor and in 1977, he rose to the rank of research professor. He retired in 1993 as Research Professor Emeritus. This major study of the Soviet-German conflict in World War II has enjoyed an outstanding reputation among those interested in military history and in such areas as the development of Soviet command skills and the exigencies of total land war across a huge front. Save for the introduction of nuclear weapons, the Soviet victory over Germany was the most fateful development of World War II. Both wrought changes and raised problems that have constantly preoccupied the world in the more than twenty years since the war ended. The purpose of this volume is to investigate one aspect of the Soviet victory - how the war was won on the battlefield. The author sought, in following the march of the Soviet and German armies from Stalingrad to Berlin, to depict the war as it was and to describe the manner in which the Soviet Union emerged as the predominant military power in Europe. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 53639

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Titel: Stalingrad to Berlin; The German Defeat in ...

Verlag: United States Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, Washington, DC

Erscheinungsdatum: 1968

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Printing [Stated].