Primarily using Soviet soldiers, the author has written a comprehensive study of the 1944 Soviet offensive conducted to clear German forces from the approaches to Murmansk. Its focus is at the operational level of war, with emphasis on the peculiar...
This private war journal comprises seven volumes covering the dates 14 August 1939 to 24 September 1942, the date of Halder's dismissal by Hitler. The journal was kept by Halder personally in his own shorthand and contains notes on conferences,...
The purposes of US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 are threefold. The first is to fill a void in the published record of US Army units documented by Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War published by the Center of...
Prepared by the 3rd Army engineers, 22 March 1934. Narrative of the crossing of the 3rd Army from the perspective of the Army Corps of Engineers elements within the 3rd Army.
This document on Germany's agriculture describes the basic conditions in the country- population, the natural environment, zones of agriculture and land use, statistics, and the agricultural system. Crops, livestock, food supplies, and consumption...
General Marshall has stated that a knowledge of the causes and the events leading up to the present war and of the principles for which we are fighting "is an indispensable part of military training and merits the thoughtful consideration of every...
The fundamental root cause behind the military defeat of Poland in 1939 is not the result of fighting the combined armies of Germany and the Soviet Union. Rather, the failure is attributed to Poland's political hubris of pursuing its strategic...
A description by a German Army officer of the fortified garrison at Brest, in French Brittany. There is a brief introduction, in which a short history of German Army activities in the region is discussed. The construction of the fortress is then...
The attached Staff Study is derived from the Basic Outline Plan for "BLACKLIST" Operations, Edition Three, 8 August 1945. It constitutes the basis for directives to be issued for an initial contingent airborne operation to occupy critical portions...
Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, Historical Division
This is one of a series of studies prepared as first narratives in the over-all history of the AAF. It details the heavy bomber and its influence on transition, transition procedure under the expansion program (1939-1941), WWII and the trend of...
"The efficient employment of Field Artillery is predicated upon three equally important factors: Mobility, the ability to deliver timely and effective fires, and signal communication. This memorandum, which deals with the later, discusses in...
"This 1939 manual prescribes the duties to be performed in the service of the piece by the personnel normally assigned to one gun section of the firing battery."