Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Loza has carefully crafted his World War II experiences with U.S.-provided Sherman tanks into a highly readable memoir. Between the fall of 1943 and August 1945, Loza fought in the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. He commanded a tank battalion [...]
Enthusiasts of the venerable Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle, one of the most basic of the Russian and Soviet small arms, will find a wealth of information in the latest Soviet military manual translation by Major James F Gebhardt. The manual, available in English for the first time, covers disassemb[...]
Originally published in 1989, this a volume from the Combat Studies Institute "Leavenworth Papers" series. In the fall of 1944, some 56,000 German troops of the XIX Mountain Corps were occupying a strongpoint line just 70 kilometers northwest of Murmansk, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. [...]
Den 7 oktober 1944 inleddes slaget om Nordkalotten, den största drabbning som någonsin utkämpats norr om polcirkeln. Röda armén angrep de tyska trupper som i tre år stått utanför Murmansk. Enbart på sovjetisk sida deltog nästan 100 000 man, 700 flygplan och 100 stridsvagnar. Slaget om Nord[...]