From the realm of a dying sun volume 3

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The concluding part of Doug Nash's magisterial history of IV. SS-Panzerkorps, covering their actions as they retreated from Budapest to Vienna in the final months of the war.



In the closing months of World War II, with Budapest’s fall on 12 February 1945 and the breakout attempt by the IX SS-Gebirgskorps having failed, the only thing the IV. SS-Panzerkorps could do was fall back to a more defensible line and fortify the key city of Stuhlweissenburg. Exhausted after three relief attempts in January 1945 and outnumbered by the ever-increasing power of Marshal Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian Front, SS-Obergruppenführer Gille’s veterans dug in for a lengthy period of defensive warfare.

However, Adolf Hitler had not forgotten about the Hungarian theatre of operations nor the country’s rich oilfields and was sending help. To the detriment of the defence of Berlin, SS-Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich’s legendary 6. Panzerarmee was on its way, not to retake Budapest, but to encircle and destroy Tolbukhin’s forces and completely reverse the situation in south-eastern Europe in Hitler’s favour. This overly ambitious offensive, known as Frühlingserwachen (Spring Awakening), was soon bogged down in the face of resolute Soviet defences aided by the springtime thaw. Heralded as Nazi Germany’s last great offensive of World War II, it resulted in great losses to Hitler’s last armoured reserve in exchange for only minor gains. Though it played a supporting role during the battle, the IV. SS-Panzerkorps was soon caught up in its aftermath, after the Red Army launched its Vienna Operation that nearly swept the armies of Heeresgruppe Süd from the battlefield.

Withdrawing into Austria, Gille’s battered corps attempted to bar the route into Germany, while the Red Army bore down on Vienna. Forced to endure relentless Soviet attacks as well as the caustic leadership of the 6. Armee commander, General Hermann Balck, the men of the IV. SS-Panzerkorps fought their way through Austria to reach the safety of the demarcation line where it finally surrendered to U.S. forces on 9 May 1945 after nearly a year of relentless campaigning.

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From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 2

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The second part of a new history of iv ss panzerkorps which fought on the eastern front in the last months of world war ii on christmas eve 1944 the men of the iv ss panzerkorps were preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could taking advantage of the pause in the fighting around wars Uiterlijk 15 november in huis .. MEER INFO

Death on the Don

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Drawing on first hand accounts from veterans and civilians as well as previously unpublished source material death on the don tells the story of one of the greatest military disasters of the second world war nazi germany s assault on the soviet union in the summer of 1941 operation barbarossa Uiterlijk 15 november in huis .. MEER INFO

The Defeat of the Damned

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An operational history of the notorious dirlewanger brigade culminating in its destruction in budapest at the hands of the red army one of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that fought for the third reich during world war ii was the infamous sondereinheit dirlewanger or the Uiterlijk 15 november in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 11 februari 2021

Aantal pagina's: 352

Illustraties: Met illustraties

Hoofdauteur: Douglas E. Nash Sr.

Hoofduitgeverij: Casemate Publishers

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product hoogte: 15.2 cm

Product lengte: 228 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 152 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 228 mm

Verpakking lengte: 228 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 0 g

EAN: 9781612009568

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