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A history of the Soviet Navy's cruisers, from the opening shots of
the October Revolution through to the combat they saw during World
War II. The Soviet Navy of World War II boasted a cruiser fleet
that was among the most eclectic to see service. In this book,
noted military historian and Soviet specialist Alexander Hill
explains the role of cruisers in the Soviet Navy from the dramatic
days of the October Revolution of 1917 through to the struggle they
fought with Nazi Germany during World War II. Illustrated
throughout with rare photos and original artwork, including a
cutaway of Aurora, famous for its role in the Bolshevik October
Revolution, and with profiles of the key classes, this book
outlines the Soviets' development of a cruiser force. Having
inherited a number of cruisers from the Imperial Russian Navy, the
new Soviet Navy went on to complete two unfinished Tsarist light
cruisers during the 1920s. In the late 1930s, the Soviets built
their first large warships, the Kirov class, and in 1940 Nazi
Germany sold the unfinished heavy cruiser Lützow to the USSR. The
final cruiser-sized warship to see action was the former Imperial
royal yacht Shtandart, renamed Marti and armed as a minelayer,
which was used in the defence of Leningrad. Researched in the main
from Russian-language sources, this study explores the cruiser
fleet that saw considerable action in World War II, particularly in
support of the Red Army.
This book is based on Soviet archival sources, most previously
untapped by Western and Soviet and post-Soviet Russian historians,
in addition to German material from the US National Archives. Using
this material the author describes the harsh realities of partisan
warfare and explains the changing fortunes of the Soviet partisan
movement on the territory of north-western Russia occupied by the
German Army Group North between 1941 and 1944.
The author argues that after the virtual annihilation of the
partisan movement of 1941, during the period from spring 1942 to
autumn 1943, despite improvements in partisan combat effectiveness,
ruthless German anti-partisan policies, in combination with other
measures described, prevented the partisan movement from achieving
results hoped for by its leadership.
From the autumn of 1943 the prospect of a scorched earth policy in
retreat by a German Army clearly on the run, in combination with
the military development of the partisan movement and effective
propaganda aimed at the civilian population and military
collaborators, provided the foundations for increased partisan
success.
The author concludes that despite not living up to contemporary
expectations, or, for much of the war, to the claims of Soviet
post-war accounts, the Soviet partisan movement was nonetheless,
for the Soviet government, a cost effective means of hitting the
German war machine in the context of the Soviet war effort as a
whole and in particular the horrendous loss of life at the front.
In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander
Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army
from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s
through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting
military strategy and operations within a broader context that
includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book
presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the
war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the
latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill
portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders
and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army
triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the
Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.
The field of consumer credit law has undergone major and
fundamental change in the recent past, due in part to the
regulation since 1 April 2014 of consumer credit by the Financial
Conduct Authority, and this book provides a clear and complete
guide to this difficult area of law. Fully updated for the second
edition, the author considers new developments including: the new
authorisation process under the Financial Services and Markets Act
2000, including the interim permission regime, and its
consequences; the new regime for financial promotions as applied to
credit and hire advertising; the new rules controlling high cost
short term lending and peer to peer lending; the new provisions of
the recently released Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC); the new
requirements governing mortgage lending as contained in MCOB; the
requirements for distance selling and off-premises contracts as
applied to consumer credit and consumer hire including the impact
of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional
Charges) Regulations 2013; the jurisdiction of the financial
ombudsman service on consumer credit. Also considered is the recent
case law on the powerful unfair relationships jurisdiction. This
comprehensive and practical guide is essential reading for legal
practitioners, finance houses, credit reference agencies and retail
organisations.
This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with
commentary and further reading, on the 'Great Patriotic War' of the
Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical
significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published
in English. This work provides translations of a range of extracts
from Soviet documents relating to the titanic struggle on the
Eastern Front during World War II, with commentary. This is the
only single-volume work in English to use documentary evidence to
look at the Soviet war effort from military, political, economic
and diplomatic perspectives. The book should not only facilitate a
deeper study of the Soviet war effort, but also allow more balanced
study of what is widely known in the West as the 'Eastern Front'.
This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of
military history, Soviet history, and World War II history.
This book is based on Soviet archival sources, most previously
untapped by Western and Soviet and post-Soviet Russian historians,
in addition to German material from the US National Archives. Using
this material the author describes the harsh realities of partisan
warfare and explains the changing fortunes of the Soviet partisan
movement on the territory of north-western Russia occupied by the
German Army Group North between 1941 and 1944. The author argues
that after the virtual annihilation of the partisan movement of
1941, during the period from spring 1942 to autumn 1943, despite
improvements in partisan combat effectiveness, ruthless German
anti-partisan policies, in combination with other measures
described, prevented the partisan movement from achieving results
hoped for by its leadership. From the autumn of 1943 the prospect
of a scorched earth policy in retreat by a German Army clearly on
the run, in combination with the military development of the
partisan movement and effective propaganda aimed at the civilian
population and military collaborators, provided the foundations for
increased partisan success. The author concludes that despite not
living up to contemporary expectations, or, for much of the war, to
the claims of Soviet post-war accounts, the Soviet partisan
movement was nonetheless, for the Soviet government, a cost
effective means of hitting the German war machine in the context of
the Soviet war effort as a whole and in particular the horrendous
loss of life at the front.
The field of consumer credit law has undergone major and
fundamental change in the recent past, due in part to the
regulation since 1 April 2014 of consumer credit by the Financial
Conduct Authority, and this book provides a clear and complete
guide to this difficult area of law. Fully updated for the second
edition, the author considers new developments including: the new
authorisation process under the Financial Services and Markets Act
2000, including the interim permission regime, and its
consequences; the new regime for financial promotions as applied to
credit and hire advertising; the new rules controlling high cost
short term lending and peer to peer lending; the new provisions of
the recently released Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC); the new
requirements governing mortgage lending as contained in MCOB; the
requirements for distance selling and off-premises contracts as
applied to consumer credit and consumer hire including the impact
of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional
Charges) Regulations 2013; the jurisdiction of the financial
ombudsman service on consumer credit. Also considered is the recent
case law on the powerful unfair relationships jurisdiction. This
comprehensive and practical guide is essential reading for legal
practitioners, finance houses, credit reference agencies and retail
organisations.
This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with
commentary and further reading, on the 'Great Patriotic War' of the
Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45.
Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet
documents have been published in English. This work provides
translations of a range of extracts from Soviet documents relating
to the titanic struggle on the Eastern Front during World War II,
with commentary. This is the only single-volume work in English to
use documentary evidence to look at the Soviet war effort from
military, political, economic and diplomatic perspectives. The book
should not only facilitate a deeper study of the Soviet war effort,
but also allow more balanced study of what is widely known in the
West as the 'Eastern Front'.
This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of
military history, Soviet history, and World War II history.
The savage partisan war on the Eastern Front during World War II
saw a wide variety of forces deployed by both sides. On the Soviet
side, civilian partisans fought alongside and in co-operation with
Red Army troops and Red Army and NKVD 'special forces'. On the
German side, German Army security divisions, with indigenous
components including cavalry, fought alongside SS police and
Waffen-SS units and other front-line troops employed for short
periods in the anti-partisan role. In addition to providing the
background history of the forces of both sides, this study focuses
upon three examples of German anti-partisan operations that show
varied success in dealing with the Soviet partisan threat. Notably,
it covers a major operation in north-west Russia during the spring
of 1943 - Operation Spring Clean - that saw Wehrmacht security
forces including local components fighting alongside troops under
the SS umbrella against a number of Soviet partisan brigades.
During the fighting, German forces even employed captured French
tanks from earlier in the war against the partisans. Featuring
specially commissioned artwork and drawing upon an array of
sources, this is an absorbing account of the brutal fighting
between German security forces and their Soviet partisan opponents
during the long struggle for victory on World War II's Eastern
Front.
Before espionage entered the era of modern technology, there was
the age of George Alexander Hill: a time of swashbuckling secret
agents, swordsticks and secret assignations with deadly female
spies. The daring escapades of some of the first members of
Britain's secret service are revealed in this account of perilous
adventure and audacious missions in Imperial and revolutionary
Russia. First published in 1932, Hill's rip-roaring narrative
recounts tales of his fellow operatives Arthur Ransome - author of
Swallows and Amazons and one of the most effective British spies in
Russia - and Sidney Reilly - so-called 'Ace of Spies' and architect
of a thwarted plot to assassinate the Bolshevik leadership.
Unavailable for decades, this lost classic offers fascinating
portraits of a world unfathomable to those growing up against a
backdrop of WikiLeaks and cyber espionage, and of true-life
characters whose exploits were so extraordinary that they have
entered the realm of legend. The best collection of military,
espionage, and adventure stories ever told. The Dialogue Espionage
Classics series began in 2010 with the purpose of bringing back
classic out-of-print spying and espionage tales. From WWI and WWII
to the Cold War, D-Day to the SOE, Bletchley Park to the Comet Line
this fascinating spy history series brings you the best stories
that should never be forgotten.
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