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Supported in large part by evidence released after the collapse of
the Soviet Union, this book follows the career of the Red Army from
its birth in 1918 as the designated vanguard of world revolution to
its affiliation in 1941 with 'the citadel of capitalism', the
United States. Effectiveness of leadership and military doctrine
are particular concerns here, and Josef Stalin is the dominant
personality. On the basis of the Russian Civil War (1918-20), the
Red Army began to bill itself as 'an army of a new type',
inherently superior to all others. However, in late 1920, the Poles
trounce it soundly. Later, Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil
War (1936-39) reveals widespread obsolescence in armament and
equipment. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 gives Germany and
the USSR a free hand to act against Poland. However, slack
performance by the Red Army in the unopposed occupation of eastern
Poland and the bungled war with Finland in the winter of 1939-40
necessitate sweeping military reforms. Germany was an enemy in
1918, ally in the 1920s, enemy again in 1933, ally again in 1939,
and the enemy once more in 1941, following the German invasion on
22 June 1941. This brings on a catastrophe that by the year's end
has consumed nearly the entire pre-invasion Red Army. The United
States' entry into the war on 7 December 1941 and the Red Army's
subsequent recovery raise the question: Who won the Second World
War?
Long before the dust settled on European battlefields in World War
II, the U.S. Army had to face the difficult tasks of occupying and
governing war-torn Germany. Its leaders and troops were called upon
to deal with a series of complex challenges in political, economic,
financial, social, and cultural affairs, tasks beyond the
traditional combat roles of soldiers. This volume provides an
authoritative account of the role of the U.S. Army in military
government and occupation of Germany from the inception of planning
until the relative separation of military government and tactical
troops in 1946. In the process it offers an in-depth study of the
first year, the formative period of the occupation, a most eventful
phase in the shaping of post-war Europe. The story ranges from
Washington and theater headquarters down to military government
detachments in the field, and covers the varied national and
international civilian and military apparatus that evolved.
Illustrating the diverse approaches of the Americans, British, and
Russians, it analyzes efforts to combat hunger, disease, and crime,
preserve cultural artifacts, re-establish industry and utilities,
and resolve thorny problems involving currency, housing, education,
newspapers, elections, and displaced persons. The account shows the
pitfalls and difficulties in planning, organizing, and executing
such a complex undertaking. While this volume is part of the Army
Historical Series, it continues in effect the history begun in the
largely documentary volume of the U.S. Army in World War II series,
Civil Affairs: Soldiers become Governors, as well as in the
narrative volumes on the European conflict in the same series.
Besides being of particular interest to that large number of men,
still surviving, who participated in the events depicted here, Dr.
Ziemke's volume will constitute for the Army an important source
for lessons learned in planning, training, and organization for
civil affairs and military government. For the scholar this book
should provide a most valuable addition to the literature of the
occupation, and for the general reader an enlightening and
interesting account of a remarkable episode in the history of the
U.S. Army and of Germany.
Long before the dust settled on European battlefields in World War
II, the U.S. Army had to face the difficult tasks of occupying and
governing war-torn Germany. Its leaders and troops were called upon
to deal with a series of complex challenges in political, economic,
financial, social, and cultural affairs, tasks beyond the
traditional combat roles of soldiers. This volume provides an
authoritative account of the role of the U.S. Army in military
government and occupation of Germany from the inception of planning
until the relative separation of military government and tactical
troops in 1946. In the process it offers an in-depth study of the
first year, the formative period of the occupation, a most eventful
phase in the shaping of post-war Europe. The story ranges from
Washington and theater headquarters down to military government
detachments in the field, and covers the varied national and
international civilian and military apparatus that evolved.
Illustrating the diverse approaches of the Americans, British, and
Russians, it analyzes efforts to combat hunger, disease, and crime,
preserve cultural artifacts, re-establish industry and utilities,
and resolve thorny problems involving currency, housing, education,
newspapers, elections, and displaced persons. The account shows the
pitfalls and difficulties in planning, organizing, and executing
such a complex undertaking. While this volume is part of the Army
Historical Series, it continues in effect the history begun in the
largely documentary volume of the U.S. Army in World War II series,
Civil Affairs: Soldiers become Governors, as well as in the
narrative volumes on the European conflict in the same series.
Besides being of particular interest to that large number of men,
still surviving, who participated in the events depicted here, Dr.
Ziemke's volume will constitute for the Army an important source
for lessons learned in planning, training, and organization for
civil affairs and military government. For the scholar this book
should provide a most valuable addition to the literature of the
occupation, and for the general reader an enlightening and
interesting account of a remarkable episode in the history of the
U.S. Army and of Germany.
Army Historical Series. CMH Pub. 30-5-1. Describes the
German-Soviet conflict in World War II and the events that resulted
in the Soviet Union becoming a dominant military power in Europe.
Frist published in 1968. Illustrated.
Long before the dust settled on European battlefields in World War
II, the U.S. Army had to face the difficult tasks of occupying and
governing war-torn Germany. Its leaders and troops were called upon
to deal with a series of complex challenges in political, economic,
financial, social, and cultural affairs, tasks beyond the
traditional combat roles of soldiers. This volume provides an
authoritative account of the role of the U.S. Army in military
government and occupation of Germany from the inception of planning
until the relative separation of military government and tactical
troops in 1946. In the process it offers an in-depth study of the
first year, the formative period of the occupation, a most eventful
phase in the shaping of post-war Europe. The story ranges from
Washington and theater headquarters down to military government
detachments in the field, and covers the varied national and
international civilian and military apparatus that evolved.
Illustrating the diverse approaches of the Americans, British, and
Russians, it analyzes efforts to combat hunger, disease, and crime,
preserve cultural artifacts, re-establish industry and utilities,
and resolve thorny problems involving currency, housing, education,
newspapers, elections, and displaced persons. The account shows the
pitfalls and difficulties in planning, organizing, and executing
such a complex undertaking.
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.Earl F. Ziemke is a graduate
of the University of Wisconsin, where he received a Ph.D. degree in
history. In World War II he served with the U.S. Marine Corps in
the Pacific theater. In 1951 he joined the staff of the Bureau of
Applied Social Research, Columbia University, and in 1955 he moved
to the Office of the Chief of Military History. Since 1967 he has
been a member of the history faculty at the University of Georgia.
He is the author of a number of books on military history.
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