2004, ISBN: 9781572492950

Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004. The Soviet-German War of 1941-1945 was the most extensive intelligence/counterintelligence war in modern history, involving the capture, tor… Mehr…

Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004. The Soviet-German War of 1941-1945 was the most extensive intelligence/counterintelligence war in modern history, involving the capture, torture, deportation, execution, and "doubling" of tens of thousands of agents-most of them Soviet citizens. While Russian armies fought furiously to defeat the Wehrmacht, Stalin's security services waged an equally ruthless secret war against Hitler's spies, as well as against the Soviet population. Employing as many as 150,000 trained agents across a 2,400-mile front, the Soviets neutralized the majority of the more than 40,000 German agents deployed against them. The combination of Soviet military deception operations and State Security's defeat of the Abwehr's human intelligence effort had devastating consequences for the German Army in every major battle against the Red army, including Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, the Belorussian offensive, and the Vistula-Oder operation. The author gives a comprehensive account to date of the Abwehr's infamous agent "Max," whose organization allegedly ran an entire network of agents inside the USSR, and reveals the reasons for Germany's catastrophic under-estimation of Soviet forces by more than one million men during their 1944 summer offensive in Belorussia. Book appears unread; pages are clean and crisp; book is tight; dj shows no wear whatsoever; prior owners signature and date on front flyleaf; 349 pages - table of contents, list of illustrations, and acknowledgements not included in page count; encased in acid free Brodart book protector. Former Owner Signature. First Printing. Hard. As New/As New. 8 Vo., University Press of Kansas, 2004, 5, Burd Street Pr, 2002-04-01. Paperback. Very Good. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Years after the guns of the Civil War were silenced, a former private in the Stonewall Brigade remembered Kernstown as "one of the hardest little battles of the war." Fought on rolling terrain near a Valley turnpike hamlet three miles south of Winchester, the Battle of Kernstown is the first in a series of clashes that comprised Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's legendary Shenandoah Valley Campaign. The Battle of Kernstown has been the least understood encounter of that famous spring in 1862 - until now. Gary Ecelbarger's new book brings to light the strategy, tactics, and personalities associated with March 23, 1862, by using hundreds of rare first-hand accounts from Kernstown soldiers. "We Are In For It!" demonstrates why one Civil War veteran considered the infantry fire at Kernstown to be "as heavy as it was at Antietam, Gettysburg, or the Wilderness., Burd Street Pr, 2002-04-01, 3<

2002, ISBN: 9781572492950

Burd Street Pr, 2002-04-01. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Years after the guns of the Civil War were silenced, a former private… Mehr…

Burd Street Pr, 2002-04-01. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Years after the guns of the Civil War were silenced, a former private in the Stonewall Brigade remembered Kernstown as "one of the hardest little battles of the war." Fought on rolling terrain near a Valley turnpike hamlet three miles south of Winchester, the Battle of Kernstown is the first in a series of clashes that comprised Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's legendary Shenandoah Valley Campaign. The Battle of Kernstown has been the least understood encounter of that famous spring in 1862 - until now. Gary Ecelbarger's new book brings to light the strategy, tactics, and personalities associated with March 23, 1862, by using hundreds of rare first-hand accounts from Kernstown soldiers. "We Are In For It!" demonstrates why one Civil War veteran considered the infantry fire at Kernstown to be "as heavy as it was at Antietam, Gettysburg, or the Wilderness., Burd Street Pr, 2002-04-01, 3<