Soviet Warfare

STALINGRAD Hell on the Volga: The Battle That Broke Hitler’s Army On 23 August 1942, the sky over Stalingrad fell in fire. Hitler’s armies had already thundered across the steppe in search of oil, glory, and a victory grand enough to break the Soviet Union for good. Ahead of them stood one long industrial city on the Volga — a city of factories, ferries, rail yards, workers’ districts, and a name that carried enormous symbolic weight. To Berlin, Stalingrad was a prize. To Moscow, it was a commandment. To the men, women, and children trapped inside it, it was about to become hell. In...

Bloomsbury presents Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943 by Prit Buttar, read by Jonathan Oliver From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this audio edition of his detailed and engrossing account of the World War II’s Eastern Front as German...

Can Saddam’s Army hold its own… …against the weight of American military might? Tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopters, paratroopers, and amphibious assault vehicles mobilize to bring the pain for Operation Desert Storm. Will Saddam use chemical and biological weapons to try and even the score? The mighty guns of the USS Iowa and Wisconsin support one final amphibious assault. Will their 36-inch, 2,000-pound shells shatter the Iraqi defenses and open the way for the Marines? The largest tank battle since World War II is brewing. What if America didn’t stop in southern Iraq? ...

A man in white. A rifle with iron sights. A forest so cold it can kill you without a shot. In the Winter War of 1939–40, Finland faced an invasion by a vastly larger Soviet force—and held on by turning the landscape itself into a weapon. On the Kollaa front, where daylight is brief and the temperature can break metal and men, one small Finnish soldier became a problem the Red Army could not solve. His name was Simo Häyhä. Later, he would be called “The White Death”—and widely regarded as the world’s deadliest sniper. But this is not a legend-polishing retelling. It’s the war...

During the 1970s the continent of Africa was consumed by conflict. The many wars which were being fought attracted ex soldiers from far and wide who were prepared to fight for money. This is one man’s story. Blood Money is a sensational account of mercenary warfare at its most brutal, you are led on a heart-stopping journey through African civil war zones to the Rhodesian bush war. The author pulls no punches in his description of those times. It’s a terrific roller-coaster of a book which will leave the reader breathless as they are plunged headlong into the action. “The fear in the ...

By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmacht's panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter the war on the Eastern Front was dominated by tank-led offensives and, as Robert Forczyk shows, the Red Army's mechanized forces gained the upper hand, delivering a sequence of powerful blows that shattered one German defensive line after another.

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms We live in the age of disinformation—of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and...

Bloomsbury presents Hero City: Leningrad 1943–44 by Prit Buttar, read by Gordon Griffin One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling...

Bloomsbury presents To Besiege a City by Prit Buttar, read by Leighton Pugh. '[An] excellent account.' - Richard Overy, The Telegraph Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024 A ground-breaking history of the siege of Leningrad, masterfully brought to life by a...

In 1939, tiny Finland waged war - the kind of war that spawns legends - against the mighty Soviet Union, and yet, their epic struggle has been largely ignored. Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance, and the charismatic leadership of one of this century's true military geniuses - these are the elements of both the Finnish victory and a gripping tale of war.

This audiobook is the story of combat from the guerrilla’s perspective and surviving against the overwhelming firepower and technology of a superpower. The audiobook consists of a series of combat vignettes related by Mujahideen combatants in Afghanistan that shows the good and the bad, the mistakes and successes of guerrillas fighting the Soviet military forces.

An international crisis looms and special ops team Old Dog Zero One must avert a full-scale war. In this sequel to Flight of the Old Dog, it's discovered one of the team's own is alive. Presumed dead in Siberia, the airman has come out of a coma only to face the death penalty for crimes against...

Twenty hours of power. Twelve men dead. And the enemy is inside the government. The Typhoon has reached home waters, but home is not safety. Captain Viktor Sobolev's crippled submarine sits on the surface of the Barents Sea, its reactor failing, its hull fracturing, its crew watching the Russian Navy form a killing cordon around them. The world has every camera pointed at the standoff. No one can look away. No one can help. Then the evidence arrives — proof that the conspiracy reaches the highest levels of the Russian military. A general orchestrating a coup. An assassination order with a...

In this “engrossing, well-documented, and highly readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to reveal Washington's secret strategies for combating germ warfare and the deadly threat of...

The future has entered World War II—and the enemy is learning how to fight it. After the USS Gerald R. Ford was thrown back into 1942, Rear Admiral Diane Kessler used the most powerful carrier strike group on Earth to change the course of the war. But every victory has revealed something. Germany is no longer reacting blindly. A secret intelligence staff is studying American radio traffic, recovered technology, captured equipment, and every weapon the Ford has fired. New traps are being designed for aircraft that should not exist. The enemy now understands that the carrier’s missiles ...

Four Soviet armies have invaded. Outnumbered more than ten to one by the most powerful military on earth, the Finnish Army is forced into retreat. Their last hope is the Mannerheim Line—a frozen wall of trenches and resolve. But if it falls, so does Finland. Behind enemy lines, Hale Karhonen faces an impossible mission. Cut off from his unit and hunted by Soviet forces, Hale must lead his family, his mother, sister, pregnant wife, and unborn child, through a gauntlet of snow and steel to reach safety. Every step is a battle. With the Soviet juggernaut pressing deeper into Karelia, the ...

This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. What Jonsson reveals is that Russia's conception of the very nature of war is now changing, as Russian elites see information warfare and political subversion as the most important ways to conduct contemporary war. Since information warfare and political subversion are below the traditional threshold of armed violence, this has blurred the boundaries between war and peace. 

The war was supposed to be decided on the ground. Instead, it moved to the sky. In 1950, a fragile coalition of Russia, Britain, France, and Germany faces a new kind of enemy—one that does not need to hold territory to shape the battlefield. China’s secret long-range missile programme, known only within its own ranks, begins to strike deep behind the front lines, turning distance into vulnerability and certainty into doubt. As cities come under threat and supply lines are shattered without warning, the rules of war begin to collapse. Generals push forward across Siberia, determined to ...

An urgent call-to-action outlining how we can prevent a global conflict in the near-future from Tobias Ellwood, former Defence Minister and Chair of the House of Commons Defence Committee. 'Crucial reading on why our global order has come apart at the seams' - WILLIAM HAGUE 'Thoughtful...

MiGs Over Nevada (CIA Area 51 Chronicles – Book 4) By TD Barnes Captured Soviet fighters. Top-secret dogfights. The CIA’s covert air war at Area 51. With the retirement of the A-12 reconnaissance plane, Area 51 seemed destined for a quieter existence. But instead, it became the center of a groundbreaking intelligence operation that would transform U.S. aerial warfare forever. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), in partnership with the CIA, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Navy, launched an unprecedented program to exploit captured Soviet MiG aircraft, revealing enemy capabilities and ...