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Blitzkrieg Russia (Images of War) Kindle Edition

by Jon Sutherland (Author), Diane Canwell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The photographs are taken from five unpublished albums focussing on the German invasion of Russia in 1941 Operation Barbarossa. Two of the albums contain shots taken by German infantrymen and include shots of combat, vehicles, knocked-out tanks and prisoners of war. Two of the other albums feature flak and artillery units in the invasion. These include shots of artillery and flak units in action, destroyed Russian aircraft, vehicles and armor as well as Russian prisoners. The final album contains shots taken by a tank destroyer unit. In this set, there are shots of knocked out Russian armor (and abandoned armor), artillery and assault guns in action and a fascinating glimpse into the transition into the first winter. There are many exceptional photographs including rubber boats carrying troops across a river, knocked out monstrous Russian tanks, engineers at work and a range of more casual poses. There are also some interesting studies of uniforms and equipment, abandoned vehicles, vehicles being salvaged and maintained and a host of other subjects.Some are focussed on the early war months with Russia, so there are huge columns of captured Russian prisoners, fraternization with the local peasants and a glimpse of the vast distances involved in the advances made by the Germans in the early months of the conflict.
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About the Author

Jonathan Sutherland has written widely on historical subjects, in particular on military and aviation history, and has long been fascinated by the history of Norfolk and its military heritage. Among his many books are The RAF Air Sea Rescue Service 1918-1986, The Battle of Jutland and Air War Malta.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0094JTPX6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Military (July 19, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 19, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4837 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 156 pages
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2016
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great book!
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Dan Roben
4.0 out of 5 stars Some photos are NOT of the Blitzkrieg time line
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2022
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Great photos. SOME photos are of LATER war tanks NOT of the time of invasion 1941.
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Edwin Loh
2.0 out of 5 stars It seems whoever wrote this book bought a bunch of ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2014
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It seems whoever wrote this book bought a bunch of old photos from flea market then put whatever they think the description
of the pictures on the book as the text. The author(s) does not have knowledge of military history.
Probably don't know the difference between Wehrmacht Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht Heers.
One picture shown Soviet prisoners of war; I am certain they are not based on the uniform.
The photos are authentic though, I have seen quite a lot of old pictures at Berlin flea market.

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Donald Campbell
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2016
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The range of pictures is limited.
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Hernani S. Oliveira Filho
5.0 out of 5 stars Images of War - Russia
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2011
A good example of a archive of new photos showing the time of the action or battle, includes a cronology that explains the evolution of the material and the morale of the soldiers. A good souce of images for modellers and teachers.
The presentation is good but I think that the editor can do a hardcover version, I always consult the book and they started to wrippoff.
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William L. Robinson
2.0 out of 5 stars Blitzkrieg Russia
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2011
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This book was a major disappointment. While the pictures were great, the captions are worse than I find in Ian Baxter's books. The worst examples are on pages 15-16. The caption infers that these two panoramic pictures were taken in June 1941. However, when you look closely, the vehicles shown (Panzer IVs) show a couple the long barrel 75mm guns that didn't exist at the time the caption states. Page after page of beautiful pictures with moronic captions.
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Roland
2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting pictures / ignorant captions
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2011
This book is worse than others in the series which I've bought. The pictures are good but the writing is terrible. The authors are clearly not experts on this area of history, to put it mildly. There is a lot of tedious waffle and a lot of inaccuracy. They would've done better to put two pictures on each page rather than only one, and not to bother writing anything at all.

Amazon UK says the book has 176 pages, but my copy has 144 pages, and of these the last ten are blank.

I'll start with the caption on page 17:

"This is a truly impressive line-up of SdKfzs sporting flak artillery pieces. The SdKfz was a hard-track military vehicle, which dates back to 1934 when designs were underway, leading to its first appearance in 1938. Aside from being a tractor for the 88mm Flak gun and howitzers, it was also widely used as a self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle..."

Well, it's nonsense to describe an "SdKfz" without specifying which inventory number, and there is no such thing as a "hard-track military vehicle". It was the Sd.Kfz.7 which usually towed the 88mm Flak guns and which started to be produced in large numbers around 1938, but this picture is of the Sd.Kfz.6. Basically the whole paragraph is irrelevant rubbish.

Page 19 is just as bad. The caption tells us these are "German infantrymen", but the author hasn't realised that this entire chapter is actually photos of a Luftwaffe anti-aircraft unit. The soldiers in this black and white photo are almost certainly wearing the red Waffenfarbe of the Artillery, not the Infantry. The author describes the dress of soldiers of the Heer, however they are actually wearing what is commonly known as the 'Fliegerbluse' of the Luftwaffe. They are wearing blue-grey, not field-grey, and the collars are not "faced in a dark blue/green material" as we are told.

On page 24 the vehicle is a Krupp Protze, not a Horch Kfz.15

On page 28 the caption reads, "This is the classic German R12 motorcycle with sidecar" but it isn't an R12 in the picture; it's a BMW R75.

On page 39 the caption reads, "The German on the left of the photograph appears to be an officer, as he is carrying a map case around his neck." Actually it's just an ordinary soldier with a gas cape in an oblong pouch attached to his gas mask strap. This error is repeated on page 44.

On page 85 there is a picture of an armoured car with a big advertisement in the background saying, HUILES RENAULT. You have to wonder why they included this photo, because I doubt that it was taken in the Soviet Union!

Writing books about WWII would be a dream job for thousands of people, so why doesn't the publisher select someone who could do it better? It's a shame because I'd love to know more about these pictures.

The pictures come from Jim Payne, a photograph collector who has an interesting website called Through Their Eyes. The crashed Soviet plane on pages 58 and 59 of the book (wrongly identified by the authors) seems to be a Neman/Kharkov R-10, which is quite a rare machine. You can see one of these two photos on the website under the heading WW2 GERMAN ARMY RUSSIAN FRONT.
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Mike O'Connor
3.0 out of 5 stars Par for Course for the Images of War Series!
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2012
Having read various IMAGES OF WAR volumes, I can't say I was disappointed by BLITZKRIEG RUSSIA. It's about par for course for this long-running series: fascinating photographs teamed with captions ranging from generic to inaccurate. I'm no expert on the Russian Front but, when even I can spot mistakes, something's wrong!

First off, I really enjoyed the rich variety of pix found in this 2011 Pen & Sword volume. The pix depict Russian and German tanks, armored cars, flak-guns, trucks, MGs and artillery pieces along with snaps of German infantrymen in various poses, Russian POWs, peasants and battle scenes. Taken together, the photographs really give a good picture of Russian Front warfare at the landser level. Then too, the photo quality is much better than many IOW volumes I've seen. It's a pity the authors - Sutherland and Canwell - did such a superficial job of captioning those gems.

In summary, enjoy the pix and wade through the captions. Recommended with reservations.
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randy c
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Canada on April 17, 2018
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Marksman
2.0 out of 5 stars Hmmmmm.......
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2016
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I have a few books in this series. Some are good, some are okay, but this one is so far the worst that I've purchased so far. I work as a military artist and have a special interest in the war on the Eastern Front, so therefore photographs are useful to me from a reference point of view. In that respect, the book is useful. But that's as far as it goes. As others have said the book is really let down by the captioning. The first thing I look for when purchasing a book are the captions correct to the photographs? In this case, and in a number of instances, no.

I started thumbing through (I have a habit of thumbing from the back forwards), Immediately I noticed the T-28 on page 130 mis-captioned as a T-35. The T-28 and -35 were nothing like each other. For a start there is a vast size difference; the -35 being nearly twice as long as the -28. Page 107 shows a knocked out Panzerkampfwagen III, which has been misidentified as a "KV-1." That's bad enough but the, for me, biggest stand out error appears on page 38. "A stricken and abandoned T-34/76.........." which is actually "A stricken and abandoned T-40........" Even more so when there's a photograph on the facing page, correctly captioned showing a T-34/76.

Again, the photograph on page 15. According to the caption, it is assumed that the photograph was taken during the opening stages of Barbarossa. Okay, the authors add a disclaimer by the word "assumption". It's a vague photograph but looking closely, the vehicles in the foreground are long barrel Pazerkampfwagen IV's (at least late model Ausf F's). These didn't enter service until 1942, which is after Barbarossa. The interesting point though is the tank on the horizon, second from the left. Silhouette wise, it looks distinctly like a Panzer VI Tiger I. I can also see what appear to be the two upright exhaust bins on the back. These didn't even arrive in Russia until the summer of 1942 at the earliest, but I'd date the shot at sometime around Operation Citadel. A photograph from the same group appears on the following page. Panzer IV's and two (at far right) which from their silhouettes appear to be Panzer VI's.

Page 24; captioned as a "Horch Kfz 15". It's a Krupp Protze. Page 28; captioned as a "BMW R12". It's a BMW r75. Page 35; KV-2 captioned as a "KB-2" (they've used the cyrillic form).

Again on page 78, a shot of a downed "DB3", which is actually an Il-2, and was taken after Barbarossa. Reason; the stars carry white outlines which didn't really come in until late 1942, although there were rare exceptions. Page 23; another "appears to be shot" of a T-34/76. It is a T-34/76. Pages 88 and 89 are definitely not Opel Blitz's. The vehicle on page 89 is a Büssing NAG. You can even see the prominent manufacturers stamp on the bumper above the licence plate.

Another niggle is the phrase "appears to show/be". This is very apparent with the caption on page 26; "A downed Russian aircraft, which appears to be a Tupolev SB." Not "appears to be". It IS a Tupolev SB. That strikes me that whoever captioned and/or researched the photographs has little idea of the subject they are trying to identify. The same happens on page 59 with a downed Soviet aircraft "appearing to be" an "Ilyushin Il-4". It is a Nieman R-10. The R-10 and the Il-4 were nothing like each other. The photograph on the facing page is of the same aircraft but from a frontal angle, yet is this time captioned as a Polikarpov I-16. Another "appears to be" shot on page 80 of a BT-7, which is a BT-7. Page 85 shows a photograph that was clearly taken in France (note the 'Renault' garage behind), but at least the subject is correctly captioned as a SdKfz232.

What I find interesting though, is that some of the photographs ARE correctly captioned. One example being page 54, and yes it IS a BA-20. So the authors have taken the trouble to research properly there, but why not the rest of the book? Had these been researched properly, it would have been a useful book. A quick look at the bibliography in the back of the book shows that the authors have consulted a mere eight books and although written by trusted authors, some of those have now been surpassed by new information.

I don't wish to come across as an anorak, and I didn't want to go into a long diatribe about the shortcomings of the book, but I take this sort of thing quite seriously. If I buy a book for research purposes, I need to know that it contains accurate information. Okay, nobody is infallible and one or two errors can and do creep in, but the book has them front to back. The misidentification to those 'in the know' is irritating, but it is purely misleading to those not familiar with the subject. Thankfully, I did not pay full whack for the book. Had I done so, I would have been less happy. Perhaps an addendum in the back of the book would have helped.

On the plus side: interesting photographs. A big minus side: my advice to the reader would be if you know the subject, to take the captions with a big pinch of salt. Two stars only for the photographic content; I could award more there, but I'd be misleadingly giving this book a high rating.
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Roland
2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting pictures / ignorant captions
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2011
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This book is worse than others in the series which I've bought. The pictures are good but the writing is terrible. The authors are clearly not experts on this area of history, to put it mildly. There is a lot of tedious waffle and a lot of inaccuracy. They would've done better to put two pictures on each page rather than only one, and not to bother writing anything at all.

Amazon UK says the book has 176 pages, but my copy has 144 pages, and of these the last ten are blank.

I'll start with the caption on page 17:

"This is a truly impressive line-up of SdKfzs sporting flak artillery pieces. The SdKfz was a hard-track military vehicle, which dates back to 1934 when designs were underway, leading to its first appearance in 1938. Aside from being a tractor for the 88mm Flak gun and howitzers, it was also widely used as a self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle..."

Well, it's nonsense to describe an "SdKfz" without specifying which inventory number, and there is no such thing as a "hard-track military vehicle". It's "halftrack" of course, but which halftrack are they talking about? Because it was the Sd.Kfz.7 which usually towed the 88mm Flak guns and which started to be produced in large numbers around 1938, while the picture on this page is of the Sd.Kfz.6. Basically the whole paragraph is irrelevant rubbish.

Page 19 is just as bad. The caption tells us these are "German infantrymen", but the author hasn't realised that this entire chapter is actually photos of a Luftwaffe anti-aircraft unit. The soldiers in this black and white photo are almost certainly wearing the red Waffenfarbe of the Artillery, not the Infantry. The author describes the dress of soldiers of the Heer, however they are actually wearing what is commonly known as the 'Fliegerbluse' of the Luftwaffe. They are wearing blue-grey, not field-grey, and the collars are not "faced in a dark blue/green material" as we are told.

On page 24 the vehicle is a Krupp Protze, not a Horch Kfz.15

On page 28 the caption reads, "This is the classic German R12 motorcycle with sidecar" but it isn't an R12 in the picture; it's a BMW R75.

On page 39 the caption reads, "The German on the left of the photograph appears to be an officer, as he is carrying a map case around his neck." Actually it's just an ordinary soldier with a gas cape in an oblong pouch attached to his gas mask strap. This error is repeated on page 44.

On page 85 there is a picture of an armoured car with a big advertisement in the background saying, HUILES RENAULT. You have to wonder why they included this photo, because I doubt that it was taken in the Soviet Union!

Writing books about WWII would be a dream job for thousands of people, so why doesn't the publisher select someone who could do it better? It's a shame because I'd love to know more about these pictures.

The pictures come from Jim Payne, a photograph collector who has an interesting website called Through Their Eyes. The crashed Soviet plane on pages 58 and 59 of the book (wrongly identified by the authors) seems to be a Neman/Kharkov R-10, which is quite a rare machine. You can see one of these two photos on the website under the heading WW2 GERMAN ARMY RUSSIAN FRONT.
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Roger Peachey
3.0 out of 5 stars Good photos, a few glaring errors.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 12, 2016
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Another in the long series of Images Of War books, this basically a collection of photos taken by German soldiers as they invaded Russia. As such, it gives an interesting insight into how the German soldiers lived during those hectic and turbulent times. I would have given it 5 stars but there a few glaring mistakes in the notes that accompany the pictures. I'll assume it's just a basic typo on page 35 that describes a KV-2 tank as a KB2, but page 38 is a little bit more than that; what is described as 'a stricken and abandoned T34/76' is actually a T-40 light tank, absolutely nothing like a T-34.
Then the real howler - page 107; 'this photograph appears to show a completely wrecked Russian KV1 tank'. No, it clearly show a wrecked German Panzer III, totally different to a KV-1. The shape of the front hull, narrowness of the tracks and the open escape hatch in the side of the hull kind of give it away!

A shame really, as I would have graded it higher if a little more care had been taken.
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TAD
2.0 out of 5 stars Poor vehicle recognition
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2016
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I agree with a number of the other reviews. Given that this is basically a photographic history, there are simply too many errors in vehicle recognition. I'm not sure if this is the fault of the author or the editing, but it is not acceptable. As I read this on Kindle, I don't have the page number, but 93% in the destroyed KV1 is clearly a Panzer III! Shortly after, the stated T35 is actually a T28. Even 34% in, the wreck of the so-called T34 looks more like a T60 light tank. Whilst this sounds like the moans of a tank anorak, people pay good money for these books and should expect more care from the publisher.
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