Peter Abbott, Eugene Pinak

Ukrainian Armies 1914-55 (eBook, PDF)

Illustrator: Rudenko, Oleksiy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed, illustrated study of the Ukrainian armed forces, their weapons, dress and equipment from the First to the Second World War and beyond.

There can be no region in Europe whose history has been more tortured than Ukraine. During the 20th century Austria, Poland, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania vied for power over parts of this vast and fragmented area; and its divided peoples rose time and again in vain attempts to win their independence.

For the first time in the West, this book gives a succinct summary of all the different armed forces raised among the Ukrainians, and of their uniforms and insignia. These are illustrated in colour and in a selection of extremely rare photographs, dating from the Great War to the aftermath of World War II, when Ukrainian guerrillas continued to defy the Soviet authorities until the mid-1950s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780964034
• Artikelnr.: 45353066

Autorenporträt

Peter Abbott is a retired university lecturer. He has written or co-authored a number of Men-at-Arms titles for Osprey, including Men-at-Arms 379: Armies in East Africa 1914-18. He is particularly interested in 19th and 20th century armies that are less well known to the English speaking reader, and he has been collecting material on the various Ukrainian forces for many years.

Inhaltsangabe

World War I: Ukrainian units of the Austro
Hungarian and Russian armies · The first struggles for independence
the Ukrainian National Republic 1917
21
the Western Ukrainian Republic 1918
20 World War II: Carpathia
Ruthenia 1938
39
Ukrainian units in the Wehrmacht, Polizei & Waffen
SS
Ukrainian National Army 1945 Aftermath: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army 1941
56