Карлос Юрадо

Во время Второй мировой войны довольно большое количество иностранцев служило в армейских, военно-морских и военно-воздушных силах Германии. Антикоммунизм был наиболее важной причиной, заставившей такое большое количество добровольцев надеть германскую униформу. Эта книга посвящена исследованию иностранных добровольцев в вермахте и уделяет особое внимание их униформе, знакам различия и организации...

Osprey's examination of German troops in the post-World War I (1914-1918) period. The troops returning home to Germany after the 1918 Armistice found their country riven by internal unrest, and its eastern borders threatened. Though reluctant to support the new Republic, the many Free Corps formed by ex-Imperial soldiers fought furiously against Communist revolutionaries at home and Polish an...

The all-volunteer 'Blue Division' was a formation that allowed Franco's technically neutral Spain to support Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia. Following initial training in Germany, the Blue Division's units were sent to the Eastern Front in August 1941, where, after a 40-day march to the front, the Division fought in several major battles including Leningrad. In 1943, wi...