Название: Opening Moves: Marines Gear Up for War
Автор: Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
Издательство: USMC
Страниц: 28
Формат: PDF
Размер: 6 мб
Качество: хорошее
Язык: Английский
Год: 1991
On 1 September 1939, German armored columns and attack aircraft crossed the Polish border on a broad front and World War II began. Within days, most of Europe was deeply involved in the conflict as nations took sides for and against Germany and its leader, Adolph Hitler, according to their history, alliances, and self-interest. Soviet Russia, a natural enemy of Germany's eastward expansion, became a wary partner in Poland's quick defeat and subsequent partition in order to maintain a buffer zone against the German advance. Inevitably, however, after German successes in the west and the fall of France, Holland, and Belgium, in 1940, Hitler attacked Russia, in 1941.
