Nik Cornish
Forfatter af Images of Kursk: History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943 (Photographic Histories)
Om forfatteren
Nik Cornish is a former head teacher whose passionate interest in the world wars on the Eastern Front and in Russia's military history in particular has led to a series of important books on the subject including Images of Kursk, Stalingrad: Victory on the Volga, Berlin: Victory in Europe, Partisan vis mere Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1944, The Russian Revolution: World War to Civil War 1917-1921, Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1941-1942 - Barbarossa to Moscow and Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1942-1943 - Stalingrad to Kharkov. vis mindre
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Værker af Nik Cornish
Images of Kursk: History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943 (Photographic Histories) (2002) 52 eksemplarer
The Russian Army in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War) (2014) 17 eksemplarer
Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1943 - 1944: Kursk to Bagration (Images of War) (2017) 10 eksemplarer
Hitler versus Stalin : the Eastern Front 1942-1943 : Stalingrad to Kharkov : rare photographs from wartome archives (2016) 9 eksemplarer
Hitler versus Stalin : the Eastern Front 1941-1942 : Barbarossa to Moscow : rare photographs from wartime archives (2016) 8 eksemplarer
Hitler versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1944–1945 - Warsaw to Berlin (Images of War) (2018) 4 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1954
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Wales
- Fødested
- Cardiff, Wales
- Bopæl
- Reading, UK
- Erhverv
- historian
university professor - Organisationer
- Stavka Military Image Research
University of Reading - Kort biografi
- NIK CORNISH was born in Cardiff in 1954, and currently lives and works in exile in the south of England. Formerly a teacher, he founded STAVKA Military Research, specialising in eastern European conflicts, at the end of the last century. This is his first book for the Osprey Military series.
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- Medlemmer
- 277
- Popularitet
- #83,813
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- 3.2
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- ISBN
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- 1
In this short book, Nik Cornish gives a good overview of the Soviet partisan movement. I learned much -- for example, I was not aware that partisans were often deployed by aircraft, and that the Soviets could even manage to fly partisan commanders to Moscow for a conference with Stalin. Nor did I know that the partisan movement was formally dissolved in 1944 -- presumably when there were no longer any occupied territories for them to operate in as the war was now being fought in Germany itself. The book is full of illustrations of partisan equipment and weapons which will be of interest to specialists.… (mere)