Книги о туркестанцах и кавказцах

axis88 · Oct 12, 2011

Представляем Вашему вниманию новую книгу серии "Враги и союзники" - Г.Г. Мамулия "Грузинский легиона Вермахта".

Apisarenko · Jan 29, 2016

Новая книга о Туркестанском легионе
http://www.helion.co.uk/new-and-for...of-the-162nd-turkistan-infantry-division.html

Ponomarenko · Mar 27, 2016

Вот такая книжка вышла, 260 фото анонсированно

von Goltz · Mar 27, 2016

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Hitler’s Turkistani Soldiers – Challenging the Occultist Legends
http://argunners.com/hitlers-turkistani-soldiers-challenging-the-occultist-legends/

Velych · May 5, 2016

Apisarenko said: ↑

Новая книга о Туркестанском легионе
http://www.helion.co.uk/new-and-for...of-the-162nd-turkistan-infantry-division.html
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I must admit that there were warning signs about Paolo Dossena's Hitler's Turkestani Soldiers: A History of the 162nd (Turkistani) Infantry Division. First, it was written by an amateur historian. Second, it had the word "Hitler's" in the title, which is usually a bad sign. Third, it was published by Helion, which essentially has zero quality control--it seems to publish anything submitted to it, good or bad--and fourth, it is a work about an obscure "ethnic" military formation in the German military during World War II, a field usually dominated by extremely poor writers who fixate on Waffen SS formations.

However, I noticed that the book was fairly long (over 400 pages) and, because it did not deal with a Waffen SS formation, I though perhaps it might be a serious history--and indeed, a serious study of something like a Turkestani (and Azerbaijani, in fact) military formation in the Wehrmacht during World War II is actually something worthwhile. So I bought it.

Silly me. The book is execrable. Divided into many short chapters with many tiny subsections, the book is disjointed and jumps around more than a Mexican jumping bean at a hopscotch convention. But here's the key fatal flaw: there is hardly any information about the 162nd Infantry Division in this book. This is a book which is based on SECONDARY sources (primarily English and Italian, with a smattering of German secondary sources). Now, for those of you who may not immediately grasp the significance of this, this means that the author consulted no records, papers, or original materials related to the 162nd Infantry Division--no after action reports, no plans, no personnel records, no orders, nothing. Rather, the author basically skimmed through a bunch of previously published books and looked for mention of the 162nd Infantry Division--or mention of anything that seemed possibly even remotely related to the 162nd Infantry Division.

It is impossible to write a good book on even a very well known and much-written about military unit using only secondary sources. It is impossible to write anything other than a horrible and useless book using this methodology on an obscure, little-known and seldom-written-about military unit. I should note, too, that many of the sources actually consulted are themselves very poor and/or unreliable, such as works by the pro-Nazi pseudonymous "Richard Landwehr."

As a result, much of this 400+ page book consists of material that has nothing even to do with the 162nd Infantry Division. It is pure padding. The fact is that the author really seems to know very little about the 162nd Infantry Division--and it shows. The worst of the padding consist of the material from various crazy people associated with the "occult" nature of the Third Reich. Why any of this crap is in the book is beyond me. At times the author seems to realize it is crap; at other times, the author seems to accept some of their contentions uncritically.

There is NO REASON to get this book. It is poorly written, obviously poorly researched, contains no critical thinking or analysis, and most importantly provides virtually no useful information on the formation that is ostensibly the book's subject. Shame on Helion for publishing it in the first place.
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axis88 · Jul 9, 2016

Новая книга Карлоса Кабальеро Юрадо

Sibirayk · Dec 29, 2019

Осетины на службе Третьего рейха https://yadi.sk/i/0IDZmlyY3UABOg

Grand · Apr 24, 2020

Эдуард Абрамян. Кавказцы в Абвере.

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