Profile of somenbjorn

*Sigh* I clicked some more and am now the owner of:

"Troops of the NKVD in the front and at the rear"

It was 3 bucks can you blame me? I suggest everyone learns russian, if not for the sources then for the fact that books and e-books in russian have a fraction of the cost.

^^
Your second book is called "Tomb of the Panzerwaffe" in English.

Damn didn't even know it existed in english I just got the Russian version linked to myself while doing some other reading. Thats what I get for spending my salary clicking links on Google Books.

I enjoyed "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter" series. It is a good watch. Its a drama, (so don't expect an action-packed series. Although some battlescenes are present.)

Brestskaya Krepost is also a good one, more of an action movie if thats what you want.

"Fury" is a recent good one if you haven't seen it. (Watch it for the zeitgeist of the war not the action scenes.)

"Untergang" is of course a must for any of these lists.

So is the "Liberation" (Osvobozhdenie) series of films. Take note it is from the Brezhnev era and has many great moments and battlescenes but also a few shoe-horned scenes for propaganda. Overall a must-see.

For movies about large battles, "Longest Day" about D-day is a great classic and really a good movie, apart from the once already mentioned.
There are a couple out of the USSR that are good but finding subs can be hard. (Battle of Moscow series.)
Stalingrad from 2013 is a total meh, Enemy at the Gates a cringe-worthy abomination. Only good Stalingrad movie is the one from 1993. Watch that
There is one new that came out this year called "Bitva Za Sevastopol" But I haven't seen it yet.


Finish "The unknown soldier" about the continuation war is good along with The winter war if you want to get in on that part of the fighting.

Last week the Som was found in Swedish waters. She collided underwater with the swedish merchant Ingermanland (Ingria) in the morning of may 10th 1916 and sunk with all 18 hands. (2 officers, 16 sailors)
Originally a prototype for the US Plunger class she was sold to the Imperial Russian Navy in 1904 and served in the Russo-Japanese war and WW1.

In 1905



In 2015:
As you can see she is in surprisingly good condition. Not uncommon in certain parts of the Baltics where oxygen levels are close to zero.



(Dispelling some of the early reports of it being a modern sub. See the Ъ and compare.)

The truly gem in the collection, the one and only "Maus" tank in the world. Were rebuild from remains of 2 tanks (hull from one and turret from another) captured at 1945.


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The specific unit examined by the guys from World of Tanks.