Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942

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University Press of Kansas, 1999 - History - 421 pages
Illuminating the painful progress of Operation Mars with vivid battle scenes and numerous maps and illustrations, Glantz presents Mars as a major failure of Zhukov's renowned command. Yet, both during and after the war, that failure was masked from public view by the successful Stalingrad operation, thus eliminating any stain from Zhukov's public image as a hero of the Great Patriotic War. For three grueling weeks, Operation Mars was one of the most tragic and agonizing episodes in Soviet military history. Glantz's reconstruction of that failed offensive fills a major gap in our knowledge of World War II, even as it raises important questions about the reputations of national military heroes.

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Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations
1
Thunder in the North
10
Appendices
22
TWO THE RED GOD OF WAR UNLEASHED
77
THREE THE Red God of War ContTAINED
175
FOUR FRUSTRATION FURY AND DEFEAT
223
FIVE EPILOGUE
285
Selective Orders and Directives from
325
Notes
381
Selective Bibliography
405
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