Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942Illuminating 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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Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 David M. Glantz No preview available - 2000 |
Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 David M. Glantz No preview available - 1999 |
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