Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944"Provides more than ample strategic and operational detail and context about the operation...The human view of combat... is most revealing and significant."--"Journal of Slavic Military "Studies. It was a battle worse than the one at Stalingrad, and World War II's turning point, thanks to Hitler's strategic miscalculations. Succinct and groundbreaking, this analysis of the largely ignored, bloody conflict in Byelorussia reveals how the Nazis lost the Eastern Front. Their defeat cost 350,000 casualities--and left the war effort doomed and broken. |
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Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944 Paul Adair No preview available - 1998 |
Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944 Paul Adair No preview available - 2001 |
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5th Guards Tank 5th Panzer Division advance aircraft ammunition anti-tank armoured Army Group Centre Army Group North artillery assault gun attack Baltic Front Baranovichi battalion battle Berezina Bobruisk Borisov breakout bridge captured cavalry/mechanized group Chief of Staff Colonel Colonel-General columns cross defences destroyed divisional Dnieper east Eastern Front encirclement enemy Fester Platz fighting fire flank formations fortified area Fourth Army Führer Generalleutnant German Army Glantz Gollwitzer Group North Ukraine Guards Tank Army Guards Tank Corps Hitler Infantry Division July June kilometres Lieutenant-General major maskirovka mechanized corps military Minsk Mogilev Molodechno Moscow move Niepold Ninth Army operations Orsha Panzer Corps partisans positions prisoners rear reconnaissance Red Army regiments river road Russian Shtemenko Soviet forces Soviet offensive Soviet tanks staff officer Stalin Stalingrad Stavka Svisloch Third Belorussian Front Third Panzer Army tion troops units vehicles Vilnius Vitebsk withdraw Zhukov