When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped HitlerBy the time Pearl Harbour had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to the gates of Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flew above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that destroyed the German army and shattered Hitler's imperial designs. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
19181941 | 3 |
The Red Army 19181939 | 5 |
Armed Truce 19391941 | 15 |
Opposing Armies 1941 | 28 |
JUNE 1941NOVEMBER 1942 | 47 |
German Onslaught | 49 |
Soviet Response | 62 |
Rasputitsa and Operational Pause Spring 1943 | 148 |
Kursk to the Dnepr | 160 |
JANUARY 1944MAY 1945 | 176 |
Third Winter of the War | 179 |
The Death of Army Group Center | 195 |
Clearing the Flanks | 216 |
Battles in the Snow Winter 1945 | 233 |
End Game | 256 |
To Moscow | 74 |
Rasputitsa Spring 1942 | 98 |
The German Drive on Stalingrad | 108 |
NOVEMBER 1942DECEMBER 1943 | 127 |
The Destruction of Sixth Army | 129 |
Conclusion | 277 |
Statistical Tables | 291 |
Archival Sources | 309 |
About the Authors | 381 |
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When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler David M. Glantz,Jonathan Mallory House No preview available - 2000 |
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1st Belorussian Front 1st Guards 1st Ukrainian Front 3d Guards 4th Ukrainian Front advance aircraft Allied antitank archival armored Army Group Center Army Group South Army's artillery assault attack August Baltic Front battalions battle Berlin Briansk bridgehead campaign Colonel combat combined-arms counterattack December Dnepr East encirclement flank Fourth Panzer Fourth Panzer Army G. K. Zhukov German Army German defenses German forces Glantz Grif sekretnosti Guards Army Guards Cavalry Corps Guards Tank Army Guderian guns and mortars Hitler infantry divisions January July June kilometers Konev Krivosheev Kursk Leningrad Lieutenant losses Manstein Mechanized Corps mobile Moscow operation operatsii Panzer Army Panzer Corps Panzer Division Panzer Group penetration Red Army region Rifle Corps rifle divisions River Rokossovsky's Rumanian Russian Smolensk Southwestern Front Soviet forces Soviet Union Staff Stalin Stalingrad Stavka strategic strength tactical tank brigades Tank Corps troops Ukraine units VIZh Voenizdat voisk Voronezh Western Front Zhukov Ziemke