Stalin's revenge: Operation Bagration and the annihilation of Army Group Centre
In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history. Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses the opposing forces and their commanders and gives a vivid insight into the planning and decision-making at the highest level.
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| Zusammenfassung: | In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history. Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses the opposing forces and their commanders and gives a vivid insight into the planning and decision-making at the highest level. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 190 S., [8] Bl. Ill., Kt. 25 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations
Maps
Preface and Acknowledgements
Dramatis
Personae
Chapter
1
Debate, Deception and Deployment
Debate in the Lair of the Red Tsar
Hitler Deceived
Soviet Deployment
Behind Enemy Lines
Chapter
2
Red Storm Rising
44
Red Storm
Leningrad: The
900
Days
Victory in Ukraine
Death in the Korsun Pocket
The Kamenets-Podolsk Pocket
Defeat in the Crimea
Finland s Punishment
Chapter
3
Where Will Stalin s Blow Fall?
Fatherland and Panther Lines
The Exposed Byelorussian Balcony
No More Doubt
Communications Cut
Chapter
4
Stalin and His Warlords
Zhukov: A Talented Strategist
Zhukov s Rival: Rokossovsky
Stalin s Front Commanders
Chapter
5 Busch:
Incompetent or a Safe Pair of Hands?
The Lion s Share
A Lacklustre Performance
Hitler s Commanders
Army Group Centre
Questionable Loyalty
Stalin s Traitors
Army Group North
Army Group North Ukraine
Army Group South Ukraine
Last-Minute Success
vm
ix
X
xiv
1
2
5
7
9
12
13
14
14
16
17
19
21
23
23
24
28
31
33
33
36
37
39
39
41
41
43
44
46
48
48
49
50
Stalin s Revenge
Chapter
6
Bagration: Stalin s Revenge Unleashed
The Hurricane Broke
The Soviet Barrage
Fester
Platz
Vitebsk
- 3rd
Panzer Army
Fester
Platz
Orsha
-
4th Army
Fester
Platz
Mogilev
-
4th Army
Fester
Platz
Bobruisk
-
9th Army
Chapter
7
5th and 12th Panzer Strike Back
Borisov
-
4th Army
Fester
Platz
Bobruisk
-
9th Army
Heads Roll
Chapter
8
Minsk Freed from the Nazi Yoke
Closing the Trap on Minsk
Fester
Platz
Minsk
Conference of the Damned
A Foiled Breakout
Cat and Mouse
Clearing Baranovichi
Battles for Polotsk and Vilnius
Army Group North
Stalin Gloats
Chapter
9
Lvov-Sandomierz: The Second Blow
Strong Defences
Freedom Fighters or Traitors
Konev s Unusual Operation
The Great Onslaught Began
Zolochev
The
Brody
Pocket
Hitler Distracted
Battle for Lvov
Chapter
10
Rokossovsky: Defeat at the Gates of Warsaw
Poland s Fate Preordained
Model s Gathering Riposte
Defeat before Warsaw
Sacrifice of Warsaw
Rokossovsky s Poles
Chapter
11
Konev:
To the Vistula and Beyond
Sandomierz
Bridgehead
The Red Army Rests on Its Laurels
Beyond the Vistula
Betrayed to Stalin
Hitler Holds Budapest
52
52
54
56
60
61
63
65
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67
71
74
74
76
78
78
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vi
Contents
Chapter
12
Appendices
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Appendix IV
Appendix V
Appendix VI
Appendix
VII
Appendix
VIII
Appendix IX
Source Notes
Bibliography
Index
Bagration: Stalin s Triumph?
The Right Decision
Two Army Groups Smashed
Was
Busch
a Scapegoat?
Fighting On
The Appalling Byelorussian Toll
Bagration
s
Legacy
Stalin s Cold War Shame
Remarkable Revenge
Stalin s New Tanks
Stalin s Revitalized Air Power
Hitler s New Panzers
The Enfeebled Luftwaffe
Goring
s
Luftwaffe Field Divisions
Soviet Order of Battle, June-August
1944
German Order of Battle, June-July
1944
Principal Soviet Armoured Fighting Vehicles Deployed
on the Eastern Front
Principal German Armoured Fighting Vehicles Deployed
on the Eastern Front
118
119
120
122
124
125
126
127
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129
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183
List of Illustrations
Stalin
Generalfeldmarschall Busch
Hitler s occupation
Winter of
1943-44
on the Eastern Front
A German flak unit
A dusty German motorized column
Generalfeldmarschall Busch
s
command
The
Sturmgeschütz
III assault gun
A Luftwaffe infantryman
A Stuka Ju
87
dive-bomber
Freshly dug German trenches
Stalin s Red Army
The T-34/76 medium tank
A column of T-34/85S
Soviet tank riders
The famous Ilyushin Flying Tank or
И-2
Shturmovik
Red Army rifle division reconnaissance
Soviet partisans
A Red Army mortar crew
Entrenched German troops
Apprehensive-looking German troops
Soviet assault troops and a knocked-out StuG III
Soviet infantry liberating a Russian village
An MG34 machine-gun crew
Cumbersome German heavy artillery
An exposed German 105mm field gun
German officers planning a counter-attack
Another model T-34/76 that came to grief in the swamps
A grim-faced
Generalfeldmarschall Busch
Soviet infantrymen attack across a railway line
A German column withdrawing
Army Group Centre lost
55,000
men
Abandoned German motor vehicles
Generaloberst Lindemann
A Soviet soldier shot through the head
One of the Wehrmachfs
670,000
casualties
Grim-faced retreating German troops
Triumphant-looking Soviet troops
German PoWs await an uncertain fate
Bagration cost the Red Army
178,000
casualties
Maps
The Eastern Front, June-August
1944 29
Dispositions on the eve of Operation Bagration,
22
June
1944 30
Operation Bagration, June-August
1944 53
The Lvov-Sandomierz offensive, July-August
1944 88
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