August Storm: Soviet Tactical and Operational Combat in Manchuria, 1945 by LTC David M. Glantz (PDF)

When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler [2 ed When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler [2 ed

Both sides were led by autocratic tyrants, and both sides were imbued with an entirely pitiless ideology that guaranteed that, once the clash of arms began, the blood would rise to the bridles. The whole analysis of strategies and tactics, and contrasting them between Germans and Soviets as the war progressed was very interesting indeed. I've also liked how he deconstructed the whole "it was Hitler's mistakes" thing that a lot of post war Germans were trying to push. A member of the Russian Federation’s Academy of Natural Sciences, he has written or co-authored more than twenty commercially published books, over sixty self-published studies and atlases, and over one hundred articles dealing with the history of the Red (Soviet) Army, Soviet military strategy, operational art, and tactics, Soviet airborne operations, intelligence, and deception, and other topics related to World War II. In recognition of his work, he has received several awards, including the Society of Military History’s prestigious Samuel Eliot Morrison Prize for his contributions to the study of military history. Nevertheless, I can recommend it to anyone with an interest in World War II, particularly if you have a bit of a gap in your knowledge concerning the Eastern Front.The narrative on the Eastern front has largely been shaped by the German generals who were not as honest as they appeared. I would recommend this book to everyone who is interested in History, specifically the Eastern Front, and especially those who are like me, in that History is their greatest love of all time. While Stalin was always a detrimental source of interference into STAVKA (Red Army General Staff) planning (often a source of calamity), he learned to intrude less and less, to trust his own commanders and allow them to win victories. Ironically, Hitler would mold the German armed forces into a near mirror image of the Soviet armed forces, more and more, as the war wore on. Political officers of the Nazi party were introduced into the Wehrmacht to watch over the shoulders of the German offciers. The OKH and OKW (German Army General Staffs) began to be filled with incompetent yes men, much like the STAVKA was early on, and the few who voiced their dissent, such as von Manstein and Guderian, were simply put out to pasture in favor of men who would blindly follow Hitler's dictates. Art of War symposium, From the Vistula to the Oder: Soviet Offensive Operations – October 1944 – March 1945, A transcript of Proceedings, Center for Land Warfare, US Army War College, 19–23 May 1986 On 2 February 1943 the remnants of the Wehrmacht’s once-proud 6th Army surrendered in the northern part of the city, and the battle of Stalingrad was over.

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However both these experiences gave some experience to the Russian's and they learned a few things as well but it also caused Germany to seriously underestimate their foe, a judgement that never changed throughout the war to their detriment. Condition: FN (6.0). Some light cover bends, tiny wear to the bottom of the spine and production rippling along the spine (common on squarebounds). Glantz covers the entirety of the conflict, including a concluding bit on the Soviet offensive into Manchuria, northern China and northern Korea at the end of the Second World War in the Pacific Theater. He also dis-spells some myths along the way.

Glantz 在結論時說了，儘管盟軍在西線確實發揮了側面牽制的作用，並且提供大量的戰略物資支援，但如果沒有斯拉夫民族付出了成千上萬的人命，是不可能擊敗納粹的。兩位作者對於紅軍的貢獻，是不吝於指出的。 Operation Don's Left Wing: The Trans-Caucasus Front's Pursuit of the First Panzer Army, November 1942–February 1943, University Press of Kansas, 2019 For the entire war Germany suffered around 8 million dead missing and disabled. 77% of that was caused on the Eastern front or 6,170,000. Condition: FN-(5.5). Quite a few spine creases & small cover bends and a small pencil number to the front cover.

Editions of When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, 10 July–10 September 1941 Volume 1, Helion & Company, 2010; ISBN 1906033722 The author breaks the war into 3 main phases. 1st phase July 1941 to November 1942. 2nd phase from November 42 to January 43. 3rd phase from January 44 to May 45.

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Speedy, coherent and picturesque this book is a classic. A must must read for those interested in an in-depth knowledge of the Eastern Front. In the US and in Western Europe, we often have little familiarity with the scale and horror of the fighting on the Eastern Front in WW II. In this magnificent book, David Glantz and Jonathan House provide an in-depth analysis of the decisive theater of the war by tracing the evolution of Soviet military thought, doctrine, and organization from the pre-war years through the end of the conflict. So I finally got around to reading When Titans Clashed, which is often recommended as the best book on East Front in WW2 here and elsewhere. Just wanted to share some impressions, and curious what others thought about it.