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  • Bagration 1944: The Great Soviet Offensive

    Bagration 1944 by Buttar, Prit;

    The Great Soviet Offensive

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 13 March 2025
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781472863515
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages480 pages
    • Size 236x164x44 mm
    • Weight 730 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 1 x 8 page mono plate section
    • 645

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    A fascinating history of the great summer offensive launched by the Red Army in 1944 which turned the tide of the war.

    Throughout the war on the Eastern Front, there were two consistent trends. The Red Army battled to learn how to fight and win, while involved in a struggle for its very survival. But by 1944 it had a leadership that was able to wield it with lethal effect and with far more effective equipment than before. By contrast, the Wehrmacht had commenced a slow process of decline after the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler became increasingly unwilling to delegate decision-making to commanders in the field, which had been crucial to earlier success. The long years of fighting had also taken a heavy toll. Thousands of irreplaceable junior officers and NCOs were dead, wounded or prisoners.

    Renowned Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar expertly brings these contrasting fortunes to life, trends which culminated in the huge battles of Bagration. As this masterful study conclusively shows, in 1944 the Red Army finally put together a campaign that utterly destroyed the German Army Group Centre. The Wehrmacht suffered the loss of over 300,000 men killed, wounded or taken prisoner and the Red Army rolled forward across Belarus to the outskirts of Warsaw. The end of the war was still many months away, and the Germans managed to reconstruct their line on the Eastern Front, but final victory for the Soviet Union was now only a matter of time as a direct consequence of Bagration.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Illustrations
    List of Maps
    Dramatis Personae
    Introduction: Tehran
    Chapter 1: Fritz and Ivan: The State of the Armies of the Eastern Front
    Chapter 2: The Front Behind the Front: Partisans in Belarus
    Chapter 3: Preparing the Blow
    Chapter 4: Waiting for the Hammer to Fall
    Chapter 5: A Fateful Anniversary: 22-24 June
    Chapter 6: The Floodgates Open: 25-28 June
    Chapter 7: Exploitation: 29 June-3 July
    Chapter 8: The Surge to the Frontier: 4-8 July
    Chapter 9: Vilnius: 9-14 July
    Chapter 10: Fire Brigades: The Panzer Divisions and the Red Army, 9-19 July
    Chapter 11: Interlude: 'Make Peace, You Fools! What Else Can You Do?'
    Chapter 12: High Tide for the Red Army
    Chapter 13: Praga and Warsaw
    Chapter 14: The Third Reich on the Brink
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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