Germany and the Second World War Volume VIII
The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 March 2017
- ISBN 9780198723462
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1344 pages
- Size 241x162x59 mm
- Weight 1592 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous black and white figures, maps, and tables 0
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Short description:
Volume VIII in the magisterial Germany and the Second World War series, dealing with one of the most eventful phases of World War Two - the battles on the eastern front in 1943 and 1944 - which have been largely forgotten by western historians, but which involved enormous Wehrmacht losses and some of the biggest land battles in world history.
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The latest volume in the magisterial Germany and the Second World War series, volume VIII deals with one of the most eventful phases of the Second World War: the battles on the eastern front in 1943 and 1944. In no other period of the war, apart from its concluding phase in 1945, did the Wehrmacht suffer such enormous losses. The land battles of those years, first and foremost the battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943, were among the biggest in world history. In the winter of 1943/44 the Red Army showed itself for the first time capable of conducting large-scale offensives against all German army groups simultaneously. It was no longer a matter of isolated flare-ups: the whole eastern front was in flames. The dramatic climax was reached in the summer of 1944, when the collapse of Army Group Centre led to what was then the heaviest defeat in German military history. It was nevertheless overshadowed by events on the western front, with the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. And it is that which dominates perceptions in western societies to this day and has relegated the catastrophe in the east, despite its unprecedented proportions, to the rank of an almost 'forgotten war'.
Each of the authors has mastered not only the vast secondary material on the subject matter, but also on the voluminous archival sources available. Indeed, it is rare that a scholarly enterprise of such vast scope makes such effective use of primary sources, and all of the authors are to be commended for their efforts. In short, like the other volumes in the series, volume 8 makes an invaluable contribution to the historiography of WW II in Europe....Essential.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I: From Stalingrad to Kursk
Basic Problems in German Conduct of the War after Stalingrad
German Alliance Policy and the Question of a Separate Peace
The Genesis of the Battle of Kursk
PART II: The Battle of the Kursk Salient
The Hopeless German Starting Position
The Failure of Operation Citadel
Operation Citadel - A Turning Point?
The Soviet Counter-Offensives
PART III: The Perplexities of War: The Soviet Theatre in German Policy and Strategy from the Summer of 1943
The Soviet Theatre of War in German Policy and Strategy From the Summer of 1943
From the Setbacks in the Summer of 1943 to a Permanent Crisis of Leadership
The Abandonment of Foreign Policy and the Isolation of Germany
Withdrawal from the East? 'Fortress Europe' and the Dilemma of Interconnected War
PART IV: The Swing of the Pendulum: The Withdrawal of the Eastern Front from Summer 1943 to Summer 1944
Prologue: The 'Forgotten Year'
The Withdrawal of Army Group North from Leningrad to the Baltic
The Withdrawal of Army Group Centre to Belorussia up to the Spring of 1944
Army Group South's Withdrawal Operations in the Ukraine
The Withdrawal of Army Group A through the Crimea to Romania
PART V: Collapse in the East: The Withdrawal Battles from the Summer of 1944
Errors and Illusions: The German Command's Miscalculations in the Early Summer of 1944
The Collapse of Army Group Centre in the Summer of 1944
The Defensive Successes of Army Group Centre in the Autumn of 1944
Army Group North's Withdrawal Battles to Courland
The Battles for Galicia and the Beskid Mountains
The Withdrawal Battles in Romania and Transylvania in the Summer and Autumn of 1944
The Hungarian Theatre of War
PART VI: The War on the Neighbouring Fronts
The End of the War in Scandinavia
The Yugoslavian Theatre of War (January 1943 to May 1945)
The Withdrawal from Greece
The End of the North African Campaign and the War in Italy 1943 to 1945
PART VII: Germany on the Brink of the Precipice
Waging war 'as if ...': Germany's Strategic Position from the Spring of 1944 onwards
Orchestrating the End
Concluding Summary
