Meat Grinder
The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942?43
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Product details:
- Publisher Osprey Publishing
- Date of Publication 13 October 2022
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781472851819
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 234x153 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 pages of plates in black and white 0
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Long description:
An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers.
The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War II was so grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the troops called the campaign 'The Meat Grinder'. Though millions of men would fight and die there, the Rzhev Salient does not have the name recognition of Leningrad or Moscow. It has been largely ignored by Western historians - until now.
In this book, Prit Buttar, a leading expert on the Eastern Front, reveals the depth and depravity of the bitter fighting. He details how the region held the promise of a renewed drive on Moscow for the German Army - a chance to turn the tide of war. Using German and Russian first-hand accounts, Buttar examines the major offensives launched by the Red Army against the salient, all of which were defeated with losses exceeding two million killed, wounded or missing, until eventually, the Germans were forced to evacuate the salient in March 1943.
Drawing on the latest research, Meat Grinder provides a study of these horrific battles but also examines how the Red Army did learn from its colossal failures and how its timely analysis of these failures helped pave the way for the eventual Soviet victory against Army Group Centre in the summer of 1944, leaving the road to Berlin clear.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
Chapter 1: Barbarossa and Taifun
Chapter 2: The Red Army's Counteroffensive, December 1941
Chapter 3: Frustration, January 1942
Chapter 4: Snow, Mud and Confusion
Chapter 5: Hannover
Chapter 6: Belov's Escape and Seydlitz
Chapter 7: The First Rzhev-Sychevka Operation
Chapter 8: Grinding Through Summer
Chapter 9: 1942, Preparing for Operation Mars
Chapter 10: The Commencement of Mars: Western Front, 25-30 November
Chapter 11: The Commencement of Mars: Kalinin Front, 25-30 November
Chapter 12: December: The Vazuza Valley and the Bely Sector
Chapter 13: December: Exhaustion in the Luchesa and Northern Sectors
Chapter 14: Büffel: The End of the Salient
Chapter 15: Lessons Imperfectly Learned
Chapter 16: Remembering the Past
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942?43
14 332 HUF
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