Soviet Blitzkrieg

Author : Walter S. Dunn Jr.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 1461751691
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Blitzkrieg written by Walter S. Dunn Jr. and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two weeks after the Americans, British, and Canadians invaded Western Europe on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Soviet Union launched Operation Bagration on the Eastern Front, its massive attempt to clear German forces from Belarus. In one of the largest military campaigns of all time, involving 2 million Soviets and 800,000 Germans, the Red Army advanced 170 miles in two weeks and destroyed German Army Group Center. Using recently declassified Soviet documents as well as German and Soviet unit histories, Dunn recounts this landmark operation of World War II.

Author : P.H. Vigor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349048143
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory written by P.H. Vigor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter S. Jr Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781685850029
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Blitzkrieg written by Walter S. Jr Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly narrates the details of a battle on the Eastern Front that was perhaps the largest of all time and certainly one of the most significant of World War II.

Author : P.H. Vigor
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312747565
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory written by P.H. Vigor and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Major Bob E. Willis Jr.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782895760
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After The Blitzkrieg: The German Army’s Transition To Defeat In The East written by Major Bob E. Willis Jr. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 sparked a guerilla resistance unparalleled in modern history in scale and ferocity. In the wake of the initial invasion, the German Army began its struggle to secure a territory encompassing one million square miles and sixty-five million people and to pacify a growing partisan resistance. The German endeavor to secure the occupied areas and suppress the partisan movement in the wake of Operation Barbarossa illustrates the nature of the problem of bridging the gap between rapid, decisive combat operations and “shaping” the post-major conflict environment-securing populations and infrastructure and persuading people to accept the transition from a defeated government to a new one. In this regard, the German experience on the Eastern Front following Operation Barbarossa seems to offer a number of similarities to the U.S. experience in Iraq in the aftermath of OIF. This study highlights what may be some of the enduring qualities about the nature of the transition between decisive battle and political end state-particularly when that end state is regime change. It elaborates on the notion of decisive battle, how the formulation of resistance movements can be explained as complex adaptive systems, the potential of indigenous security forces and the influence of doctrine, cultural appreciation and interagency cooperation on operational-level transition planning.

Author : Jon Sutherland
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844688909
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blitzkrieg Russia written by Jon Sutherland and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographs are taken from five unpublished albums focussing on the German invasion of Russia in 1941 Operation Barbarossa. Two of the albums contain shots taken by German infantrymen and include shots of combat, vehicles, knocked-out tanks and prisoners of war. Two of the other albums feature flak and artillery units in the invasion. These include shots of artillery and flak units in action, destroyed Russian aircraft, vehicles and armor as well as Russian prisoners. The final album contains shots taken by a tank destroyer unit. In this set, there are shots of knocked out Russian armor (and abandoned armor), artillery and assault guns in action and a fascinating glimpse into the transition into the first winter. There are many exceptional photographs including rubber boats carrying troops across a river, knocked out monstrous Russian tanks, engineers at work and a range of more casual poses. There are also some interesting studies of uniforms and equipment, abandoned vehicles, vehicles being salvaged and maintained and a host of other subjects.Some are focussed on the early war months with Russia, so there are huge columns of captured Russian prisoners, fraternization with the local peasants and a glimpse of the vast distances involved in the advances made by the Germans in the early months of the conflict.

Author : Bryan I. Fugate
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thunder on the Dnepr written by Bryan I. Fugate and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Russian/American collaboration provides evidence that despite serious mistakes made by the Germans, the primary reason the Red Army was able to prevail in 1941 was due to war games conducted by the Soviet generals Zhukov and Timoshenko in 1940 and 1941. The results of these exercises convinced Stalin that a defense anchored along the Dnepr river would slow down and attrite the German forces. The authors contend that the battle for Yelnia was the turning point of the war. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Earle Rice Jr.
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612286976
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blitzkrieg! Hitler's Lightning War written by Earle Rice Jr. and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blitzkrieg–Hitler's Lightning War tactic– combined devastating air attacks with swiftly moving ground forces. The Germans tested their theories of air-ground coordination in the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War, a proving ground for German and Soviet weapons and tactics. This fast-moving tale of World War II serves as an excellent research aid for anyone studying the World War II era.

Author : David Glantz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135774994
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945 written by David Glantz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-02-27 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I covers in detail the background, strategic regrouping, and strategic planning and conduct of the offensive.

Author : Colonel David M Glantz
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786250438
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Defensive Tactics At Kursk, July 1943 written by Colonel David M Glantz and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his classic work, On War, Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “As we shall show, defense is a stronger form of fighting than attack.” A generation of nineteenth century officers, nurtured on the study of the experiences of Napoleon and conditioned by the wars of German unification, had little reason to accept that view. The offensive spirit swept through European armies and manifested itself in the regulations, plans, and mentality of those armiehe events of 1939, 1940, and 1941 in Poland, France, and Russia respectively again challenged Clausewitz’ claim of the superiority of the defense and prompted armies worldwide to frantically field large armored forces and develop doctrines for their use. While blitzkrieg concepts ruled supreme, it fell to that nation victimized most by those concepts to develop techniques to counter the German juggernaut. The Soviets had to temper a generation of offensive tradition in order to marshal forces and develop techniques to counter blitzkrieg. In essence, the Soviet struggle for survival against blitzkrieg proved also to be a partial test of Clausewitz’ dictum. In July 1943, after arduous months of developing defensive techniques, often at a high cost in terms of men and material, the Soviets met blitzkrieg head-on and proved that defense against it was feasible. The titanic, grinding Kursk operation validated, in part, Clausewitz’ views. But it also demonstrated that careful study of force organization and employment and application of the fruits of that study can produce either offensive or defensive victory. While on the surface the events of Kursk seemed to validate Clausewitz’ view, it is often forgotten that, at Kursk, the Soviets integrated the concept of counteroffensive into their grand defensive designs. Thus the defense itself was meaningless unless viewed against the backdrop of the renewed offensive efforts and vice versa. What Kursk did prove was that strategic, operational, and tactical defenses could counter blitzkrieg.