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Chargement... Operation Don's Main Attack: The Soviet Southern Front's Advance on Rostov, January-February 1943 (Modern War Studies)par David M. Glantz
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With the defeat and destruction of German Sixth Army at Stalingrad all but certain at the end of 1942, the war on the Eastern Front took a definitive turn as the Germans struggled to erect a new defensive front to halt the Soviet juggernaut driving west. Operation Don's Main Attack is the first detailed study of the dramatic clash of armies that followed, unfolding inexorably over the course of two months across an expanse of more than 1,600 kilometers. Using recently released Russian archival material never before available to researchers, David M. Glantz provides a close-up account, from both sides, of the planning and conduct of Operation Don--the Soviet offensive by the Red Army's Southern front that aimed to capture Rostov in January-February 1943. His book includes a full array of plans, candid daily reports, situation maps, and strength and casualty reports prepared for the forces that participated in the offensive at every level. Drawing on an unprecedented and comprehensive range of documents, the book delves into many hitherto forbidden topics, such as unit strengths and losses and the foibles and attitudes of command cadre. Glantz's work also presents rare insights into the military strategy, combat tactics, and operational art of such figures as Generals Eremenko and Malinovsky and Field Marshal Erich von Manstein. A uniquely informed study of a critical but virtually forgotten Soviet military operation, Operation Don's Main Attack offers a fresh perspective on the nature of the twentieth century's most terrible of wars. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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One thing that is a little problematic about this book is that Glantz incorporates big hunks of primary documentary material. Partly this is to let the record speak for itself. Partly, one suspects, this is due to Glantz being quite an elderly man at this point, and this is probably the only way this work was going to see the light of day. I'm glad to have a new book from Glantz, but it is to be admitted that it's not quite up the the standard of Glantz's masterpiece, the "Stalingrad Trilogy."
Further, I'm quite sad to learn that that the Kansas University Press might be shuttered. Without them it's hard to imagine the works of Col. Glantz being published, and that would have been a great loss to the field. ( )