The Road To Smolensk
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The Road To Smolensk
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Author : Timothy J. Nielsen
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2013-12-31
The Road To Smolensk written by Timothy J. Nielsen and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-31 with History categories.
All Out On The Road To Smolensk
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Author : Erskine Caldwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
All Out On The Road To Smolensk written by Erskine Caldwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Barbarossa Derailed The Battle For Smolensk 10 July 10 September 1941
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Author : David Glantz
language : en
Publisher: Helion and Company
Release Date : 2010-11-02
Barbarossa Derailed The Battle For Smolensk 10 July 10 September 1941 written by David Glantz and has been published by Helion and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-02 with History categories.
The first half of a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II, and what went wrong. At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center’s Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the Soviet capital. Less than three weeks before, on 22 June Hitler had unleashed his Wehrmacht’s massive invasion of the Soviet Union, code-named Operation Barbarossa, which sought to defeat the Soviet Red Army, conquer the country, and unseat its Communist ruler, Josef Stalin. Between 22 June and 10 July, the Wehrmacht advanced up to 500 kilometers into Soviet territory, killed or captured up to one million Red Army soldiers, and reached the western banks of the Western Dvina and Dnepr Rivers, by doing so satisfying the premier assumption of Plan Barbarossa that the Third Reich would emerge victorious if it could defeat and destroy the bulk of the Red Army before it withdrew to safely behind those two rivers. With the Red Army now shattered, Hitler and most Germans expected total victory in a matter of weeks. The ensuing battles in the Smolensk region frustrated German hopes for quick victory. Once across the Dvina and Dnepr Rivers, a surprised Wehrmacht encountered five fresh Soviet armies. Quick victory eluded the Germans. Instead, Soviet forces encircled in Mogilev and Smolensk stubbornly refused to surrender, and while they fought on, during July, August, and into early September, first five and then a total of seven newly mobilized Soviet armies struck back viciously at the advancing Germans, conducting multiple counterattacks and counterstrokes, capped by two major counteroffensives that sapped German strength and will. Despite immense losses in men and materiel, these desperate Soviet actions derailed Operation Barbarossa. Smarting from countless wounds inflicted on his vaunted Wehrmacht, even before the fighting ended in the Smolensk region, Hitler postponed his march on Moscow and instead turned his forces southward to engage “softer targets” in the Kiev region. The “derailment” of the Wehrmacht at Smolensk ultimately became the crucial turning point in Operation Barbarossa. This groundbreaking study, now significantly expanded, exploits a wealth of Soviet and German archival materials, including the combat orders and operational of the German OKW, OKH, army groups, and armies and of the Soviet Stavka, the Red Army General Staff, the Western Main Direction Command, the Western, Central, Reserve, and Briansk Fronts, and their subordinate armies to present a detailed mosaic and definitive account of what took place, why, and how during the prolonged and complex battles in the Smolensk region from 10 July through 10 September 1941. The structure of the study is designed specifically to appeal to both general readers and specialists by a detailed two-volume chronological narrative of the course of operations, accompanied by a third volume and a fourth, containing archival maps and an extensive collection of specific orders and reports translated verbatim from Russian. The maps, archival and archival-based, detail every stage of the battle.
Narrative Of Events During The Invasion Of Russia By Napoleon Bonaparte And The Retreat Of The French Army 1812
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Author : Sir Robert Thomas Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Narrative Of Events During The Invasion Of Russia By Napoleon Bonaparte And The Retreat Of The French Army 1812 written by Sir Robert Thomas Wilson and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... The whole surface was broken, billowy, and uneven. The Russian army consisted of ninety thousand effective regulars, ten thousand militia of Moscow and of Smolensk, which had joined a day or two previously, and seven thousand Cossacks. Bagrathion commanded the left, Beningsen the centre, Barclay the right. On the 5th of September Murat appeared in front of the position by the road of G-olowino, and immediately deployed his cavalry and the division Campans, by which it was supported. The Viceroy took the direction of Borodino, and Poniatowski moved through Jelnia along the old Smolensk road. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Napoleon, who had come forward to reconnoitre, ordered an attack to be made on the Russian light troops in the villages of Aleksinki, Fomkino, andDoronino, and on the redoubt of Chewardino. At four o'clock the enemy passed the Kolocza, dislodging the Russians from the three before-named villages, and establishing themselves behind an elevation in front of the redoubt which was armed with twelve field pieces, and from which elevation they kept up a galling fire on the Russian cannoneers. As soon as Campans had planted his guns on an eminence that favoured the operation, he opened his fire on the redoubt. Murat then attempted to charge between the redoubt and a wood on the left, but was driven back. Prince Gorchakow, who was entrusted with the defence of this redoubt, had supported it with two regiments of infantry, supported agaiu on their right by two regiments of dragoons and four pieces of flying artillery, and on the left by a division of cuirassiers and eight pieces of flying artillery; two regiments of dragoons had also been employed in covering the chasseurs on their retreat from the villages. After a heavy...
The Road To Berlin
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Author : John Erickson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-11
The Road To Berlin written by John Erickson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with History categories.
This book traces Russian campaigns from the counterattack at Stalingrad to the fall of Berlin and the capture of Prague. It explores in detail Stalin's wartime relations with Roosevelt and Churchill and examines the evolution of his policies toward Poland and the Balkans.
Smolensk 1943
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Author : Robert Forczyk
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-24
Smolensk 1943 written by Robert Forczyk and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with History categories.
With the German defeat at Kursk, the Soviet Stavka (high command) ordered the Western and Kalinin Fronts to launch Operation Suvorov in order to liberate the city of Smolensk. The Germans had held this city for two years and Heeresgruppe Mitte's (Army Group Centre) 4. Armee had heavily fortified the region. The Soviet offensive began in August 1943 and they quickly realized that the German defences were exceedingly tough and that the Western Front had not prepared adequately for an extended offensive. Consequently, the Soviets were forced to pause their offensive after only two weeks, in order to replenish their combat forces and then begin again. The German 4. Armee was commanded by Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici, one of the Wehrmacht's top defensive experts. Although badly outnumbered, Heinrici's army gamely held off two Soviet fronts for seven weeks. Eventually, the 4. Armee's front was finally broken and Smolensk was liberated on 25 September 1943. However, the Western Front was too exhausted to pursue Heinrici's defeated army, which retreated to the fortified cities of Vitebsk, Orsha and Mogilev; the 4. Armee would hold these cities until the destruction of Army Group Centre in June 1944. Operation Suvorov focuses on a major offensive that is virtually unknown in the West and which set the stage for the decisive defeat of Heeresgruppe Mitte in the next summer offensive.
The Road To Stalingrad
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Author : John Erickson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-19
The Road To Stalingrad written by John Erickson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-19 with History categories.
The Road to Stalingrad is designed to investigate the kind of war the Soviet Union waged, the nature of command decisions and the machinery of decision-making, the course of military operations, the emergence of Soviet 'war aims', and the Soviet style of war with Germany.
The German Campaign In Russia
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Author : George E. Blau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
The German Campaign In Russia written by George E. Blau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
The Life Of Napoleon Buonaparte Emperor Of The French
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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
The Life Of Napoleon Buonaparte Emperor Of The French written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with France categories.
Dispatches Correspondence And Memoranda Of Field Marshal Arthur Duc Of Wellington K G
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Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
Dispatches Correspondence And Memoranda Of Field Marshal Arthur Duc Of Wellington K G written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with categories.