When Titans Clashed :How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

Publication subTitle :How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

Author: Glantz > David M.  

Publisher: University Press of Kansas‎

Publication year: 2015

E-ISBN: 9780700621521

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780700621217

Subject: K152 World War II (1939 - 1945)

Keyword: 欧洲史,世界军事

Language: ENG

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Description

On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account of Soviet Russia's clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our understanding of World War II on Germany's Eastern Front, immediately earning its place among top-shelf histories of the world war. Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, much of it the authors' own work, this new edition maintains the 1995 original's distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time.

In 1941, when Pearl Harbor shattered America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flew above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that destroyed the Germany Army and put an end to Hitler's imperial designs. In swift and stirring prose, When Titans Clash provides the clearest, most complete account of this epic struggle, especially from the Soviet perspective. Drawing on the massive and unprecedented release of Soviet archival documents in recent decades, David Glantz, one of the world's foremost authorities on the Soviet military, and noted military historian Jonathan House expand and elaborate our picture of the Soviet war effort—a picture sharply different from accounts that emphasize Hitler's failed leader

Chapter

1. The Red Army, 1918–1939

2. Armed Truce, 1939–1941

3. Opposing Armies, 1941

First Period of War: June 1941–November 1942

4. The German Onslaught

5. Soviet Response

6. To Moscow

7. Rasputitsa, Spring 1942

8. Operation Blau: The German 1942 Offensive

Second Period of War: November 1942–December 1943

9. Operation Uranus: The Destruction of Sixth Army

10. Rasputitsa and Operational Pause, Spring 1943

11. Kursk to the Dnepr

Third Period of War: January 1944–May 1945

12. Third Winter of the War

13. Operation Bagration: The Death of Army Group Center

14. Clearing the Flanks

15. Battles in the Snow, Winter 1944–1945

16. End Game

17. Conclusion

Appendix: Statistical Tables

Notes

A Note on Sources

Selected Bibliography

About the Authors

Index

Back Cover

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