When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)

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The narrative on the Eastern front has largely been shaped by the German generals who were not as honest as they appeared. 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. The whole analysis of strategies and tactics, and contrasting them between Germans and Soviets as the war progressed was very interesting indeed. I've also liked how he deconstructed the whole "it was Hitler's mistakes" thing that a lot of post war Germans were trying to push. By 1936, accelerated technological change led, in turn, to the larger concept of the Deep Operation (glubokaia operatsiia). Instead of planning to penetrate the enemy in a single, tactical, deep battle, Tukhachevsky and other theorists projected penetrations and exploitations out to an operational depth of 100 kilometers or more. The essence of such a deep operation was to use the most modern weapons available to neutralize simultaneously all the enemy's defenses to the maximum possible depth and then to exploit so rapidly that the defender would be unable to reorganize in time. In the words of A. I. Egorov, "The principal and basic task of military art is to prevent the formation of a firm front [by the defending enemy], imparting a destructive striking force and a rapid tempo to operations."

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Armageddon in Stalingrad: September–November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2) (Modern War Studies) with Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, 2009 Lccn 2015020379 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9978 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1300148 Openlibrary_editionA city of peace became a city of war. The laws of warfare placed it on the front line, at the epicenter of a battle that eventually shaped the result of the entire war. Art of War symposium, From the Don to the Dnepr: Soviet Offensive Operations – December 1942 – August 1943, A transcript of Proceedings, Center for Land Warfare, US Army War College, 26–30 March 1984

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Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 (2006) ISBN 0-7006-1465-6 Captured Soviet Generals: The Fate of Soviet Generals Captured by the Germans, 1941–1945, Aleksander A. Maslov, edited and translated by David M. Glantz and Harold S. Orenstein, Routledge; first edition (2001), ISBN 978-0-7146-5124-8 Stalingrad represented a crushing defeat for Nazi Germany and a turning point in the Second World War. It was unprecedented for an entire German army to be destroyed and so many prisoners taken. Not surprisingly, Russians praised the achievement highly, but the tribute of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, written on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle, stands out: urn:oclc:493509909 Republisher_date 20140115091631 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20140114125342 Scanner scribe2.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen SourceEasily the best operational account of the eastern front to appear in the West."— American Historical Review

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He began his military career in 1963 as a field artillery officer from 1965 to 1969, and served in various assignments in the United States, and in Vietnam during the Vietnam War with the II Field Force Fire Support Coordination Element (FSCE) at the Plantation in Long Binh. Glantz提到，在上個世紀末的時候，學界忽然興起了一股學說，聲稱“史達林本想先主動發動戰爭佔取先手，德軍發動巴巴羅沙只是破壞了這個企圖”。作者對這個說法嗤之以鼻。他認為這只是當時蘇聯剛剛瓦解，有一派學者為了反對前政權，也為了引人注目而誇大其詞。朱可夫確實在41年中提過對德的作戰計畫，但史達林根本連看都懶得看。他太心知肚明紅軍在被大清洗後的積弱慘況了。伊恩‧克肖更是再三強調，莫斯科拚了命想要把開戰時間拖延，希望至少能再多一年準備，又怎麼可能自己先動手？別說這在軍事上會是場悲劇，怕是連政治上都可能讓歐美替它們洗白。Glantz後來還專門寫了一本書：《泥足巨人》(有簡中)來駁斥這個論點。 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize previous winners". Society for Military History . Retrieved December 25, 2017. Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught, Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, Jones, Michael K. (Author), Glantz, David M. (Foreword) 2007 ISBN 978-1-932033-72-4 Without going into excessive detail the overall point that Glantz is making is that the superb German army is ground down continuous fighting against a foe that is able to largely replace those losses with new troops. However, while the German Army was degraded, the Russian's were able to learn and Stalin gave greater and greater flexibility to his subordinates. They were also able to adapt through the war and reorganize their forces and return to some of their previous concepts in organization and doctrine such as the deep penetration. For instance in the beginning of the war due to losses and poor leadership they shrunk the size of their units and cut out unnecessary command departments. But as the war continued they were able to expand the units once again and incorporate some of their pre-purge concepts.A member of the Russian Federation’s Academy of Natural Sciences, he has written or co-authored more than twenty commercially published books, over sixty self-published studies and atlases, and over one hundred articles dealing with the history of the Red (Soviet) Army, Soviet military strategy, operational art, and tactics, Soviet airborne operations, intelligence, and deception, and other topics related to World War II. In recognition of his work, he has received several awards, including the Society of Military History’s prestigious Samuel Eliot Morrison Prize for his contributions to the study of military history. No other state in the Second World War paid as high a price for ultimate victory as did the Soviet Union. Tens of millions of civilians, and upwards of 20-29 million military personnel were lost in the battle for survival against Nazi Germany and her European allies. This terrible war caused the USSR and it's people to constantly fear invasion and spend vast sums on it's defense which also included the satellite countries and spending on such countries as Vietnam and Cuba. Due to the economic fallout from the war and massive defense budget this led to the states eventual collapse. Now, Western readers can learn for the first time the full extent of the Soviet achievement. Essential reading for anyone wanting to know the true story of how the Red Army snatched victory in 1945 from the jaws of defeat in 1941." Washington Post Book World

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Revised Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Former owner's signature/date inked on half-title, otherwise new/as issued. 1st ptg. thus (of revised/expanded edition). xvii,557 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 (1999) ISBN 0-7006-0944-X Among the fascinating insights provided in this book is the fact that Soviet military thinking on maneuver warfare was at least as advanced as that of the Germans during the inter-war years. Soviet officers, in particular M. N. Tukhachevsky, developed the concept of “deep operations” or “deep battle.” Their ideas compared favorably with the more well-known German thinking that most know as “blitzkrieg.” Few think of the Soviets as being on the same level as the Germans when it comes to military theory, but it is easy to argue that the Soviets were at least their equal. Both sides were led by autocratic tyrants, and both sides were imbued with an entirely pitiless ideology that guaranteed that, once the clash of arms began, the blood would rise to the bridles. Art of War symposium, From the Vistula to the Oder: Soviet Offensive Operations – October 1944 – March 1945, A transcript of Proceedings, Center for Land Warfare, US Army War College, 19–23 May 1986The last portion of the Red Army to feel the brunt of the great purges was in Siberia and the Far East, where distance from Moscow combined with an external threat to limit the disorganizing effects of Stalin's bloodbath. The Japanese incursions into Manchuria in 1931 and into China proper six years later brought Moscow and Tokyo into an undeclared conflict that flared twice in the late 1930s. The Soviet government reacted strongly to these challenges in a successful, if costly, effort to deter Japan from open war. Placing the war within its wider political, economic, and social contexts, the authors recount how the determined Soviets overcame their initial disasters to defeat the most powerful army ever assembled. As they vividly show, this truly was war waged on a titanic scale, sweeping across a half-million square miles from Moscow to Berlin, featuring monumental offensives and counteroffensives, and ultimately costing both sides combined a staggering forty million casualties. Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942–1945: The First Complete Stenographic Record of the Military Situation Conferences, from Stalingrad to Berlin, Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz editors (English edition), Enigma Books; (2005) ISBN 978-1-929631-28-5 The first, ‘defensive phase’, lies at the heart of any Russian veteran’s experience of the battle. In private, Chuikov would say simply: The story of the 62nd Army is the battle of Stalingrad. If the Germans had wiped us out and crossed the Volga everything would have been different – the emotional consequence of capturing Stalingrad would have been enormous.