German Infantryman vs Soviet Rifleman: Barbarossa 1941 by David Campbell
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Overview: Featuring full-color artwork, specially drawn maps and archive photographs, this study offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance and subsequent reputations of six representative German and Soviet infantry battalions pitched into three pivotal actions that determined the course of the "Barbarossa" campaign at the height of World War II.
The Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 pitted Nazi Germany and her allies against Stalin’s forces in a mighty struggle for survival. Three German army groups – North, Center and South – advanced into Soviet-held territory; Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center, the largest of these three, was tasked with defeating General of the Army Dmitry Pavlov’s Western Front in Belarus, and was assigned two Panzer Groups to achieve this. Bock’s command would complete the encirclement and destruction of vast numbers of Soviet personnel and materiel at battles such as Białystok-Minsk in June-July and Smolensk in July-August before being halted as German efforts centered on the conquest of the Ukraine, only to resume the offensive at the end of September. As the dust of summer gave way to the mud of autumn, the ensuing German drive on Moscow was slowed and then halted by a Soviet counteroffensive mounted by Konev’s Kalinin and Timoshenko’s Southwestern Fronts in December amid unusually harsh winter conditions, marking the failure of the German Blitzkrieg; Army Group Centre was forced back and Moscow remained in Soviet hands.
Genre: Non Fiction, History
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