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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793540503321

Autore

Sdvizhkov Igorʹ

Titolo

Confronting Case Blue : Briansk front's attempt to derail the German drive to the Caucasus, July 1942 / / Igorʹ Sdvizhkov ; translated and edited by Stuart Britton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Solihull, West Midlands, England : , : Helion & Company, , 2017

©2016

ISBN

1-912866-95-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered  pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

335.331092

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Soviet Union

Generals - Soviet Union

Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 414) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: ; 1. And once again into battle -- ; 2. The start of the operation: 21 July 1942 -- ; 3. The enemy's situation; 21 July 1942 -- ; 4. The night of 21-22 July 1942 -- ; 5. 22 July 1942 -- ; 6. The 148th Tank Brigade in the enemy rear -- ; 7. The fighting on the evening of 22 July 1942 -- ; 8. The 2nd Tank Corps, 23 July 1942 -- ; 9. 23 July 1942 on the front of Operational Group Chibisov -- ; 10. Operational Group Chibisov's reserve enters the fighting -- ; 11. At the command post of the 2nd Tank Corps on the night of 23/24 July 1942 -- ; 12. A review of the enemy's actions on 22 and 23 July 1942 -- ; 13. 24 July 1942 -- ; 14. 25 July 1942 -- ; 15. A review of the enemy's actions, 24-25 July 1942 -- ; 16. 26 July 1942 -- ; 17. A review of the enemy's actions on 26 July -- ; 18. 27 July 1942 -- ; 19. The end of the operation -- ; 20. Liziukov's Fate -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendices -- ; I. Documents relating to 24 July 1942 -- ; II. Summary protocol of the interrogation of 11 prisoners of the 5th Company of the 9th Panzer Division's 10th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, captured on 25.7.42 -- ; III. Lieutenant Shuklin's exploit: fact and fiction -- ; IV. A veteran tanker's recollections of the fighting on 25 July 1942 -- ; V. Excerpts from documents -- ; VI. The recollections of local



residents -- ; VII. Order of the USSR People's Commissar of Defense On measures to strengthen discipline and order in the Red Army and to forbid the voluntary retreat from combat positions -- ; VIII. The formations and units of Briansk Front's operational group under the command of Lieutenant General Chibisov that took part in the operation -- ; IX. German formations and units of the VII Army Corps that took part in the battles with units of Operation Group Chibisov.