Autore |
Ziemke Earl F
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
San Francisco : , : Verdun Press, , 2014
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (729 pages)
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Collana |
The Russian Campaign of World War Two
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Soggetto topico |
Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943
World War, 1939-1945
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ISBN |
1-78289-319-9
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword -- The Authors -- Preface -- Chapter I - "The World Will Hold Its Breath -- The Deployments -- German and Allied Forces -- Soviet Forces -- German Strategy -- Soviet Preparedness -- Strategic Planning -- Operational Planning -- War Readiness -- On the Eve of Invasion -- Chapter II - The Blitzkrieg -- BARBAROSSA -- The Battles of the Frontiers -- To Smolensk -- The North and South Flanks -- A Change in Plans -- TAIFUN -- The Main Effort in the Center -- The March to Victory? -- Mud and Frustration -- Chapter III - To Moscow -- On the Defensive in the Heartland -- The Soviet Condition -- The German November Offensive -- The Turnabout -- Retreat from Rostov -- Something Does Not Add Up -- At the Gates -- Chapter IV - The Counteroffensive: First Phase -- Hitler on the Defensive -- Black Days -- The Worst Crisis in Two World Wars -- Brauchitsch at the Front -- A Time for Decisions -- The Führer Takes Command -- Hitler's "Yes" and "No -- Fanatical Resistance -- Brauchitsch Resigns -- Guderian at the Führer Headquarters -- Chapter V - The Counteroffensive: Second Phase -- Roles Reversed -- The Soviet Initiative -- When Things Start To Go Wrong -- On the Flanks -- Pursuit Ends on the North -- General Guderian Does Not Obey -- The Question of a Retreat -- Kluge Takes Time To Think -- The "Voice of Cold Reason -- Chapter VI - Crisis In The Crimea -- Sevastopol -- The Fortress -- The Attack -- Kerch and Feodosiya -- The Landings -- Sponeck's Retreat -- The Trap Does Not Close -- Troubles on Both Sides -- Manstein's Counterattack -- Chapter VII - Hitler And Stalin -- Hitler Orders a Retreat -- A Thrust Past Sukhinichi -- The Grand Envelopment -- General Hoepner Does Not Obey -- Fourth Army Adrift -- On the Razor's Edge -- A Sigh of Relief -- Stalin Projects a General Offensive -- The Look of the New Year.
Stalin's Strategy -- The Missions -- Chapter VIII - The General Offensive -- On the North Flank -- The Army Group North Front -- Meretskov's First Attempt on the Volkhov -- South of Lake Ilmen -- The "Brawl -- Breakthrough on the Volkhov -- A Mutual Frustration -- Encirclement at Demyansk -- On the South Flank -- Bock Goes to Poltava -- The Izyum Bulge -- In the Center -- Fourth Army Fights To Survive -- Contact at Sukhinichi -- To the K-Line -- Model Closes the Rzhev Gap -- In the K-Line -- Zhukov in Command -- Chapter IX - The Clinch -- The Front, February 1942 -- Army Group Center -- Second Panzer Army's "Small Solution -- Fourth and Fourth Panzer Armies -- Ninth Army's Bridge to Ostashkov -- Army Group North -- The Stavka Faces the Rasputitsa -- The View From Führer Headquarters -- RAUBTIER -- BRÜCKENSCHLAG at Demyansk -- A Month of Mud and Crises -- Chapter X - The War Behind The Front -- The Partisan Movement, Beginnings -- Organization -- The Shmyrev Otryad -- Strength in 1941 -- The Underground -- German Rear Area Security -- The Partisan Movement Established -- Soviet Power Resurgent -- The Partisans of Kardymovo -- The Movement Remodeled -- Accomplices Against the Bolshevik System? -- Chapter XI - The Northern Theater -- Cobelligerents and Brothers-in-Arms -- Pressures on Finland -- Command and Deployment -- A Thrust to Belomorsk -- The Soviet Spring Offensive -- Double Strikes -- The Fade-out -- The Arctic Convoys -- The German Buildup -- Tirpitz" and PQ-12 -- Chapter XII - Active Defense, Center And North -- Stalin's Bid for the Initiative -- Army Group Center's Second Front -- At the End of Winter -- HANNOVER -- HANNOVER II -- SEYDLITZ -- VOGELSANG -- Demyansk and the Volkhov Pocket -- Offensive Against II Corps -- Second Shock Army Goes Under -- Chapter XIII - Active Defense, South -- Kerch Resolved -- Competing Plans -- TRAPPENJAGD.
The Izyum Bulge -- Prospects and Problems -- The Drive on Kharkov -- FRIDERICUS -- Chapter XIV - A Time For Decisions -- Hitler's Strategy -- A Question of Means -- An Offensive in the South -- Hitler's Restless Spring -- German Strategic Estimates -- Men, Firepower, and Mobility -- Of Soviet Capabilities -- Soviet Strategy -- The Soviet Condition -- Estimates of German Capabilities -- A Second Front -- A Strategic Defensive -- Chapter XV - Prelude To Summer -- Preliminary Operations -- Sevastopol Begun -- WILHELM, FRIDERICUS II, and STOERFANG -- STOERFANG Completed -- Deployment for BLAU -- Bock's Plan -- The Buildup -- Soviet Deployment -- On the Eve -- Army Group South's Readiness -- Operation KREML -- Timing and Trouble -- Soviet Readiness -- Chapter XVI - Operation BLAU -- The Enemy Is Defeated -- Breakthrough -- Hitler at Poltava -- Stampede to Voronezh -- A Strategic Retreat -- The Soviet Dilemma -- BLAU II Is Dead -- Strike at Millerovo -- Bock Goes Home -- Chapter XVII - Hitler's Grand Design -- A Certain Crisis -- New Missions -- Stalingrad Front -- Stalingrad Bypassed -- Encirclement at Rostov -- On the Road to Stalingrad -- Directive 45-Order No. 227 -- Hitler Divides His Forces -- Not a Step Back! -- The Missions Revised -- Chapter XVIII - Operation EDELWEISS -- The Kuban and the Caucasus -- North Caucasus Front -- To the Caucasus -- Tuapse and the Terek -- The Tempo Slows -- List at the Werwolf -- Hitler Takes Command -- Stand to the Death -- In Slow Motion -- Chapter XIX - From The Don To The Volga -- No Enemy West of Stalingrad -- In the Don Bend -- The Enemy Three Versts Away -- Confrontation -- The City -- Counterattacks -- Chuikov Against Paulus -- The "Main Effort" in Stalingrad -- Deadlock -- Chapter XX - Summer On The Static Fronts -- On the Moscow Axis -- Rzhev-Sychevka -- WIRBELWIND -- Crisis and Recovery.
Leningrad and Demyansk -- NORDLICHT and Other Operations -- At Führer Headquarters -- A Mission for Manstein -- Meretskov at the Bottleneck -- Manstein at the Bottleneck -- WINKELRIED -- Mop-up at Gaitolovo -- The Far North -- Crosscurrents -- The Murmansk Railroad -- The Arctic Convoys -- Chapter XXI - The Change Of Seasons -- Duty and Country -- A New Spirit -- A New Authority -- The Soviet Condition -- Counteroffensive Plans -- Operation URANUS -- MARS and URANUS -- This Year's Campaign Has Been Concluded -- The Army in Decline -- Overhaul at the Top -- Operations Order No. 1 -- The Exceptions -- TAUBENSCHLAG -- Stalingrad -- Tuapse -- Nalchik -- A Winter Offensive-Where? -- Chapter XXII - Thrust And Counterthrust -- The Battle on the Volga -- Troops and Tactics -- Stalingrad-North -- The Clock Runs Down -- The Last Round -- Sixth Army Encircled -- Operation URANUS -- Sixth Army Stays -- Chapter XXIII - Stalingrad, Finale -- The Relief -- WINTERGEWITTER -- Doubts and Delays -- WINTERGEWITTER Runs Its Course -- Sixth Army Isolated -- SATURN and KOLTSO -- MALYY SATURN Begins -- Sixth Army's Last Chance -- Operations Order No. 2 -- Sixth Army Destroyed -- To the Manich and the Donets -- The Stalingrad Ring -- Chapter XXIV - Conclusion -- The Beginning of the Road -- The Transitions -- In the High Commands -- In Operations -- The Decision -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER -- Appendix A - Table Of Equivalent Ranks -- Appendix B - Comparative Sizes Of Major Commands - November 1941 to January 1943 -- Note On Sources -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Code Names -- German -- Soviet.
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Russian Campaign of World War Two
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