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Bezig met laden... When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies) (1995)door David M. Glantz, Jonathan House
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Viewing the English language literature about WWII, the Americans do not leave much room both to the crucial British and Soviet contribution to victory. Great Britain for holding out single-handed in 1940 and the Soviets for absorbing and wearing down the Nazi offensive capability. Victory was mostly paid with Russian blood. Glantz and House, former US army officers, try to redress the balance. They divide the Eastern Front in three periodes (6/41-11/42; 11/42-12/43; 1/44-5/45). During the first, the Germans were dominant and only their logistical limitations prevented a Soviet defeat. The second period resulted in a standstill while the third period saw a Soviet juggernaut rolling over the crippled German army. Glantz and House concentrate on military formations and leadership. Readers looking for more human interest (esp. suffering) should consider Werth's classic Russia at War. One difficulty, they solve not so well, is the Soviet custom of calling corps or even division-sized formations armies which results in one German army or corps fighting half a dozen Soviet armies. Readers should also supplement the printed maps with the excellent online West Point Atlas. Overall, a good contribution to a neglected topic. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Verwijzingen naar dit werk in externe bronnen. Wikipedia in het Engels (51)By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to the gates of 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 German army and shattered Hitler's imperial designs. Told in swift stirring prose, When Titans Clashed provides the first full account of this epic struggle from the Soviet perspective. David Glantz, one of the world's foremost authorities on the Soviet military, and Jonathan House present a fundamentally new interpretation of what the Russians called the "Great Patriotic War." Based on unprecedented access to formerly classified Soviet sources, they counter the German perspective that has dominated previous accounts and radically revise our understanding of the Soviet experience during World War II. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Debe ser el libro más completo con el detalle de las operaciones en el eastern front. Como bien Detalla como fueron los revolucionarios cambios en el mando, estado mayor y técnicas operacionales y tácticas sovieticas las responsables no que Alemania perdiera sino que la URSS ganara.
Interesante que los sovieticos comenzaron con conceptos rígidos, siendo frecuentemente embolsados, pero luego los papeles se invirtieron y los sovieticos aprendieron rápidamente las lecciones, haciendo maniobras dinámicas y retiradas tácticas cuando era necesario. Por el contrario, Hitler comenzó a insistir en defensas estáticas.
Stalin comenzó la guerra desconfiando de su mando y tomando las decisiones, para luego delegar y confiar. Hitler hizo lo contrario.
Glantz es posiblemente el principal autor occidental acerca de la guerra en el frente este y este libro resume las principales conclusiones de sus estudios. ( )