The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin's War with Germany

ISBN-13: 9780367311070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 614 str.

John Erickson

Opis

The Road to Stalingrad is designed to investigate the kind of war the Soviet Union waged, the nature of command decisions and the machinery of decision-making, the course of military operations, the emergence of Soviet 'war aims', and the Soviet style of war with Germany.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- On Preparedness: Military and Political Developments Spring 1941 -- The Soviet Military Establishment: Reforms and Repairs (1940-1) -- 'Don't Panic. The "Boss" Knows All About It' -- Halting the Blitzkrieg 22 June 1941–19 November 1942 -- The Sunday Blow: 22 June 1941 -- The Disaster on the Frontiers: June-July 1941 -- Towards the Edge of Destruction -- The Rear, the Deep Rear and Behind the German Lines -- The Moscow Counter-Stroke: November—December 1941 -- Stalin's First Strategic Offensive: January—March 1942 -- High Summer and the Road to Stalingrad -- Transformation at Stalingrad: Operation Uranus (October—November 1942)

O autorze

John Erickson