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1 online resource (655 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; 1: Introduction: Plan Barbarossa, Opposing Forces and the BorderBattles 22 June-1 July 1941; 2: Army Group Center's Advance to the Western Dvina and DneprRivers and the Western Front's Counterstroke at Lepel', 2-9 July 1941; 3: Army Group Center's Advance on Smolensk and the Timoshenko"Counteroffensive" 10-15 July 1941; 4: Army Group Center's Encirclement Battle at Smolensk, 16-23 July 1941; 5: The First Soviet Counteroffensive and the Struggle for the SmolenskPocket, 23-31 July 1941 |
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6: The Battles on the Flanks and the Siege of Mogilev, 16-31 July 1941 Background7: Armeegruppe Guderian's Destruction of Group Kachalov and theReduction of the Smolensk Pocket, 31 July-6 August 1941; 8: Armeegruppe Guderian's and Second Army's Southward March andthe Fall of Gomel', 8-21 August 1941; 9: The Second Soviet Counteroffensive: the Western Front'sDukhovshchina Offensive, the Initial Phase, 6-19 August 1941; 10 The Second Soviet Counteroffensive: the Western Front'sDukhovshchina Offensive, the German Counterstroke, andAftermath, 20-24 August 1941 |
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11: The Second Soviet Counteroffensive: the Reserve Front's El'niaOffensive, Altered Strategic Plans, and the Struggle for Velikie Luki,8-24 August 194112: Conclusions; Photographs of Commanders; Appendices; A: The Composition, Dispositions, Command Cadre, and ArmoredStrength of Mechanized Corps supporting the Western Front in July 1941; B: Comparative Orders of Battle, 1 July 1941; C: Comparative Orders of Battle, 10 July 1941; D: The Personnel and Armor Strength of the Stavka's Reserve Armieson 22 June 1941 |
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E: The Estimated Personnel Strength of the Western Front's Armiesfrom 10-31 July 1941F: The Red Army's Personnel Losses during the Battles for Smolensk,10 July-10 September 1941; G: The Red Army's Strength on 30 September 1941; Selective Annotated Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Führer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. Less than three weeks before, on 22 June Hitler had unleashed his Wehrmacht's [Armed Forces] massive invasion of the Soviet Union code-named Operation Barbarossa, which sought to defeat the Soviet Union's Red Army, conquer the country, and unseat its |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Russia (Federation) -- Smolensk
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Military campaigns
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Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125816
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Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945))
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Russia (Federation) -- Smolensk
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781907677502 |
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190767750X |
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