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Stalingrad to Berlin - the German Defeat in the East / Earl F. Ziemke.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Ziemke, Earl F., author.
Contributor:: Center of Military History.
Series:: The Russian Campaign of World War Two; The Russian Campaign of World War Two Series
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.; World War, 1939-1945.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (711 pages)
Edition:: First edition.
Place of Publication:: [Place of publication not identified] : Pickle Partners Publishing, [2013]
Summary:: Contains 72 illustrations and 42 maps of the Russian Campaign.After the disasters of the Stalingrad Campaign in the Russian winters of 1942-3, the German Wehrmacht was on the defensive under increasing Soviet pressure; this volume sets out to show how did the Russians manage to push the formerly all-conquering German soldiers back from Russian soil to the ruins of Berlin.Save for the introduction of nuclear weapons, the Soviet victory over Germany was the most fateful development of World War II. Both wrought changes and raised problems that have constantly preoccupied the world in the more than twenty years since the war ended. The purpose of this volume is to investigate one aspect of the Soviet victory-how the war was won on the battlefield. The author sought, in following the march of the Soviet and German armies from Stalingrad to Berlin, to depict the war as it was and to describe the manner in which the Soviet Union emerged as the predominant military power in Europe.
Contents:: Intro; TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; CHAPTER I - Invasion!; The German Command; The Evolution of the Command; The Plan for Invasion; BARBAROSSA; Hitler in Command; Operation BLAU; A Promise, Doubts, and a Plan; The Campaign, 1942; The Manpower Squeeze; A Command Shake-up; Operations Order I; CHAPTER II - Retreat; The Soviet Command; On the Eve of War; Preparedness and Doctrine; Invasion and Retreat; The First Winter Offensive; 1942, Retreat and Recovery; CHAPTER III - Stalingrad, the Encirclement; The Advance on Stalingrad; The Siege; German Expectations; Crosscurrents; Army Group B's Dispositions; Soviet Intentions; The Build-up; The Plan and Tactics; Sixth Army Encircled; Breakthrough; Manstein, Paulus, Hitler; The Russians Neglect the Flanks; WINTERGEWITTER; Doubts and Delays; WINTERGEWITTER Begins; The Outcome; CHAPTER IV - Stalingrad, the Turning Point; Sixth Army Isolated; Southwest Front Renews the Offensive; The Last Chance for Sixth Army; Operations Order 2; Retreat to the Manich and the Donets; Sixth Army Destroyed; CHAPTER V- The Countermarch; The Fight for Survival; The South Flank Threatened; The Main Effort Against Army Group Don; Retreat to the Mius; Kharkov Falls; The Last German Victory; Manstein Castles to the Left; The Panzer Armies Attack; Kharkov Retaken; CHAPTER VI - The Center and the North; At the End of Summer 1942; Army Group Center; Army Group North; Finland-Twentieth Mountain Army; Partisan Warfare; The Rise of the Soviet Partisan Movement; Führer Directive 46; A Companion Piece to Stalingrad; The Rzhev Salient; Velikiye Luki; The Quiet Front; On the Defensive; Leningrad and the Demyansk Pocket; Army Group Center-Anti-partisan Warfare; Operation BÜFFEL.; CHAPTER VII - Operation ZITADELLE; The Lull in the Storm; A Dark Spring; Germany's Allies; Vlasov; A Limited Offensive; Strategic Plans-Operations Order 5; HABICHT and PANTHER; Operations Order 6-ZITADELLE Postponed; SILBERSTREIF; Hitler Decides for ZITADELLE; ZITADELLE; Tactics and Forces; The Offensive Begins; Thrust and Counterthrust; Hitler Cancels ZITADELLE; CHAPTER VIII - The First Soviet Summer Offensive; Troops and Tactics; The Main Effort in the South; Comparative Strengths; The State of Soviet Military Art; The Psychological Warfare Victory; The Fourth Battle of Kharkov; Tactical Surprise; Hitler Decides To Build an East Wall; Kharkov Evacuated; The Front in Flames; First Panzer Army and Sixth Army; Manstein and Kluge Confront Hitler; Hitler Approves a Withdrawal "In Principle; To the Dnepr; First Panzer Army and Sixth Army Retreat; Fourth Panzer Army and Eighth Army Weaken; Kluge Begins the Retreat to the PANTHER Position; Hitler and Kluge Go Slow; Army Group South Goes Behind the River; CHAPTER IX - The Battle for the Dnepr Line; Army Group South; The Zaporozhye Bridgehead Lost; Sixth Army-Breakthrough and Retreat; The Crimea Cut Off; Konev Drives Toward Krivoi Rog; Kiev and the Crimea; A Lesson in Maneuver; He Who Holds His Positions a Minute Longer. . . .; The Dnepr Bridgehead, Army Group Center; Rokossovskiy Holds the Pripyat Bridgehead; Gomel-Retchitsa; NIKOLAUS; CHAPTER X - The Rising Tide; Breakthrough at Nevel; Surprise-Repercussions-Partisans; Attack and Counterattack; Vitebsk; The German Allies; Hungary-Operation MARGARETHE; Finland-Führer Directive 50; Leadership, Manpower, Strategy; Command Changes; Manpower; Führer Directive 51.; CHAPTER XI - Offensives on Both Flanks-the South Flank; The Battle Resumes West of Kiev; Vatutin Attacks; Hitler Fends Off a Decision; First Panzer Army Redeployed; The Battle Expands; Manstein Concentrates on the Southward Thrust; XI and XXXXVI Corps Encircled; The Cherkassy Pocket - (Korsun' Shevchenkovskiy); Kirovograd; The Envelopment; The Relief; Breakout; Nikopol and Krivoi Rog; Schörner in Command on the Bridgehead; Vasilevskiy Stages a Two-Front Battle; Retreat From the Bridgehead; Krivoi Rog-The Ingulets; Dubno-Lutsk-Kovel'; CHAPTER XII - Offensives on Both Flanks-the North Flank; Standing By; Leningrad Liberated; Withdrawal to the ROLLBAHN; Küchler's Dilemma; Model Takes Command; Schild und Schwert; The PANTHER Position; Model Departs; An "Echo" in Finland; TANNE and BIRKE; The Soviet Terms Rejected; CHAPTER XIII - Paying the Piper; Mud and Strategy; A Soviet Spring Offensive; The Regroupment; First Ukrainian Front Attacks; Führer Order 11; Second and Third Ukrainian Fronts Attack; The Hammer and the Anvil; First Panzer Army Breaks Out; Sixth Army Retreats to the Bug; Eighth Army Covers the Flank; Model and Schörner Take Command; MARGARETHE; First Panzer Army Saved-A Fortress Sacrificed; To the Dnestr; The Crimea; CHAPTER XIV - Prelude to Disaster; Karelia; The Soviet Offensive Begins; German Aid; The Last Phase; Partisan Warfare at Its Height; Organization; Personnel; Operations; Anti-partisan Warfare; The West and the East; CHAPTER XV - The Collapse of the Center; Deception and Delusion; The Battle for Belorussia; Plans and Forces; The Bobruysk Pocket; The Minsk Pocket; Retreat; A Threat to Army Group North; The Battle Expands to the Flanks.; Army Group North Ukraine Broken Through; The Baltic Gap; Attentat!-Guderian-Schörner; The thrust is the best parry; The Recovery; A Corridor to Army Group North; The Battle Subsides; CHAPTER XVI - The South Flank; Escape to the Carpathians; Army Group South Ukraine; Rumania; Rumania Surrenders; Retreat to the Carpathians; The Front Rebuilt; Retreat to the Muresul-Crisis in Hungary; Hitler Plans a Counteroffensive; Tank Battle at Debrecen; Horthy Asks for an Armistice; To the Tisza; CHAPTER XVII - Retreat and Encirclement; The Balkan Peninsula; The Southeastern Theater; Weichs and Hitler Wait and See; Bulgaria Surrenders; A Front on the East; Belgrade-Decision To Evacuate Greece; Army Group E's Withdrawal; A Front on the Drina; Budapest; The First Thrust; Malinovskiy Maneuvers; Tolbukhin Joins In; Budapest Encircled; CHAPTER XVIII - Defeat in the North; The Finnish Armistice; Cobelligerency Dissolved; Decision; Retreat From Northern Finland; BIRKE; NORDLICHT; The Battle in the Arctic; NORDLICHT Completed; Army Group North's Retreat to Courland; Vasilevskiy's September Offensive; Bagramyan's Thrust to the Baltic; CHAPTER XIX - The January Offensive; Two Fronts, the Führer's Will, and German Resources; The Downturn; Guderian Goes to the Eastern Front; The Stavka's Plans; From the Vistula to the Oder; Pursuit; Army Group Vistula; The Thaw; East Prussia; Army Group Center Isolated; Treason?; The Budapest Relief; CHAPTER XX - The Defense of the Reich; Missions; German; Soviet; The Soviet Offensive Falters; Konev Stops on the Neisse; The Oder, West Prussia, and East Prussia; Operation SONNENWENDE; The Hron Bridgehead; The German Condition.; Parry and Thrust-Vienna; The Awakening of Spring; The Soviet Counteroffensive Begins; To Vienna; Closing In?; Zhukov and Rokossovskiy Against Army Group Vistula; Fortress Berlin; Konev in Upper Silesia; CHAPTER XXI - Berlin; The Eve of the Battle; The Soviet Decision To Take Berlin; Hitler Worries About the Flanks; Soviet Redeployment and Plans; Hitler Prepares for the Battle; The Encirclement; Konev Breaks Through; Hitler Decides To See the Battle Through; Completing the Circle; The Last Act; A Day of Hopes; Keitel and Jodl in Command; Too Late for a Miracle; The Sand Runs Out; Surrender; CHAPTER XXII - Conclusion; 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; Glossary; Code Names.
Notes:: Reprint.; Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 16, 2012).; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.; Description based on print version record.
ISBN:: 9781782893202; 1782893202
OCLC:: 974584018

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