From defeat to victory

Titel: From defeat to victory : the Eastern Front, summer 1944 / C. J. Dick ; foreword by David M. Glantz
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Veröffentlicht: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Umfang: xiii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Decisive and indecisive military operations ; volume 2
Modern war studies
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ISBN: 9780700622955 ; 9780700622962
  • List of Maps and Tables
  • p. vii
  • Foreword
  • p. ix
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. xi
  • Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Selected Foreign Words
  • p. xiii
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • An Essential Guide to Soviet Military Terms and Organizations
  • p. 8
  • 1
  • Soviet Doctrine and Praxis Prior to 1944
  • p. 20
  • The Evolution of Prewar Soviet Doctrine
  • p. 20
  • From Disaster to Success: The Course of the War, 1941-1943
  • p. 29
  • An Unlikely Phoenix: Renaissance of the Red Army
  • p. 39
  • German Errors as a Source of Soviet Salvation
  • p. 40
  • The Development of Operational Art
  • p. 55
  • The Third Whiter and Spring: The Korsun'-Shevchenkovskiy Operation
  • p. 74
  • Conclusions
  • p. 86
  • 2
  • Strategic Offensive Operations, Summer 1944
  • p. 89
  • The Stavka's Strategic Decision
  • p. 89
  • The Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation, 23 June-31 July
  • p. 92
  • The L'vov-Sandornir Strategic Offensive Operation, 13 July-29 August
  • p. 118
  • The Yassi-Kishinev Strategic Offensive Operation, 20-29 August
  • p. 132
  • Appendix: Soviet Operational-Level Logistics in 1944
  • p. 147
  • Conclusions
  • p. 159
  • 3
  • Operational Art in Maturity, Summer 1944
  • p. 161
  • Doctrinal Development
  • p. 161
  • Operational Art in the Belorussian Operation
  • p. 170
  • Operational Art in tire L'vov-Sandomir Operation
  • p. 188
  • Operational Art in the Yassi-Kishinev Operation .198
  • Conclusions about Developments in Operational Art in 1944
  • p. 206
  • Appendix: Planning a Front Offensive
  • p. 229
  • 4
  • Some Conclusions
  • p. 231
  • Coalition War
  • p. 231
  • Intelligence, Deception, and Surprise
  • p. 240
  • Operational Art in the West and East
  • p. 245
  • 5
  • Some Reflections about the Future
  • p. 268
  • Notes
  • p. 287
  • Selected Bibliography
  • p. 325
  • Index
  • p. 331