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 |
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Decisive and indecisive military operations ; volume 2 Modern war studies |
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