Lev Lopukhovsky, Stuart Britton

Gebundenes Buch

The Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941

The Red Army's Disastrous Stand Against Operation Typhoon

Beschreibung

This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of their own people. Until recently, the magnitude of the de

Autor

After a distinguished career as an officer in the Soviet army, including command of a regiment in the Soviet Strategic Missile forces in the rank of colonel, Lev Lopukhovsky transferred to the Frunze Military Academy to teach tactics. Since retiring from the military he has become a professor in the Russian Federation's Academy of Military Sciences and one of the leading historians of the Soviet forces during the Second World War. In addition to many articles he has written on the subject, he has published controversial studies of the battles of Prokorovka and Viaz'ma and the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Helion & Company
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1034g
• ISBN-13: 9781908916501
• ISBN-10: 1908916508
• Artikelnr.: 36131892