Volume VIII in the magisterial Germany and the Second World War series, dealing with one of the most eventful phases of World War Two - the battles on the eastern front in 1943 and 1944 - which have been largely forgotten by western historians, but which involved enormous Wehrmacht losses and some of the biggest land battles in world history.
Volume VIII in the magisterial Germany and the Second World War series, dealing with one of the most eventful phases of World War Two - the battles on the eastern front in 1943 and 1944 - which have been largely forgotten by western historians, but which involved enormous Wehrmacht losses and some of the biggest land battles in world history.
Karl-Heinz Frieser (b. 1949), was a Colonel in the Bundeswehr. He studied political science and mediaeval and modern history at Würzburg. From 1985 to 2009, he was a research associate at the MGFA, becoming head of research on the world war era. His publications include Krieg hinter Stacheldraht: Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in der Sowjetunion und das Nationalkomitee 'Freies Deutschland' (1981); Blitzkrieg-Legende: Der Westfeldzug 1940 (3rd ed., 2005); Ardennen - Sedan: Militärhistorischer Führer durch eine europäische Schicksalslandschaft (2nd ed., 2006). His main area of research is in the operational history of the Second World War.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * PART I: From Stalingrad to Kursk * 1: Basic Problems in German Conduct of the War after Stalingrad * 2: German Alliance Policy and the Question of a Separate Peace * 3: The Genesis of the Battle of Kursk * PART II: The Battle of the Kursk Salient * 1: The Hopeless German Starting Position * 2: The Failure of Operation Citadel * 3: Operation Citadel - A Turning Point? * 4: The Soviet Counter-Offensives * PART III: The Perplexities of War: The Soviet Theatre in German Policy and Strategy from the Summer of 1943 * 1: The Soviet Theatre of War in German Policy and Strategy From the Summer of 1943 * 2: From the Setbacks in the Summer of 1943 to a Permanent Crisis of Leadership * 3: The Abandonment of Foreign Policy and the Isolation of Germany * 4: Withdrawal from the East? 'Fortress Europe' and the Dilemma of Interconnected War * PART IV: The Swing of the Pendulum: The Withdrawal of the Eastern Front from Summer 1943 to Summer 1944 * Prologue: The 'Forgotten Year' * 1: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Withdrawal of Army Group North from Leningrad to the Baltic * 2: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Withdrawal of Army Group Centre to Belorussia up to the Spring of 1944 * 3: Karl-Heinz Frieser: Army Group South's Withdrawal Operations in the Ukraine * 4: Klaus Schönherr: The Withdrawal of Army Group A through the Crimea to Romania * PART V: Collapse in the East: The Withdrawal Battles from the Summer of 1944 * 1: Karl-Heinz Frieser: Errors and Illusions: The German Command's Miscalculations in the Early Summer of 1944 * 2: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Collapse of Army Group Centre in the Summer of 1944 * 3: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Defensive Successes of Army Group Centre in the Autumn of 1944 * 4: Karl-Heinz Frieser: Army Group North's Withdrawal Battles to Courland * 5: Klaus Schönherr: The Battles for Galicia and the Beskid Mountains * 6: Klaus Schönherr: The Withdrawal Battles in Romania and Transylvania in the Summer and Autumn of 1944 * 7: Krisztián Ungváry: The Hungarian Theatre of War * PART VI: The War on the Neighbouring Fronts * 1: Bernd Wegner: The End of the War in Scandinavia * 2: Klaus Schmider: The Yugoslavian Theatre of War (January 1943 to May 1945) * 3: Klaus Schönherr: The Withdrawal from Greece * 4: Gerhard Schreiber: The End of the North African Campaign and the War in Italy 1943 to 1945 * PART VII: Germany on the Brink of the Precipice * 1: Waging war 'as if ...': Germany's Strategic Position from the Spring of 1944 onwards * 2: Orchestrating the End * Concluding Summary
* Introduction * PART I: From Stalingrad to Kursk * 1: Basic Problems in German Conduct of the War after Stalingrad * 2: German Alliance Policy and the Question of a Separate Peace * 3: The Genesis of the Battle of Kursk * PART II: The Battle of the Kursk Salient * 1: The Hopeless German Starting Position * 2: The Failure of Operation Citadel * 3: Operation Citadel - A Turning Point? * 4: The Soviet Counter-Offensives * PART III: The Perplexities of War: The Soviet Theatre in German Policy and Strategy from the Summer of 1943 * 1: The Soviet Theatre of War in German Policy and Strategy From the Summer of 1943 * 2: From the Setbacks in the Summer of 1943 to a Permanent Crisis of Leadership * 3: The Abandonment of Foreign Policy and the Isolation of Germany * 4: Withdrawal from the East? 'Fortress Europe' and the Dilemma of Interconnected War * PART IV: The Swing of the Pendulum: The Withdrawal of the Eastern Front from Summer 1943 to Summer 1944 * Prologue: The 'Forgotten Year' * 1: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Withdrawal of Army Group North from Leningrad to the Baltic * 2: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Withdrawal of Army Group Centre to Belorussia up to the Spring of 1944 * 3: Karl-Heinz Frieser: Army Group South's Withdrawal Operations in the Ukraine * 4: Klaus Schönherr: The Withdrawal of Army Group A through the Crimea to Romania * PART V: Collapse in the East: The Withdrawal Battles from the Summer of 1944 * 1: Karl-Heinz Frieser: Errors and Illusions: The German Command's Miscalculations in the Early Summer of 1944 * 2: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Collapse of Army Group Centre in the Summer of 1944 * 3: Karl-Heinz Frieser: The Defensive Successes of Army Group Centre in the Autumn of 1944 * 4: Karl-Heinz Frieser: Army Group North's Withdrawal Battles to Courland * 5: Klaus Schönherr: The Battles for Galicia and the Beskid Mountains * 6: Klaus Schönherr: The Withdrawal Battles in Romania and Transylvania in the Summer and Autumn of 1944 * 7: Krisztián Ungváry: The Hungarian Theatre of War * PART VI: The War on the Neighbouring Fronts * 1: Bernd Wegner: The End of the War in Scandinavia * 2: Klaus Schmider: The Yugoslavian Theatre of War (January 1943 to May 1945) * 3: Klaus Schönherr: The Withdrawal from Greece * 4: Gerhard Schreiber: The End of the North African Campaign and the War in Italy 1943 to 1945 * PART VII: Germany on the Brink of the Precipice * 1: Waging war 'as if ...': Germany's Strategic Position from the Spring of 1944 onwards * 2: Orchestrating the End * Concluding Summary
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