Robert Kirchubel

Operation Barbarossa 1941 (2) (eBook, ePUB)

Army Group North
Illustrator: Gerrard, Howard; Dennis, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Of the German Army Groups that attacked Soviet Russia, Von Leeb's Army Group North, tasked with seizing the Baltic States and Leningrad, was the smallest and weakest. General Kuznetzov's Northwestern Front, however, was in an even weaker state. Despite brave counterattacks and defense by the Soviet forces, the Germans smashed through the Dvina Line, then the Stalin Line, flooded into Latvia and pressed on to encircle Leningrad. This book examines the German offensive and also the courageous Soviet attempts to halt the German spearhead, defending every possible line against overwhelming odds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782004264
• Artikelnr.: 44626497

Autorenporträt

Robert Kirchubel has had a keen interest in the Eastern Front campaigns of World War II, and Operation Barbarossa in particular, all his adult life. He has already contributed work to World War Two in Europe and World War Two in the Pacific, and The International Military Encyclopedia. His three-volume study of the Barbarossa campaign is the product of several years' work and research.

Inhaltsangabe

Origins of the Campaign
Chronology
Opposing Plans
Opposing Commanders
Opposing Armies
Frontier Battles
The Drive North
The Arctic Front
Breaking the Luga River Line
Leningrad
Aftermath
The Battlefield Today
Bibliography
Index