A comprehensive evaluation of generalship on the most important front in World War II.
The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the largest sustained air-ground conflict in military history and played the decisive role in the defeat of the Third Reich. This new study seeks to analyse the command and generalship of the combatants.
The scale of the conflict was immense. Lasting over 46 months it involved over 10 million combatants at its peak, and resulted in roughly 15 million military deaths, as well as about 20 million civilian deaths. More than 50 percent of all German military fatalities in 1941–45 occurred there, and by the time the Western Allies invaded France in June 1944, the Wehrmacht was already decimated.
Who were the generals who led these campaigns on the Eastern Front? The standard historiography of World War II tends to focus on a few prominent leaders while ignoring the mass of commanders and operational-level military staffs who actually fought most of the war and this new study by renowned Eastern Front historian Robert Forczyk seeks to redress the balance.
Generalship on the Eastern Front offers an objective analytic framework for assessing the senior German and Soviet commanders on the Eastern Front through the lens of generalship and battle command, examining a total of 54 German and 140 Soviet officers.
- 584 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Overview of German/Soviet Senior Leader Training, Doctrine and Pre-War Plans
- Chapter 2: C3 and Intelligence Capabilities
- Chapter 3: Barbarossa: 1941 Operations
- Chapter 4: Fall Blau: 1942 Operations
- Chapter 5: Zitadelle: 1943 Operations
- Chapter 6: Bagration: 1944 Operations
- Chapter 7: The Final Campaigns: 1945 Operations
- Chapter 8: A Performance Assessment
- Appendices
- Acronyms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- eCopyright
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