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Cassell Military Classics: Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944 | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul Adair
Publisher: Cassell
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1032982
Media: Paperback
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 030435449X
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.542178
EAN: 9780304354498
ASIN: 030435449X
Publication Date: June 2004
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1944 was a year of trial for the German Army. While the Allies were preparing to invade the Third Reich from the west, Stalin was set on a massive offensive to liberate the last remaining areas of Soviet territory held by the Germans. Hitler was determined to hold fast - muddled strategic thinking nullified the undoubted operational ability of his generals. This book is a succinct analysis of the Soviet campaign to recapture Byelorussia, the German attempts to counter it, and the final, terrible collapse of Army Group Centre, inflicting greater losses on the Germans even than their earlier defeat at Stalingrad. It was a catastrophe of unbelievable proportion: 350,000 men were lost, and Hitler's war effort doomed and broken.
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Short book on the Eastern Front January 20, 1998
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
There are not very many books on the Eastern Front written for the general public, and this isn't one of the exceptions, in spite of its length (it's less than 200 pages all told, including bibliography, notes and index). That being said, you have to wonder at the brevity of the book, given the subject and the material presented. Basically the first third of the book backgrounds the story, the last 10-15% serves as an epitaph for the soldiers (especially the Germans) who fought in the battle. The remaining ca. 80 pages or so consist of a brief description of the opening of the Soviet Summer offensive in 1944 in White Russia. This is interesting, but again, given the specialized nature of the subject you wonder why more focus wasn't given...
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