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From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this paperback edition of his detailed and engrossing account of the World War II's Eastern Front as German forces were driven back following the Battle of Kursk.
Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring this story to life, Retribution follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counteroffensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942–43.
Beginning towards the end of the Battle of Kursk, Retribution tells the story of the massive Soviet offensive that followed the end of Operation Zitadelle, which saw depleted and desperate German troops forced out of Western Ukraine. This title describes in detail the little-known series of near-constant battles that saw a weakened German army confronted by a tactically sophisticated force of over six million Soviet troops.
As a result, the Wehrmacht was driven back to the Dnepr and German forces remaining in the Kuban Peninsula south of Rostov were forced back into the Crimea, a retreat which would become one of many in the months that followed.
Table of Contents
Author's Note
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
1 Summer 1943: The Decisive Shift
2 The Mius
3 Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev
4 Akhtyrka and Bogodukhov
5 Kharkov
6 Attrition: From the Mius and Donets to the Dnepr
7 The Dnepr Bridgeheads
8 Krivoy Rog
9 Kiev and Zhitomir
10 Year's End
11 A Year of Decision
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 31 Oct 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 480 |
| ISBN | 9781472835338 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | 16pp plate section in b&w |
| Series | General Military |
| Short code | GNM |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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