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From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the German resurgence after the battle of Stalingrad. Containing haunting first-hand accounts of the horrors of life on the front line, this gripping narrative reveals in startling detail the story of a bitter struggle for survival against terrible odds.
The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwards, and the hard-fought but futile attempts to relieve them, saw bitter attritional fighting and extremes of human misery inflicted on both sides.
The surrender of General Friedrich von Paulus' army left Germany's eastern armies severely weakened, but the Red Army had suffered enormous losses as it overreached itself in trying to exploit its great victory. The war was not over. Germany would continue the fight, and the battles that took place in the winter of 1942/43 would show the tactical and operational skill of Erich von Manstein and the Wehrmacht as they attempted to avert total disaster.
In this title, now available in paperback, a renowned expert on warfare on the Eastern Front reveals the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stalingrad, and how it prevented the whole Axis front line from collapsing.
Drawing on first-hand accounts, On a Knife's Edge is a story of brilliant generalship, lost opportunities and survival in the harshest theater of war.
Table of Contents
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Road to Crisis
Chapter 2: The Hammer Falls: Uranus
Chapter 3: A Paper-Thin Line
Chapter 4: December: Winter Storm
Chapter 5: December: Little Saturn
Chapter 6: Now or Never
Chapter 7: A Desperate Christmas
Chapter 8: The Ostrogoszhsk-Rossosh Operation
Chapter 9: The Struggle for Balance
Chapter 10: February: Retreat from the Don
Chapter 11: February: A War of Movement
Chapter 12: February: The Swing of the Pendulum
Chapter 13: Kharkov
Chapter 14: Pause for Breath
Notes
Photography
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Product details
Published | Oct 29 2019 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 464 |
ISBN | 9781472835000 |
Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
Illustrations | 24pp plate section b&w |
Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
Series | General Military |
Short code | GNM |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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