The Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War) - Softcover

Anthony Tucker-Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473827477 ISBN 13: 9781473827479

Publisher: Pen & Sword Military, 2016

Synopsis

The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for control of the southern Soviet Union. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume in the Images of War series, offers a visual record of the dramatic and bloody conflict that took place there, showing every grim aspect of the fighting. Kharkov became one of the most bitterly contested cities during the war on the Eastern Front, and this book presents a graphic overview of the atrocious conditions the soldiers on both sides had to endure. In 1941 Kharkov fell to Hitler's Army Group South. In 1942 the Soviets tried and failed to retake it, losing 240,000 men in the Barvenkovo Bulge. Then, in 1943, the control of the battered city changed hands twice before the Soviets liberated it for good. The fate of Kharkov during the war reflects the history of the wider struggle between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union.

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Review:

"I highly recommend this book for modelers interested in the Russian front in general and Kharkov sector in particular." --Great Models

"The black and white photographs in The Battle of Kharkov are more illuminating than in Tucker-Jones's Riviera book, perhaps because the brutality of the fighting on the Eastern Front was much more evident. Tucker-Jones's selection of photographs and accompanying text bring out the peculiarly bleak nature of this conflict." --(04/01/2017)

About the Author:

Anthony Tucker-Jones is a former defence intelligence officer and a widely published expert on regional conflicts, counter-terrorism and armoured warfare. He is author of twenty books including the Falaise: The Flawed Victory, Operation Dragoon: The Liberation of Southern France 1944, Armoured Warfare on the Eastern Front, The Kalashnikov in Combat and The Soviet-Afghan War. He is security and terrorism correspondent for intersec - The Journal of International Security and has freelanced for Channel 4 News. For further information his website can be found at www.atuckerjones.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1473827477
• ISBN 13: 9781473827479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144