Deadlock Before Moscow: Army Group Center 1942/1943 (Schiffer Military History series)

Kurowski, Franz

ISBN 10: 088740412X / ISBN 13: 9780887404122

Published by Schiffer Military History, West Chester, PA, USA, 1997

About this Item

First edition. 376pp, [8] plus numerous black and white plate illustrations. In grey cloth-covered boards with brown lettering front and spine. Marbled endpapers. 8vo. Cloth very slightly darkened on extreme lower edge. In its original illustrated and laminated dust jacket, very gently bumped along lower edge.

Seller Inventory # 025253

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deadlock Before Moscow: Army Group Center 1942/1943 (Schiffer Military History series)
• Publisher: Schiffer Military History, West Chester, PA, USA
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088740412X
• ISBN 13: 9780887404122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • War, Military History and Weapons

About this title

Synopsis

Franz Kurowski uses first-person accounts, and never before published documentation to present this, the turning point of the war in Russia.

One of these events, the attempt of the Red Army to cut off and destroy the panzer formations far advanced before Moscow, is little known.

In January 1942, when the 3rd, 4th, and 22nd Soviet Shock armies set out from the Army Group North area to the south and attacked Kholm, Toropets, Demidov, Vitebsk, and Belikie Luki, in order to roll over the rear area services approximately 160 kilometers behind the front and the strong point-like positions and cut off the main body of Army Group Center from its supply of weapons and soldiers, the Eastern Campaign appeared to be lost.

The renewed major offensive of the Red Army, which began in November 1942, found these troops―hopelessly opposing massed enemy formations―in a battle to the bitter end. This is especially shown in Velikie Luki, where the defensive strength of 7,500 German soldiers fought to the end paid for with their own lives. Only a handful of soldiers escaped from this inferno.

Never before has such detail on this aspect of the Russian front campaign been available in English.

About the Author

Franz Kurowski served as a journalist in World War II.