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Miracle at the Litza - Hitler'S First Defeat on the Eastern Front (Hardcover)
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Miracle at the Litza - Hitler'S First Defeat on the Eastern Front (Hardcover)
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In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the
command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up
through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was
underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would
ensure Hitler supplies of nickel from Finnish mines, and bring the
strategically important port city of Murmansk under German control.
The roadless rocky terrain and extremes of weather created major
challenges for the German troop movements. Despite this Dietl's men
made quick gains on his Russian foe, and they came closer to
Murmansk. Despite repeated warnings of a German attack, Stalin had
failed to mobilize, and the British hesitated to come to the rescue
of the Red Army. But while the weather conditions steadily
worsened, the Russians' resistance increased. Three bloody efforts
to force the river Litza were repulsed and the offensive would
develop into a nightmare for the inadequately equipped German
soldiers. In an exciting and authoritative narrative based on
previously unpublished material, Alf Reidar Jacobsen describes the
heavy fighting that would lead to Hitler's first defeat on the
Eastern Front. With firsthand accounts of the fighting on the front
line, this is a dramatic new account of a forgotten but bloody
episode of World War II.
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