The Stalingrad battle and the Leningrad siege were just two of the
brutal, devastating urban conflicts that marked the awful struggle
between Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
The cities were strategic fixed points in the sweeping advances and
retreats of the opposing armies across eastern Europe. Yet no one
has concentrated on these city battles before or has sought to tell
the story of the campaigns through the fighting that took place in
and around them. That is Anthony Tucker-Jones's purpose in this
concise and vivid history of the urban war on the Eastern Front.
Early in the war, during the Wehrmacht's crushing offensives of
1941 and 1942, the Red Army was forced out of a series of key
cities. Moscow was threatened, Leningrad surrounded. Then, after
the climactic battle at Stalingrad, the Red Army with increasing
confidence, speed and power drove the Germans from the Soviet and
East European capitals they had occupied. The final urban battles
were fought in Germany's cities, culminating in Berlin. As he
traces the course of the fighting for each city, Anthony
Tucker-Jones looks at the local circumstances, the opposing forces,
the strategic significance and the tactics employed. He focuses not
only on the destruction and cruelty of such warfare, but on the
heroism displayed on both sides and on the fate of the civilians
who found themselves on the front line.
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