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Deadlock Before Mcow (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Deadlock Before Mcow (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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. . . 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. Reknowned author Franz Kurowski uses
first-person accounts, and never before published documentation to
present this, the turning point of the war in Russia.
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