Half a century after the end of World War II, many of the important
battles of the Eastern Front have not been thoroughly researched by
Western military historians. Major James F. Gebhardt, a Soviet
foreign area officer, describes a battle that has remained
virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. The
Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation has remained obscure partly because it
was fought on the northern flank of the Soviet German front - away
from major centers of population, industry, or government. The
German and Soviet generals who fought this battle are also not as
well known to the American officer corps as the more famous and
fashionable Guderian, Rommel, Manstein, or Zhukov. In Western
general histories of the Soviet-German war, this operation normally
receives one or two sentences and a single, minuscule map arrow -
if it is mentioned at all. The comprehensive accounts of the battle
that do exist are principally in Russian-language sources and,
therefore, are inaccessible to most Western-readers. Primarily
using Soviet sources, Major Gebhardt has written a comprehensive
study of the 1944 Soviet offensive conducted to clear German forces
from the approaches to Murmansk. Its focus is at the operational
level of war, with emphasis on the peculiar demands of arctic
terrain on commanders and soldiers. Major Gebhardt also used German
war diary reports to add clarity and perspective to the Soviet
accounts.This book contains something for almost every reader. It
describes the employment on arctic terrain of light infantry,
infantry, armor, artillery, engineers, logistic support, air power,
naval infantry (Soviet marines), amphibious forces, and
special-purpose forces. In three weeks ofoften intense fighting,
supported by units of the Northern Fleet, the Red Army inflicted
significant personnel and material losses on the German force and
drove it from Soviet and northern Norwegian territory. This
operational account provides the opportunity to review the lessons
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