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Meat Grinder - The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43 (Hardcover)
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Meat Grinder - The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43 (Hardcover)
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An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev
Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs
of German and Russian soldiers. The fighting between the German and
Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War II was so
grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the troops
called the campaign 'The Meat Grinder'. Though millions of men
would fight and die there, the Rzhev Salient does not have the name
recognition of Leningrad or Moscow. It was simply a vast tract of
forests and swamps in the heart of Mother Russia that has been
largely ignored by Western historians...until now. Prit Buttar, a
world expert on the Eastern Front during World War II, reveals the
depth and depravity of the bitter fighting for the Rzhev Salient in
this astonishing new history. He details how the long-ignored
region held the promise of a renewed drive on the Soviet capital
for the German Army - a chance to turn the tide of war. Using both
German and Russian first-hand accounts, Buttar examines the four
major offensives launched by the Red Army against the salient, all
of which were defeated with heavy losses, exceeding two million
killed, wounded or missing, until eventually, the Germans were
forced to evacuate the salient in March 1943. Drawing on the latest
research, Meat Grinder provides a new study of these horrific
battles but also examines how the Red Army did ultimately learn
from its colossal failures and how its analysis of these failures
at the time helped pave the way for the eventual Soviet victory
against Army Group Centre in the summer of 1944, leaving the road
to Berlin clear.
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