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Tanks in Operation Bagration 1944 - The demolition of Army Group Center (Paperback)
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Tanks in Operation Bagration 1944 - The demolition of Army Group Center (Paperback)
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A new study of tank warfare used in the Soviet offensive of
Operation Bagration, which destroyed Army Group Center. Operation
Bagration, the 1944 summer campaign on the Russian Front, has been
called "Hitler's Greatest Defeat." The operation involved
substantial tank and armored vehicles on both sides but the German
forces were severely hampered by the transfer of dozens of Panzer
divisions to France to repel an expected Allied invasion. Forced to
make hard decisions, German tank forces in the central Belarus
sector were weak compared to the heavy concentration of Panzers in
northern Ukraine. The Red Army exploited this vulnerability,
crushing Army Group Center, and pushing beyond the Soviet frontier
into Poland and East Prussia. With this crucial victory secured,
the Red Army conducted successive offensives beyond the Carpathian
Mountains, arriving at the Vistula river in Poland, and forcing
Romania to switch sides. The Red Army had embarked on a major tank
modernization after the Kursk battles of 1943 and as a result,
Operation Bagration saw the first widespread use of T-34-85 and
IS-2 tanks as well as self-propelled guns. Germany's Panther tank
finally reached technical maturity in the summer of 1944 but small
numbers weakened its battlefield impact, while other innovations
such as the Tiger II heavy tank failed to leave their mark. Using
new photos and a fascinating selection of color illustrations
explaining the camouflage and markings of these tanks, this book
describes how the tanks and AFVs on both sides contributed to the
eventual defeat of Army Group Center.
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