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Prelude to Berlin - The Red Army's Offensive Operations in Poland and Eastern Germany, 1945 (Paperback)
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Prelude to Berlin - The Red Army's Offensive Operations in Poland and Eastern Germany, 1945 (Paperback)
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Prelude to Berlin: The Red Army's Offensive Operations in Poland
and Eastern Germany 1945 offers a panoramic view of the Soviet
strategic offensives north of the Carpathians in the winter of
1945. During the course of this offensive the Red Army broke
through the German defences in Poland and East Prussia and
eventually occupied all of Germany east of the Oder River. The book
consists primarily of articles that appeared in various military
journals during the first decade after the war. The General Staff's
directorate charged with studying the war experience published
these studies, although there are other sources as well. A
particular highlight of these is a personal memoir that offers a
rare insight into Soviet strategic planning for the winter-spring
1945 campaign. Also featured are documents relating to the
operational-strategic conduct of the various operations, which were
compiled and published after the fall of the Soviet Union. The book
is divided into several parts, corresponding to the operations
conducted. These include the Vistula-Oder operation by the First
Belorussian and First Ukrainian Fronts out of their respective
Vistula bridgeheads. This gigantic operation, involving over a
million men and several thousand tanks, artillery and other weapons
sliced through the German defences and, in a single leap, advanced
the front to the Oder River, less than 100 kilometres from Berlin,
from which they launched their final assault on the Reich in April.
Equally impressive was the Second and Third Belorussian Fronts'
offensive into Germany's East Prussian citadel. This operation
helped to clear the flank further to the south and exacted a
long-awaited revenge for the Russian Army's defeat here in 1914.
This effort cut off the German forces in East Prussia and concluded
with an effort to clear the flanks in Pomerania and the storming of
the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg in April. The study also
examines in considerable detail the First Ukrainian Front's Upper
and Lower Silesian operations of February-March 1945. These
operations cleared the army's flanks in the south and deprived
Germany of one of its last major industrial and agricultural areas.
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