Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany 1945Routledge, 03.06.2014 - 416 Seiten The Eastern Front witnessed the critical battles between the German and Russian armies which won and lost the Second World War. In Red Storm on the Reich, Christopher Duffy uncovers a military campaign of unprecedented scale and ferocity during which thirty million lives were lost - a deadly harvest in which the slaughter and suffering of German civilians reached unfathomable dimensions. By quoting extensively from the memoirs of Soviet and German commanders and the diaries of infantrymen, Red Storm on the Reich brings to life not only the Russian military assault on the lands of Germany, but also the human drama behind what can only be called epic seiges of the fortress cities of Danzig, Kolberg and Breslau. Christopher Duffy's gripping narrative of this unexplored offensive and the psyches behind it makes for essential reading for all those interested in the Second World War and European history. |
Inhalt
From the Vistula to the Oder | 65 |
The Southern Flank Konev and the Continuing Contest for Silesia | 125 |
The Baltic Flank | 149 |
The Siege of the Fortress Cities | 199 |
1945 and Germanic Eastern Europe | 269 |
The Conduct of War Soviet Science and German Art | 311 |
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Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany 1945 Christopher Duffy Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2014 |
Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945 Christopher Duffy Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1991 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
1st Belorussian Front 1st Ukrainian Front 2nd Belorussian Front 5th Panzer Division Ahlfen aircraft all-arms armies ammunition armoured Army Group Vistula artillery pieces assault guns attack Baltic battalions battle breakthrough Breslau bridgehead brigade cauldron centre Chuikov civilians Colonel Colonel-General command Danzig defence direction East Pomerania East Prussia Eastern Front Eighth Guards Army enemy February Fifth Shock Army fighting fire formations fortress Fourth Army frontage Fuhrer Gauleiter German forces Goebbels Gotenhafen Grossdeutschland Guards Tank Army Guderian Heinrici Himmler Hitler January kilometres Kolberg Konev Konigsberg Kustrin Lasch March mechanised military mortars Niehoff offensive Panzer Corps Panzer Division Poland Posen refugees Reich rifle Russian tanks Samland Saucken Schorner Second Army sector Silesian Industrial Region soldiers Soviet staff Stalin STAVKA tank corps tanks and assault Third Guards Tank Third Panzer Army troops Upper Silesian Industrial vehicles Vistula-Oder Operation Volkssturm Warsaw Wehrmacht Zhukov