Author: David Glantz
Publisher: Helion and Company
Keywords: july, battle, first, second, soviet, counteroffensives, august, encirclement, german, smolensk, derailed, september, volume, barbarossa, advance
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2010-06
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1906033722
ISBN-13: 9781906033729

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center’s Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany’s Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. Less than three weeks before, on 22 June Hitler had unleashed his Wehrmacht’s [Armed Forces] massive invasion of the Soviet Union code-named Operation Barbarossa, which sought to defeat the Soviet Union’s Red Army, conquer th