Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 (The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle, And The First And Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941) PDF
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Contents List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Abbreviations Preface Introduction: Plan Barbarossa, Opposing Forces and the Border Battles 1 22 June–1 July 1941 Plan Barbarossa Soviet War Planning: Defense Plan-41 (DP-41) and the “Answering” Strike Opposing Forces The Border Battles, 22 June–5 July Army Group Center’s Advance to the Western Dvina and Dnepr Rivers 2 and the Western Front’s Counterstroke at Lepel’, 2–9 July 1941 German Command Decisions The Situation in Early July The Stavka’s and Western Front’s Dilemmas Army Group Center’s Advance to the Western Dvina and Dnepr Rivers, 2-6 July The Western Front’s Lepel’ Counterstroke, 6–9 July The Capture of Vitebsk and Preparing the Advance on Smolensk, 7–9 July Army Group Center’s Advance on Smolensk and the Timoshenko 3 “Counteroffensive” 10–15 July 1941 The Advance across the Dnepr, 10–13 July The Timoshenko Offensive, 13–16 July Hoth’s Advance to Smolensk and Nevel’, 13–16 July Guderian’s Advance to Smolensk and the Siege of Mogilev, 13–16 July The Southern Flank: 21st Army’s Counterstroke in the Rogachev Region Army Group Center’s Encirclement Battle at Smolensk, 16-23 July 4 1941 Context Evolving German Strategy The Red Army Regroups The Encirclement Battle for Smolensk, 16–23 July The First Soviet Counteroffensive and the Struggle for the Smolensk 5 Pocket, 23–31 July 1941 The Counterstroke by the Western Front’s Operational Groups The Struggle for the Smolensk Pocket, 24–31 July Conclusions 6The Battles on the Flanks and the Siege of Mogilev, 16-31 July 1941 Background The Northern Flank: Nevel’ and Velikie Luki The Southern Flank, the Fall of Mogilev and the Problem of 21st Army Armeegruppe Guderian’s Destruction of Group Kachalov and the 7 Reduction of the Smolensk Pocket, 31 July–6 August 1941 Hitler’s Changing Strategy (Directives Nos. 33 and 34) The Destruction of Group Kachalov, 31 July–6 August The Reduction of the Smolensk Pocket, 1–6 August Conclusions Armeegruppe Guderian’s and Second Army’s Southward March and 8 the Fall of Gomel’, 8–21 August 1941 The Stavka Regroups Armeegruppe Guderian’s Advance across the Sozh River and the Krichev Encirclement, 8–14 August Second Army’s Advance on Gomel’, 12–18 August The Stavka Reacts: the Formation of the Briansk Front Armeegruppe Guderian’s Advance to Starodub and Second Army’s Capture of Gomel’, 15–21 August Conclusions The Second Soviet Counteroffensive: the Western Front’s 9 Dukhovshchina Offensive, the Initial Phase, 6–19 August 1941 Preliminaries, 6–13 August Soviet Offensive Planning, 14–16 August Timoshenko’s Offensive, 17-19 August The Second Soviet Counteroffensive: the Western Front’s 10Dukhovshchina Offensive, the German Counterstroke, and Aftermath, 20–24 August 1941 German Ninth Army’s Counterstroke, 20–22 August The Aftermath, 23–24 August The Second Soviet Counteroffensive: the Reserve Front’s El’nia 11 Offensive, Altered Strategic Plans, and the Struggle for Velikie Luki, 8–24 August 1941 The Reserve Front’s (24th Army’s) El’nia Offensive, 8–21 August Altered Strategic Plans, 18–21 August The Northern Flank: the Struggle for Velikie Luki, 21–24 August 12Conclusions Army Group Center’s July Battles Army Group Center’s August Battles Photographs of Commanders German Soviet Appendices The Composition, Dispositions, Command Cadre, and Armored A Strength of Mechanized Corps supporting the Western Front in July 1941 B Comparative Orders of Battle, 1 July 1941 C Comparative Orders of Battle, 10 July 1941 The Personnel and Armor Strength of the Stavka’s Reserve Armies on D 22 June 1941 The Estimated Personnel Strength of the Western Front’s Armies from E 10–31 July 1941 The Red Army’s Personnel Losses during the Battles for Smolensk, 10 F July–10 September 1941 G The Red Army’s Strength on 30 September 1941 Selective Annotated Bibliography
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