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When Titans Clashed M W S ODERN AR TUDIES Theodore A. Wilson General Editor Raymond Callahan Jacob W. Kipp Allan R. Millett Carol Reardon Dennis Showalter David R. Stone James H. Willbanks Series Editors When Titans Clashed How the Red Army Stopped Hitler REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION David M. Glantz Jonathan M. House This revised edition is dedicated to Professor Theodore Wilson, who made the original project possible © 2015 by the University Press of Kansas All rights reserved Published by the University Press of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas 66045), which was organized by the Kansas Board of Regents and is operated and funded by Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas, and Wichita State University Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Glantz, David M. When titans clashed: how the Red Army stopped Hitler / David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House. — Revised and expanded edition. pages cm.—(Modern war studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7006-2120-0 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7006-2121-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0- 70062152-1 (ebook) 1. Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestianskaia Krasnaia Armiia—History—World War, 1939–1945. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Eastern Front. I. House, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Mallory), 1950-II. Title. D764.G557 2015 940.54′217—dc23 2015020379 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data is available. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication is recycled and contains 30 percent postconsumer waste. It is acid free and meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1992. Contents Lists of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition Acknowledgments Prelude: 1918–1941 1 The Red Army, 1918–1939 2 Armed Truce, 1939–1941 3 Opposing Armies, 1941 First Period of War: June 1941–November 1942 4 The German Onslaught 5 Soviet Response 6 To Moscow 7 Rasputitsa, Spring 1942 8 Operation Blau: The German 1942 Offensive Second Period of War: November 1942–December 1943 9 Operation Uranus: The Destruction of Sixth Army 10 Rasputitsa and Operational Pause, Spring 1943 11 Kursk to the Dnepr Third Period of War: January 1944–May 1945 12 Third Winter of the War 13 Operation Bagration: The Death of Army Group Center 14 Clearing the Flanks 15 Battles in the Snow, Winter 1944–1945 16 End Game 17 Conclusion Appendix: Statistical Tables Notes A Note on Sources Selected Bibliography About the Authors Index Maps, Illustrations, and Tables M APS 1. Theater of Operations 2.The Soviet-Finnish War 3. Threat Assessment and Deployment Plan, October 1940 4. Summer–Fall Campaign (1), 22 June–30 September 1941 5. Soviet Dispositions on 31 July 1941 and Reinforcements to 31 December 1941 6. Kiev Encirclement 7. Summer–Fall Campaign (2), 1 October–December 1941 8. Winter Campaign, December 1941–April 1942 9. Summer–Fall Campaign, May–October 1942 10. Crimea, 1942 11. Soviet Dispositions on 30 April 1942 and Reinforcements to 31 December 1942 12. Winter Campaign, November 1942–March 1943 13. Soviet Counteroffensives at Stalingrad 14. Operation Mars 15. February 1943 Battles against Army Group Center 16. Soviet Defensive Actions in the Battle of Kursk, 5–23 July 1943 17. Summer–Fall Campaign, June–December 1943 18. Winter Campaign, December 1943–April 1944 19. The Situation in the Tirgu Frumos and Iasi Sectors, 30 April 1944 20. The Soviet Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive, January–April 1944 21. Summer–Fall Campaign, June–October 1944 22. Belorussian Operation, June–August 1944 23. Soviet Advance through the Balkans, Fall of 1944 24. Winter Campaign to April 1945 25. Vienna Offensive 26. Berlin Operation I, 16–19 April 1945 27. Berlin Operation II, 19–25 April 1945 28. Berlin Operation III, 25 April–8 May 1945 29. Assault on Berlin, 21 April–5 May 1945 30. Manchurian Operation, August 1945 I LLUSTRATIONS Illustrations “Under the banner of Lenin, forward to victory!” “The Motherland calls!” Chiefs of the Red Army Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov General of the Army N. F. Vatutin Marshal of the Soviet Union I. S. Konev and Lieutenant General M. V. Zakharov Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ia. Malinovsky Marshal of the Soviet Union K. K. Rokossovsky General of the Army I. Kh. Bagramian General of the Army I. D. Cherniakhovsky Lieutenant General P. A. Rotmistrov and his staff Surviving Soviet front commanders at war’s end Colonel M. T. Leonov and his brigade staff Soviet Shturmovik aircraft in action
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