When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)

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This is NOT trying to be partisan to western viewpoints on the war, but simply a cry against putting out data or information which is clearly incorrect at best or worse simply propaganda. Hay que aclarar que es un texto al que se tienen que cercar aquellos que realmente estén interesados en el tema y tengan una serie de conocimientos previos, se aproxima notablemente a un libro de texto, y también sirve como puerta al estudio más detallado de campañas más concretas.

When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

Because Glantz managed to get access to closely guarded Soviet records, this first attempt (by a Western historian) to exploit them for historical purposes has my respect. On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account of Soviet Russia's clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our understanding of World War II on Germany's Eastern Front, immediately earning its place among top-shelf histories of the world war. In 1941, when Pearl Harbor shattered America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to Moscow.On the 1st Ukrainian Front's right flank, Vatutin threw his 13th and 60th Armies, supported by 1st and 6th Guards Cavalry Corps, against von Manstein's overextended left flank south of the Pripiat Marshes. Placing the war within its wider context, the authors also make use of recent revelations to clarify further the political, economic, and social issues that influenced and reflected what happened on the battlefield. The battle of Stalingrad—the most vicious and toxic battle in human history — ended on February 2, 1943. We have been trained to think of World War Two as essentially a Western war, with the Russian contribution somehow being amorphous, off line, and, to to speak, off-screen. Few think of the Soviets as being on the same level as the Germans when it comes to military theory, but it is easy to argue that the Soviets were at least their equal.

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Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery and Bradley would have just been four generals in Russia, among scores of others who merited equal praise. I've also liked how he deconstructed the whole "it was Hitler's mistakes" thing that a lot of post war Germans were trying to push. This is a great book for readers of all ages, and a great find for the Military Enthusiast/Gamer/Modeller as a background source for both the war and the forces involved. Glantz is also known as an opponent of Viktor Suvorov's thesis, which he endeavored to rebut with the book Stumbling Colossus.In 1993, while at FMSO, he established The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, a scholarly journal for which he still serves as chief editor, that covers military affairs in the states of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the former Soviet Union.

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Again, however, the Soviets, despite horrendous losses, managed to hold out, learned from their adversaries, and at Stalingrad turned the tide. Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942–1945: The First Complete Stenographic Record of the Military Situation Conferences, from Stalingrad to Berlin, Helmut Heiber and David M. However, superior Soviet industrial methods (such as total mobilization for war of all facets of their nation, something Germany wouldn't do until after Kursk, when it was too late to save them) as well as lack of raw materials and, most importantly, fuel lessened the impact the better later war German weaponry had on the battlefield.Glantz failed me in this regard, as I would have expected him to point out the differences in previously published material and provide a basis on why he believed the Soviet records were more or less accurate. Glantz gives you the facts, but also the rebirth of "deep penetration" in the Soviet doctrine, and the development of the forces to carry it out- the 5(then 6 ) Guards Tank Armies. We would say to each other afterwards – are you a veteran of the western bank, the fighting in the city? Stalin, Zhukov, Vasilevsky and other members of the Stavka, or Supreme High Command, are probably the heroes of World War Two.

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From the very beginning observers on all sides were fixated on the gigantic clash at the edge of Europe, heralding it a defining event of World War II. The battle of Stalingrad, the Nazi propaganda chief declared with a nod to the British daily, was a “question of life or death, and all of our prestige, just as that of the Soviet Union, will depend on how it will end. Given its topic, it could easily have been three (or four or more) times as long, as indeed some books covering similar territory are. According to Wikipedia, Paul Carell is the pen name of Paul Karl Schmidt, an SS Lieutenant Colonel [equivalent] and Nazi propagandist. In 1942 the Germans absorbed and ultimately crushed the Red Army offensives, winning at Kharkov at the Second Battle of Kharkov one of the most glorious victories in the annals of arms, and then went on to launch another massive offensive, this time into the south and the Caucasus.Here in America, we really don’t give much credit to the Soviet Union for its help in defeating Nazi Germany; and while I am not supportive of the political ideology known as Communism (I don’t believe in Statism), I think without Zhukov, Vasilevsky or Rokossovsky, we would’ve seen the third Reich victorious in the east. I have not read any other comprehensive books that cover the Eastern Front in depth like Glantz; I have yet to read any of Anthony Beevors or James Hollands’ work (I will in the future), but I am someone who likes the nitty gritty details when it comes to military history, and Glantz satisfies me in this regard. A remarkable account of the Red Army's defeat of the Wehrmacht arguably the most dramatic and defining event of the twentieth century. In the beginning of 1944 the Russian armies (Fronts) advanced into Poland and the Ukraine, and (finally) lifted the 900-day siege of Leningrad. In a way, it needed something equivalent to the Knocking at the Gate scene in Macbeth to relieve the tension.