CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY
UNITED STATES ARMY
WASHINGTON, D. C., 1987
Chief Historian | David F. Trask |
Chief, Histories Division | Col. James W. Dunn |
Editor in Chief | John Elsberg |
Chapter | Page | ||
Foreword | iii | ||
The Authors | iv | ||
Preface | v | ||
I. | INVASION! | 3 | |
The German Command | 4 | ||
BARBAROSSA | 10 | ||
Hitler in Command | 13 | ||
Operation BLAU | 15 | ||
II. | RETREAT | 23 | |
The Soviet Command | 23 | ||
1942, Retreat and Recovery | 32 | ||
III. | STALINGRAD, THE ENCIRCLEMENT | 37 | |
The Advance on Stalingrad | 37 | ||
The Siege | 41 | ||
German Expectations | 47 | ||
Soviet Intentions | 50 | ||
Sixth Army Encircled | 53 | ||
WINTERGEWITTER | 61 | ||
IV. | STALINGRAD, THE TURNING POINT | 66 | |
Sixth Army Isolated | 66 | ||
Sixth Army Destroyed | 75 | ||
V. | THE COUNTERMARCH | 81 | |
The Fight for Survival | 81 | ||
The Last German Victory | 90 | ||
VI. | THE CENTER AND THE NORTH | 98 | |
At the End of Summer 1942 | 98 | ||
Partisan Warfare | 103 | ||
A Companion Piece to Stalingrad | 105 | ||
The Quiet Front | 109 | ||
On the Defensive | 111 | ||
VII. | OPERATION ZITADELLE | 118 | |
The Lull in the Storm | 118 | ||
A Limited Offensive | 124 | ||
ZITADELLE | 133 | ||
VIII. | THE FIRST SOVIET SUMMER OFFENSIVE | 143 | |
Troops and Tactics | 143 | ||
The Fourth Battle of Kharkov | 149 | ||
The Front in Flames | 157 | ||
To the Dnepr | 165 | ||
IX. | THE BATTLE FOR THE DNEPR LINE | 174 | |
Army Group South | 174 | ||
The Dnepr Bridgehead, Army Group Center | 189 | ||
X. | THE RISING TIDE | 197 | |
Breakthrough at Nevel | 197 | ||
The German Allies | 207 | ||
Leadership, Manpower, Strategy | 211 | ||
XI. | OFFENSIVES ON BOTH FLANKS--THE SOUTH FLANK | 218 | |
The Battle Resumes West of Kiev | 218 | ||
The Cherkassy Pocket (Korsun' Shevchenkovskiy) | 226 | ||
Nikopol and Krivoi Rog | 238 | ||
Dubno-Lutsk-Kovel' | 244 | ||
XII. | OFFENSIVES ON BOTH FLANKS--THE NORTH FLANK | 248 | |
Operation BLAU | 248 | ||
An "Echo" in Finland | 267 | ||
XIII. | PAYING THE PIPER | 272 | |
Mud and Strategy | 272 | ||
A Soviet Spring Offensive | 273 | ||
The Crimea | 291 | ||
XIV. | PRELUDE TO DISASTER | 296 | |
Karelia | 296 | ||
Partisan Warfare at Its Height | 303 | ||
The West and the East | 309 | ||
XV. | THE COLLAPSE OF THE CENTER | 313 | |
Deception and Delusion | 313 | ||
The Battle for Belorussia | 316 | ||
The Battle Expands to the Flanks | 329 | ||
The Recovery | 340 | ||
XVI. | THE SOUTH FLANK | 346 | |
Escape to the Carpathians | 346 | ||
The Front Rebuilt | 356 | ||
XVII. | RETREAT AND ENCIRCLEMENT | 365 | |
The Balkan Peninsula | 365 | ||
Budapest | 378 | ||
XVIII. | DEFEAT IN THE NORTH | 387 | |
The Finnish Armistice | 387 | ||
Retreat From Northern Finland | 391 | ||
Army Group North's Retreat to Courland | 403 | ||
XIX. | THE JANUARY OFFENSIVE | 410 | |
Two Fronts, the Fuehrer's Will, and German Resources | 410 | ||
From the Vistula to the Oder | 421 | ||
East Prussia | 428 | ||
The Budapest Relief | 433 | ||
XX. | THE DEFENSE OF THE REICH | 438 | |
Missions | 438 | ||
The Soviet Offensive Falters | 440 | ||
Parry and Thrust--Vienna | 450 | ||
Closing In? | 456 | ||
XXI. | BERLIN | 467 | |
The Eve of the Battle | 467 | ||
The Encirclement | 474 | ||
The Last Act | 483 | ||
XXII. | CONCLUSION | 500 | |
Appendix | |||
A. | TABLE OF EQUIVALENT RANKS | 505 | |
B. | COMPARATIVE SIZES OF MAJOR COMMANDS | 506 | |
NOTE ON SOURCES | 507 | ||
GLOSSARY | 515 | ||
CODE NAMES | 518 | ||
INDEX | 521 |
Note. Where solid-line boxes appear on a map, they denote Soviet units; where broken-line boxes appear, they denote German units.