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.