The Eastern Front 1943-1944 : the war in the East and on the neighbouring fronts /

The Eastern Front 1943-1944 : the war in the East and on the neighbouring fronts /

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Author / Creator:	Frieser, Karl-Heinz, author.
Uniform title:	Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Selections. English.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 2017. ©2007
Description:	xxx, 1307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Germany and the Second World War ; volume VIII Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg. English ; v. 8.
Subject:	World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front. World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany. Military campaigns. Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. Europe. Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945)) Germany. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11054652

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Other authors / contributors:	Schmider, Klaus, author. Germany. Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt.
ISBN:	9780198723462 0198723466
Notes:	LCCN incorrectly listed in book as: 20105472259. "[Series] edited for the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History), Potsdam, Germany by Karl-Heinz Frieser." Includes bibliographical references (pages 1227-1295) and index. Translated from the German.
Summary:	The latest volume in the magisterial Germany and the Second World War series, volume VIII deals with one of the most eventful phases of the Second World War: the battles on the eastern front in 1943 and 1944. In no other period of the war, apart from its concluding phase in 1945, did the Wehrmacht suffer such enormous losses. The land battles of those years, first and foremost the battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943, were among the biggest in world history. In the winter of 1943/44 the Red Army showed itself for the first time capable of conducting large-scale offensives against all German army groups simultaneously. It was no longer a matter of isolated flare-ups: the whole eastern front was in flames. The dramatic climax was reached in the summer of 1944, when the collapse of Army Group Centre led to what was then the heaviest defeat in German military history. It was nevertheless overshadowed by events on the western front, with the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. And it is that which dominates perceptions in western societies to this day and has relegated the catastrophe in the east, despite its unprecedented proportions, to the rank of an almost 'forgotten war'.

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