Stalin's Revenge : Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre

by Tucker-Jones, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781844158669
• ISBN10: 1844158667
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-19
• Publisher: Pen & Sword

Summary

Reassessment of the Decisive Soviet Offensive of June 1944

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Maps	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. x
Dramatis Personae	p. xiv
Debate, Deception and Deployment	p. 1
Debate in the Lair of the Red Tsar	p. 2
Hitler Deceived	p. 5
Soviet Deployment	p. 7
Behind Enemy Lines	p. 9
Red Storm Rising	p. 12
'44 Red Storm	p. 13
Leningrad: The 900 Days	p. 14
Victory in Ukraine	p. 14
Death in the Korsun Pocket	p. 16
The Kamenets-Podolsk Pocket	p. 17
Defeat in the Crimea	p. 19
Finland's Punishment	p. 21
Where Will Stalin's Blow Fall?	p. 23
'Fatherland' and 'Panther' Lines	p. 23
The Exposed Byelorussian Balcony	p. 24
'No More Doubt'	p. 28
Communications Cut	p. 31
Stalin and His Warlords	p. 33
Zhukov: A Talented Strategist	p. 33
Zhukov's Rival: Rokossovsky	p. 36
Stalin's Front Commanders	p. 37
Busch: Incompetent or a Safe Pair of Hands?	p. 39
The Lion's Share	p. 39
A Lacklustre Performance	p. 41
Hitler's Commanders	p. 41
Army Group Centre	p. 43
Questionable Loyalty	p. 44
Stalin's Traitors	p. 46
Army Group North	p. 48
Army Group North Ukraine	p. 48
Army Group South Ukraine	p. 49
Last-Minute Success	p. 50
Bagration: Stalin's Revenge Unleashed	p. 52
'The Hurricane Broke'	p. 52
The Soviet Barrage	p. 54
Fester Platz Vitebsk - 3rd Panzer Army	p. 56
Fester Platz Orsha - 4th Army	p. 60
Fester Platz Mogilev - 4th Army	p. 61
Fester Platz Bobruisk - 9th Army	p. 63
5th and 12th Panzer Strike Back	p. 65
Borisov - 4th Army	p. 65
Fester Platz Bobruisk - 9th Army	p. 67
Heads Roll	p. 71
Minsk Freed from the Nazi Yoke	p. 74
Closing the Trap on Minsk	p. 74
Fester Platz Minsk	p. 76
Conference of the Damned	p. 78
A Foiled Breakout	p. 78
Cat and Mouse	p. 79
Clearing Baranovichi	p. 81
Battles for Polotsk and Vilnius	p. 82
Army Group North	p. 84
Stalin Gloats	p. 85
Lvov-Sandomierz: The Second Blow	p. 87
Strong Defences	p. 87
Freedom Fighters or Traitors	p. 89
Konev's Unusual Operation	p. 89
'The Great Onslaught Began'	p. 91
Zolochev	p. 92
The Brody Pocket	p. 94
Hitler Distracted	p. 95
Battle for Lvov	p. 96
Rokossovsky: Defeat at the Gates of Warsaw	p. 98
Poland's Fate Preordained	p. 98
Model's Gathering Riposte	p. 100
Defeat before Warsaw	p. 102
Sacrifice of Warsaw	p. 104
Rokossovsky's Poles	p. 107
Konev: To the Vistula and Beyond	p. 109
Sandomierz Bridgehead	p. 109
The Red Army Rests on Its Laurels	p. 111
Beyond the Vistula	p. 112
Betrayed to Stalin	p. 114
Hitler Holds Budapest	p. 116
Bagration: Stalin's Triumph?	p. 118
The Right Decision	p. 119
Two Army Groups Smashed	p. 120
Was Busch a Scapegoat?	p. 122
Fighting On	p. 124
The Appalling Byelorussian Toll	p. 125
Bagration's Legacy	p. 126
Stalin's Cold War Shame	p. 127
Remarkable Revenge	p. 128
Appendices
Stalin's New Tanks	p. 129
Stalin's Revitalized Air Power	p. 137
Hitler's New Panzers	p. 140
The Enfeebled Luftwaffe	p. 142
Göet;ring's Luftwaffe Field Divisions	p. 146
Soviet Order of Battle, June-August 1944	p. 148
German Order of Battle, June-July 1944	p. 161
Principal Soviet Armoured Fighting Vehicles Deployed on the Eastern Front	p. 170
Principal German Armoured Fighting Vehicles Deployed on the Eastern Front	p. 171
Source Notes	p. 172
Bibliography	p. 176
Index	p. 183
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