When Titans Clashed

by Glantz, David M.; House, Jonathan M.

• ISBN13: 9780700607174
• ISBN10: 070060717X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

By the time Pearl Harbor had ripped apart America's peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to the gates of Moscow. Yet, less than four years later, the Soviet hammer and sickle flew above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that destroyed the German army and shattered Hitler's imperial designs.
Told in swift stirring prose, When Titans Clashed provides the first full account of this epic struggle from the Soviet perspective. David Glantz, one of the world's foremost authorities on the Soviet military, and Jonathan House present a fundamentally new interpretation of what the Russians called the "Great Patriotic War." Based on unprecedented access to formerly classified Soviet sources, they counter the German perspective that has dominated previous accounts and radically revise our understanding of the Soviet experience during World War II.

Author Biography

David Glantz was founder and former director of the U.S. Army's Foreign Military Studies Office.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Red Army, 1918-1939	p. 5
Armed Truce, 1939-1941	p. 15
Opposing Armies, 1941	p. 28
German Onslaught	p. 49
Soviet Response	p. 62
To Moscow	p. 74
Rasputitsa, Spring 1942	p. 98
Operation Blau: The German Drive on Stalingrad	p. 108
Operation Uranus: The Destruction of Sixth Army	p. 129
Rasputitsa and Operational Pause, Spring 1943	p. 148
Kursk to the Dnepr	p. 160
Third Winter of the War	p. 179
Operation Bagration: The Death of Army Group Center	p. 195
Clearing the Flanks	p. 216
Battles in the Snow, Winter 1945	p. 233
End Game	p. 256
Conclusion	p. 277
Appendixes: Statistical Tables	p. 291
Archival Sources	p. 309
Notes	p. 321
About the Authors	p. 381
Index	p. 383
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