When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

by Glantz, David M.

• ISBN13: 9780700608997
• ISBN10: 0700608990
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• 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.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
PRELUDE: 1918-1941	5	(44)
1 The Red Army, 1918-1939	5	(10)
2 Armed Truce, 1939-1941	15	(13)
3 Opposing Armies, 1941	28	(21)
FIRST PERIOD OF WAR: JUNE 1941-NOVEMBER 1942	49	(80)
4 German Onslaught	49	(13)
5 Soviet Response	62	(12)
6 To Moscow	74	(24)
7 Rasputitsa, Spring 1942	98	(10)
8 Operation Blau: The German Drive on Stalingrad	108	(21)
SECOND PERIOD OF WAR: NOVEMBER 1942-DECEMBER 1943	129	(50)
9 Operation Uranus: The Destruction of Sixth Army	129	(19)
10 Rasputitsa and Operational Pause, Spring 1943	148	(12)
11 Kursk to the Dnepr	160	(19)
THIRD PERIOD OF WAR: JANUARY 1944-MAY 1945	179	(112)
12 Third Winter of the War	179	(16)
13 Operation Bagration: The Death of Army Group Center	195	(21)
14 Clearing the Flanks	216	(17)
15 Battles in the Snow, Winter 1945	233	(23)
16 End Game	256	(21)
17 Conclusion	277	(14)
Appendixes: Statistical Tables	291	(18)
Archival Sources	309	(12)
Notes	321	(60)
About the Authors	381	(2)
Index	383