Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front Tucker-Jones Anthony
Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front Tucker-Jones Anthony The Stalingrad battle and the Leningrad siege were just two of the brutal, devastating urban conflicts that marked the…
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Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front Tucker-Jones Anthony
The Stalingrad battle and the Leningrad siege were just two of the brutal, devastating urban conflicts that marked the awful struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Yet no one has concentrated on these city battles before or has sought to tell the story of the campaigns through the fighting that took place in and around them. The cities were strategic fixed points in the sweeping advances and retreats of the opposing armies across eastern Europe.
Moscow was threatened, Leningrad surrounded. That is Anthony Tucker-Jones's purpose in this concise and vivid history of the urban war on the Eastern Front.Early in the war, during the Wehrmacht's crushing offensives of 1941 and 1942, the Red Army was forced out of a series of key cities. Then, after the climactic battle at Stalingrad, the Red Army with increasing confidence, speed and power drove
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