Red Storm Over the Balkans - The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 Glantz Colonel David M.Pevná vazba
Germany's Eastern Front in World War II saw many campaigns and battles that have been "forgotten" by a Soviet Union that tried to hide its military failures. The Red Army's invasion of Romania in…
Specifikacia Red Storm Over the Balkans - The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 Glantz Colonel David M.Pevná vazba
Germany's Eastern Front in World War II saw many campaigns and battles that have been "forgotten" by a Soviet Union that tried to hide its military failures. The Red Army's invasion of Romania in April and May 1944 was one such campaign, which produced nearly 200,000 casualties and tarnished the reputations of its commanders. The redoubtable David Glantz, the world's leading authority on the Soviet military in World War II, now restores this tale to its proper place in the annals of World War II.Working from newly available Russian and long-neglected German archives--plus Red Army unit histories and commanders' memoirs--Glantz reconstructs an imposing mosaic that reveals the immense scope and ambitious intent of the first Iasi-Kishinev offensive. His re-creation shows that Stalin was not as preoccupied with a direct route to Berlin as he was with a "broad front" strategy designed