The Viazma Catastrophe, 1941: The Red Armys Disastrous Stand Against Operation Typhoon Lopukhovsky Lev
The Viazma Catastrophe, 1941: The Red Armys Disastrous Stand Against Operation Typhoon Lopukhovsky Lev Nominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013This book describes one of the most…
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The Viazma Catastrophe, 1941: The Red Armys Disastrous Stand Against Operation Typhoon Lopukhovsky Lev
Nominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. Until recently, the magnitude of the defeats suffered by the Red Army at Viaz'ma and Briansk were simply kept hushed up. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of their own people.
The author was driven to write this book after his long years of fruitless search to learn what happened to his father Colonel N.I. For the first time, in this book a full picture of the combat operations that led to this tragedy are laid out in detail, using previously unknown or little-used documents. Lopukhovsky, the commander of the 120th Howitzer Artillery Regiment, who disappeared together with his unit