Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 Glantz David M.Paperback
Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 Glantz David M.Paperback One of the least-known stories of World War II, Operation Mars was an epic military disaster.…
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Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 Glantz David M.Paperback
One of the least-known stories of World War II, Operation Mars was an epic military disaster. But in Russian history books, it was a battle that never happened--a historical debacle sacrificed to Stalin's postwar censorship.David Glantz now offers the first definitive account of this forgotten catastrophe, revealing the key players and detailing the major events of Operation Mars. Designed to dislodge the German Army from its position west of Moscow, Mars cost the Soviets an estimated 335,000 dead, missing, and wounded men and over 1,600 tanks.
Using neglected sources in both German and Russian archives, he reconstructs the historical context of Mars and reviews the entire operation from High Command to platoon level.Orchestrated and led by Marshal Georgi Kostantinovich Zhukov, one of the Soviet Union's great military heroes, the twin operations Mars and Uranus formed the
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