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Cover: 9781472835000 | On a Knife's Edge | The Ukraine, November 1942-March 1943 | Buttar

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Beschreibung

The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwards, and the hard-fought but futile attempts to relieve them, saw bitter attritional fighting and extremes of human misery inflicted on both sides.
The surrender of General Friedrich von Paulus's army left Germany's eastern armies severely weakened, but the Red Army had suffered enormous losses as it overreached itself in trying to exploit its great victory. The war was not over. Germany would continue the fight, and the battles that took place in the winter of 1942/43 would show the tactical and operational skill of Erich von Manstein and the Wehrmacht as they attempted to avert total disaster.
In this title, now available in paperback, a renowned expert on warfare on the Eastern Front reveals the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stalingrad, and how it prevented the whole Axis front line from collapsing. Drawing on first-hand accounts, On a Knife's Edge is a story of brilliant generalship, lost opportunities and survival in the harshest theatre of war.

Über den Autor

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He appears from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press.
An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, his previous books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 (Osprey 2010) and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II (Osprey 2013) and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21 (2017). He lives in Kirkcudbright, Scotland.

Zusammenfassung

Prit Buttar's books rank amongst our strongest selling titles, including his acclaimed 4-part series on the Eastern Front of World War I, as well as Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 (2010) and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II (2013).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps
Dramatis Personae

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Road to Crisis
Chapter 2: The Hammer Falls: Uranus
Chapter 3: A Paper-Thin Line
Chapter 4: December: Winter Storm
Chapter 5: December: Little Saturn
Chapter 6: Now or Never
Chapter 7: A Desperate Christmas
Chapter 8: The Ostrogoszhsk-Rossosh Operation
Chapter 9: The Struggle for Balance
Chapter 10: February: Retreat from the Don
Chapter 11: February: A War of Movement
Chapter 12: February: The Swing of the Pendulum
Chapter 13: Kharkov
Chapter 14: Pause for Breath

Notes
Photography
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	464
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781472835000
ISBN-10:	147283500X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Buttar, Prit
Besonderheit:	Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	231 x 153 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Prit Buttar
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.10.2019
Gewicht:	0,641 kg

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