Battle for the citadel of the Second World War. Siege, assault, surrender

The new book of the famous Russian historian describes the main fortresses, defense and the taking of which played a significant role in the history of the Second World War. It should be emphasized that in the history of the Second World War there are almost no fortresses, which sooner or later were not left defending, even after the reflection of the main attacks of precipitating. This shows the drop in the role of fortresses in 1939-1945 compared to past wars. Their defense played a purely subordinate role and could have been successful only in close cooperation with the field army. Cases when the precipitated were forced to remove the siege without approaching the fortress of the enemy army, there was practically no. Only Soviet Stalingrad and Belgian Bastogon, defeated by the Americans, avoided the fall