Defense of Odessa

In the book of Odessa historians V.A. Savchenko and A.A. Filippenko, on the vast material of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as well as a number of local archives, operations of Soviet ground forces and navy in the battles for Odessa in August -October 1941 -Defenders of the city - Essentially a handful of troops - for a long time they kept the superior enemy forces in full separation from the main forces of the Red Army. Only on October 16, when the Soviet-German front rolled far to the east, when a grand battle for Moscow was already unfolding, Odessa left its last defenders in an organized manner. I was pretty battered by the destroyed but not broken city. Using the original sources, the authors tried to look along the other side of the trenches, showing the features of foreign policy, military strategy and tactics of the Romanian dictator I. Antonescu, who considered Odessa as one of the main prizes in the aggressive war, in which the Romanians performed on the side of Nazi Germany