Deflated Manstein. Izum-Barvenkovo ​​operation

Izum-Barvenkovo ​​operation July 1943 is considered to be the failure of the Red Army. However, in the shadow, it usually remains that although the wrestling defense of the Wehrmacht failed the forces of the South-Western Front, but the offensive actions and serious losses of the enemy became one of the reasons for the termination of the Operation Citadel operation. The author of this book, on the basis of archival documents, offers an innovative hypothesis - events on the southern faculty of the Kursk arc to repel the German tank blow within the framework of the "Citadel" became only part of the general plan of the Soviet command, the main task of which was to stop the attack of the Army Group of the "South" on Kursk And, “stretching out” to himself, to tie all the Nazi tank reserves with the battle on the southern section of the Soviet-German front. These decisive actions were supposed to help the southwestern and southern fronts to fulfill the main plan of the VGK rate - to free the Donbass. In an unusual perspective on the villages of this book, Adolf Hitler appears-the “demonseed Fuhrer "turned out to be more distinguished by the“ invincible ”Field Marshal Erich von Manstein and not only held the Donbass, but, correctly felt the pulse of the battle, without exaggeration saved the 6th field army of the new formation from the next terrible defeat, comparable by scale with Stalingrad