March 1944. Battle for Pskov

March 1944, the commander of the Leningrad Front, General Govorov turned to the soldiers of the front. The appeal read: "Comrades fighters, sergeants and officers! Before you Pskov ... Pskov is an old Russian city, glorifying itself as a centuries -old struggle against German invaders. The Germans more than once held out their predatory hands to him, but all their approaches to the walls invariably ended in complete defeat. So it was in 1242, when the squads of Alexander Nevsky - our ancestors - defeated the hordes of German dogs on the lake of lakes. So it was in 1918, when the detachments of the young Red Army near Pskov and Narov, the selected troops of the Kaiser Germany were defeated, inscribing the new brightest page in the history of Russian military glory. So it was and will be! "
The Pskov offensive operation, which is the final stage of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation, lasted from March 9 to April 15, 1944 and remained in the shadow of titanic battles. There are simply no work on the history of the Pskov operation, at best, several paragraphs are given the battles near the island and Pskov in March-April of 1944.
The book of Sergey Biryuk is the first attempt in Russian and historiography to raise the veil of secrets over the battles of early March 1944 in the area of ​​the island and Pskov