'Kotel' Huba. Proskurov-Chernovitskaya operation of 1944.
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In March 1944, the roads of Right-Bank Ukraine turned into mud-soaked 'directions'. However, the front continued to relentlessly push westward. By using flanking maneuvers and encirclements with T-34 tanks armed with 76mm guns, they forced the technically superior 'Tiger' and 'Panther' battalions to retreat. The final act was the encirclement of the 1st Tank Army of General Hube near Kamianets-Podilskyi. The number of German troops surrounded amounted to about 200 thousand people. Nevertheless, Hube's army, known as the 'wandering cauldron' and 'rolling hedgehog', stubbornly fought its way out of the encirclement...
Who made the fateful decision to abandon Katukov's tank army behind the Dniester River? Why was an entire SS corps with 300 tanks withdrawn from Normandy shortly before 'D-Day'? Whose ideas allowed Hube's army to avoid a repeat of Stalingrad? How did the 'fortress' of Tarnopol fall? And finally, why did the Führer remove Field Marshal Manstein from command in the midst of battle? This new book by a leading military historian, based on archival documents from both sides, answers these questions, reconstructing in detail one of the largest and yet lesser-known offensives of the Red Army, the fierce confrontation between Zhukov and Manstein - the Proskurov-Chernivtsi operation of March-April 1944.
Author:
Author:Isaev Alexey Valeryevich
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Historical Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Dimensions:
Dimensions:20.5x13.5x2.6 cm
Series:
Series:Stalin's Falsified Victories
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-6040652-0-4
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