Battle for Crimea. 1941-1944

The most complete, fundamental and authoritative study of the defense and liberation of Crimea in 1941-1944! This book is based on the documents of not only Soviet, but also German archives, most of which are published for the first time. The leading military historians in detail, in all details analyzed the operations of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in the battle for the Crimea. Separately, the actions of Soviet tankers, infantry, artillery, partisans, as well as the combat work of the Air Force and the Black Sea Fleet are considered. From the breakthrough of Erich von Manstein through the Perekop positions to the failure of the first assaults of Sevastopol, from the Kerch-Feodosia landing operation, the unsuccessful offensive of the Crimean front to the Kerch catastrophe and the fall of the main base of the Black Sea Fleet, from the long German occupation of the peninsula to the rapid (only month) liberation of the Crimea of ​​the victory In the spring of 1944, when the advancing Soviet troops lost four times less defending enemy