Photographs of Commanders

All photographs from author’s collection unless noted otherwise. The publishers apologise for the quality of some of the Soviet portraits, but felt their inclusion was important from a historical point of view.

German

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch, commander-in-chief of the German Army (Biblio Verlag)

Adolf Hitler, with Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch, commander-in-chief of the German Army (left), and Colonel General Franz Halder, chief of the General Staff of the German Army (OKH) (right)

Colonel General Franz Halder, chief of the German Army General Staff (OKH) (Biblio Verlag)

Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, commander of Army Group Center (Bundesarchiv 146-1977-120-11)

Colonel General Heinz Guderian, commander of Second Panzer Group and Armeegruppe Guderian (Biblio Verlag)

Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge, commander of Fourth Army

Colonel General Hermann Hoth, commander of Third Panzer Group (center)

Soviet

Josef Stalin, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1. Marshal of the Soviet Union Semen Konstantinovich Timoshenko, commander-in-chief of the Western Main Direction Command and Western Front

2. Marshal of the Soviet Union Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov, Chief of the Red Army General Staff

3. Lieutenant General Pavel Aleksandrovich Kurochkin, commander of 20th Army

4. Lieutenant General Mikhail Fedorovich Lukin, commander, 16th Army

5. Lieutenant General Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, commander of Group Iartsevo and 16th Army

6. Lieutenant General Fedor Nikitovich Remezov, commander of 13th Army

7. Lieutenant General Vasilii Filippovich Gerasimenko, commander of 21st and 13th Armies

8. Colonel General Fedor Isidorovich Kuznetsov, commander of the Northwestern Front, 21st Army, and the Central Front

9. Army General Georgii Konstantinovich Zhukov, Chief of Staff of the Red Army and commander of the Reserve Front

10. Lieutenant General Ivan Stepanovich Konev, commander of 19th Army

11. Major General Vasilii Afanas’evich Khomenko, commander of Group Khomenko and 30th Army

12. Lieutenant General Vladimir Iakovlevich Kachalov, commander of Group Kachalov and 28th Army

13. Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Rakutin, commander of 24th Army

14. Major General Konstantin Dmitrievich Golubev, commander of 13th Army

15. Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Eremenko, deputy commander of the Western Front and commander of the Briansk Front

16. Lieutenant General Mikhail Grigor’evich Efremov, commander of 21st Army and the Central Front

17. Lieutenant General Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov, commander of Group Maslennikov and 29th Army

18. Lieutenant General Vasilii Mikhailovich Gordov, commander of 21st Army

19. Major General Lev Mikhailovich Dovator, commander of the Western Front’s Cavalry Group

General K.K. Rokossovsky (left), commander of Group Iartsevo, meeting with General G.K. Zhukov, Chief of Staff of the Red Army