List of Illustrations

All photographs from the author’s collection unless noted otherwise.

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)

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

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

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

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

Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge, commander of Fourth Army

Soviet

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

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

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

Lieutenant General Pavel Aleksandrovich Kurochkin, commander of 20th Army

Lieutenant General Mikhail Fedorovich Lukin, commander, 16th Army

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

Lieutenant General Fedor Nikitovich Remezov, commander of 13th Army

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

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

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

Lieutenant General Ivan Stepanovich Konev, commander of 19th Army

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

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

Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Rakutin, commander of 24th Army

Major General Konstantin Dmitrievich Golubev, commander of 13th Army

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

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

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

Lieutenant General Vasilii Mikhailovich Gordov, commander of 21st Army

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