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Title page TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD THE AUTHOR PREFACE CHAPTER I - Invasion!
The German Command
The Evolution of the Command The Plan for Invasion
BARBAROSSA
Hitler in Command
Operation BLAU
A Promise, Doubts, and a Plan The Campaign, 1942 The Manpower Squeeze A Command Shake-up Operations Order I
CHAPTER II - Retreat
The Soviet Command
On the Eve of War Preparedness and Doctrine Invasion and Retreat The First Winter Offensive
1942, Retreat and Recovery
CHAPTER III - Stalingrad, the Encirclement
The Advance on Stalingrad The Siege German Expectations
Crosscurrents Army Group B's Dispositions
Soviet Intentions
The Build-up The Plan and Tactics
Sixth Army Encircled
Breakthrough Manstein, Paulus, Hitler The Russians Neglect the Flanks
WINTERGEWITTER
Doubts and Delays WINTERGEWITTER Begins The Outcome
CHAPTER IV - Stalingrad, the Turning Point
Sixth Army Isolated Southwest Front Renews the Offensive
The Last Chance for Sixth Army Operations Order 2 Retreat to the Manich and the Donets
Sixth Army Destroyed
CHAPTER V- The Countermarch
The Fight for Survival
The South Flank Threatened The Main Effort Against Army Group Don Retreat to the Mius Kharkov Falls
The Last German Victory
Manstein Castles to the Left The Panzer Armies Attack Kharkov Retaken
CHAPTER VI - The Center and the North
At the End of Summer 1942
Army Group Center Army Group North Finland-Twentieth Mountain Army
Partisan Warfare
The Rise of the Soviet Partisan Movement Führer Directive 46
A Companion Piece to Stalingrad
The Rzhev Salient Velikiye Luki The Quiet Front
On the Defensive
Leningrad and the Demyansk Pocket Army Group Center-Anti-partisan Warfare Operation BÜFFEL
CHAPTER VII - Operation ZITADELLE
The Lull in the Storm
A Dark Spring Germany's Allies Vlasov
A Limited Offensive
Strategic Plans-Operations Order 5 HABICHT and PANTHER Operations Order 6-ZITADELLE Postponed SILBERSTREIF Hitler Decides for ZITADELLE
ZITADELLE
Tactics and Forces The Offensive Begins Thrust and Counterthrust Hitler Cancels ZITADELLE
CHAPTER VIII - The First Soviet Summer Offensive
Troops and Tactics
The Main Effort in the South Comparative Strengths The State of Soviet Military Art The Psychological Warfare Victory
The Fourth Battle of Kharkov
Tactical Surprise Breakthrough Hitler Decides To Build an East Wall Kharkov Evacuated
The Front in Flames
Army Group Center First Panzer Army and Sixth Army Manstein and Kluge Confront Hitler Hitler Approves a Withdrawal "In Principle"
To the Dnepr
First Panzer Army and Sixth Army Retreat Fourth Panzer Army and Eighth Army Weaken Kluge Begins the Retreat to the PANTHER Position Hitler and Kluge Go Slow Army Group South Goes Behind the River
CHAPTER IX - The Battle for the Dnepr Line
Army Group South
The Zaporozhye Bridgehead Lost Sixth Army-Breakthrough and Retreat The Crimea Cut Off Konev Drives Toward Krivoi Rog Kiev and the Crimea A Lesson in Maneuver "He Who Holds His Positions a Minute Longer. . . ."
The Dnepr Bridgehead, Army Group Center
Rokossovskiy Holds the Pripyat Bridgehead Gomel-Retchitsa NIKOLAUS
CHAPTER X - The Rising Tide
Breakthrough at Nevel
Army Group North Surprise-Repercussions-Partisans Attack and Counterattack Vitebsk
The German Allies
Hungary-Operation MARGARETHE Finland-Führer Directive 50
Leadership, Manpower, Strategy
Command Changes Manpower Führer Directive 51
CHAPTER XI - Offensives on Both Flanks-the South Flank
The Battle Resumes West of Kiev
Vatutin Attacks Hitler Fends Off a Decision First Panzer Army Redeployed The Battle Expands Manstein Concentrates on the Southward Thrust XI and XXXXVI Corps Encircled
The Cherkassy Pocket - (Korsun' Shevchenkovskiy)
Kirovograd The Envelopment The Relief Breakout
Nikopol and Krivoi Rog
Schörner in Command on the Bridgehead Vasilevskiy Stages a Two-Front Battle Retreat From the Bridgehead Krivoi Rog-The Ingulets
Dubno-Lutsk-Kovel'
CHAPTER XII - Offensives on Both Flanks-the North Flank
Operation BLAU
Standing By Leningrad Liberated Withdrawal to the ROLLBAHN Küchler's Dilemma Model Takes Command Schild und Schwert The PANTHER Position Model Departs
An "Echo" in Finland
TANNE and BIRKE The Soviet Terms Rejected
CHAPTER XIII - Paying the Piper
Mud and Strategy A Soviet Spring Offensive
The Regroupment First Ukrainian Front Attacks Führer Order 11 Second and Third Ukrainian Fronts Attack The Hammer and the Anvil First Panzer Army Breaks Out Sixth Army Retreats to the Bug Eighth Army Covers the Flank Model and Schörner Take Command MARGARETHE First Panzer Army Saved-A Fortress Sacrificed To the Dnestr
The Crimea
CHAPTER XIV - Prelude to Disaster
Karelia
The Soviet Offensive Begins German Aid The Last Phase
Partisan Warfare at Its Height
Organization Personnel Operations Anti-partisan Warfare
The West and the East
CHAPTER XV - The Collapse of the Center
Deception and Delusion The Battle for Belorussia
Plans and Forces Breakthrough The Bobruysk Pocket The Minsk Pocket Retreat A Threat to Army Group North
The Battle Expands to the Flanks
Army Group North Ukraine Broken Through The Baltic Gap Attentat!-Guderian-Schörner "The thrust is the best parry"
The Recovery
Crosscurrents A Corridor to Army Group North The Battle Subsides
CHAPTER XVI - The South Flank
Escape to the Carpathians
Army Group South Ukraine Rumania The Offensive Begins Rumania Surrenders Sixth Army Destroyed Retreat to the Carpathians
The Front Rebuilt
Retreat to the Muresul-Crisis in Hungary Hitler Plans a Counteroffensive Tank Battle at Debrecen Horthy Asks for an Armistice To the Tisza
CHAPTER XVII - Retreat and Encirclement
The Balkan Peninsula
The Southeastern Theater Weichs and Hitler Wait and See Bulgaria Surrenders A Front on the East Belgrade-Decision To Evacuate Greece Army Group E's Withdrawal A Front on the Drina
Budapest
The First Thrust Malinovskiy Maneuvers Tolbukhin Joins In Budapest Encircled
CHAPTER XVIII - Defeat in the North
The Finnish Armistice
Cobelligerency Dissolved Decision
Retreat From Northern Finland
BIRKE NORDLICHT The Battle in the Arctic NORDLICHT Completed
Army Group North's Retreat to Courland
Vasilevskiy's September Offensive Bagramyan's Thrust to the Baltic
CHAPTER XIX - The January Offensive
Two Fronts, the Führer's Will, and German Resources The Downturn
Guderian Goes to the Eastern Front The Stavka's Plans
From the Vistula to the Oder
Breakout Pursuit Army Group Vistula The Thaw
East Prussia
Army Group Center Isolated Treason?
The Budapest Relief
CHAPTER XX - The Defense of the Reich
Missions
German Soviet
The Soviet Offensive Falters
Konev Stops on the Neisse The Oder, West Prussia, and East Prussia Operation SONNENWENDE The Hron Bridgehead The German Condition
Parry and Thrust-Vienna
"The Awakening of Spring" The Soviet Counteroffensive Begins To Vienna
Closing In?
Zhukov and Rokossovskiy Against Army Group Vistula Fortress Berlin Konev in Upper Silesia
CHAPTER XXI - Berlin
The Eve of the Battle
The Soviet Decision To Take Berlin Hitler Worries About the Flanks Soviet Redeployment and Plans Hitler Prepares for the Battle
The Encirclement
Konev Breaks Through Hitler Decides To See the Battle Through Completing the Circle
The Last Act
"A Day of Hopes" Keitel and Jodl in Command Too Late for a Miracle The Sand Runs Out Surrender
CHAPTER XXII - Conclusion REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER Appendix A - Table Of Equivalent Ranks Appendix B - Comparative Sizes Of Major Commands - November 1941 to January 1943 Note on Sources
I II III IV
Glossary Code Names
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