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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Preface
1 Introduction
Context
Army Group Center’s Achievements, 22 June-6 August 1941
Army Group Center’s Problems by 6 August 1941
Soviet Problems, 22 June-6 August 1941
Army Group Center’s Achievements, 6-24 August 1941
German Problems, 6-24 August 1941
Competing Strategies in Late August 1941
2 The Northern Flank: Group Stumme’s Advance to Toropets, 22-28 August 1941
Context
22nd Army’s Encirclement and Soviet Command Confusion, 22-24 August
The German Pursuit To Toropets, 26-28 August
3 German Strategic Planning and Jockeying for Position along the Desna River, 22-24 August 1941
German Strategic Planning: The Tilt Toward Kiev, 22-25 August
The Operational Lull: Jockeying for Position along the Desna River, 22-24 August
German Preparations for the Kiev Offensive, 22-24 August
4 Second Panzer Group’s Advance across the Desna River, The Stavka’s Offensive Plan, and Group Stumme’s Advance to Andreapol’ and Zapadnaia Dvina, 25 August-9 September 1941
Guderian’s Advance Across The Desna River, 25-28 August
The Stavka’s Offensive Plan
The Northern Flank: Group Stumme’s Advance to Andreapol’ and Zapadnaia Dvina, 29 August-9 September
5 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Western Front’s Dukhovshchina Offensive, Preliminaries and the First Stage, 25-31 August 1941
Preliminaries, 25-27 August
The First Stage, 28-31 August
6 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Western Front’s Dukhovshchina Offensive, The Second Stage, 1-10 September 1941
The Western Front’s General Assault, 1-3 September
1 September
The Western Front’s General Assault, 4-5 September
Dénouement, 6-9 September
The Western Front on the Defense, 10 September
Problems and Critiques
7 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Reserve Front’s El’nia Offensive, 30 August-10 September 1941
Planning and Preliminaries, 24-29 August
24th Army’s Assault, 30 August-3 September
The German Withdrawal, 4-5 September
Postscript
Conclusions: Dukhovshchina and El’nia Compared
8 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Briansk Front’s Roslavl’-Novozybkov Offensive, the First Stage, 29 August-1 September 1941
The Situation On 29 August
Planning and Operations, 29-31 August
The Briansk Front’s Forces and Problems
The Briansk Front’s Offensive Planning and Operations, 31 August-1 September
9 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Briansk Front’s Roslavl’-Novozybkov Offensive, the Second Stage, 2-14 September 1941
The General Counteroffensive, 2-6 September
Postscript: The Road to Kiev, 7-14 September
Conclusions
10 Conclusions
The Missions of Operation Barbarossa
German Strategy and Operations
Postwar Critiques
Soviet Strategy and Operations
The Red Army’s Problems
Comparative Losses
The Soldiers and their Commanders
Summary Judgments
What’s New about the Battle for Smolensk
11 Photographs of Commanders
German
Soviet
A Comparative Orders of Battle, 1 August-1 September 1941
B The Numerical Composition of Soviet Forces in the Battle of Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941
C The Numerical Composition of Enemy Groupings Operating in the Sector of the Groupings of Soviet Forces at the Beginning of the Battle for Smolensk
D The Red Army’s Personnel Losses during the Battle for Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941
E Army Group Center’s Personnel Losses during the Battle for Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941 (A Soviet Perspective)
F Army Group Center’s Losses in Weapons and Equipment during the Battle for Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941 (A Soviet Perspective)
G The Composition of the Pinsk Military Flotilla in the Battle for Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941
H The Red Army’s Strength on 30 September 1941
Selective Annotated Bibliography
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