Lost Victories · the War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General [Illustrated Edition] by Manstein, Erich Von -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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FOREWORD by Captain B. H. Liddel Hart AUTHOR’S PREFACE TRANSLATOR’S NOTE PART I - THE CAMPAIGN IN POLAND

1 - BEFORE THE STORM

THE GENERAL STAFF AND THE POLISH QUESTION WAR OR BLUFF? D = 1.9: H = 0445,

2 - THE STRATEGIC POSITION

GERMAN ORDER OF BATTLE AND PLAN OF OPERATIONS POLISH ORDER OF BATTLE AND PLAN OF OPERATIONS SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE POLISH DEPLOYMENT

3 - THE OPERATIONS OF SOUTHERN ARMY GROUP

THE OPENING SITUATION FOURTEENTH ARMY’S ASSAULT MARCH THROUGH GALICIA THE CAPTURE OF WARSAW THE FINAL BATTLES EAST OF THE SAN AND VISTULA

PART II - THE CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST

INTRODUCTORY NOTE 4 - THE ECLIPSE OF O.K.H.

HITLER V. BRAUCHITSCH HALDER

5 - THE OPERATION PLAN CONTROVERSY

THE O.K.H. (OR HITLER’S) PLAN OBJECTIONS ARMY GROUP A’S PLAN THE STRUGGLE FOR ARMY GROUP A’S PLAN

6 - COMMANDING GENERAL, 38 ARMY CORPS - THE BYSTANDER

ASSAULT MARCH TO THE LOIRE

7 - BETWEEN TWO CAMPAIGNS

OPERATION SEALION

PART III - WAR IN THE EAST

8 - PANZER DRIVE 9 - THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN

THE SITUATION ON MY ASSUMPTION OF COMMAND BATTLE ON TWO FRONTS - BREAKTHROUGH AT PEREKOP AND THE BATTLE ON THE SEA OF AZOV THE CONQUEST OF THE CRIMEA THE STRUGGLE FOR THE ISHUN ISTHMUS PURSUIT THE FIRST ASSAULT ON SEVASTOPOL THE STALIN OFFENSIVE TO RE-CONQUER THE CRIMEA DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITUATION ON THE KERCH PENINSULA THE ‘STALIN OFFENSIVE’ CONTINUES ‘OPERATION BUSTARD’ RECONQUEST OF THE KERCH PENINSULA ‘OPERATION STURGEON’ THE CONQUEST OF SEVASTOPOL

10 - LENINGRAD-VITEBSK 11 - HITLER AS SUPREME COMMANDER 12 - THE TRAGEDY OF STALINGRAD

THE WAY TO STALINGRAD DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITUATION AROUND STALINGRAD UP TO MY TAKE-OVER OF DON ARMY GROUP DON ARMY GROUP’S APPRECIATION OF THE SITUATION ON 24TH NOVEMBER FIRST IMPRESSIONS AND DECISIONS SITUATION AT THE TIME OF THE TAKE-OVER CRISIS ON THE CHIR FRONT THE VAIN FIGHT FOR DECISIONS A RACE FOR LIFE OR DEATH FORFEITURE OF THE CHANCE TO SAVE SIXTH ARMY SIXTH ARMY’S LAST BATTLE

13 - THE 1942-3 WINTER CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH RUSSIA

STRATEGIC BASIS OF THE WINTER CAMPAIGN KEYNOTES OF OPERATIONAL POLICY FIRST PHASE: THE STRUGGLE TO FREE SIXTH ARMY SECOND PHASE: THE FIGHT TO KEEP ARMY GROUP A’S REAR FREE

FOURTH PANZER ARMY’S BATTLES SOUTH OF THE LOWER DON THE BATTLES OF ARMY DETACHMENT HOLLIDT

THE BATTLES IN THE SECOND HALF OF JANUARY DEVELOPMENT UP TO THE END OF FEBRUARY

FOURTH PHASE: ‘THE GERMAN COUNTERSTROKE’

THE BATTLE BETWEEN DONETZ AND DNIEPER

THE BATTLE OF KHARKOV RETROSPECT

14 - OPERATION ‘CITADEL’ 15 - THE DEFENSIVE BATTLES OF 1943-4

FIRST BATTLE OF THE DONETZ THE BATTLE WEST OF BELGOROD AND THE FIGHT FOR KHARKOV THE CONFLAGRATION SPREADS THE WITHDRAWAL BEHIND THE DNIEPER SCORCHED EARTH THE FIGHT FOR THE DNIEPER LINE BATTLE OF THE DNIEPER BEND THE BATTLE FOR KIEV THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE DNIEPER BEND A BATTLE ALL ALONG THE LINE THE LOSS OF NIKOPOL THE CHERKASSY POCKET ROVNO THE DAY OF RECKONING THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES-DESPITE THE MUD

APPENDIX I APPENDIX II APPENDIX III APPENDIX IV MILITARY CAREER GLOSSARY OF MILITARY TERMS

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