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Cargando... Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942por David M. Glantz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An exhaustively detailed examination of one of the more obscure campaigns of the Eastern Front in World War II -- Operation "Mars," which was an attack near Rhzev that went on at the same time as the vastly more famous Operation "Uranus," which occurred at Stalingrad. On the positive side, the author does go into a good deal of detail as to why the Russian offensive failed. At its root, Zhukov tried to do to much with too little, especially given the terrain and the condition of his troops and equipment. Additionally, German control of their troops was masterful. A major flaw in the book is that the maps, while liberal in number, are not easy to parse, owing to the colour selection (it's very hard to read where the villages are), the orientation of the maps, and the way that units are represented. Given the importance of knowing where actions were occurring, that's important. One can also get lost in the maze of detail provided. The author also engages in the "getting into the mind" of participants, which is something that I don't particularly like in historical accounts. Certainly valuable for plugging a hole in our understanding of the Eastern Front, but this is very much for specialists, in my view. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesModern War Studies (1999)
"Illuminating the painful progress of Operation Mars with vivid battle scenes and numerous maps and illustrations, Glantz presents Mars as a major failure of Zhukov's renowned command. Yet, both during and after the war, that failure was masked from public view by the successful Stalingrad operation, thus eliminating any stain from Zhukov's public image as a hero of the Great Patriotic War." "For three grueling weeks, Operation Mars was one of the most tragic and agonizing episodes in Soviet military history. Glantz's reconstruction of that failed offensive fills a major gap in our knowledge of World War II, even as it raises important questions about the reputations of national military heroes."--Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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