Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941: Volume 1 - The German Advance, the Encirclement Battle and the First and Secon

by David M. Glantz

Book Overview

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the F hrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. Less than three weeks before, on 22 June Hitler had unleashed his Wehrmacht's Armed Forces] massive invasion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911096095
• ISBN13: 9781911096092
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"