Behind Soviet Lines: Hitler's Brandenburgers Capture the Maikop Oilfields 1942

by David R. Higgins

Featuring specially drawn full-color artwork and expert analysis of the Maikop operation, this assessment of the dramatic raid that delivered intact Soviet oil-production facilities into Nazi hands casts new light of the German special-forces operations on the Eastern Front. With his forces having conquered a huge swathe of formerly Soviet territory in the months following the launch of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, Hitler planned to continue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782005994
• ISBN13: 9781782005995
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.6"