Format:
Online-Ressource (432 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107035126
Content:
Fascinating new account of Hitler's Operation Typhoon, launched in October 1941, and its significance for the wider German war effort
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Tables of military ranks and army structures; Introduction; 1 Contextualising Barbarossa; Hunting the Bear - campaigning in the Russian theatre; Evoking Barbarossa - twelfth-century myth and twentieth-century reality; 2 Operation Typhoon; The tempest moves east - `the last great decisive battle of the year´ (Adolf Hitler); Caging the Bear - Bocks encirclements at Viazma and Briansk; 3 Viazma and Briansk; Seeing which way the wind blows - Typhoons zenith; 'The campaign in the east has been decided' (Otto Dietrich)
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4 Carnage on the road to MoscowMaking a killing at Viazma and Briansk - the pockets contract; Forward on the flanks - Bocks willful overextension; 5 Bocks final triumph; 'We shall all die out here' - the battle of Viazma; 'I have lived through hell' - the battle of Briansk; 6 Exploiting the breach; Into the Bears cave - Bocks drive on Moscow; Bocks flagging offensive - pushing his army and his luck to Moscow; 7 Weathering the storm; 'Wait, for Ill return, defying every death' (Konstantin Simonov); 'A combination of states has at last been formed against Hitlerism' (Viacheslav Molotov)
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8 Running on emptyFlogging the dead horse - Army Group Centres stalled advance; The last charge - Guderians drive on Tula; 9 The eye of the storm; The culminating point of the attack - Army Group Centre halts; CONCLUSION; Notes; Introduction; 1 Contextualising Barbarossa; 2 Operation Typhoon; 3 Viazma and Briansk; 4 Carnage on the road to Moscow; 5 Bocks final triumph; 6 Exploiting the breach; 7 Weathering the storm; 8 Running on empty; 9 The eye of the storm; Conclusion; Bibliography; Archival references; I. Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau (BA-MA); Army Group South
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Army Group CentrePanzer Group 2; Panzer Group 3; Panzer Group 4; Second Army; Fourth Army; Personal Files; II. Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (LH); III. Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation (MPT) Berlin; IV. Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (WLS); Primary and secondary sources; Index;
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Glossary -- Tables of Military Ranks and Army Structures -- chapter one. Contextualizing Barbarossa -- Hunting the Bear : Campaigning in the Russian theatre -- Evoking Barbarossa : twelfth century myth and twentieth century reality -- chapter two. Operation Typhoon -- The tempest moves east : "The last great decisive battle of the year" (Adolf Hitler) -- Caging the Bear : Bock's encirclements at Viaz'ma and Briansk -- chapter three. Viaz'ma and Briansk -- Seeing which way the wind blows : Typhoon's Zenith -- "The campaign in the east has been decided!" (Otto Dietrich) -- chapter four. Carnage on the road to Moscow -- Making a killing at Viaz'ma and Briansk : The pockets contract -- Forward on the flanks : Bock's willful overextension -- chapter five. Bock's final triumph -- "We shall all die out here" : The battle of Viaz'ma -- "I have lived through hell" : The battle of Briansk -- chapter six. Exploiting the breach -- Into the Bear's cave : Bock's drive on Moscow -- Bock's flagging offensive : Pushing his army and his luck to Moscow -- chapter seven. Weathering the storm -- "Wait, for I'll return, defying every death" (Konstantin Simonov) -- "A combination of states has at last been formed against Hitlerism" (Vyacheslav Molotov) -- chapter eight. Running on empty -- Flogging the dead horse : Army Group Centre's stalled advance -- The last charge : Guderian's drive on Tula -- Chapter nine. The eye of the storm -- The culminating point of the attack : Army Group Centre halts.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107309227
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Operation Typhoon : Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
Language:
English
Keywords:
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