The Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943
Anthony Tucker-Jones
Wymiary: 24,4 x 18,8

Oprawa: Miękka

Liczba stron: 144

Data wydania: 11.04.2016

Wydawnictwo: Pen & Sword Military

ISBN: 9781473827479

The Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943
The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow Leningrad and Stalingrad yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for control of the southern Soviet Union. Anthony Tucker-Jones in this volume in the Images of War series offers a visual record of the dramatic and bloody conflict that took place there showing every grim aspect of the fighting. Kharkov became one of the most bitterly contested cities during the war on the Eastern Front and this book presents a graphic overview of the atrocious conditions the soldiers on both sides had to endure. In 1941 Kharkov fell to Hitler's Army Group South. In 1942 the Soviets tried and failed to retake it losing 240000 men in the Barvenkovo Bulge. Then in 1943 the control of the battered city changed hands twice before the Soviets liberated it for good. The fate of Kharkov during the war reflects the history of the wider struggle between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union.