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German army on the eastern front theretreat 1943-1945: rare photographs from wartime archives

By Ian , Germany. Heer;Baxter

Book information

Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Year
2016
ISBN
9781473822672, 9781473880351, 9781473880344, 9781473880337, 147382267X, 1473880351
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
15 MB (16015221 bytes)
Series
Images of war
Pages
(140 pages) : chiefly illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front -- Pictori1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front -- Popular1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front;Pictorial workMilitary campaigns;War photography;War photography

Description

After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army’s front lines were slowly smashed to pieces by the growing might of the Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to fight gallantly. Even after the failed battle of the Kursk in the summer of 1943, and then a year later when the Russians launched their mighty summer offensive, code names Operation BAGRATION, the German Army continued to fight on, withdrawing under constant enemy ground and air bombardments. As the final months of retreat were played out on the Eastern Front in early 1945, it depicts how the once vaunted German Army, with diminishing resources, withdrew back across the Polish/German frontier to Berlin itself.

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