Operation Bagration: The Destruction of Army Group Centre June-July 1944, A Photographic History
Ian Baxter - Operation Bagration: The Destruction of Army Group Centre June-July 1944, A Photographic History
Helion & Company | 2008 | ISBN: 1906033099 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 87.37 MB
Helion & Company | 2008 | ISBN: 1906033099 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 87.37 MB
Operation Bagration - the Russian codename for the 1944 summer offensive, which led to the complete annihilation of Army Group Centre - was without doubt the most devastating defeat ever experienced by the German Army during the Second World War. Yet this mammoth offensive has for years been completely overshadowed by the Normandy campaign, which was unleashed just three weeks prior to Bagration along the shores of northern France. The battle which the German forces of Army Group Centre endured on the Eastern Front that fateful summer was more catastrophic than that experienced on the Western Front, but the English-speaking world remains largely ignorant of its details. This book reveals the lesser-known battle in the East and demonstrates the gallantry and self-sacrifice of the German forces against overwhelming odds.