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This book is the result of a tremendous amount of research and passion for WWII and the Eastern Front. It covers the retreat of the German Army on the Eastern Front from the Battle of Kursk in July 1943 to the battles of the Oderbruch just before the Battle of the Seelow Heights in April 1945, covering a total of 561 days.
Operation Barbarossa was intended to totally defeat to the Soviets in only a couple of months, maybe half a year, but in the early days of the invasion, many thought the fall might come even sooner. As German panzers and troops swarmed through Soviet territory in a three-pronged attack, most outside analys
This book is the result of a tremendous amount of research and passion for WWII and the Eastern Front. It covers the retreat of the German Army on the Eastern Front from the Battle of Kursk in July 1943 to the battles of the Oderbruch just before the Battle of the Seelow Heights in April 1945, covering a total of 561 days.
Operation Barbarossa was intended to totally defeat to the Soviets in only a couple of months, maybe half a year, but in the early days of the invasion, many thought the fall might come even sooner. As German panzers and troops swarmed through Soviet territory in a three-pronged attack, most outside analysts began predicting that a Soviet defeat was only weeks or even days away. Despite these early setbacks, the Soviets’ seemingly inexhaustible supply of troops ultimately proved too much for the Germans to overcome. While the Germans succeeded in knocking several million Soviet soldiers out of the war by November 1941, they had also suffered more than 700,000 casualties of their own. Following a series of ferocious counterattacks by the Soviets, the Germans were forced to abandon all hope of a swift victory. The war would drag on for another three and a half years in the east.
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