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Battle for Belorussia - (Modern War Studies) by David M Glantz (Hardcover)

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  • Continuing his magisterial account of the Eastern Front campaigns, the writer cited by The Atlantic as "indisputably the West's foremost expert on the subject" focuses here on the Red Army's operations from the fall of 1943 through the April 1944.
  • Author(s): David M Glantz
  • 936 Pages
  • History, Military
  • Series Name: Modern War Studies

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The first comprehensive account in English of the Red Army's offensive into Belorussia from October 1943 through March 1944, a campaign that was almost totally obscured by Soviet and Russian historians.



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Continuing his magisterial account of the Eastern Front campaigns, the writer cited by The Atlantic as "indisputably the West's foremost expert on the subject" focuses here on the Red Army's operations from the fall of 1943 through the April 1944. David M. Glantz chronicles the Soviet Army's efforts to further exploit their post-Kursk gains and accelerate a counteroffensive that would eventually take them all the way to Berlin.

The Red Army's Operation Bagration that liberated Belorussia in June 1944 sits like a colossus in the annals of World War II history. What is little noted in the history books, however, is that the Bagration offensive was not the Soviets' first attempt. Battle for Belorussia tells the story of how, eight months earlier, and acting under the direction of Stalin and his Stavka, three Red Army fronts conducted multiple simultaneous and successive operations along a nearly 400-mile front in an effort to liberate Belorussia and capture Minsk, its capital city. The campaign, with over 700,000 casualties, was a Red Army failure.

Glantz describes in detail the series of offensives, with their markedly different and ultimately disappointing results, that, contrary to later accounts, effectively shifted Stalin's focus to the Ukraine as a more manageable theater of military operations. Restoring the first Belorussian offensive to its place in history, this work also reveals for the first time what the later, successful Bagration operation owed to its forgotten precursor.



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"Will likely remain the chief record of this campaign for many years to come."--H-Net Reviews

"A revisionist history of the highest order. No serious student of the history of the Eastern Front during the Battle for Belorussia can afford to ignore it."--Michigan War Studies Review

"This book is a must-read for those interested in the operational details of Eastern Front battles and understand military history jargon."--Slavic Review

"This book is an especially important contribution to David Glantz's many books on the Red Army in World War II. The in-depth level of analysis of military operations in Belorussia as the Red Army gathered its strength authoritatively fills [a] gap in our knowledge."--Russian Review

"For a 'forgotten' series of offensives, Glantz leaves readers with few unknowns and an overwhelming number of knowns, making The Battle for Belorussia one of the most important books of the year."--Stone & Stone World War II Books

Praise for the work of David Glantz:

"A superb historian and a brilliant detective."--New York Review of Books

"Glantz is the world's top scholar of the Soviet-German War."--Journal of Military History

"Indisputably the West's foremost expert on the subject."--The Atlantic

"Glantz's unrivalled command of Soviet sources has produced a body of work that has fundamentally revised our knowledge of the Eastern Front in World War II. By providing a comprehensive, accurate perspective on the war the Soviet Union fought, he has almost single-handedly corrected a one-sided German focus that distorted western understanding."--Slavic Review

"The appearance of any book by David Glantz is an event of the first magnitude."--World War II


Dimensions (Overall): 9.3 Inches (H) x 6.4 Inches (W) x 2.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Modern War Studies
Sub-Genre: Military
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 936
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Theme: World War II
Format: Hardcover
Author: David M Glantz
Language: English
Street Date: November 30, 2016
TCIN: 89010834
UPC: 9780700623297
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-4235
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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