9781472837912-1472837916-The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944

The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944

ISBN-13: 9781472837912
ISBN-10: 1472837916
Author: Prit Buttar
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover 496 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781472837912
ISBN-10: 1472837916
Author: Prit Buttar
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover 496 pages

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The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944 (ISBN-13: 9781472837912 and ISBN-10: 1472837916), written by authors Prit Buttar, was published by Osprey Publishing in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other World War II (Military History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944 (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used World War II books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.91.

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The Reckoning is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I've ever read. Bravo.' -- Peter Caddick-Adams, author and broadcasterBy the end of 1944 the Red Army was poised on the very frontiers of the Third Reich. How had the once unstoppable, mighty Wehrmacht faltered so disastrously? Certainly it had suffered defeats before, in particular the vast catastrophe of Stalingrad, but it was in 1944 that the war was ultimately lost. It was no longer a case of if but rather when the Red Army would be at the gates of Berlin.Prit Buttar retraces the ebb and flow of the various battles and campaigns fought throughout the Ukraine and Romania in 1944. January and February saw Army Group South encircled in the Korsun Pocket. Although many of the encircled troops did escape, in part due to Soviet intelligence and command failures, the Red Army would endeavour to not make the same mistakes again. Indeed, in the coming months the Red Army would demonstrate an ability to learn and improve, reinventing itself as a war-winning machine, demonstrated clearly in its success in the Iasi-Kishinev operation. The view of the Red Army as a huge, unskilled horde that rolled over everything in its path is just one myth that The Reckoning reassesses. So too does it re-evaluate the apparent infallibility of German military commanders, the denial of any involvement in (or often even knowledge of) the heinous crimes committed in the occupied territories by German forces, and the ineffectiveness of Axis allies, such as the Romanians at Iasi, to withstand the Soviet forces. Like all myths, these contain many truths, but also a great many distortions, all of which are skilfully unpicked and analysed in this powerful retelling of 1944 on the Eastern Front.

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