Название: Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944
Автор: Anders Frankson, Niklas Zetterling
Издательство: Casemate Pub
ISBN: 1935149849
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 4,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany’s Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammer blows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at the same time fending off Hitler’s insane orders to hold on to useless territory.
Then, in January 1944, a disaster happened. Six divisions of Army Group South became surrounded after sudden attacks by the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts under command of generals Nikolai Vatutin and Ivan Konev around the village of Korsun (near the larger town of Cherkassy on the Dnieper). The Germans’ greatest fear was the prospect of another Stalingrad, the catastrophe that had occurred precisely one year before.