German Army on the Eastern Front: The Retreat, 1943-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War)

by Ian Baxter

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After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army's front lines were slowly smashed to pieces by the growing might of the Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to fight gallantly. Even after the failed battle of the Kursk in the summer of 1943, and then a year later when the Russians launched their mighty summer offensive, code names Operation BAGRATION, the German Army continued to fight on, withdrawing under constant enemy ground and air bombardments. As the final months of retreat were played out on the Eastern Front in early 1945, it depicts how the once vaunted German Army, with diminishing resources, withdrew back across the Polish/German frontier to Berlin itself.
  • ISBN10 1473880343
  • ISBN13 9781473880344
  • Publish Date 29 February 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Pen & Sword Military
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 144
  • Language English