Retribution
The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2019
480 pages
978-1-4728-3533-8 (ISBN)
Description
From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this paperback edition of his detailed and engrossing account of the World War II's Eastern Front as German forces were driven back following the Battle of Kursk.
Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring this story to life, Retribution follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counteroffensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942-43.
Beginning towards the end of the Battle of Kursk, Retribution tells the story of the massive Soviet offensive that followed the end of Operation Zitadelle, which saw depleted and desperate German troops forced out of Western Ukraine. This title describes in detail the little-known series of near-constant battles that saw a weakened German army confronted by a tactically sophisticated force of over six million Soviet troops.
As a result, the Wehrmacht was driven back to the Dnepr and German forces remaining in the Kuban Peninsula south of Rostov were forced back into the Crimea, a retreat which would become one of many in the months that followed.
Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring this story to life, Retribution follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counteroffensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942-43.
Beginning towards the end of the Battle of Kursk, Retribution tells the story of the massive Soviet offensive that followed the end of Operation Zitadelle, which saw depleted and desperate German troops forced out of Western Ukraine. This title describes in detail the little-known series of near-constant battles that saw a weakened German army confronted by a tactically sophisticated force of over six million Soviet troops.
As a result, the Wehrmacht was driven back to the Dnepr and German forces remaining in the Kuban Peninsula south of Rostov were forced back into the Crimea, a retreat which would become one of many in the months that followed.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
16pp plate section in b&w
ISBN-13
978-1-4728-3533-8 (9781472835338)
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Person
Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He appeared from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues, and contributed regularly to the medical press. An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th century military history, Buttar's previous books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 (Osprey 2010), Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II (Osprey 2013) and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21 (Osprey, 2017). He lives in Kirkcudbright, Scotland.
Content
List of Maps
Author's Note
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
1 Summer 1943: The Decisive Shift
2 The Mius
3 Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev
4 Akhtyrka and Bogodukhov
5 Kharkov
6 Attrition: From the Mius and Donets to the Dnepr
7 The Dnepr Bridgeheads
8 Krivoy Rog
9 Kiev and Zhitomir
10 Year's End
11 A Year of Decision
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Author's Note
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
1 Summer 1943: The Decisive Shift
2 The Mius
3 Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev
4 Akhtyrka and Bogodukhov
5 Kharkov
6 Attrition: From the Mius and Donets to the Dnepr
7 The Dnepr Bridgeheads
8 Krivoy Rog
9 Kiev and Zhitomir
10 Year's End
11 A Year of Decision
Notes
Bibliography
Index
