Tank battles on the Eastern Front
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Tank battles on the Eastern Front
14.99 €
Colonel General Erhard Raus (1889-1956) went down in history as one of the best tank commanders of the Wehrmacht, who was thrown to the most critical parts of the front, and his memoirs are on a par with those of Guderian and von Manstein. Raus began the war against the USSR on June 22, 1941, as commander of a motorized regiment; in December 1943 he was appointed commander of a tank army. By the end of the war, Rouse, who had risen to group commander of an army, had a reputation as an outstanding master of the use of tanks, which made him a valuable source of information for the Pentagon. In captivity, he wrote detailed memoirs of his combat career, covering the entire campaign on the Eastern Front. Based on them, the Americans prepared a whole series of manuals on fighting in Russia, taking into account the peculiarities of climate, terrain, qualities of Soviet troops and methods of command. Rouse's book is still considered in the U.S. Army as a manual on Unified Land Operations, the basic doctrine of land operations. From the famous battle with the Raseiniai KV, the battle on the outskirts of Leningrad, Operation Typhoon, the attempt to unblock the encircled group at Stalingrad, the battles for Kharkov and the Kursk Bulge, to the fierce fighting in the Baltic States, East Prussia, and Germany, this book takes the reader through the crucible of the most brutal tank confrontations of World War II.
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- All books in the series In the line of fire