KV-1等先進坦克，幾乎變成了德軍的噩夢。作者說了一段故事：41年初，蘇聯派軍事訪問團前往柏林，要求訪查德軍裝甲部門，希特勒指示要“毫無保留”。結果東道主把四號坦克秀給對方看的時候，紅軍人員根本不相信這就是征服半個歐洲的德軍最先進的裝甲，大發脾氣。然後就換德方一頭霧水了，而這謎底要在下半年戰場上碰面時，才會揭曉。 M. Glantz的作品初次引進，而如今現在他的所有作品相信不是已經出版就是在翻譯中了。簡體書市對Glantz 重視也不是沒來由的。此公年近半百從美軍中退役，初次與人合著這本《巨人的碰撞》就展露頭角，聲名大噪。此後他關於蘇德戰爭的作品如雨後春筍般一部一部冒出，更是在歐美學界引起不小話題。 r/History is a place for discussions about history. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is! Although no longer truism's, largely because of Glantz's work, unless you deeply study military history, you would still be beholding to the notion that the German Army (Wehrmacht) and the Waffen-SS were the most high tech, highly industrialized, mobile force on the planet. While certainly true that, even up till the very end, the Germans were operationally and tactically better than all their foes (Glantz will oppose this somewhat, but the Red Army never got to the Germans level in tactics, and only certain commanders were as good operationally), they were woefully deficient at the highest levels, and their reliance on operations and tactics to cover for their multitude of strategic sins eventually led to their damnation. Also the Germans were never as mechanized as their foes, and often their weaponry was, up until 1943, of inferior quality than their foes.

Project MUSE - When Titans Clashed

But, as a Soviet war correspondent reporting from Stalingrad in October 1942 remarked, the beleaguered city differed from Verdun in the following ways:The Role of Intelligence in Soviet Military Strategy in World War II. Novato, California: Presidio Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-89141-380-6. For the entire war Germany suffered around 8 million dead missing and disabled. 77% of that was caused on the Eastern front or 6,170,000. Art of War symposium, From the Vistula to the Oder: Soviet Offensive Operations – October 1944 – March 1945, A transcript of Proceedings, Center for Land Warfare, US Army War College, 19–23 May 1986

When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

The Military Strategy of the Soviet Union: A History. London; Portland, Oregon: F. Cass. 1992. ISBN 978-0-7146-3435-7. The result was the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921, a formative experience for both the Soviet state and its Red Army. During 1918 and 1919, V.I. Lenin and his commissar for military affairs, L. D. Trotsky, used the railroad lines to shuttle their limited reserves from place to place, staving off defeat time after time. This became known as echelon war, in which large forces were shifted by railroad (echelon) to reinforce successively threatened fronts. Some infantry divisions were shifted between fronts as many as five times in the course of the war. This experience gave all participants an abiding sense of the need for strategic reserves and forces arrayed in great depth. Also the American notion that we saved Europe is foolish. Russia inflicted by far the most casualties on the German's and this author believes if the US didn't land in France and didn't help Russia with the lend lease it would have taken Russia 12-18 months longer to defeat Germany but defeat them they would have.The author breaks the war into 3 main phases. 1st phase July 1941 to November 1942. 2nd phase from November 42 to January 43. 3rd phase from January 44 to May 45. Endgame at Stalingrad: November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 3, Book 1) (Modern War Studies) with Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, 2014 Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnIn the twenty years since When Titans Clashed was published significant new sources of information on the Soviet-Nazi war have come to light and are now incorporated into this new and expanded edition. Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa, Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941 (Battles & Campaigns), Tempus, 2003 ISBN 978-0-7524-2692-1 This book is a pretty epic story of the Soviet perspective of their war with Germany in WW2. Mr. Glantz is a highly respected historian who does a terrific job compiling all of the newly opened Soviet records and condensing them into this book. I'd have to say that almost half of the book is just notes and references, and that is stunning to me and worthy of high praise. I also greatly appreciated seeing material on the Soviet invasion of Japanese territory at the end of the war. Precious little out there on that.