When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)

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Lasting six months, the battle also unfolded as a global media war. From the very beginning observers on all sides were fixated on the gigantic clash at the edge of Europe, heralding it a defining event of World War II. Glantz covers the entirety of the conflict, including a concluding bit on the Soviet offensive into Manchuria, northern China and northern Korea at the end of the Second World War in the Pacific Theater. He also dis-spells some myths along the way.

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From the opposing side, General Hans Doerr fought at Stalingrad and subsequently wrote the first major German study of the battle. He saw it as: ‘the turning point of the Second World War. For Germany the battle of Stalingrad was the worst defeat in its history, and for Russia, its greatest victory.’ 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. From the Don to the Dnepr: Soviet Offensive Operations, December 1942–August 1943. London; Portland, Oregon: F. Cass. 1991. ISBN 978-0-7146-3350-3. The battle of Stalingrad—the most vicious and toxic battle in human history — ended on February 2, 1943.The Military Strategy of the Soviet Union: A History. London; Portland, Oregon: F. Cass. 1992. ISBN 978-0-7146-3435-7. Glantz Wins 2020 Pritzker Literature Award". Publishers Weekly. July 22, 2020 . Retrieved July 29, 2020. He was also (suprisingly?) aware of the whole recent revisionist Russian history that tried to show that Stalin was actually planning the war in 1941. To be clear, this is fairly controversial and not accepted view in Russia either, but the book does a good job of deconstructing this myth as well, and showing how it couldn't been true Starting in October 1942, Soviet newspapers regularly cited western reports that extolled the heroism of the soldiers and civilians defending the city against Germany’s mechanical warriors. In pubs throughout England the radio would be turned on for the start of the evening news only to be turned off after the report on Stalingrad had aired: “Nobody wants to hear anything else,” a British reporter noted. “All they talk about is Stalingrad, just Stalingrad.”3 Among the Allied nations, people euphorically commented on the performance of the Soviets at Stalingrad. This sentiment not only reflected the spirit of the antifascist alliance; it also owed to the fact that the western Allied soldiers could not offer any comparable feats: for over a year the British army had suffered defeat after defeat.

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This terrible war caused the USSR and it's people to constantly fear invasion and spend vast sums on it's defense which also included the satellite countries and spending on such countries as Vietnam and Cuba. Due to the economic fallout from the war and massive defense budget this led to the states eventual collapse.

When Titans clashed

I jumped into this book after realizing that I, like many dedicated amateur historians, had only a superficial knowledge of operations on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. This book certainly went a long way towards correcting that.

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Overall it felt like indeed a great summary of the war, and I think the reputation for slaying the "unwashed Soviets hordes" myth is well deserved, but at the same time it was surprisingly dry and boring for large chunks of it with some small and frankly surprising mistakes. For context I've been interested in the subject of WW2 for a long time now, and read quite a bit on it, including some of the Russian stuff, both post and pre Perestroika, and the book still had some interesting ideas I haven't seen elsewhere before.The first, ‘defensive phase’, lies at the heart of any Russian veteran’s experience of the battle. In private, Chuikov would say simply: The story of the 62nd Army is the battle of Stalingrad. If the Germans had wiped us out and crossed the Volga everything would have been different – the emotional consequence of capturing Stalingrad would have been enormous. But, as a Soviet war correspondent reporting from Stalingrad in October 1942 remarked, the beleaguered city differed from Verdun in the following ways: