Pertempuran Velikiye Luki

Pertempuran Velikiye Luki, juga dikenali sebagai Operasi Penyerangan Velikiye Luki (), bermula dengan serangan oleh pasukan Tentera Merah dari Barisan Kalinin terhadap Tentera Darat Ke-3 Panzer Jerman semasa Kempen Musim Sejuk 1942–1943, dengan objektif untuk membebaskan bandar Rusia Velikiye Luki sebagai sebahagian awal dari gerakan mengepung utara dalam Operasi Penyerangan Strategik Rzhev-Sychevka (Operasi Marikh).

Kadangkala digelar "Stalingrad Kecil di Utara", pasukan Soviet mengepung bandar tersebut pada 27 November 1942, tetapi tidak berjaya mara lebih jauh ke arah barat mahupun menguasai semula laluan kereta api penting ke Leningrad. Garison Jerman di bandar itu diarahkan untuk bertahan sehingga bantuan tiba dan mereka memberikan pertahanan yang kukuh. Seperti di Stalingrad, serangan balas Jerman berulang kali gagal menguasai bandar tersebut, dan garison akhirnya menyerah diri pada 16 Januari 1943.

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Rujukan
 Chadwick, Frank A. et al. (1979). White Death: Velikiye Luki, The Stalingrad of the North. Normal, Il:, game design notes, GDW (Game Designers Workshop) a board wargame that covers the battle with considerable detail. It includes notes on the battle, orders of battle for each side, and a 1:100,000 map derived from Soviet wartime situation maps. Shelby Stanton had researched primary sources using the captured German records held by NARA in Wash. DC.
 Department of the Army, Historical Study Operations of Encircled Forces German Experiences in Russia, Pamphlet 20-234, Washington DC, 1952.   This pamphlet was written by German officers to relay their experiences fighting the Russians (sic). The officers had to rely on memory so there are some inaccuracies but gives a good overall account of various operations and battles.
 Glantz, D.M., Zhukov's greatest defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1999
 Glantz, David M. & House, Jonathan (1995), When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 
 Isayev, A.V., When there were no surprises: History of the Great Patriotic War which we never knew, Velikiye Luki operation , Yauza, Eksmo, 2006 (Russian: Исаев А. В. Когда внезапности уже не было. История ВОВ, которую мы не знали. – М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2006)
 Webb, William A., Battle of Velikiye Luki: Surrounded in the Snow, PRIMEDIA Enthusiast Publications, Inc.(2000).  ". Accessed on 21 April 2005.

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