Between giants
Subtitle: the battle for the Baltics in World War II
By: Prit Buttar
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781780961637
Subjects: Campaigns; World War, 1939-1945; History
Description: The Baltic States suffered more than almost any other territory during World War II, caught on the front-line of some of the war's most vicious battles and squeezed between the vast military might of the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army. From an expert on the Eastern Front of World War II, this book chronicles the cataclysmic experience of the region that includes modern-day Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Combining new archival research and numerous first-hand accounts, this is a magisterial description of conquest and exploitation, of death and deportation and the fight for survival both by countries and individuals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-377) and index.
Table of contents: title: Molotov, Ribbentrop and the first Soviet occupation; title: Rosenberg, Generalplan Ost and Preparations for Barbarossa; title: The Wehrmacht in full flood; title: The Baltic Holocaust; title: Reluctant allies; title: Narva, January to April 1944; title: Breaking the deadlock: summer 1944; title: From Doppelkopf to Cäsar; title: The isolation of army group north; title: Courland, October to December 1944; title: Endgame; title: Aftermath.