Operation Typhoon
Subtitle: Hitler's march on Moscow, October 1941
By: David Stahel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781107035126
Subjects: Germany. Heer. Heeresgruppe Mitte; Military History; Moscow, Battle of, Moscow, Russia, 1941-1942; Germany
Description: "The launch of Operation Typhoon heralded the opening of one of the biggest German offensives of World War II. Indeed it is surpassed in scale only by the German operations to invade France and the Low Countries in May 1940 (Case Yellow) and the Soviet Union itself in June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa). Although the fighting on the Eastern Front is arguably best known for Hitler's 1942 offensive to reach and conquer the oil fields of southern Russia (Case Blue), culminating in the battle for Stalingrad, Army Group South's 1942 summer offensive involved only half the number of German troops employed for Operation Typhoon"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-399) and index.
Table of contents: title: Glossary; title: Tables of Military Ranks and Army Structures; title: Contextualizing Barbarossa; title: Operation typhoon; title: Viaz'ma and Briansk; title: Carnage on the road to Moscow; title: Bock's final triumph; title: Exploiting the breach; title: Weathering the storm; title: Running on empty; title: The eye of the storm.