American Perspectives on Eastern Front Operations...........

[STEED]

http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/e-front.htm

Interesting read :hmm:

Careful all a lot to read.

[joea]

Glantz is one of my fave authors...excellent read. We need some from the "Soviet" side as well.

[Torplexed]

I doubt most Americans even remember we fought on the same side. Yet the Russians lost more civilians at Leningrad than we did soldiers in the whole conflict. That's a sobering fact. :o

I remember Paul Carell's works well. Even as a translation they were a pretty good read.

[tycho102]

I've read that the Russians lost 12-24 million civilians. I've always taken the 18-million "middle ground".

And the military command purges that Stalin undertook in the early 1930's, to remove any rivals in the officer ranks of the army, certainly did not help things when Hitler decided to invade. Add to that the Katyn Massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_Massacre) removing thousands more brave and clever soldiers, not to mention brilliant scientists and mathematicians...well. It's no wonder so many Russians died. What else could anyone realistically expect?

If we Americans swapped out every single manager in the CIA, NSA, and FBI...........would anyone be surprised if planes started crashing into buildings again?

[Dan D]

“Paul Carrell”, very popular post-war chronicler of Operation Barbarossa, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, is aka SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Karl Schmidt, ex- press chief of NS-foreign minister Ribbentrop and ex-head of the “task force against un-German minds”. He actually never fought at the Eastern front. That prig was too busy to spread Nazi war propaganda. :)