I've been buying each of the Osprey Campaign series books that deals with the Eastern Front/Great Patriotic War as they have been published. The latest is SMOLENSK 1943: THE RED ARMY'S RELENTLESS ADVANCE, and it arrived in the post several days ago.
The book is divided into nine chapters, a glossary, and an index, arranged as follows:
SMOLENSK 1943: THE RED ARMY'S RELENTLESS ADVANCE was written by Robert Forczyk, illustrated by Adam Hook, and published in 2019 by Osprey Publishing (ISBN 978 1 4728 3074 6) as part of their Campaign series (No.331).
The book is divided into nine chapters, a glossary, and an index, arranged as follows:
- Origins of the campaign
- Chronology
- Opposing commanders
- Soviet
- German
- Opposing forces
- Soviet
- German
- Orders of battle
- Opposing plans
- Soviet
- German
- The campaign
- Preliminary moves, 1 – 6 August 1943
- The opening round, 7 – 21 August 1943
- The second round, 23 August – 7 September 1943
- The third round, 14 September – 2 October 1943
- Aftermath
- The battle sites today
- Further reading
- Index
SMOLENSK 1943: THE RED ARMY'S RELENTLESS ADVANCE was written by Robert Forczyk, illustrated by Adam Hook, and published in 2019 by Osprey Publishing (ISBN 978 1 4728 3074 6) as part of their Campaign series (No.331).
The author's two volume account on armoured warfare on the Eastern Front is well worth reading.
ReplyDeleteNigel Drury,
DeleteI have both of those books ... and I agree that they are very good.
All the best,
Bob