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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Glantz, David M. Zhukov's greatest defeat. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1999 (OCoLC)607171072 |
| Named Person: | Georgiĭ Konstantinovich Zhukov; Georgij K Žukov |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David M Glantz |
| ISBN: | 070060944X 9780700609444 0700614176 9780700614172 |
| OCLC Number: | 40180181 |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Russian. |
| Description: | x, 421 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Series Title: | Modern war studies. |
| Responsibility: | David M. Glantz ; German translations by Mary E. Glantz ; maps by Darin Grauberger. |
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Abstract:
"Illuminating the painful progress of Operation Mars with vivid battle scenes and numerous maps and illustrations, Glantz presents Mars as a major failure of Zhukov's renowned command. Yet, both during and after the war, that failure was masked from public view by the successful Stalingrad operation, thus eliminating any stain from Zhukov's public image as a hero of the Great Patriotic War." "For three grueling weeks, Operation Mars was one of the most tragic and agonizing episodes in Soviet military history. Glantz's reconstruction of that failed offensive fills a major gap in our knowledge of World War II, even as it raises important questions about the reputations of national military heroes."--BOOK JACKET.
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