Battles

Подвиг 365-й зенитной батареи при обороне Севастополя

v_p@battlefield.ru (Валерий Потапов) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:19:57 +0000

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The Fate of Amphibious Assault Tanks

1@11.ru (Miroslav Morozov) — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:03:08 +0000

The breakthrough of a defense in World War II was always a complex problem for the attacking side. Forces and means were carefully prepared and amassed; a time and place were selected. What would be the outcome of an operation in which the troops went over to the attack at night or in poor weather conditions, practically without artillery preparation? This would be absurd, you say. Such an operation would be bound to fail. But this is exactly how one could characterize the overwhelming majority of our amphibious landing operations of the first and second periods of the Great Patriotic War...

COUNTERPOINT TO STALINGRAD. Operation Mars (November-December 1942)

1@11.ru (David M.Glantz) — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:54:36 +0000

After enduring months of bitter and costly defensive combat at Stalingrad, on 19 November 1942, Red Army forces struck a massive blow against the hitherto triumphant German Army. To the Germans' utter consternation, within one week Soviet forces encircled German Sixth Army in the deadly Stalingrad cauldron. Ten weeks later, the army's tattered remnants surrendered, ending the most famous battle of the German-Soviet War...