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Generalship on the Eastern Front, 1941–45 - Robert Forczyk

Generalship on the Eastern Front, 1941–45

A Study in Command

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Buch | Hardcover
592 Seiten
2026
Osprey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4728-7438-2 (ISBN)
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A comprehensive evaluation of generalship on the most important front in World War II.

The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the largest sustained air-ground conflict in military history and played the decisive role in the defeat of the Third Reich. This new study seeks to analyse the command and generalship of the combatants.

The scale of the conflict was immense. Lasting over 46 months it involved over 10 million combatants at its peak, and resulted in roughly 15 million military deaths, as well as about 20 million civilian deaths. More than 50 percent of all German military fatalities in 1941–45 occurred there, and by the time the Western Allies invaded France in June 1944, the Wehrmacht was already decimated.

Who were the generals who led these campaigns on the Eastern Front? The standard historiography of World War II tends to focus on a few prominent leaders while ignoring the mass of commanders and operational-level military staffs who actually fought most of the war and this new study by renowned Eastern Front historian Robert Forczyk seeks to redress the balance.

Generalship on the Eastern Front offers an objective analytic framework for assessing the senior German and Soviet commanders on the Eastern Front through the lens of generalship and battle command, examining a total of 54 German and 140 Soviet officers.

Robert Forczyk has a PhD in International Relations and National Security from the University of Maryland and a strong background in European and Asian military history. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the US Army Reserves having served 18 years as an armor officer in the US 2nd and 4th infantry divisions and as an intelligence officer in the 29th Infantry Division (Light). Dr Forczyk is currently a consultant in the Washington, DC area.

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Foreword
Overview of German/Soviet senior leader training, doctrine and pre-war plans
C3 and Intelligence Capabilities
Major East Front operations in 1941
Major East Front operations in 1942
Major East Front operations in 1943
Major East Front operations in 1944
Major East Front operations in 1945
Bibliography
Appendices
General Ratings
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.6.2026
Zusatzinfo 16-page plate section in b&w
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-4728-7438-2 / 1472874382
ISBN-13 978-1-4728-7438-2 / 9781472874382
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