Description - Rollback: The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction 1942-43 by Richard W Harrison
Rollback: The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction, 194243 covers the period from mid-December 1942 to mid-February 1943, one of the most critical periods of the war on the Eastern Front. It was here that following the encirclement of an entire German army at Stalingrad, the Soviets sought to take advantage of the ruptured Axis front in southern Russia to finish off the Germans' Italian and Hungarian allies and liberate the economically vital areas of eastern Ukraine. AUTHOR: Richard W. Harrison earned his undergraduate and master's degrees from Georgetown University, where he specialised in Russian area studies. He later earned his doctorate in War Studies from King's College London. He also was an exchange student in the former Soviet Union and spent several years living and working in post-communist Russia. Harrison has worked for the US Department of Defense as an investigator in Russia, dealing with cases involving POWs and MIAs. He has also taught Russian history and military history at the college and university level, most recently at the US Military Academy at West Point.Harrison is the author of two books dealing with the Red Army's theoretical development during the interwar period. 8 b/w maps
Buy Rollback: The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction 1942-43 by Richard W Harrison from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
Other Editions - Rollback: The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction 1942-43 by Richard W Harrison
A Preview for this title is currently not available.