The Tank Battles of Marshal Rokossovsky: 1943-1945 Konstantin Rokossovsky was one of the most talented commanders of the Soviet Red Army. He fought in many important battles, including Kursk, Bobruisk, and East Prussia. Kamen Nevenkin’s richly illustrated study examines his main battles in 1943–1945 and contains 163 wartime photographs and 10 maps, mostly unpublished. Book […]
From Bessarabia to Belgrade: An Illustrated Study of the Soviet Conquest of Southeast Europe, March-October 1944 The Red Army reached northeastern Rumania in the last days of March 1944. Stalin had high hopes that the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts would be able to conquer the Balkans quickly. But those hopes were not to be […]
Bloody Vienna: The Soviet Offensive Operations in Western Hungary and Austria, March-May 1945 The Soviet Vienna Operation began on 16 March 1945 when the assault armies of 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts succeeded in penetrating the Axis defence between Esztergom and Lake Balaton. It ended less than a month later, on 13 April 1945, when […]
From Leningrad to Narva In January 1944, the Red Army finally ended one of the most dramatic sieges in the history of warfare: that of Leningrad. Soviet spearheads quickly dislodged the Wehrmacht from the city, but once they reached the prewar border with Estonia, they were stopped dead in their tracks by a very determined […]
Panzerwrecks 20: Ostfront 3 Book – Lake Balaton Panzer wrecks. Nearly every photograph in Panzerwrecks 20 is from a photograph album unearthed from the depths of a Russian archive and was produced by the 17th Air Army during their evaluation of the effects of aircraft weapons on German (and Hungarian) tanks littering the area around […]
