Bagration 1944: The destruction of Army Group Centre
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Bagration 1944: The destruction of Army Group Centre
By (Author) Steven J. Zaloga
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Osprey Publishing
15th January 1996
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
Second World War
Modern warfare
940.54217
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 184mm, Height 248mm, Spine 8mm
325g
Description
On 22 June 1944, three years to the day after Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, the Red Army launched a massive offensive in Byelorussia. Codenamed 'Operation Bagration', this campaign climaxed five weeks later with the Red Army at the gates of Warsaw. The Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre was routed, a total of 17 Wehrmacht divisions were utterly destroyed, and over 50 other German divisions were shattered. It was the most calamitous defeat of the German armed forces in World War II.
Author Bio
Steven J. Zaloga was born in 1952, received his BA in history from Union College, and his MA from Columbia University. He has published numerous books and articles dealing with modern military technology, especially armoured vehicle development. His main area of interest is military affairs in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Second World War, and he has also written extensively on American armoured forces.
