Beyond Stalingrad: Manstein and the Operations of Army Group Don
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Beyond Stalingrad: Manstein and the Operations of Army Group Don
By (Author) Dana V. Sadarananda
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
26th June 1990
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
Second World War
Modern warfare
940.542147
Physical Properties
Hardback
184
Description
This study aims to fill a void in the military history of World War II by focusing attention upon individual battles and operations on the Eastern Front - basing his study on analysis of contemporary war diaries, the author examines Field Marshall Erich von Manstein's conduct of operations as the commander of German Army Group Don from November 1942 - March 1943. Sadarananda traces the course of the Winter campaign of 1942-43 - the aftermath of the Soviet counteroffensive that trapped the German 6th Army in the city of Stalingrad - and illuminates the reasons why the Army Group Don was able to achieve a dramatic reversal of fortune and enable the German Army to regain the initiative along the critical Eastern Front. He concludes that the German successes during the period in question were largely due to the perceptive and decisive leadership of Field Marshal von Manstein.
Reviews
Beyond Stalingrad makes a valuable contribution to the historiography of World War II. Sadarananda admirably succeeds in his quest to stimulate interest in discovering the individual engagements and operations conducted on the Eastern front.-NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW
"Beyond Stalingrad makes a valuable contribution to the historiography of World War II. Sadarananda admirably succeeds in his quest to stimulate interest in discovering the individual engagements and operations conducted on the Eastern front."-NAVAL WAR COLLEGE REVIEW
Author Bio
DANA V. SADARANANDA graduated from Villanova University and received his doctorate from Temple University, both located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While at Temple, he studied under noted military historian Dr. Russell F. Weigley. This is Dr. Sadarananda's first published book. It is a result of over four years of research, including many hours reading and translating the war diaries of the German army group commands available at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
