When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

This is an outstanding new volume based on information available since 1989. The perspective offered is from Soviet sources and it includes operations like the previously unknown Operation Mars.

Soviet casualties figures in individual campaigns are presented in tabular form whereas previous studies of this titanic struggle have often omitted this aspect. The figures are startling as the casualties is indicative of the enormity of the campaigns in the Eastern Front.

Units positions and strengths which was previously estimated and guessed at in studies based on German sources are also presented in this volume and some of Glantz's other work. David M. Glantz who is often considered the current English language authority on the Soviet war machine in the Second World War has written a concise, accessible and invaluable work of the Great Patriotic War from Soviet sources.

I have read Glantz's study on Kursk and Operation Mars.

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