Red Army Tank Commanders: The Armored Guards - Couverture rigide

Armstrong, Colonel Richard N.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0887405819 ISBN 13 : 9780887405815

Editeur : Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Tank and mechanized forces spearhead Red Army operations from the gates of Stalingrad to the center of Berlin. This new book profiles Six Soviet commanders who rose to lead six tank armies created by the Red Army on the eastern front during the Second World War: Mikhail Efimov Katukov, Semen Ill'ich Bogdanov, Pavel Semenovich Rybalko, Dmitri Danilovich Lelyushenko, Pavel Alekseevich Rotmistrov, and Andrei Grigorevich Kravchenko. Each tank commanders' combat career is examined, as is the rise of Red Army forces, and reveals these lesser known leaders and their operations to western military history readers. Richard N. Armstrong, a colonel in the United States Army, has served in military intelligence since 1969, and holds a military historian specialty. He has published historical and professional articles on Red Army operations and Soviet military affairs. He wrote the Combat Studies Institute monograph, Soviet Operational Deception: The Red Cloak, and edited Red Armor Combat Orders; Combat Regulations for Tank and Mechanized Forces 1944.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0887405819
• ISBN 13: 9780887405815
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 476