East Front Drama 1944

Hard cover, 6 x 9, 360 pages, 100 black and white photos and 50 maps. In June 1944, the Russian Army launched Operation Bagration, the largest offensive in military history eclipsing even D-Day in its enormity. In a matter of days, a hole, hundreds of miles wide, was torn in the German front and Army Group Center was destroyed, with more than 300,000 casualties the most costly German defeat of WW2. East Front Drama is a meticulous examination of how the German forces on the Eastern Front, under the direction of Hitler s favorite Field Marshall, Walter Model, recovered from this shattering defeat. Rolf Hinze is one of Germany s leading military historians and has covered this little known topic in a meticulous fashion with detailed unit movements - some at company level - analyses of command decisions and superb maps.