This book is a historical study of the events of October 1941 in the Viaz’ma pocket; based on documents found in the Russian Federation’s Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense; the German Bundesarchiv; and the US National Archives. Mikhail Filippenkov describes the events that took place through the simultaneous; comparative analysis of Soviet and German combat reports according to time; and in the manner of reporting from the places of those events as they happened. The author writes about these events with chronological accuracy; not on the level of army headquarters and higher; but exclusively on the level of the combat units down to the division-level; and with concrete geographical reference to the combat maps of those times. Particular attention is paid to the events that took place in the vicinity of Sychevka in Smolensk Oblast’; because what happened there has never been deeply researched or examined by anyone in Russia. Unfortunately; research must rely primarily on the combat reports and combat documents of the units of the Wehrmacht’s Panzergruppe 3.; since almost no documents on the Soviet side have been preserved. They were either destroyed together with the units and formations trapped within the Viaz’ma pocket; or destroyed at an order from above to those units and formations which managed to escape encirclement more or less intact; in order to erase any record of the disaster.
#3108062 in Books Paul Holberton Publishing 2011-07-07 2011-07-18Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.20 x 1.10 x 8.80l; 3.30 #File Name: 1907372164256 pages
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