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Between Giants
The Battle for the Baltics in World War II
Between Giants
The Battle for the Baltics in World War II
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Description
From an expert on the Eastern Front of World War II, this book chronicles the cataclysmic experience of the region that includes modern-day Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
The Baltic States suffered more than almost any other territory during World War II, caught on the front-line of some of the war's most vicious battles and squeezed between the vast military might of the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army.
Combining new archival research and numerous first-hand accounts, this is a magisterial description of conquest and exploitation, of death and deportation and the fight for survival both by countries and individuals.
Table of Contents
List of Maps
Author's Note
Dramatis Personae
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Molotov, Ribbentrop and the First Soviet Occupation
Chapter 2: Rosenberg, Generalplan Ost and Preparations for Barbarossa
Chapter 3: The Wehrmacht in Full Flood
Chapter 4: The Baltic Holocaust
Chapter 5: Reluctant Allies
Chapter 6: Narva, January to April 1944
Chapter 7: Breaking the Deadlock: Summer 1944
Chapter 8: From Doppelkopf to Cäsar
Chapter 9: The Isolation of Army Group North
Chapter 10: Courland, October to December 1944
Chapter 11: Endgame
Chapter 12: Aftermath
Appendix 1: Place Names
Appendix 2: Ranks
Appendix 3: Acronyms
Appendix 4: Foreign terms
Endnotes
Bibliography
Extract from Battleground Prussia
Index
Product details
Published | May 20 2013 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 416 |
ISBN | 9781472802880 |
Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
Illustrations | 24 b/w; 2 col |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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[A] carefully balanced account of the predicament in which Balts found themselves...Mr. Buttar is himself an army veteran, and it is from the military perspective that he relates the savage unraveling of the Baltic world during World War II's last year. There's plenty here on weaponry, on tactics and strategy.
Andrew Stuttaford, The Wall Street Journal
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A powerful pick...No military collection strong in World War II should be without this specific, in-depth analysis.'
The Midwest Book Review

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