Operation Bagration

Ian Baxter

Publisher: HELION

Publication Date: 01/08/2007

Format: Hardback

Germany’s Most Devastating Defeat

Operation Bagration – the Russian codename for the 1944 summer offensive, which led to the complete annihilation of Army Group Centre – was without doubt the most resounding defeat ever experienced by the German Army during the Second World War. Yet, for decades, this mammoth offensive has been completely overshadowed by the Normandy campaign.

Illustrated by rare and previously unpublished photographs, accompanied by in-depth captions, Operation Bagration brings this bloodthirsty battle of attrition to vivid life. Ian Baxter provides an absorbing analysis of the overlooked conflict and describes how the German soldiers continued to fight to the bitter end amid the constant hammer blows of ground and aerial bombardment, and endless armoured and infantry attacks. He reveals that, in the end, Bagration cost the Wehrmacht over 300,000 men and witnessed Soviet forces pushing exhausted German remnants out of Russia and through Poland to the gates of Warsaw . . .

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