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Waffen-SS Soldier Vs Soviet Rifleman: Rostov-On-Don and Kharkov 1942-43

Waffen-SS Soldier Vs Soviet Rifleman: Rostov-On-Don and Kharkov 1942-43

McNab, Chris
Shumate, Johnny

Paperback

Series: Combat, Book 71

General Military HistoryRussian HistoryWorld War II

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ISBN10: 1472857984
ISBN13: 9781472857989
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Published: Feb 14 2023
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.20 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

Fully illustrated, this study assesses the Soviet and Waffen-SS troops who contested the cities of Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don on the Eastern Front during 1942-43.

As the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union unfolded, two places that suffered exceptionally severely were Kharkov (now Kharkiv) in Ukraine and Rostov-on-Don in Russia. In total, Kharkov would change hands violently four times between October 1941 and August 1943, and Rostov-on-Don also four times between November 1941 and February 1943.

In this book, Chris McNab examines the fighting men of the Red Army and the Waffen-SS who clashed in three battles - one for Rostov (July 1942) and two for Kharkov (February-March and August). He clearly explains the key differences between these two opponents - training, tactics, weaponry, ideology and motivation - and examines how these differences played out in the three engagements, which ranged from open-terrain combined-arms battles to close-quarters street fighting in major urban zones. The text is complemented by specially commissioned artwork and mapping and carefully chosen archive photographs.

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