unknown battles of the eastern front?

im writing a novel, based on the war, from the soviet point of view (the german point of view is overdone)

i need a battle on which to revolve around. a battle like stalingrad, moscow, kharkov, leningrad or kursk would be predictable. does anyone have an idea for a battle, something more small scale and less well known but with the same amount of drama?

any other interesting ideas for a novel as well, feel free to throw them in

cheers

 

found this one,which has a lot of interest.. battle of lenino..

Zasieki - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com

 

lenino ww2 Polish Army on the Eastern Front

 

cheers looks very interesting

 

your welcome, nosb..ray

 

Well, Rzhev was like a forgotten battle. Velikie Luki, apparently, as well. Rzhev has only been uncovered, or should I say remebered, in Russia not so long ago. This budding young journalist made a brilliant documentary on it in 2009. The battle was one of the bloodiest on the Eastern front, with a couple of million (!) casualties on both sides. It lasted around a year and a half.

Here's a link to Pivovarov (the journalist) and his film. Hope this would be of help.

Film Spurs Russia to Squelch Criticism of Soviet War Tactics » HistoryNet

Sugar coating Stalin: Russia’s historical amnesia – Telegraph Blogs

Pay that no mind, no such thing happened, seriously. NTV (the channel it was aired on) is a government channel, and they checked his documentary and gave him the thumbs up. Nobody called him a traitor, that's all piffle. I mean, yeah, there were the rednecks and fanatics, but apart from them, it was accepted nationwide. I don't know where the Telegraph got all this, but even if the government did try to reform the law to ban the film, they didn't succeed. It's an awesome documentary, I believed evey word.

I haven't seen any books specifically on Rzhev yet, it's all Kursk, Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad. And Berlin, I guess I could chip that in as that was a part of the GPW too.

 

cheers, it looks perfect

 

The fight in the Caucasus at the same time of Stalingrad

The fight in Murmansk (above the Arctic Circle)

 

The Caucasus - how could I forget that. The battles down south were also rather overlooked, but they weren't any less fierce than those, say, at the Kursk salient or Stalingrad.

Sevastopol would be a good one as well. It was under siege for a while, then fell to E. von Manstein's forces in July 1942.



That's a picture by A. Deineka, depicting the heroic defense of the port city. Pretty subtle painting techniques (i.e. the fight between good and evil shown as white vs. black, the Soviet marines white and the Kriegsmarine footsoldiers black, when in real life they would have had the same coloured uniforms (the Soviet marines were called 'The Black Death' due to their ruthlessness in battle and, obviously, the colour of their uniform)) but still, it carries a very bright patriotic message.

 

how about Demyansk pocket. A little known but large and pivotal battle. Also notable in the first combat use by the Germans of the MP 43 big brother of the MP 44 (the trapped German units had several thousand air dropped to them in a large scale air re-supply effort by the luftwaffe, that perhaps gave Goerring and Hitler unhealthy ideas during the Stalingrad battle later.)
Good luck.

 

May be the greatest tank battle under Senno in Vitebsk region in Beylorussia in 6th of July in 1941? The forces of 20th army under the command of lieutenant general P.A.Kurochkin undertook a counterblow against the 3d tank group.

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