David Glantz is pretty explicit that on paper the Finns should have been a walkover; their equipment was dated and inferior, and they lacked the...
[IMG] Winter War: 1939–1940 On November 30, 1939, after a flurry of disputes over border security, Soviet troops invaded Finland. Within a...
Indeed, the Red Army recruits mustered in 1939 were a work in progress, their military readiness still under construction. They also did not have...
Life the Red Army: 1939-1940 In 1939 the age for conscription in the Soviet Union was nineteen. The newest harvest of new recruits, born at the...
So I have been doing research on the 13th Guards Rifle Division at Stalingrad in September 1942 and have had trouble getting consistent...
It is true that both Hitler and Stalin meddled with their field commanders from time to time, but they were not always wrong. According to Glantz,...
Just picked up In Deadly Combat, the memoir by Gottlob Bidermann about the Eastern Front. Got it for a few bucks because of the Glantz blurb on...
I'd rather this not derail into a back-and-forth, and would point out that a lot of these details we're arguing over could be resolved by...
I have modified the OP to make it clear that I meant a German invasion of the Soviet Union was inherently doomed, not that Germany overall was...
There is little doubt that the winter of 1941/1942 was exceptionally harsh and brutal for both the Germans and the Soviets (link). Depending on...
The aim of this thread is to debunk both pro-USSR and pro-German myths that surround the Eastern Front, in order to give Western audiences access...
Thanks for all the welcomes, comrades!
Hello. My name is Scott. I've always been a history buff and like most warm-blooded American males I've been fascinated with WWII since I was a...
