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Book SynopsisContinuing his magisterial account of the Eastern Front campaigns, David M. Glantz focuses here on the Red Army's operations from the fall of 1943 to April 1944. Glantz chronicles the Soviet Army's efforts to further exploit their post-Kursk gains and accelerate a counteroffensive that would eventually take them all the way to Berlin.
Trade ReviewA revisionist history of the highest order. No serious student of the history of the Eastern Front during the Battle for Belorussia can afford to ignore it.""-
Michigan War Studies Review;
""This book is a must-read for those interested in the operational details of Eastern Front battles and understand military history jargon.""-
Slavic Review;
""This book is an especially important contribution to David Glantz’s many books on the Red Army in World War II. The in-depth level of analysis of military operations in Belorussia as the Red Army gathered its strength authoritatively fills [a] gap in our knowledge.""-
Russian Review;
""For a ‘forgotten’ series of offensives, Glantz leaves readers with few unknowns and an overwhelming number of knowns, making The Battle for Belorussia one of the most important books of the year.""-
Stone & Stone World War II Books;
Praise for the work of David Glantz:
""A superb historian and a brilliant detective.""-
New York Review of Books;
""Glantz is the world’s top scholar of the Soviet-German War.""-
Journal of Military History;
""Indisputably the West’s foremost expert on the subject.""-
The Atlantic;
""Glantz’s unrivalled command of Soviet sources has produced a body of work that has fundamentally revised our knowledge of the Eastern Front in World War II. By providing a comprehensive, accurate perspective on the war the Soviet Union fought, he has almost single-handedly corrected a one-sided German focus that distorted western understanding.""-
Slavic Review;
""The appearance of any book by David Glantz is an event of the first magnitude.""-
World War II;
