The German offensive on Stalingrad was originally intended to secure the Wehrmacht's flanks, but it stalled dramatically in the face of Stalin's order: 'Not a Step Back!' This title looks at this most iconic military campaign of the Eastern Front and Hitler's first great strategic defeat.

This book is a collection of vignettes written by Soviet junior officers, describing their experiences fighting the Mujahideen guerrillas.

Reveals the unbounded ambitions that shaped the Stavka's winter offensive and the scope and scale of the Red Army's many offensive operations. This volume reflects on the rediscovered Operation Mars, Marshal Zhukov's companion-piece to the more famous Operation Uranus at Stalingrad.

This book provides an in-depth study of the Soviet Army during the offensive operations that started with Battle of Stalingrad in December 1942 and went until Spring 1943.

Reconstructs an imposing mosaic that reveals the immense scope and ambitious intent of the first Iasi-Kishinev offensive. This book shows that Stalin was not as preoccupied with a direct route to Berlin as he was with a broad front strategy designed to gain territory and find vulnerable points in Germany's extended lines of defense.

This book is an edited translation of the Soviet Staff study of the Red Army's Belorussian operation in the summer of 1944.

As a treasure trove of fresh material, this book addresses aspects of the Battle of Kursk that have puzzled commentators since 1943.

This work, using newly released and formerly classified Soviet and East German archives, provides a detailed record of the performance of Soviet airborne forces during peace and war.

The full story of the most terrible siege in history when over a million people perished, illustrated by pictures recently released from Russian archives.

Soviet military-theoretical theories are revealed in the words of those who created them in peacetime and applied them in war. This collection of texts has been taken from formerly classified material in the official Red Army General staff journal

Leonid Grenkevich offers an account of the shadowy partisan struggle that accompanied the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

This text is the second of three volumes written by Colonel Glantz on the contribution of intelligence and deception operations to the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

The German seige and Soviet defence of Leningrad in World War II was an epic struggle in an epic war, a drama of heroism and human misery unmatched in the annals of modern warfare. This work provides a military history of the conflict waged beyond the city's borders.

This book describes the everyday life of a Soviet citizen besieged in the city of Leningrad and his subsequent service in the Red Army during the war and post-war occupation of Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

Volume I covers in detail the background, strategic regrouping, and strategic planning and conduct of the offensive.

The definitive history of Hitler's infamous attempt to conquer Russia.

David Glantz examines the Soviet study of war, the re-emergence of the operation level, the evolution of the Soviet theory of operations in depth before 1941, and its application in the European theatre and the Far East between 1941 and 1945.