After long years of studying sources and literature, author Werner Haupt now presents themilitary history of one of the largest theaters of was the world has yet known. It must beestablished from the beginning that his great work has no political or ideological interpretation,since it is based only on the military facts from both of the combating powers. The completionof the history of this amazing achievement is the result of the author’s utilization of all availableGerman and Russian literature, as well as those combat diaries and documents of thecommitted troop units that are available in German archives. In addition, Werner was assistedin cleaning up several questions by the advice of former members of the army group,commanders to drivers.Readers should appreciate Haupt served in the German Army as a soldier and officer in thenorthern sector of the Eastern Front. Most of us readers appreciate him for his other twoGroup Histories, and his wonderfully crafted and narrated “Assault on Moscow – – 1941”. All
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