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The principal assault (code-named BAGRATION, for the great Czarist general killed at Borodino in 1812) was directed at Army Group Center, some 700,000 troops who held the midsection of the German front. Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who coordinated the attack, committed 166 Red Army divisions—2.4 million troops, 5,300 aircraft, and 5,200 tanks—twice that

In the east, the Soviets launched their final winter offensive on January 12. As the Western Allies struggled to regain the initiative, the army groups of Field Marshals Georgy Zhukov, Ivan Konev, and Konstantin Rokossovsky, some four million men and ten thousand tanks, stormed forward along a two-hundred-mile front from the mountains of Bohemia to

On June 22, 1944, the third anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Russia (BARBAROSSA), Stalin fulfilled the pledge he made at Teheran and launched the Red Army in what would prove to be the greatest Allied offensive of the war. From Leningrad to the Crimea, along a front of eight hundred miles, Russian forces moved against the overextended German

On en dira du mal, plus tard, de Staline, on le traitera de tyran, on se complaira à dénoncer la terreur qu’il a fait régner, mais pour les gens de la génération d’Édouard il aura été le chef suprême des peuples de l’Union au moment le plus tragique de leur histoire, le vainqueur des nazis, l’homme capable de ce trait, digne de Plutarque : les

By the same token, Eisenhower is entitled to full credit for the victory. From the start of the German offensive, he showed a quicker grasp of the situation than any of his subordinates, and he acted decisively to contain the attack.