An edition of At war's summit (2018)

At war's summit

the Red Army and the struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II

by

At war's summit
Alexander Statiev, Alexander S ...
Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
December 17, 2022 | History
Edit
An edition of At war's summit (2018)

At war's summit

the Red Army and the struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II

by

This is the story of the highest battlefield of World War Two, which brings to life the extremes endured during this harsh mountain warfare. When the German war machine began faltering from a shortage of oil after the failed Blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union, the Wehrmacht launched Operation Edelweiss in the summer of 1942, a bold attempt to capture the Soviet oilfields of Grozny and Baku and open the way to securing the vast reserves of Middle Eastern oil. Hitler viewed this campaign as the key to victory in World War Two. Mountain warfare requires unique skills: climbing and survival techniques, unconventional logistical and medical arrangements and knowledge of ballistics at high altitudes. The main Caucasus ridge became the battleground that saw the elite German mountain divisions clash with the untrained soldiers of the Red Army, as they fought each other, the weather and the terrain.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
440

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Subjects

Campaigns, Germany. Heer, Mountain troops, Germany, World War, 1939-1945, Military History, Mountain warfare, Soviet Union, Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡, Operation Edelweiss, Soviet union, armed forces, Germany, heer, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, europe, Military campaigns, Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡a, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924

Places

Caucasus

Times

20th century
Edition Availability
Cover of: At war's summit
At war's summit: the Red Army and the struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II
2018
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details

Table of Contents

Introduction: the path towards the top summits of World War II
ch.1. Russia's historical experience in mountain warfare
ch.2. Soviet preparations for war in the mountains
ch.3. First battle tests and the handicaps of selective learning
ch.4. Contest of follies: Plan Edelweiss and the German offensive across the high Caucasus
ch.5. 'Not a step back!': the German mountain corps hits the wall
ch.6. The Soviet counteroffensive: a stalemate snatched from the jaws of victory
ch.7. Mosaics of mountain warfare: comparative military effectiveness in the high Caucasus
ch.8. Learning mountain warfare the hard way
ch.9. Lessons ignored: déjà vu at Tuapse (1942) and in the Carpathians (1944)
ch.10. Disdain for military professionalism as a component of the universal Stalinist paradigm.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-427) and index.

Series
Cambridge military histories, Cambridge military histories
Other Titles
Red Army and the struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II
Copyright Date
2018

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/2175
Library of Congress
D764.7.C3 P67 2018, D764.7.C3P67 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 440 pages
Number of pages
440

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26964109M
ISBN 10
1108424627
ISBN 13
9781108424622
LCCN
2017053771
OCLC/WorldCat
1011009436

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19751063W

Source records

marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
Better World Books record
marc_columbia MARC record

Community Reviews (0)

No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
December 17, 2022 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
October 11, 2020 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
May 24, 2019 Created by MARC Bot import new book