At war's summit : the Red Army and the struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II / Alexander Statiev (University of Waterloo, Ontario).
Statiev, Alexander, 1956- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2018
D764.7.C3 P67 2018
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Title At war's summit : the Red Army and the struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II / Alexander Statiev (University of Waterloo, Ontario).
Author Statiev, Alexander, 1956- author.
ISBN 9781108690805 (electronic book)
1108690807 (electronic book)
9781108424622
1108424627
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 440 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number D764.7.C3 P67 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.54/2175
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-427) and index.
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Series Cambridge military histories.
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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.

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