After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army's front lines were slowly smashed to pieces by the growing might of the Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to fight gallantly. Even after the failed battle of the Kursk in the summer of 1943, and then a year later when the Russians launched their mighty summer offensive, code names Operation BAGRATION, the German Army continued to fight on, withdrawing under constant enemy ground and air bombardments. As the final months of retreat were played out on the Eastern Front in early 1945, it depicts how the once vaunted German Army, with diminishing resources, withdrew back across the Polish/German frontier to Berlin itself.

About the Author
Ian Baxter is a much published author and photographic collector whose many books draw an increasing following. He is the author of many books in the Images of War Series, most recently Hitler's Headquarters and Himmler's Concentration Camp Guards, Waffen-SS on the Western Front 1940 - 1945 and the companion volume German Army on the Eastern Front - The Advance. He lives near Chelmsford, Essex.


Book Information
ISBN 9781473822672
Author Ian Baxter
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Pen & Sword Military
Publisher Pen & Sword Books Ltd