Adair, Paul. <br/><br/>
Hitler's greatest defeat :  the collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944 / 
Paul Adair. 
 - London :  New York, NY :  Arms and Armour ;  Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub. Co.,  �1994. 
 - 192 pages :  illustrations, maps, portraits ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186) and index. 
<br/><br/>The german army -- Hitler and his generals -- The turn of the tide -- Stalin and the stavka -- The soviet army -- 1944-a year for decisions -- Maskirovka (deception) -- The german view -- The partisans -- Final soviet preparations -- In the north -- To the berezina -- Fourth army and mogilev -- In the south-ninth army and bobruisk -- 5th panzer division and 5th guards tank army -- 12th panzer division in the south -- The fate of fourth army -- Afterwards -- The long march home -- To the west -- Fifty years on -- German order of battle, 23 june 1944 -- Comparative ranks -- Soviet order of battle -- Soviet casualties in the belorussian operation -- Stavka directive: maskirovka -- Front directive: maskirovka -- Hitler's 'fester platz' order -- Hitler's operation order no. 8 -- Veterans interviewed. 
<br/><br/> This text describes the land defeat of the German Army on the Eastern Front, resulting in irreplaceable losses (over 300,000 casualties) when the German Army was already in a state of turmoil due to failure in Russia and the Allied advance into France. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1854092324 9781854092328 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95160924  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB9477140  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Germany. Heer --History--World War, 1939-1945.<br/>Germany. Heer. <br/>Germany. Heer. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.<br/>Generals--History--Germany--20th century.<br/>Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945--Campagnes et batailles--Front oriental.<br/>G�en�eraux--Histoire--Allemagne--20e si�ecle.<br/>Generals.<br/>Military campaigns.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Germany.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945))<br/>Germany.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>World War 2  Army operations Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D764  / .Ad1