TY - BOOK AU - Adair,Paul TI - Hitler's greatest defeat: the collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944 SN - 1854092324 AV - D764 .Ad1 PY - 1994/// CY - London, New York, NY PB - Arms and Armour, Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub. Co. KW - Germany KW - Heer KW - History KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - fast KW - Campaigns KW - Eastern Front KW - Generals KW - 20th century KW - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 KW - Campagnes et batailles KW - Front oriental KW - G�en�eraux KW - Allemagne KW - Histoire KW - 20e si�ecle KW - Military campaigns KW - nli KW - Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945)) KW - World War 2 KW - Army operations KW - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186) and index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -