Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1: Between the Donets and the Dnepr
Part 2: Pursuit to Kiev
Part 3: The Kuban
Part 4: Cherkassy
Part 5: The Crimea
Part 6: Kamanets-Podolsk
Part 7: Brody
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

A detailed and engrossing account of the war on the Eastern Front following the Battle of Kursk as the German forces were driven back to the Dnepr and beyond. This title make use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers involved in the fighting, as well as partisans behind the German lines, to bring the story to life.

About the Author

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He now lives in Kirkcudbright in Scotland. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and served on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He appears from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press.

An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th century military history, his previous books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944–45 (Osprey 2010) and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II (Osprey 2013) and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires:The Eastern Front 1917–21 (2017).

Reviews

"[A]n excellent strategic and operational analysis of this mostly ignored campaign ..." --New York Journal of Books "The author is an established expert on the Eastern Front during both world wars ... This new book continues his established pattern of in-depth research and a readable, well-organized narrative." --WWII History