Colossus Reborn

The Red Army at War, 1941-1943

By: David M. Glantz

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Hardcover | 31 March 2005

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In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941. In Colossus Reborn he recounts the miraculous resurrection of the Red Army, which, with a dazzling display of military strategy and operational prowess, stopped the Wehrmacht in its tracks and turned the tide of war.

A major achievement in the recovery and preservation of an entire nations military experience, Colossus Reborn is marked by Glantzs unrivalled access to and use of Soviet archival sources. This allows him to illuminate not only Russian victories in the Battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk, but also to rescue a host of major forgotten battles, many of which had been suppressed to preserve reputations and national pride. As he reveals in unprecedented detail, disastrous defeats vied with resounding victories throughout the early years of the conflict, as the Red Army struggled to find itself in the Great Patriotic War."

Beyond the battles themselves, Glantz also presents an in-depth portrait of the Red Army as an evolving military institution. Assessing more clearly than ever before the army's size, strength, and force structure, he provides keen insights into its doctrine, strategy, tactics, weaponry, training, officer corps, and political leadership. In the process, he puts a human face on the Red Armys commanders and soldiers, including women and those who served in units-security (NKVD), engineer, railroad, auto-transport, construction, and penal forces-that have till now remained poorly understood.

The worlds top authority on the Soviet military, Glantz has produced a remarkable study that adds immeasurably to our understanding of the one part of World War II that's still struggling to emerge from the shadows of history.

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Praise for David Glantz

"A superb historian and a brilliant detective."--New York Review of Books

"Indisputably the West's foremost expert on the subject."--The Atlantic

"Glantz's unrivalled command of Soviet sources has produced a body of work that has fundamentally revised our knowledge of the Eastern Front in World War II." --Slavic Review

"The world's top scholar of the Soviet-German War."--Journal of Military History

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Regional & National History European History Warfare & Defence Military & Defence Strategy Military Tactics Land Forces & Warfare Military History Second World War

The red army at war, 1941-1943
The first period of the war, 22 June 1941 to 18 November 1942	p. 3
The second period of the war, 1943	p. 37
Soviet military art	p. 63
The force
Strength and major components	p. 135
The shadow army : NKVD forces	p. 157
Rifle and airborne forces	p. 179
Tank, mechanized, and cavalry forces	p. 218
Artillery and air forces	p. 285
Engineer, signal, chemical, railroad, auto-transport and road, and construction forces	p. 333
The leaders and the led
Strategic leadership and control organs	p. 369
Central military administration	p. 403
The officer corps and command cadre	p. 466
The red army soldier	p. 536
Conclusions	p. 609
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