The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
This work by Prit Buttar enhances his reputation as a detailed chronicler of the military campaigns in Eastern Europe in the Second World War. His understanding of the nature of the campaigns waged by both sides during the second phase of the siege of Leningrad is...
In many respects, it seemed as if the year of 1943 commenced with the war in Eastern Europe finely poised. The German Sixth Army was surrounded in Stalingrad and much of the southern sector of the long front line was highly fluid, with Soviet units attempting to push...
Prit Buttar, you’ve written about the defeat of Army Group South (AGS) in 1944. Why write about this theatre, and this stage of the Eastern Front? This was the year when the Red Army completed its evolution from the ‘stumbling colossus’ of 1941 to the war machine...
It is a widely held point of view that history is usually written – or at least distorted – by the victors. The history of the war on the Eastern Front between the Red Army and Wehrmacht, in the English speaking world is almost unique in that it does not conform to...
