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Dr. Bryan I. Fugate presents a revisionist history of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, emphasizing the strategic role of Soviet war‑games and defensive preparations along the Dnepr River. Drawing on newly accessible Soviet military archives and collaboration with historian Lev Dvoretsky, he argues that the Red Army’s pre‑emptive plans, rooted in the exercises of Zhukov and Timoshenko, provided the framework for a defense‑in‑depth that slowed and attrited advancing German forces. Fugate’s analysis places the turning point of the campaign at the small town of Yelnia, where Soviet tactics countered the German army’s early offensives and set the stage for the December 1941 counterattacks at the gates of Moscow.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: History/Military History
Authors: Bryan I. Fugate
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