Zhukov’s largest defeat. The catastrophe of the Red Army in the operation “Mars” 1942: David Glants

One of the least known pages of World War II, the Operation “Mars” ended in the failure of a truly tremendous scale. The operation, the purpose of which was to knock out the German army from the bridgehead west of Moscow, cost the Soviet Union the loss of approximately 335 thousand killed, missing and wounded and more than 1,600 tanks. However, in Soviet literature, this battle is not mentioned at all: the historical defeat was hidden by the post -war Stalinist censorship.
In this book, David Glants presents the first one of his kind deteriorated report on a forgotten catastrophe, listing the main troops and describing the events of the Mars operation in detail. Using the materials of the German and Russian archives, he recreates the historical context of the operation, showing it both from the point of view of the supreme supervision and the eyes of ordinary participants.
The last three terrible weeks Operation “Mars” has become one of the most tragic pages of Soviet military history. The events reconstructed by the Glane, this is more failed …

Author
Glants David
Translator
Sapzina Ulyana Valerievna
Publisher
AST, 2007
Series
Unknown wars