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Bagration 1944

The Great Soviet Offensive

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Bagration 1944

By: Prit Buttar
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
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 Bloomsbury presents Bagration 1944: The Great Soviet Offensive by Prit Buttar, read by Leighton Pugh.

A fascinating history of the great summer offensive launched by the Red Army in 1944 which turned the tide of the war.

Throughout the war on the Eastern Front, there were two consistent trends. The Red Army battled to learn how to fight and win, while involved in a struggle for its very survival. But by 1944 it had a leadership that was able to wield it with lethal effect and with far more effective equipment than before. By contrast, the Wehrmacht had commenced a slow process of decline after the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler became increasingly unwilling to delegate decision-making to commanders in the field, which had been crucial to earlier success. The long years of fighting had also taken a heavy toll. Thousands of irreplaceable junior officers and NCOs were dead, wounded or prisoners.

Renowned Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar expertly brings these contrasting fortunes to life, trends which culminated in the huge battles of Bagration. As this masterful study conclusively shows, in 1944 the Red Army finally put together a campaign that utterly destroyed the German Army Group Centre. The Wehrmacht suffered the loss of over 300,000 men killed, wounded or taken prisoner and the Red Army rolled forward across Belarus to the outskirts of Warsaw. The end of the war was still many months away, and the Germans managed to reconstruct their line on the Eastern Front, but final victory for the Soviet Union was now only a matter of time as a direct consequence of Bagration.©2025 Prit Buttar (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Europe Germany Military Red Army War Soviet Union
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A well researched book that is historically very accurate. It is also interlaced with compelling first hand accounts of those on both sides of the conflict. The narration is first class, keeping you engaged from start finish!

A masterpiece, detailed and keeps you focused!

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Bagration was the Ostfront corollary of D-Day. It was spectacularly successful but remains little known in the West. So much so that this is the first comprehensive English language account of the Operation. This work - well up to Prit Buttars usual excellent standard - will hopefully begin to address that. Highly recommended.

Comprehensive English language account of Operation Bagration.

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