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«Una excelente secuela de La muerte de la Wehrmacht. Juntas proporcionan una revaluación fundamental y convincente sobre la maquinaria de guerra de Hitler en la Segunda Guerra Mundial» (David M. Glantz, autor de la trilogía de Stalingrado).
A lo largo de 1943, el ejército alemán, herederos de una tradición militar exigente y perfeccionista en sus implacables operaciones ofensivas, sucumbió a las realidades de su propia extralimitación y las exigencias de la guerra industrializada del siglo XX. En este nuevo estudio, el premiado autor Robert M. Citino nos presenta esta debilitada Wehrmacht, ahora peleando desesperadamente a la defensiva aunque todavía muy peligrosa y letal.
Basado en su impecable uso y dominio de fuentes de lengua alemana, Citino ofrece una visión renovada y detallada de las campañas clave que acontecen en este fatídico año: el avance aliado en el Norte de África, la gran contraofensiva del general von Manstein en Kharkov, el ataque alemán en el paso de Kasserine, Kursk, la contraofensiva soviética en Orel y Belgorod y el desembarco Aliado en Sicilia y la Italia continental.
Con todo esto, Citino revela cómo toda una maquinaria de guerra preparada históricamente para la ofensiva reacciona cuando se vuelven las tornas; cómo el Alto Mando Alemán ve a su nuevo enemigo, el ejército de los Estados Unidos, después de la larga y dura lucha contra los británicos y los rusos, y por qué, a pesar de su superiodirdad en material y hombres, los Aliados no fueron capaces de convervir 1943 en un año mucho más decisivo.
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Armed Forces, Military History, Campaigns, World War, 1939-1945, History, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, eastern front, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, italy, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, tunisia, Germany, armed forces, Germany, history, militaryPlaces
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La Wehrmacht se retira: Luchando una guerra perdida, 1943
2014, Platea
in Spanish
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The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
2012, University Press of Kansas
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0700618260 9780700618262
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Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chronicles this weakening Wehrmacht, now fighting desperately on the defensive but still remarkably dangerous and lethal.
Drawing on his impeccable command of German-language sources, Citino offers fresh, vivid, and detailed treatments of key campaigns during this fateful year: the Allied landings in North Africa, General von Manstein’s great counterstroke in front of Kharkov, the German attack at Kasserine Pass, the titanic engagement of tanks and men at Kursk, the Soviet counteroffensives at Orel and Belgorod, and the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy. Through these events, he reveals how a military establishment historically configured for violent aggression reacted when the tables were turned; how German commanders viewed their newest enemy, the U.S. Army, after brutal fighting against the British and Soviets; and why, despite their superiority in materiel and manpower, the Allies were unable to turn 1943 into a much more decisive year.
Applying the keen operational analysis for which he is so highly regarded, Citino contends that virtually every flawed German decision—to defend Tunis, to attack at Kursk and then call off the offensive, to abandon Sicily, to defend Italy high up the boot and then down much closer to the toe—had strong supporters among the army’s officer corps. He looks at all of these engagements from the perspective of each combatant nation and also establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt the synergistic interplay between the fronts.
Ultimately, Citino produces a grim portrait of the German officer corps, dispelling the longstanding tendency to blame every bad decision on Hitler. Filled with telling vignettes and sharp portraits and copiously documented, The Wehrmacht Retreats is a dramatic and fast-paced narrative that will engage military historians and general readers alike.
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