Item Tag: 153mm

Product Information The Reckoning is vivid history- the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources. By the end of 1944 the Red Army was poised on the very frontiers of the Third Reich. How had the once unstoppable- mighty Wehrmacht faltered so disastrously. Certainly it had suffered defeats before- in particular the vast catastrophe of Stalingrad- but it was in 1944 that the war was ultimately lost. It was no longer a case of if but rather when the Red Army would be at the gates of Berlin. Prit Buttar retraces the ebb and flow of the various battles and campaigns fought throughout the Ukraine and Romania in 1944. January and February saw Army Group South encircled in the Korsun Pocket.