Sevastopol 1942 Von Manstein’s triumph
by Forczyk, Robert; Gerrard, HowardFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-22
Publisher(s): Osprey Publishing
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Summary
In late July 1941, Hitler ordered Army Group South to seize the Crimea in order to prevent Soviet air attacks on the Ploesti oilfields in Romania. This vital mission was assigned to the weak Eleventh Army under Generaloberst von Manstein. In late September 1941, von Manstein began his initial attacks upon the strong Soviet defences at the Perekop isthmus, and then cleared the heavily fortified Kerch Peninsula in May 1942. With the threat to his flank removed, von Manstein massed two German and a Romanian corps against the principal city of the Crimea - Sevastopol. This volume assesses the impact of logistics, weather and joint operational planning in examining this the last major German victory in World War II. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Dr Robert A. Forczyk has a PhD in International Relations and National Security from the University of Maryland and a strong background in European and Asian military history. He is currently a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserves and has served 18 years as an armour officer in the US 2nd and 4th Infantry Divisions and as an intelligence officer in the 29th Infantry Division (Light). The author lives in Laurel, MD.
Table of Contents
| Origins of the Campaign | p. 6 |
| The siege begins, 30 October-9 November 1941 | |
| The German assault: 10-21 November 1941 | |
| The German assault: 17 December 1941 | |
| Chronology | p. 15 |
| Opposing Plans | p. 17 |
| German plans | |
| Soviet plans | |
| Opposing Leaders | p. 21 |
| German | |
| Romanian | |
| Soviet | |
| Opposing Forces | p. 26 |
| German | |
| Romanian | |
| Soviet | |
| Orders of battle | |
| Operation Trappenjagd, 8-21 May 1942 | p. 35 |
| Air and Naval Operations Around Sevastopol 1941-42 | p. 38 |
| Air operations | |
| Air-sea operations 1941-42 | |
| Operation Storfang - the Third Assault on Sevastopol | p. 43 |
| The bombardment begins, 2 June 1942 | |
| Countdown to X-Day, 3-6 June 1942 | |
| XXX Corps and Romanian Mountain Corps, 2-7 June | |
| 7 June 1942, X-Day | |
| The battle of attrition, 8-12 June 1942 | |
| Fort Stalin, 13 June | |
| Losses mount on both sides, 14-16 June | |
| Breakthrough, 17 June | |
| Collapse of Defensive Sector IV, 18-23 June | |
| XXX Corps grinds forward slowly, 21-28 June 1942 | |
| The decisive day, 29 June 1942 | |
| The fall of Sevastopol, 30 June-4 July 1942 | |
| Aftermath | p. 90 |
| The Battlefield Today | p. 92 |
| Bibliography | p. 94 |
| Primary sources | |
| Other sources | |
| Index | p. 95 |
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