The Caucasus 1942-43
Kleist's Race for Oil
Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad, but this volume tells the other, equally important half of the story of Fall Blau (Case Blue). Learning from their experiences during the sweeping advances of Operation Barbarossa a year before, Wehrmacht commanders knew that Nazi Germany's lack of oil was a huge strategic problem. Seizure of the Caucasus oilfields, which were responsible for 82% of the Soviet Union's crude oil, would simultaneously alleviate the German army's oil shortages whilst denying vital fuel resources to the Red Army. Whilst Army Group B advanced along the Volga towards…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Noon, Steve (Illustrator) (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4728-0583-6
- EAN: 9781472805836
- Produktnummer: 16763876
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H18.6 cm x B24.8 cm x D0.8 cm 308 g
- Abbildungen: 60 b/w; 14 col
- Gewicht: 308
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Robert Forczyk, illustrated by Steve Noon
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