Operation Bagration: Stalin's Blitzkrieg in Belorussia

On the 70th anniversary of the legendary Operation Bagration.
A new book by a leading military historian dedicated to the greatest triumph of the Red Army. The best modern study of the grand Soviet offensive in which, in just two weeks, the largest army group on the Eastern Front, “Center,” was routed. A new look at the turning point of the Great Patriotic War.

Do you know that this phenomenal victory in Belarus was preceded by a chain of unsuccessful offensive operations, and from the autumn of 1943 to the spring of 1944 the western direction for the Red Army was a positional “Verdun”—so the Supreme High Commander even authorized an investigation by the GKO commission, took the harshest measures, and made unpleasant “organizational conclusions”? How did our troops break through this positional deadlock, turning the trench “meat grinder” into the largest maneuver operation, rightly dubbed the “Stalin’s blitzkrieg”? What allowed not just to break through, but to completely collapse the enemy’s defense? Why couldn’t the Germans preserve the integrity of the front and conduct an organized retreat to new positions? How did the heavy defeat of the Wehrmacht grow into the most terrible military catastrophe in German history? And whom to blame for this “epic rout”?…
Based on operational documents from not only Soviet but also German archives, this investigation reconstructs the course of the brilliant Operation Bagration, which largely determined the Great Victory.