Nikolai Vatutin’s salient was a long, narrow thrust into prewar Poland. To the Germans it looked like a dagger that could strike at Rumania, at Poland, at the last remaining rail line feeding the ...
Initially dismissed by German soldiers as a faceless Stalin puppet, Georgy Zhukov quickly became feared and respected as a brilliant and ruthless commander. His leadership during the Battle of Moscow ...
Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of Victory, protagonist of the Great Patriotic War. He went down in history as a great strategist. However, do his real deeds correspond to the title of a brilliant commander?