Zhukov's Greatest Defeat

“The Soviet dead, missing and wounded were estimated at a staggering 335,000. Glantz describes the appalling carnage that occurred in the forests, mud, fog, freezing temperatures and raging snowstorms of western Russia [and] brings Operation Mars vividly to life.” - New York Times Book Review “This gripping study of the Soviet counter-offensive - a work of permanent value - reveals the full extent of Zhukov’s failure.” - New York Review of Books “Glantz’s evidence is impressive, his conclusions totally convincing, and the actual military detail unrivaled in the literature. A truly important work.” - Malcolm Macintosh, author of Juggernaut: A History of Soviet Armed Forces “Shows how greatly Soviet leaders distorted the war’s history in their attempts to present themselves as incapable of error.” - International History Review “Vivid, powerful, compelling.” - World War II”

David M. Glantz is the author of The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944, Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War, Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat: The Red Army’s Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, and When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, all published by Kansas.