The Bloody Triangle: Defeat of Soviet Armour in the Ukraine 1941 torrent

The Bloody Triangle: The Defeat of Soviet Armour in the Ukraine, 1941 - Victor J. Kamenir [pdf]

The armored clash near the Russian city of Kursk in 1943 has been widely known as the largest tank battle in history, involving over six thousand armored combat vehicles on both sides. However, the first large-scale armored struggle on the Eastern Front took place immediately following the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

In the early days of Operation Barbarossa, eighteen German divisions from Sixth Army and Panzer Group 1 were directly involved in the battle of the Bloody Triangle, which featured massive tank formations on both sides of the frontlines. From June 24 to July 1, roughly 650 German tanks and 180 assault gun and tank destroyers fought over 1,500 Soviet tanks in a roughly triangular area of approximately 1,800 square miles between the northwestern Ukrainian towns of Lutsk, Dubno, and Brody.

The Bloody Triangle details this titanic clash, which is one of the most important but little-known battles of World War II. This book gives an account of the epic battle, from the early planning when German intelligence determined the Soviet command and support structures to be slow to respond, bulky, cumbersome, and not ready to adapt to the rapidly changing tactical situation, to the last convulsive counteroffensive by the Russians on July 2, 1941. It is largely told in the words of the men who were there and sheds new light on how Soviet tank units melted away under merciless German hammer blows in 1941.

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Zenith Press; 1st edition (January 12, 2009)