Post by Jeff Grab on Jan 10, 2005 14:37:06 GMT -5
Dear sirs,
Leonid Grenkevich's 1999 work "The Soviet Partisan Movement 1941-1945; a critical analysis" forever changed my view of WWII on the Eastern Front or "The Great Patriotic War" as it is called in the former USSR. During the Soviet era much of the facts about the Partisan Movement were secret and Grenkevich says that there are still sealed archives on the subject. What the reader comes away with is an appreciation of the massiveness of the war behind the lines. Recently Radio Moscow acknowledged that the GPW was indeed "a two front war"-this is to say that the Axis forces were faced with Soviet forces to the front and to the rear. No little raggedy guerrillas nipping at their supply lines as we grew up reading about-there were huge and well organized military structures wreaking havoc in the rear areas. I believe the figure was that 70% of Beyelorussia was controlled by the Partisans by 1944-and this played a large part in The Destruction of Army Group Centre or Operation Ba
gration. As the Soviet Archives are further explored there will certainly be more relevations. Link to the Grenkevich book on Amazon; www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0714648744/thehistorypro-21">
Leonid Grenkevich's 1999 work "The Soviet Partisan Movement 1941-1945; a critical analysis" forever changed my view of WWII on the Eastern Front or "The Great Patriotic War" as it is called in the former USSR. During the Soviet era much of the facts about the Partisan Movement were secret and Grenkevich says that there are still sealed archives on the subject. What the reader comes away with is an appreciation of the massiveness of the war behind the lines. Recently Radio Moscow acknowledged that the GPW was indeed "a two front war"-this is to say that the Axis forces were faced with Soviet forces to the front and to the rear. No little raggedy guerrillas nipping at their supply lines as we grew up reading about-there were huge and well organized military structures wreaking havoc in the rear areas. I believe the figure was that 70% of Beyelorussia was controlled by the Partisans by 1944-and this played a large part in The Destruction of Army Group Centre or Operation Ba
gration. As the Soviet Archives are further explored there will certainly be more relevations. Link to the Grenkevich book on Amazon; www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0714648744/thehistorypro-21">
