Glantz - Barbarossa Derailed, Volume 3

Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed , contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. In addition to key Fhrer Directives issued by Adolf Hitler to provide direction to his forces during the Barbarossa Campaign, as well as vital orders issued by German Army Group Center, this book includes the daily operational summaries of the participating Soviet fronts, armies, and some divisions and many, if not most, of the orders and reports issued by the struggling Soviet armies. Precise translations illustrate not only the capabilities and states-ofmind of key Soviet commanders as they dealt with crisis after crisis but also the characteristics (such as aggressiveness, passivity, brutality, and despair) of their varied styles of command. They also demonstrate how an army, which lost the bulk of its experienced troops during the first several months of the campaign, attempted to use its operational directives and tactical orders to educate its soldiers and officers in the basics of waging war in the midst of active and bloody operations.

A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the U.S. Armys Command and General Staff College, Defense Language Institute, Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies, and War College, Colonel David M. Glantz served for over 30 years in the U.S. Army before retiring in December 1993. He began his military career in 1963 as a field artillery officer and served in various assignments in the United States and Vietnam from 1965 to 1969.

After teaching history at the United States Military Academy from 1969 through 1973, he completed the armys Soviet foreign area specialist program and became chief of estimates in US Army Europes Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (USAREUR ODCSI) from 1977 to 1979. Upon his return to the United States in 1979, he became chief of research at the Armys newly-formed Combat Studies Institute (CSI) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1979 to 1983, and then Director of Soviet Army Operations at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1983 to 1986.

Returning to Fort Leavenworth in 1986, he helped found and later directed the U.S. Armys Soviet (later Foreign) Military Studies Office (FMSO), where he remained until his retirement in 1993. While at FMSO, he established The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, a scholarly journal for which he still serves as chief editor.

A member of the Russian Federations Academy of Natural Sciences, he has written or co-authored more than twenty commercially published books, over sixty self-published studies and atlases, and over one hundred articles dealing with the history of the Red (Soviet) Army, Soviet military strategy, operational art, and tactics, Soviet airborne operations, intelligence, and deception, and other topics related to World War II. In recognition of his work, he has received several awards, including the Society of Military Historys prestigious Samuel Eliot Morrison Prize for his contributions to the study of military history.

THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK 10 JULY10 SEPTEMBER 1941

Volume 3

The Documentary Companion

Tables, Orders and Reports Prepared by Participating Red Army Forces

David M. Glantz

Dedication

To my wife, Mary Ann, without whose assistance and loyal support, this and other books could not be written

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Map 1A: The Western Fronts Situation at 2000 hours on 5 July 1941. The Western Fronts Left Wing

Map 1B: The Western Fronts Situation at 2000 hours on 5 July 1941. The Western Fronts Right Wing

Map 2: The Correlation of Forces in the Western Fronts sector on 12 July 1941

Map 3A: Situation on 20 July 1941. The Western Fronts Left-Wing

Map 3B: Situation on 20 July 1941. The Western Fronts Right Wing.

Map 3C: The Dispositions of the 19th and 4th Reserve Armies on 21 July 1941

Map 5: The Basing of the Western Fronts Air Forces (VVS) on 1 August 1941

Map 6A: Situation from 6 through 8 August 1941. The Western Fronts Left Wing

Map 6B: Situation from 6 through 8 August 1941. The Western Fronts Center.

Map 6C: Situation from 6 through 8 August 1941. The Western Fronts Right Wing.

Map 7: The Western Fronts Situation and Force Missions according to Combat Order No. 01/op of 15 August 1941

Map 8: 20th Armys Combat Operations from 6 through 8 August 1941

Map 9: The Western Fronts Combat Operations from 24 August through 10 September 1941

Map 10A: Situation on 4 September 1941. The Briansk Fronts Left Wing.

Map 10B: Situation on 4 September 1941. The Briansk Fronts Right Wing.

Map 11: The Southwestern Fronts Situation Late on 9 September 1941 600

The 20th Armys Composition as of 6 August

Daily Correlation of Forces on 20th Armys Front

Equipment withdrawn from the Western Bank to the Eastern Bank of the Dnepr River by 20th Army

20th Armys Combat Composition on 15 August 1941

A List of the Trophy [Captured] Property Seized by 19th Armys Formations during the Period from 17 through 30 August 1941