Lopukhovsky Lev - The Price of Victory

The Price of Victory

The Red Armys Casualties in the Great Patriotic War

Lev Lopukhovsky and Boris Kavalerchik

Translated by Harold Orenstein

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by

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A German soldier and a dead Soviet tanker with a burning BT-5 tank in the background. Army Group South, June 1941.

A crew member of a Soviet T-26 light tank surrenders to the Germans. Army Group Centre, August 1941.

Soviet POWs captured by the Germans near Stalingrad. Army Group South, summer 1942.

A Soviet POW quenches his thirst from a muddy puddle. Army Group South, July 1942.

A column of Soviet POWs captured during the Battle of Kursk. Summer 1943.

Soviet POWs transported in open freight cars. Army Group Centre, Vitebsk,

21 September 1941.

Soviet POWs in the Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria. October 1941.

A German firing squad executing a group of Soviet partisans. Army Group North, September 1941.

Colonel Nikolai Ilyich Lopukhovsky, commander of the 120th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the Supreme Command Reserve. The father of one of the authors of this book, he was killed in action on 13 October 1941 while attempting to break out of the encirclement near Viazma.

Soviet POWs captured in the Viazma encirclement. October 1941.

A column of Soviet POWs in the Viazma region. October 1941.

Soviet POWs captured in the Viazma and Bryansk encirclements. October 1941.

Soviet POWs help their wounded comrades. 1941.

A German guard hastens Soviet POWs with a stick. 1941.

Local women bring bread to starving Soviet POWs. 1942.

The infamous Uman pit. Here, in a clay quarry of a local brick factory, Germans kept 60,00070,000 Soviet POWs surrounded near Uman, Ukraine. Army Group South, August 1941.

German POWs being marched through the streets of Moscow, 17 July 1944.

German POWs captured near Stalingrad. December 1942.

A German military cemetery in Russia. 1943.

The registration card of a Soviet POW, Sergeant F.A. Anisov. He served in 120th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the Supreme Command Reserve and was captured on 7 September 1941 near Yelnya. He died on 26 April 1943 in Stalag X-B, located near Sandbostel, Germany.

A Soviet soldiers plastic capsule which contained a paper insert with the soldiers personal information. It belonged to Private N.T.