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Fallen Soviet Generals: Soviet General Officers Killed in Battle, 1941-1945 (Soviet (Russian) Military Institutions)
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No war has caused greater human suffering than the Second World War on Germanys Eastern Front. Victory in the war cost the Red Army over 29 million casualties, whose collective fate is only now being properly documented. Among the many millions of soldiers who made up that gruesome toll were an unprecedented number of Red Army general officers. Many of these perished on the battlefield or in prison camps at the hands of their German tormentors. Others fell victim to equally terrifying Stalinist repression. Together these generals personify the faceless nature of the war of the Eastern Front - the legions of forgotten souls who perished in the war.
Covered up for decades, the saga of these victims of war can now be told and in this volume, A A Maslov begins the difficult process of memorializing these warrior casualties. Using formerly secret Soviet archival materials and personal interviews with the families of the officers, he painstakingly documents the fate of Red Army generals who fell victim to wartime enemy action.

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CASS SERIES ON SOVIET (RUSSIAN) MILITARY INSTITUTIONS

Fallen Soviet Generals

CASS SERIES ON SOVIET (RUSSIAN) MILITARY INSTITUTIONS

Series Editor: David M. Glantz
ISSN 1462-1835

This series examines the nature and evolution of Soviet military institutions in peace and war and the human dimension of the Soviet Army.

1.	Aleksander A. Maslov, translated and edited by David M. Glantz, Fallen Soviet Generals: Soviet General Officers Killed in Battle, 19411945. (ISBN 0 7146 4790 X cloth, 0 7146 4346 7 paper)

CASS SERIES ON SOVIET (RUSSIAN) STUDY OF WAR

Series Editor: David M. Glantz
ISSN 1462-0960

This series examines what Soviet military theorists and commanders have learned from the study of their own military operations.

1.	Harold S. Orenstein, translator and editor, Soviet Documents on the use of War Experience, Volume I, The Initial Period of War 1941, with an Introduction by David M. Glantz. (ISBN 0 7146 3392 5 cloth)
2.	Harold S. Orenstein, translator and editor, Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience, Volume II, The Winter Campaign 19411942, with an Introduction by David M. Glantz. (ISBN 0 7146 3393 3 cloth)
3.	Joseph G. Welsh, translator, Red Armor Combat Orders: Combat Regulations for Tank and Mechanized Forces 1944, edited and with an Introduction by Richard N. Armstrong. (ISBN 0 7146 3401 8 cloth)
4.	Harold S. Orenstein, translator and editor, Soviet Documents on the Use of War Experience, Volume III, Military Operations 1941 and 1942, with an Introduction by David M. Glantz. (ISBN 0 7146 3402 6 cloth)
5.	William A. Burhans, translator, The Nature of the Operations of Modem Armies by V.K. Triandafillov, edited by Jacob W. Kipp, with an Introduction by James J. Schneider. (ISBN 0 7146 4501 X cloth, 0 7146 4118 9 paper)
6.	Harold S. Orenstein, translator, The Evolution of Soviet Operational Art, 19271991: The Documentary Basis, Volume I, Operational Art, 19271964, with an Introduction by David M. Glantz. (ISBN 0 7146 4547 8 cloth, 0 7146 4228 2 paper)
7.	Harold S. Orenstein, translator, The Evolution of Soviet Operational Art, 19271991: The Documentary Basis, Volume II, Operational Art, 19651991, with an Introduction by David M. Glantz. (ISBN 0 7146 4548 6 cloth, 0 7146 4229 0 paper)
8.	Richard N. Armstrong and Joseph G. Welsh, Winter Warfare: Red Army Orders and Experiences. (ISBN 0 7146 4699 7 cloth, 0 7146 4237 1 paper)
9.	Lester W. Grau, The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan. (ISBN 0 7146 4874 4 cloth, 0 7146 4413 7 paper)

First published 1998 in Great Britain by
FRANK CASS PUBLISHERS
Published 2016 by Routledge

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Maslov, Aleksander A.

Fallen Soviet generals : Soviet general officers killed in battle,

19411945. (Cass series on Soviet (Russian) military institutions)

1. Generals Soviet Union 2. World War, 19391945

Casualties Soviet Union

I. Title

940.540092247

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maslov, Aleksander A., 1961

Fallen Soviet generals : Soviet general officers killed in battle, 19411945 /

by Aleksander A. Maslov : translated and edited by David M. Glantz.

p. cm. (Cass series on Soviet (Russian) military institutions : 1)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7146-4790-X (cloth). ISBN 0-7146-4346-7 (pbk.)

1. World War, 19391945 Biography. 2. Generals Soviet Union

Biography. 3. Soviet Union. Raboche-Krest ianskai Krasnaia

Armiia Biography. 4. World War, 19391945 Registers of dead

Soviet Union. I. Glantz, David M. II. Title. III. Series.

D736.M32 1998

940.546747dc21

97-39035
CIP

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

ISBN 978-0-714-64790-6 (hbk)
ISBN 978-0-714-64346-5 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-315-03788-2 (eISBN)

In blessed memory of the generals and admirals of the Red Army and Soviet Fleet, who fell on the fields of battle of the Great Patriotic War during the struggle with fascism

Contents

Today, over 50 years after the end of the Second World War, the wartime Red Army remains largely faceless to the Western and, often, even to the Russian reading public. This is not surprising considering the fact that, until recently, the Soviet-German War itself was largely an unknown war. Western and Soviet historians alike have made immense strides in recent years to lift the veil of obscurity and to expose the gruesome details of this most horrible of mankinds wars. Survey histories now chronicle the wars awesome course, operational histories describe many of the wars most extensive and important operations, and memoir literature reveals the role of leading military figures in charting the wars course. There are major gaps, of course, but these gaps are being painstakingly filled as archival materials slowly surface and are exploited.

Despite all of this work, the Red Army remains essentially faceless. Books have described the lives and exploits of a few notable high-level commanders of the stature and station of G. K. Zhukov, K. K. Rokossovsky, I. S. Konev, and others, but few have related the experiences of the countless officers and soldiers who served under these famous men. Other books have documented the overall scale of human sacrifice in the war and, using cold and emotionless charts, they have surgically recounted the tally of dead and wounded in each major battle and operation. Still other works have painstakingly provided the order of battle on both sides; sterile lists of formations, units and subunits which fought, bled, and sometimes perished in the crucible of war. As valuable as these sources are and as revealing as they are of the horror of the war, most lack personality and any sense of the human dimension. The casualty figures and seemingly endless unit enumerations cover up the stark fact that individuals, man and sometimes woman alike, made up these gruesome casualty lists and manned and shared the fate of these units.

This book begins the arduous process of correcting this cruel reality. Combining the skill of the researcher with a dogged determination to overcome bureaucratic constraints, brutal historical censorship and national bias, Aleksander Maslov has begun to give the Soviet soldier his due by restoring a human face and human dimension to those millions who perished in the war. Although it is only a beginning, and others will have to pay similar homage to those who survived the war, Maslov has shown what can be done if the will is found to do it.

As gruesome and depressing as this books title sounds, it does far more than simply catalogue the names of the dead and the forgotten. While resurrecting the names and fates of these fallen generals, it also resurrects their lives, their accomplishments, and, in many instances, their personalities. After spending over 50 years in near total oblivion, they can now once again live through their deeds and in the memories of their descendant families and nations. Through this magnificent effort, Maslov has put a face on the most faceless portion of the Soviet general officer corps. While doing so, and by including hitherto unavailable and often forbidden biographical data, he has also written an insightful social history of the prewar and wartime Soviet general officer corps.

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