From acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this engrossing account of the war on the Eastern Front as the German forces were driven back following the Battle of Kursk.
Making use of extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring the story to life, the narrative follows on from On a Knife’s Edge, the author’s previous title, which described the encirclement of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counter-offensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942–43. Beginning at the end of the Battle of Kursk, Retribution explores the massive Soviet offensive that saw depleted and desperate German troops forced out of Western Ukraine. In this title, Buttar describes in detail the little-known series of near-constant battles which saw a weakened German army confronted by a tactically sophisticated force of over six million Soviet troops. As a result, the Wehrmacht was driven back to the Dnepr, whilst German forces remaining in the Kuban Peninsula south of Rostov were forced back into the Crimea in a retreat which would become one of many in the ensuing months.
