{"product_id":"the-viazma-catastrophe-1941-the-red-armys-disastrous-stand-against-operation-typhoon","title":"The Viaz'ma Catastrophe  1941: The Red Army's Disastrous Stand Against Operation Typhoon","description":"\u003cp\u003eNominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013  This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of their own people. Until recently  the magnitude of the defeats suffered by the Red Army at Viazma and Briansk were simply kept hushed up. For the first time  in this book a full picture of the combat operations that led to this tragedy are laid out in detail  using previously unknown or little-used documents.  The author was driven to write this book after his long years of fruitless search to learn what happened to his father Colonel N.I. Lopukhovsky  the commander of the 120th Howitzer Artillery Regiment  who disappeared together with his unit in the maelstrom of Operation Typhoon. He became determined to break the official silence surrounding the military disaster on the approaches to Moscow in the autumn of 1941.  In the present edition  the author additionally introduces documents from German military archives  which will doubtlessly interest not only scholars  but also students of the Eastern Front of the Second World War. Lopukhovsky substantiates his position on the matter of the true extent of the losses of the Red Army in men and equipment  which greatly exceeded the official data. In the Epilogue  he briefly discusses the searches he has conducted with the aim of revealing the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Soviet soldiers  who to this point have been listed among the missing-in-action - including his own father. The narrative is enhanced by numerous photographs  color maps and tables.  Lev Nikolaevich Lopukhovsky graduated from the prestigious Frunze Military Academy in 1962 and spent the next ten years serving in the Soviet Unions Strategic Rocket forces  rising to the rank of colonel and a regiment commander  before transferring to a teaching position in the Frunze Military Academy in 1972 due to health reasons. Lopukhovsky is a professor with the Russian Federations Academy of Military Sciences (2008)  and has been a member of Russias Union of Journalists since 2004. Since 1989 he has been engaged in the search for those defenders of the Fatherland who went missing-in-action in the Second World War  including his own father Colonel N.I. Lopukhovsky  who is now known to have been killed while breaking out of encirclement in October 1941. Motivated by his fathers disappearance  he had previously taken up the intense study of the Viazma defensive operation and wrote the initial manuscript of the present book. In 1980 this manuscript was rejected by military censors  because it contradicted official views. Lopukhovsky is the author of several other books about the war  including Prokhorovka bez grifa sekretnosti Prokhorovka without the seal of secrecy (2005)  Pervye dni voiny First days of the war (2007) and is the co-author of Iiun 1941: Zaprogrammirovannoe porazhenie June 1941: A Programmed Defeat (2010). For his active search work  he was awarded the civilian Order of the Silver Star.  Stuart Britton is a freelance translator and editor residing in Cedar Rapids  Iowa. He has been responsible for making a growing number of Russian titles available to readers of the English language  consisting primarily of memoirs by Red Army veterans and recent historical research concerning the Eastern Front of the Second World War and Soviet air operations in the Korean War. Notable recent titles include Valeriy Zamulins award-winning Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka  Kursk  July 1943: An Operational Narrative  (Helion  2011)  Boris Gorbachevskys Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldiers War on the Eastern Front 1942-45 (University Press of Kansas  2008) and Yuri Sutiagins and Igor Seidovs MiG Menace Over Korea: The Story of Soviet Fighter Ace Nikolai Sutiagin (Pen \u0026amp; Sword Aviation  2009). Future books will include Svetlana Gerasimovas analysis of the prolonged and savage fighting against Army Group Center in 1942-43 to liberate the city of Rzhev  and more of Igor Seidovs studies of the Soviet side of the air war in Korea  1951-1953.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984479973429,"sku":"ByrdShop_1908916508","price":52.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781908916501.jpg?v=1770834625","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-viazma-catastrophe-1941-the-red-armys-disastrous-stand-against-operation-typhoon","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}