January 2008; 96 pages; 20 MB
Author: Robert Forczyk
Illustrator: Howard Gerrard
Von Manstein’s triumph
(Campaign 189)
About this book
In late July 1941, Hitler ordered Army Group South to seize the Crimea as part of its operations to secure the Ukraine and the Donets Basin, in order to protect the vital Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti from Soviet air attack. After weeks of heavy fighting, the Germans breached the Soviet defences and overran most of the Crimea. By November 1941 the only remaining Soviet foothold in the area was the heavily fortified naval base at Sevastopol. More