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List of Illustrations vi
List of Maps vii
List of Tables x
Abbreviations xii
Preface 14
1 Introduction 17
Context 17
Army Group Center's Achievements, 22 June-6 August 1941 19
Army Group Center's Problems by 6 August 1941 21
Soviet Problems, 22 June-6, August 1941 24
Army Group Center's Achievements, 6-24 August 1941 25
German Problems, 6-24 August 1941 27
Competing Strategies in Late August 1941 29
2 The Northern Flank: Group Stumme's Advance to Toropets, 22-28 August 1941 31
Context 31
22nd Army's Encirclement and Soviet Command Confusion, 22-24 August 35
The German Pursuit To Toropets, 26-28 August 42
3 German Strategic Planning and Jockeying for Position along the Desna River, 22-24 August 1941 54
German Strategic Planning: The Tilt Toward Kiev, 22-25 August 55
The Operational Lull: Jockeying for Position along the Desna River, 22-24 August 68
German Preparations for the Kiev Offensive, 22-24 August 94
4 Second Panzer Group's Advance across the Desna River, The Stavka's Offensive Plan, and Group Stumme's Advance to Andreapol' and Zapadnaia Dvina, 25 August-9 September 1941 103
Guderian's Advance Across The Desna River, 25-28 August 103
The Stavka's Offensive Plan 129
The Northern Flank: Group Stumme's Advance to Andreapol' and Zapadnaia Dvina, 29 August-9 September 139
5 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Western Front's Dukhovshchina Offensive, Preliminaries and the First Stage, 25-31 August 1941 162
Preliminaries, 25-27 August 162
The First Stage, 28-31 August 187
6 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The "western Front's Dukhovshchina Offensive, The Second Stage, 1-10 September 1941 230
The Western Front's General Assault, 1-3 September 230
1 September 234
The Western Front's General Assault, 4-5 September 278
Dénouement, 6-9 September 295
The Western Front on the Defense, 10 September 300
Problems and Critiques 310
7 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Reserve Front's El'nia Offensive, 30 August-10 September 1941 322
Planning and Preliminaries, 24-29 August 322
24th Army's Assault, 30 August-3 September 332
The German Withdrawal, 4-5 September 347
Postscript 354
Conclusions: Dukhovshchina and El'nia Compared 358
8 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Briansk Front's Roslavl'-Novozybkov Offensive, the First Stage, 29 August-I September 1941 364
The Situation On 29 August 364
Planning and Operations, 29-31 August 371
The Briansk Front's Forces and Problems 375
The Briansk Front's Offensive Planning and Operations, 31 August-1 September 400
9 The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Briansk Front's Roslavl'-Novozybkov Offensive, the Second Stage, 2-14 September 1941 425
The General Counteroffensive, 2-6 September 425
Postscript: The Road to Kiev, 7-14 September 488
Conclusions 497
10 Conclusions 504
The Missions of Operation Barbarossa 504
German Strategy and Operations 506
Postwar Critiques 512
Soviet Strategy and Operations 515
The Red Army's Problems 525
Comparative Losses 527
The Soldiers and their Commanders 542
Summary Judgments 545
What's New about the Battle for Smolensk 546
11 Photographs of Commanders 550
German 550
Soviet 552
Appendices
A Comparative Orders of Battle, I August-I September 1941 554
B The Numerical Composition of Soviet Forces in the Battle of Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941 567
C The Numerical Composition of Enemy Groupings Operating in the Sector of the Groupings of Soviet Forces at the Beginning of the Battle for Smolensk 568
D The Red Army's Personnel Losses during, the Battle for Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941 569
E Army Group Center's Personnel Losses during the Battle for Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941 (A Soviet Perspective) 570
F Army Group Center's Losses in Weapons and Equipment during the Battle for Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941 (A Soviet Perspective) 571
G The Composition of the Pinsk Military Flotilla in the Battle for Smolensk, 10 July-10 September 1941 572
H The Red Army's Strength on 30 September 1941 573
Selective Annotated Bibliography 574
Index 582
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