这是一场规模和意义都超过1943年德国装甲部队在库尔斯克附近的著名战败的坦克战。然而，在乌克兰西北部一片被称为“血腥三角”的地带，2000多辆苏联和德国坦克发生了为期一周的冲突，人们对此知之甚少
这本书首次深入描述了这场关键的战斗，它始于1941年6月24日，也就是希特勒入侵苏联的巴巴罗萨行动两天后。作家维克多·卡米尼尔描述了乌克兰西北部1800平方英里的三角洲上相互对抗的力量。他为国防军和红军部队提供了详细的作战命令，并对比了苏联和德国坦克的优缺点，展示了德国人如何缓慢而果断地击败俄罗斯人，显然为莫斯科和苏联的最终失败开辟了道路。然而，正如卡米尼尔的描述所表明的那样，即使在俄德战争的早期阶段，苏联人也能够放慢速度，甚至阻止纳粹的霸主。最后，事实证明，当德国国防军的进攻在深冬的莫斯科大门口停滞不前时，红军获得的几天确实是决定性的，这预示着德国人的末日。
Bloody Triangle: The Defeat of Soviet Armor in the Ukraine, June 1941
It was a tank battle exceeded in size and significance only by the famous defeat of Germany’s Panzer force near Kursk in 1943. And yet, little is known about this weeklong clash of more than two thousand Soviet and German tanks in a stretch of northwestern Ukraine that came to be known as the “bloody triangle.”
This book offers the first in-depth account of this critical battle, which began on 24 June 1941, just two days into Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Author Victor Kamenir describes the forces arrayed against each other across that eighteen-hundred-square-mile-triangle in northwestern Ukraine. Providing detailed orders of battle for both Wehrmacht and Red Army Forces and contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet and German tanks, he shows how the Germans slowly and decisively overwhelmed the Russians, apparently opening the way to Moscow and the ultimate defeat of the Soviet Union. And yet, as Kamenir’s account makes clear, even at this early stage of the Russo-German war the Soviets were able to slow down and even halt the Nazi juggernaut. Finally, the handful of days gained by the Red Army did prove to have been decisive when the Wehrmacht attack stalled at the gates of Moscow in the dead of winter, foreshadowing the end for the Germans.
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