纳粹和苏联军队在克里米亚半岛进行了长达三年的围攻、数十次两栖登陆和大规模演习。这部权威性的英语作品讲述了克里米亚的野蛮战争，铁十字架生长在克里米亚，为东线的这一重要方面带来了新的曙光。
克里米亚是东线战争的熔炉之一，先是苏联军队，然后是德国军队被包围，进行了绝望的战斗，最终被摧毁。该地区的战斗在许多方面对东线来说都是不寻常的，因为海军补给、两栖登陆和海军撤离发挥了重要作用，而双方也在进行种族清洗，作为其战略的一部分——德国人消灭犹太人，苏联人清除该地区的鞑靼人。
从1941年第一批苏联人首次建立塞瓦斯托波尔防御区开始，克里米亚就成为东部战争的焦点。1941年至1942年，著名指挥官曼斯坦领导的德国军队占领了该地区，随后是两年的残酷殖民和占领，1944年苏联反攻摧毁了德国第17军。
Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44 (General Military)
Nazi and Soviet armies fought over the Crimean Peninsula for three long years using sieges, dozens of amphibious landings, and large scale maneuvers. This definitive English-language work on the savage battle for the Crimea, Where the Iron Crosses Grow sheds new light on this vital aspect of the Eastern Front.
The Crimea was one of the crucibles of the war on the Eastern Front, where first a Soviet and then a German army were surrounded, fought desperate battles and were eventually destroyed. The fighting in the region was unusual for the Eastern Front in many ways, in that naval supply, amphibious landings and naval evacuation played major roles, while both sides were also conducting ethnic cleansing as part of their strategy – the Germans eliminating the Jews and the Soviets to purging the region of Tartars.
From 1941, when the first Soviets first created the Sevastopol fortified region, the Crimea was a focal point of the war in the East. German forces under the noted commander Manstein conquered the area in 1941-42, which was followed by two years of brutal colonization and occupation before the Soviet counteroffensive in 1944 destroyed the German 17th Army.
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