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The Second World War and the Baltic States
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Edited By James S. Corum, Olaf Mertelsmann and Kaarel Piirimäe
This volume places the history of the Second World War and the Baltic states into a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It includes contributions from the fields of diplomacy, strategy, military operations, intelligence and propaganda. It presents not only a multi-layered interpretation of a region affected by total war, but also reveals a great deal about the nature of that conflict. It discusses the attitudes of the great powers towards small states, the nature of military operations around the advent of mechanization and close air support, and techniques of population control and of steering opinion in the era of ideological regimes. Contributions on these topics add to our understanding of the Second World War as a pivotal event in the history of Europe in the 20
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The Baltic Region in the Soviet–German War, 1941–1945
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David M. Glantz
Because of its key strategic location along the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, the most important water artery in northern Europe, the Baltic region (specifically, the territory of the three Baltic states) figured prominently in the strategies that Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union formulated to conduct the Soviet–German War,1941–1945. As the war progressed, the region proved an important seat of war as the German Wehrmacht and Soviet Red Army planned and conducted military operations to realize their strategic ends.
Although often eclipsed by massive military operations along the vital western and southwestern strategic axes, operations in the Baltic region and along its associated northwestern axis played an important strategic role in the course and outcome of the war as a whole. This brief survey catalogues those military operations that took place in the Baltic region, assesses their impact, and identifies the most important questions about combat operations in the region that will need answers in the future
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