Book contents
- At War’s Summit
- Cambridge Military Histories
- At War’s Summit
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Path Towards the Top Summits of World War II
- 1 Russia’s Historical Experience in Mountain Warfare
- 2 Soviet Preparations for War in the Mountains
- 3 First Battle Tests and the Handicaps of Selective Learning
- 4 Contest of Follies: Plan Edelweiss and the German Offensive Across the High Caucasus
- 5 ‘Not a Step Back!’:The German Mountain Corps Hits the Wall
- 6 The Soviet Counteroffensive: A Stalemate Snatched from the Jaws of Victory
- 7 Mosaics of Mountain Warfare: Comparative Military Effectiveness in the High Caucasus
- 8 Learning Mountain Warfare the Hard Way
- 9 Lessons Ignored: Déjà Vu at Tuapse (1942) and in the Carpathians (1944)
- 10 Disdain for Military Professionalism as a Component of the Universal Stalinist Paradigm
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Soviet Preparations for War in the Mountains
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2018
- At War’s Summit
- Cambridge Military Histories
- At War’s Summit
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Path Towards the Top Summits of World War II
- 1 Russia’s Historical Experience in Mountain Warfare
- 2 Soviet Preparations for War in the Mountains
- 3 First Battle Tests and the Handicaps of Selective Learning
- 4 Contest of Follies: Plan Edelweiss and the German Offensive Across the High Caucasus
- 5 ‘Not a Step Back!’:The German Mountain Corps Hits the Wall
- 6 The Soviet Counteroffensive: A Stalemate Snatched from the Jaws of Victory
- 7 Mosaics of Mountain Warfare: Comparative Military Effectiveness in the High Caucasus
- 8 Learning Mountain Warfare the Hard Way
- 9 Lessons Ignored: Déjà Vu at Tuapse (1942) and in the Carpathians (1944)
- 10 Disdain for Military Professionalism as a Component of the Universal Stalinist Paradigm
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- At War's SummitThe Red Army and the Struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II, pp. 34 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018