Barbarossa Derailed, Volume 3: The Documentary Companion. Tables, Orders and Reports prepared by participating Red Army forces

628 Pages·2014·6.05 MB·english

by  David M. Glantz

Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence
for the two volumes of narrative. In addition to key Führer Directives issued by Adolf Hitler to
provide direction to his forces during the Barbarossa Campaign, as well as vital orders issued by
German Army Group Center, this book includes the daily operational summaries of the participating
Soviet fronts, armies, and some divisions and many, if not most, of the orders and reports issued by
the struggling Soviet armies. Precise translations illustrate not only the capabilities and states-ofmind
of key Soviet commanders as they dealt with crisis after crisis but also the characteristics (such as
aggressiveness, passivity, brutality, and despair) of their varied styles of command. They also
demonstrate how an army, which lost the bulk of its experienced troops during the first several
months of the campaign, attempted to use its operational directives and tactical orders to educate its
soldiers and officers in the basics of waging war in the midst of active and bloody operations.
A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the
U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College, Defense Language Institute, Institute for Russian
and Eastern European Studies, and War College, Colonel David M. Glantz served for over 30 years
in the U.S. Army before retiring in December 1993. He began his military career in 1963 as a field
artillery officer and served in various assignments in the United States and Vietnam from 1965 to
1969.
After teaching history at the United States Military Academy from 1969 through 1973, he
completed the army’s Soviet foreign area specialist program and became chief of estimates in US
Army Europe’s Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (USAREUR ODCSI) from 1977 to
1979. Upon his return to the United States in 1979, he became chief of research at the Army’s newly-
formed Combat Studies Institute (CSI) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1979 to 1983, and then
Director of Soviet Army Operations at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from
1983 to 1986.
Returning to Fort Leavenworth in 1986, he helped found and later directed the U.S. Army’s Soviet
(later Foreign) Military Studies Office (FMSO), where he remained until his retirement in 1993.
While at FMSO, he established The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, a scholarly journal for which
he still serves as chief editor.
A member of the Russian Federation’s Academy of Natural Sciences, he has written or co-authored
more than twenty commercially published books, over sixty self-published studies and atlases, and
over one hundred articles dealing with the history of the Red (Soviet) Army, Soviet military strategy,
operational art, and tactics, Soviet airborne operations, intelligence, and deception, and other topics
related to World War II. In recognition of his work, he has received several awards, including the
Society of Military History’s prestigious Samuel Eliot Morrison Prize for his contributions to the
study of military history.
BARBAROSSA DERAILED
THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK 10 JULY–10 SEPTEMBER
1941
Volume 3
The Documentary Companion
Tables, Orders and Reports Prepared by Participating Red Army Forces
David M. Glantz
Dedication
To my wife, Mary Ann, without whose assistance and loyal support, this and other books could not be
written
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Contents
List of Archival Maps
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Preface
Corrections to Volume Two
Appendices with Organizational Tables and Documents Regarding Specific Stages of the Battle
For Smolensk
A The Composition, Dispositions, Command Cadre, and Armored Strength of Mechanized Corps
Supporting the Western Front in July 1941
B The Western Front’s Lepel’ Counterstroke, 6-9 July 1941
C Army Group Center’s Advance on Smolensk and the Timoshenko “Counteroffensive,” 10-15 July
1941
D The Composition and Command Cadre of the Front of Reserve Armies, 14 July 1941
E The Composition and Command Cadre of the Front of the Mozhaisk Defense Line, 18 July 1941
F Army Group Center’s Encirclement Battle at Smolensk, 16-23 July 1941
G The First Soviet Counteroffensive, 23-31 July 1941
H The Struggle for the Smolensk Pocket, 23-31 July 1941
I The Northern Flank: Nevel’ and Velikie Luki, 16-31 July 1941
J The Southern Flank, the Fall of Mogilev and the Problem of 21st Army (Guderian’s Advance to the
Sozh River), 16-31 July 1941
K Armeegruppe Guderian’s Destruction of Group Kachalov, 31 July-6 August 1941
L The Reduction of the Smolensk Pocket, 1-6 August 1941
M The Stavka Regroups its Forces, 30 July-11 August 1941
N Armeegruppe Guderian’s and Second Army’s Southward March and the Fall of Gomel’, 8-21
August 1941
O The Second Soviet Counteroffensive: The Western Front’s Dukhovshchina Offensive, 6-24 August
1941
P The Second Soviet Counteroffensive: The Reserve Front’s El’nia Offensive, 8-24 August 1941
Q The Northern Flank: Group Stumme’s Advance to Velikie Luki and Toropets, 21-28 August 1941
R The Northern Flank: Group Stumme’s Advance to Zapadnaia Dvina, 29 August-9 September
S The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Western Front’s Dukhovshchina Offensive, 25 August-10
September 1941
T The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Reserve Front’s El’nia Offensive, 30 August-10 September
1941
U (Part 1) Armeegruppe Guderian’s Jockeying for Position along the Desna River, 22-25 August 1941
U (Part 2) Armeegruppe Guderian’s Advance across the Desna River, 25-28 August 1941
U (Part 3) The Third Soviet Counteroffensive: The Briansk Front’s Roslavl’-Novozybkov Offensive,
29 August-14 September 1941
V The Roslavl’-Novozybkov Offensive: The Records of 108th Tank Division and 40th Army’s 10th
Tank Division, 28 August-14 September 1941
W Excerpts from the Southwestern Front’s Daily Operational Directives and Summaries about 40th
Army’s Positions and Situation, 28 August-10 September 1941 [not in the narrative]
Index to Documents and Tables