
Red Army Tank Commanders
Red Army Tank Commanders The Armored Guards Author:Richard N. Armstrong Language:English text Format:Hardback Dimensions:6" x 9" Pages:476 Publisher:Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. ISBN:9780887405815 Tank and mechanized forces spearhead Red Army operations from the gates of Stalingrad to the center of Berlin. This new book profiles Six Soviet commanders who rose to lead six tank armies created by the Red Army on the eastern front during the Second World War: Mikhail Efimov Katukov, Semen Ill'ich Bogdanov, Pavel Semenovich Rybalko, Dmitri Danilovich Lelyushenko, Pavel Alekseevich Rotmistrov, and Andrei Grigorevich Kravchenko. Each tank commanders' combat career is examined, as is the rise of Red Army forces, and reveals these lesser known leaders and their operations to western military history readers.Richard N. Armstrong, a colonel in the United States Army, has served in military intelligence since 1969, and holds a m