44 Soviet Partisan vs German Security Soldier

Soviet Partisan
VERSUS
German Security Soldier
Eastern Front 1941–44
The savage partisan fighting on World War II’s Eastern Front saw a
wide variety of forces deployed by both sides. Soviet civilian partisans
X

(+) fought alongside and in co-operation with Red Army troops and the Red
GALLAS
Army and NKVD ‘special forces’, as they battled against German Army
Rudnevo

2
1

X
security units with indigenous components including cavalry, who were Eastern Front 1941–44
reinforced by SS police, Waffen-SS units and other front-line troops

Soviet Partisan
Lunevka
2 Kalinin (-)
X

employed for short periods in anti-partisan roles. This study provides

Eastern Front 1941–44

SHIPOVALOV
13 Kalinin (-) Grom
BABAKOV
X a background history of these forces, and analyses three examples of
8 Kalinin (-)
KARLIKOV partisan and German anti-partisan operations that show successes

3
4 X

SHIPOVALOV
Kalinin
and failures on both sides. Notably, it covers Operation Spring Clean,
a major German offensive in north-west Russia during the spring of VERSUS
German Security Soldier
BABAKOV
KARLIKOV
Lake
Lake Ale
1943 which saw Wehrmacht security forces including local components
Lobno

fighting alongside troops under the SS umbrella against a number of

Soviet partisan brigades. During this operation the German forces
even employed captured French tanks against these partisan fighters.
Drawing on a plethora of fascinating sources and supported by specially Alexander Hill
commissioned artwork, this in an absorbing account of the brutal fighting
between German security forces and their Soviet partisan opponents
during the long struggle for victory on the Eastern Front.

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¡ Insights into the realities of front-line combat
¡ Innovative split-screen artwork
¡ Expert analysis combined with gripping first-hand accounts
Alexander Hill

¡ Strategic and tactical maps

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 Author Illustrator D i s c o v e r m o r e a t w w w. o s p r e y p u b l i s h i n g . c o m
Alexander Hill is a professor in military history at the Johnny Shumate began his career in 1987 after graduating
University of Calgary in Canada, and specializes in Soviet from Austin Peay State University, and now works as a
military history from 1917 to 1945. He has published freelance illustrator. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe
a range of books and articles that cover not only the Red Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences
Army at war but also the Soviet Navy and Soviet partisan are Angus McBride, Don Troiani and Édouard Detaille.
movement. He is the author of NVG 256 Soviet Destroyers
of World War II for Osprey.

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