Retribution, Prit Buttar
Retribution, Prit Buttar
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Retribution
The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943-44

Author: Prit Buttar

Narrator: Matthew Waterson

Unabridged: 17 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/22/2019

Synopsis

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this detailed and engrossing account of the war on the Eastern Front as the German forces were driven back following the Battle of Kursk.

Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring their story to life, the narrative follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counter-offensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942–43. Beginning towards the end of the Battle of Kursk, Retribution explores the massive Soviet offensive that followed the end of Operation Zitadelle, which saw depleted and desperate German troops forced out of Western Ukraine. In this title, Buttar describes in detail the little-known series of near-constant battles that saw a weakened German army confronted by a tactically sophisticated force of over six million Soviet troops. As a result, the Wehrmacht was driven back to the Dnepr and German forces remaining in the Kuban Peninsula south of Rostov were forced back into the Crimea, a retreat which would become one of many in the months that followed.

About Prit Buttar

Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He appeared from time to time on local and national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues, and contributed regularly to the medical press.

An established expert on the Eastern Front in 20th-century military history, Buttar's books include the critically acclaimed Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 and Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II and a definitive four-part series on the Eastern Front in World War I which concluded with The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21. He lives in Kirkcudbright, Scotland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by PETER

This is a very detailed book covering the bloody battles that took place in Ukraine, between the German and Soviet forces in 1943. The author has undertaken exhaustive research into the campaign from both perspectives. I particularly enjoyed reading the eyewitness accounts embedded into the timeline......more

Goodreads review by Creighton

I have to say that after reading this book, and A Knife’s Edge I am a huge fan of Prit Buttar, the author of this book. This was the second book of his that I have read, and it did not disappoint me whatsoever. The Eastern Front of the Second World War is a theatre of combat that is not really studi......more

Goodreads review by Heinz

Retribution is volume two of Prit Buttar's superb trilogy on the fighting in Ukraine from late 1942 through to the final Soviet shoving of Army Group South out of Ukraine. The second volume picks up a few months after the end of the first volume. The first volume, "On a Knife's Edge", ended with the......more

Goodreads review by John

Author Prit Buttar published the book “Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943” in 2019. He has published nine books. I received an ARC of this book through [URL not allowed] in return for a fair and honest review. I categorize this book as ‘G’. By 1943 the Nazi hope of def......more

Goodreads review by Nemo

AUTHOR Prit Buttard is a British general practitioner and writer. He has written multiple history genre books covering WWI and WWII. He even authored a couple of novels. He did a five-year stint in the British Army as a surgeon and medical officer. He had an outstanding career and recently moved with......more

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