During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany's
Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammer blows from
the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able
to avoid serious defeats, while at the same time fending off Hitler's
insane orders to hold on to useless territory.
Then, in January
1944, a disaster happened. Six divisions of Army Group South became
surrounded after sudden attacks by the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts
under command of generals Nikolai Vatutin and Ivan Konev around the
village of Korsun (near the larger town of Cherkassy on the Dnieper).
The Germans' greatest fear was the prospect of another Stalingrad, the
catastrophe that had occurred precisely one year before.This
time, though, Manstein was in control from the start, and he
immediately rearranged his Army Group to rescue his trapped divisions.
A major panzer drive got underway, led by General der Panzertruppen
Hans Hube, a survivor from Stalingrad pocket, which promptly ran up
against several soviet tank armies. Leading the break-in was Franz
Baeke with his Tiger and Panther-tanks. Due to both weather and
ferocious resistance, the German drive stalled. Ju-52s still flew into
Korsun's airfield, delivering supplies and taking out wounded, but it
soon became apparent that only one option remained for the beleaguered
defenders: breakout.Without consulting Hitler, on the night of
February 16 Manstein ordered the breakout to begin. Led by the
strongest formation within the pocket, SS Wiking, the trapped forces
surged out and soon rejoined the surrounding panzer divisions who had
been fully engaged in weakening the ring.When dawn broke, the
Soviets realized their prey was escaping. Although the Germans within
the pocket lost nearly all of their heavy weapons and left many wounded
behind, their escape was effected. Stalin, having anticipated another
Stalingrad, was left with little but an empty bag, as Army Group
South-this time-had pulled off a rescue. In The Korsun Pocket,
Niklas Zetterling, a researcher at the Swedish Defense College since
1995 and Anders Frankson, have provided a highly detailed and often
breathtaking account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War
II. From grand strategy to soldiers' voices on the ground, including
expert statistical analysis, the action, and the stakes, of the battle
at Korsun are made vividly clear.
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