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    Clausewitz And Torgau: Link-Up On The Elbe
    Clausewitz And Torgau: Link-Up On The Elbe
    Clausewitz And Torgau: Link-Up On The Elbe
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    Clausewitz And Torgau: Link-Up On The Elbe

    By Lt.-Col. Howard S. Perry III

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    There has been a great deal of speculation and questions raised as to why the United States and the Western Allies allowed the Soviets to capture the Nazi capital of Berlin. This study will address a number of reasons why the U.S. did not challenge the Soviets for Berlin. In prosecuting World War II, the Soviets never forgot Clausewitz’s dictum that war is a continuation of politics by other means. Stalin, who was determined to liberate every East European capital, suspected that the Allies might try a headlong rush to Berlin in April and May 1945. He therefore decided to take diplomatic and military steps to make sure the Allies would not participate in the capture of the German capital. Recent translated material made available through glasnost, provides evidence that the top USSR priority in the closing days of WWII in Europe was to block the Allied advance to Berlin and only then systematically take the city of Berlin.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucknow Books
    Release dateNov 6, 2015
    ISBN9781786252500
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      Clausewitz And Torgau - Lt.-Col. Howard S. Perry III

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      Text originally published in 1963 under the same title.

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      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      CLAUSEWITZ AND TORGAU: LINK-UP ON THE ELBE

      HOWARD S. PERRY III, LTC, USA

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      ABSTRACT 5

      CLAUSEWITZ AND TORGAU: LINK-UP ON THE ELBE 6

      BROAD FRONT VERSUS A NARROW FRONT 7

      SOVIET GOALS 14

      BIBLIOGRAPHY 22

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 24

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 25

      ABSTRACT

      There has been a great deal of speculation and questions raised as to why the United States and the Western Allies allowed the Soviets to capture the Nazi capital of Berlin. This study will address a number of reasons why the U.S. did not challenge the Soviets for Berlin. In prosecuting World War II, the Soviets never forgot Clausewitz’s dictum that war is a continuation of politics by other means. Stalin, who was determined to liberate every East European capital, suspected that the Allies might try a headlong rush to Berlin in April and May 1945. He therefore decided to take diplomatic and military steps to make sure the Allies would not participate in the capture of the German capital. Recent translated material made available through glasnost, provides evidence that the top USSR priority in the closing days of WWII in Europe was to block the Allied advance to Berlin and only then systematically take the city of Berlin.

      CLAUSEWITZ AND TORGAU: LINK-UP ON THE ELBE

      "Subordinating the political point of view to the military would be absurd, for it is policy that creates war. Policy is the guiding intelligence and war only the

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