As dawn broke on June 22, 1944, the Belorussian front erupted in a thunderous roar. Over thirty-two thousand Soviet artillery pieces unleashed their fury upon the German lines, marking the start of ...

The operation was codenamed ‘Bagration’ after Pyotr Bagration – a famous general of Georgian descent in Mikhail Kutuzov’s army, who played an important role in stopping the Napoleonic ...

The Soviets overestimated German strength when planning Bagration, believing they faced some 850,000 Germans opposite them. This caused a delay to the offensive as the Soviets amassed more than 1. ...

There, in an offensive known as Operation Bagration, "more than six million men of Stalin's Red Army were driving back about two million of Hitler's best troops". "Endgame" tells the story of this ...

Read more about the meaning behind the tiara, here. Below, the original story on the Bagration Spinel tiara. Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, who is one of Britain's wealthiest men ...

As a result of the offensive in Belarus, known as Operation Bagration, the Wehrmacht units and SS troops lost up to half a million soldiers, and Army Group Center, one of the formations tasked ...

In addition to the Operation Bagration referred to in the book’s subtitle, it also covers the later Lvov-Sandomierz and Vistula operations. Essentially, we have here the final offensives of the Red ...

Few of us even know its name, but this June also marks the 80th anniversary of OPERATION BAGRATION, the massive Soviet Offensive in Belarus that annihilated German Army Group Centre. Where allied ...

The Soviet army’s Operation Bagration offensive in June 1944 destroyed their greatest nemesis — Nazi Germany’s Army Group Center — and drove hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops and ...

TASS/. Russia’s Defense Ministry has published unique documents on Operation Bagration for the liberation of Byelorussia during the Soviet Union’s 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi ...