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Article: Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944.(Book review)
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- Infantry Magazine
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- March 1, 2008
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Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944. By David M. Glantz. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007, 448 pages. Reviewed by LTC Michael A. Boden,
David Glantz, one of the leading scholars on the Second World War's Eastern Front, has published another fine study with his book Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944. Here, Glantz analyzes a more difficult subject than many of his earlier works, as he attempts to make sense of the "forgotten" Soviet Spring 1944 offensives into Romania. They are "forgotten" because, as clear Soviet failures--tactically, operationally, and ...