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Behind Soviet Lines - Hitler's Brandenburgers Capture the Mailkop Oilfields 1942

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Raid

MSRP old price: $18.95


Product Info

Title
Behind Soviet Lines - Hitler's Brandenburgers Capture the Mailkop Oilfields 1942
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
David Higgins
Publish Year
2014
Pages
80
Dimensions
7.25x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147562333
MFG. Part #
OSPRAID047
Type
Softcover
Series
RAID47

Description

In the summer of 1942, following the invasion of Russia the previous year, Hitler’s ‘Brandenburger’ commando units undertook a daring operation deep inside Soviet-held territory. Disguised as members of Stalin’s NKVD, the secret police dreaded by most Soviet citizens and soldiers, the Brandenburgers passed unsuspected past the Red Army’s checkpoints, before launching their surprise operation to seize the vital Soviet oil facilities around Maikop – delivering them intact into Nazi hands. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this expert assessment of the Maikop operation casts new light on German special-forces operations on the Eastern Front.