List of Maps, Photographs, and Tables
Preface
Selected Abbreviations
1. The Situation in Mid-November 1942
-The Strategic Situation
-Opposing Orders of Battle
-Correlation of Opposing Forces
2. Opposing Forces
-Rifle (Infantry) and Artillery Forces
-Tank Forces
-Engineer Forces
-Air Forces
-Railroad Forces
-Penal and Blocking Forces
3. the Trans-Caucasus Front’s Planning and Operations in November and December 1942
-General
-The Northern Group of Forces’ Initial Counterstroke, 13-19 November 1942
-The Operations Lull, 19-26 November 1942
-The Northern Group’s Second Counterstroke, 27 November - 7 December 1942
-Army Group A’s Limited Withdrawal and the Northern Group’s Pursuit, 21-25 December 1942
-Soviet Assessments of the Northern Group’s Operations in December 1942
-Hitler’s Decision to Withdraw Army Group A from the Caucasus Region
4. The Stavka’s and Trans-Caucasus Front’s Offensive Planning, 29 December 1942 - 2 January 1943
-The Strategic Situation in Late December 1942
-The Trans-Causasus Front’s Plans for Offensive Operations along the Krasnodar and Stavropol’ Axes
-The Stavka Alters Its Strategy
5. The Northern Group of Forces’ Pursuit of First Panzer Army to Armavir, 1-23 January 1943
-The Northern Group’s Advance to the Kuma river, 1-8 January
-The Northern Group’s Pursuit Northward from the Kuma River, 9-14 January
-The Northern Group’s Revised Plans for an Advance to Stavropol’ and Tikhoretsk, 14-16 January
-The Northern Group’s Advance to Stavropol’ and Armavir, 15-23 January
-Conclusions
6. The Krasnodar Axis: The Black Sea Group of Forces’ Operations Sea (More) and Mountain (Gory), 1-31 January 1943
-Comparison of the Northern and Black Sea Groups’ Operations
-The Black Sea Group’s Area of Operations
-Opposing Forces
-Soviet Operational Planning, 23 December 1942 - 11 January 1943
-Regrouping of Forces and Reinforcement, 2-16 January
-German Seventeenth Army’s Withdrawal Plan
-Preliminary Military Operations, 5-15 January
-The Black Sea Group of Forces’ Main Offensive, 16-22 January
-Regrouping of Forces and Reinforcement, 2-16 January
-German Seventeenth Army’s Withdrawal Plan
-Preliminary Military Operations, 5-15 January
-The Black Sea Group of Forces’ Main Offensive, 16-22 January
-The Black Sea Group’s Offensive, 23-31 January
-Conclusions
-Postscript
7. the North Caucasus Front’s Pursuit of First Panzer Army to Tikhoretsk and the Panzer Army’s Escape, 24 January - 2 February 1943
-The Situation on 24 January
-The North Caucasus Front’s Advance to Egorlykskaia, 24-26 January
-The North Causasus Front’s Advance and First and Fourth Panzer Armies’ Counterstroke, 24-30 January
-Stalemate at Rostov and First Panzer Army’s Escape, 31 January - 2 February
-Conclusions
8. Conclusions
The Situation in January 1943
-Competing Strategies
-Costs and Problems
-Summary Judgments
Appendix A: Soviet and Axis Orders of Battle in the Caucasus Region, 1 November 1942 - 2 February 1943
Appendix B: Documents on the Struggle for the Caucasus Region, 19 November 1942 - 6 February 1943
Appendix C: Combat Strengths of the Trans-Caucasus Front’s Forces, November 1942 - February 1943
Appendix D: Correlations of Opposing Forces
Appendix E: Soviet Estimates of the Strength of German Forces
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
