re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I do need to take you to task about that. It certainly applied to the early part of the war, but by the time of Stalingrad and especially the battles to liberate Belarus in 1944, their operations were both strategically and tactically brilliant: they had the Germans completely snookered as to their real intention and timed their attacks to really back-foot the Germans and send them reeling.

Looks like I’m going to have to make good use of pdfdrive’s search bar again! :-) At the moment, I’m just having fun finding books on Napoleonic war and tactics, but the tail-end of war on the Eastern Front might well be a good read.