| Operation ‘Barbarossa’: battles of Byelorussia, Smolensk & Moscow 1941 \n<\/TD> | 1,582,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Stalingrad September 1942-31 January 1943<\/TD> | 973,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Siege of Leningrad September 1941-27 January 1944<\/TD> | 900,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
\nKiev July-September 1941<\/TD> | 657,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> \n |
| Operation Bagration 1944<\/TD> | 450,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Kursk 1943 \n<\/TD> | 325,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Berlin 1945<\/TD> | 250,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| French campaign May-June 1940<\/TD> | 185,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Operation Overlord 6 June-21 July 1944<\/TD> | 132,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Budapest October 1944-February 1945<\/TD> | 130,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Polish campaign September 1939<\/TD> | 80,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Battle of the Bulge December 1944<\/TD> | 38,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> \n |
| Warsaw Rising 1 August-1 October 1944 (exc civilians) \n<\/TD> | 30,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
| Operation Market Garden September 1944<\/TD> | 16,000<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR> |
\nBattle of El Alamein October-November 1942<\/TD> | 4,650 \n<\/TD<\/TD><\/TR><\/TABLE> \nThe first seven of these campaigns were on the Eastern Front and, to give some kind of perspective, the death toll in Operation Barbarossa – the German invasion of the USSR – was 12 times that of the the opening phase of the invasion of Normandy by the Western allies. Controversially Davies opines: “All in all, the open-minded observer will be tempted to view the war effort of the Western powers as something of a sideshow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At last I’ve finished reading the 500-page work “Europe At War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory” written by the British historian Norman Davies. The main theme of this work is that the western nations have failed to comprehend and acknowledge the scale of the battles and the deaths on the Eastern Front which are such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |