08-01-2002, 10:40 PM
Christian,
I totally don't understand how can you separate strategic genius from battlefield exploits, but if you insist on that just look at the maps of Stalingrad, Vislo-Oder and Berlin operations. Just these three outweight everything else that was ever planned during WWII by other commanders. These operations are brilliant, and are still studied by military cadets all over the world.
Also you should know that Zhukov's career did not end in 1945, he was the Commander-in-Chief of Soviet troops in Germany till July 1946, and after a period of excile in Odessa, the reasons for which Ed had described, he became Deputy Minister of Defense and Minister of Defense (1955).
Alexei
I totally don't understand how can you separate strategic genius from battlefield exploits, but if you insist on that just look at the maps of Stalingrad, Vislo-Oder and Berlin operations. Just these three outweight everything else that was ever planned during WWII by other commanders. These operations are brilliant, and are still studied by military cadets all over the world.
Also you should know that Zhukov's career did not end in 1945, he was the Commander-in-Chief of Soviet troops in Germany till July 1946, and after a period of excile in Odessa, the reasons for which Ed had described, he became Deputy Minister of Defense and Minister of Defense (1955).
Alexei
