David M. Glantz is the author of When Titans Clashed, The Battle of Kursk, The Battle for Leningrad, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat, Stumbling Colossus, Colossus Reborn and many other books.

• List of IllustrationsPreface1. Introduction-The Winter Campaign (December 1943-April 1944)-The Balkan Dimension: The War in Southern Ukraine and Northern Romania (April-June 1944)2. Prelude-Situation in Early April 1944-Soviet Offensive Planning3. The 2nd Ukrainian Front’s April Offensive (8-23 April 1944)-The Initial Advance along the Tirgu-Frumos Axis (8-12 April)-Jockeying for Position along the Tirgu-Frumos Axis (13-23 April)-Operations along the Dnestr Front (8-25 April)-Conclusions4. The 3rd Ukrainian Front’s Advance to the Dnestr River and the -Bridgehead Battles (11-25 April 1944)-Prelude: The Odessa Offensive (26 March-10 April)-Pursuit to the Dnestr River and the First Bridgehead Battles (11-17 April)-The Second Bridgehead Battles (19-25 April)-Conclusions5. The 2nd Ukrainian Front’s Preparations for the Iasi (Tirgu-Frumos) Offensive (24 April - 1 May 1944)-Konev’s Strategic Plan-Regrouping and Composition (1 May)-Konev’s Diversionary Operations along the Iasi Axis (24-26 April)-Group Wohler’s Spoiling Attacks (25-28 April)-Konev’s Final Offensive Preparations (29 April - 1 May)-Conclusions6. The 2nd Ukrainian Front’s Iasi (Tirgu-Frumos) Offensive (2-8 May 1944)-The Battle on 2 May-The Battle on 3 May-The Battle on 4 May-The Battles during 5-7 May-The LVII Panzer Corps’ Counterstroke (17 May)-Conclusions7. The 3rd Ukrainian Front’s Plans and the German Sixth Army’s Counterstrokes along the Dnestr River (2-30 May 1944)-Malinovsky’s Planning and Regrouping (2-8 May)-German Sixth Army’s Counterstrokes along the Dnestr River (8-30 May)-Conclusions8. Denouement (30 May - 6 June 1944)-Soviet Planning to 26 May-Army Group Wohler’s Iasi Counterstroke (30 May - 5 June)-Conclusions9. Conclusions-The “Discovery”-Strategic Implications-Lessons Learned-The Human CostAppendix: Soviet DocumentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"For more than a quarter of a century, Col. David Glantz has been the most productive American scholar of the Eastern Front. A co-founder of the U.S. Army’s Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Glantz was one of the first westerners to gain access to the Soviet military archives. Since then he has turned out an impressive number of works on the Eastern Front focused on the Red Army’s operations. This is the latest tome. . . . In this particular book, Glantz covers a little known episode of the Eastern Front, a Red Army attempt to overrun Romania in the early spring of 1944."— Strategy Page.com "With this publication, David M. Glantz has easily established himself as the doyen of military historians of the Eastern Front in World War II. The book breaks new ground in several important areas, one of the most significant being the number of historiographical issues that are confronted and resolved. . . . Glantz’s detailed and engrossing account is a lasting and overdue tribute to the men of both armies who fought in this long-forgotten campaign. It deserves a place on every military historian’s bookshelf."— Slavic Review"For those with a specialist interest in the Eastern Front, this authoritative book is required reading."— Journal of Military History"A must read for any serious student of the Eastern front."— NYMAS Review"Glantz’s study corrects a sixty-year misinterpretation of Soviet Army operations along the Romanian approaches to the Balkans in 1944 and adds tremendously to our understanding of the war's conduct in the east."— Roger Reese, author of Red Commanders: A Social History of the Soviet Army Officer Corps, 1918–1991"With his usual command of the sources and devotion to detail, Glantz once again brings to light a little-known episode of the struggle on the Eastern Front. . . . Essential reading for students of World War II."— Richard L. DiNardo, author of Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse"Glantz is once again at the top of his form."— Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century

David M. Glantz is the author of When Titans Clashed, The Battle of Kursk, The Battle for Leningrad, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat, Stumbling Colossus, Colossus Reborn and many other books.

• List of IllustrationsPreface1. Introduction-The Winter Campaign (December 1943-April 1944)-The Balkan Dimension: The War in Southern Ukraine and Northern Romania (April-June 1944)2. Prelude-Situation in Early April 1944-Soviet Offensive Planning3. The 2nd Ukrainian Front’s April Offensive (8-23 April 1944)-The Initial Advance along the Tirgu-Frumos Axis (8-12 April)-Jockeying for Position along the Tirgu-Frumos Axis (13-23 April)-Operations along the Dnestr Front (8-25 April)-Conclusions4. The 3rd Ukrainian Front’s Advance to the Dnestr River and the -Bridgehead Battles (11-25 April 1944)-Prelude: The Odessa Offensive (26 March-10 April)-Pursuit to the Dnestr River and the First Bridgehead Battles (11-17 April)-The Second Bridgehead Battles (19-25 April)-Conclusions5. The 2nd Ukrainian Front’s Preparations for the Iasi (Tirgu-Frumos) Offensive (24 April - 1 May 1944)-Konev’s Strategic Plan-Regrouping and Composition (1 May)-Konev’s Diversionary Operations along the Iasi Axis (24-26 April)-Group Wohler’s Spoiling Attacks (25-28 April)-Konev’s Final Offensive Preparations (29 April - 1 May)-Conclusions6. The 2nd Ukrainian Front’s Iasi (Tirgu-Frumos) Offensive (2-8 May 1944)-The Battle on 2 May-The Battle on 3 May-The Battle on 4 May-The Battles during 5-7 May-The LVII Panzer Corps’ Counterstroke (17 May)-Conclusions7. The 3rd Ukrainian Front’s Plans and the German Sixth Army’s Counterstrokes along the Dnestr River (2-30 May 1944)-Malinovsky’s Planning and Regrouping (2-8 May)-German Sixth Army’s Counterstrokes along the Dnestr River (8-30 May)-Conclusions8. Denouement (30 May - 6 June 1944)-Soviet Planning to 26 May-Army Group Wohler’s Iasi Counterstroke (30 May - 5 June)-Conclusions9. Conclusions-The “Discovery”-Strategic Implications-Lessons Learned-The Human CostAppendix: Soviet DocumentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"For more than a quarter of a century, Col. David Glantz has been the most productive American scholar of the Eastern Front. A co-founder of the U.S. Army’s Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Glantz was one of the first westerners to gain access to the Soviet military archives. Since then he has turned out an impressive number of works on the Eastern Front focused on the Red Army’s operations. This is the latest tome. . . . In this particular book, Glantz covers a little known episode of the Eastern Front, a Red Army attempt to overrun Romania in the early spring of 1944."— Strategy Page.com "With this publication, David M. Glantz has easily established himself as the doyen of military historians of the Eastern Front in World War II. The book breaks new ground in several important areas, one of the most significant being the number of historiographical issues that are confronted and resolved. . . . Glantz’s detailed and engrossing account is a lasting and overdue tribute to the men of both armies who fought in this long-forgotten campaign. It deserves a place on every military historian’s bookshelf."— Slavic Review"For those with a specialist interest in the Eastern Front, this authoritative book is required reading."— Journal of Military History"A must read for any serious student of the Eastern front."— NYMAS Review"Glantz’s study corrects a sixty-year misinterpretation of Soviet Army operations along the Romanian approaches to the Balkans in 1944 and adds tremendously to our understanding of the war's conduct in the east."— Roger Reese, author of Red Commanders: A Social History of the Soviet Army Officer Corps, 1918–1991"With his usual command of the sources and devotion to detail, Glantz once again brings to light a little-known episode of the struggle on the Eastern Front. . . . Essential reading for students of World War II."— Richard L. DiNardo, author of Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse"Glantz is once again at the top of his form."— Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century

David M. Glantz is the author of When Titans Clashed, The Battle of Kursk, The Battle for Leningrad, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat, Stumbling Colossus, Colossus Reborn and many other books.

• List of IllustrationsPreface1. Introduction-The Winter Campaign (December 1943-April 1944)-The Balkan Dimension: The War in Southern Ukraine and Northern Romania (April-June 1944)2. Prelude-Situation in Early April 1944-Soviet Offensive Planning3. The 2nd Ukrainian Front’s April Offensive (8-23 April 1944)-The Initial Advance along the Tirgu-Frumos Axis (8-12 April)-Jockeying for Position along the Tirgu-Frumos Axis (13-23 April)-Operations along the Dnestr Front (8-25 April)-Conclusions4. The 3rd Ukrainian Front’s Advance to the Dnestr River and the -Bridgehead Battles (11-25 April 1944)-Prelude: The Odessa Offensive (26 March-10 April)-Pursuit to the Dnestr River and the First Bridgehead Battles (11-17 April)-The Second Bridgehead Battles (19-25 April)-Conclusions5. The 2nd Ukrainian Front’s Preparations for the Iasi (Tirgu-Frumos) Offensive (24 April - 1 May 1944)-Konev’s Strategic Plan-Regrouping and Composition (1 May)-Konev’s Diversionary Operations along the Iasi Axis (24-26 April)-Group Wohler’s Spoiling Attacks (25-28 April)-Konev’s Final Offensive Preparations (29 April - 1 May)-Conclusions6. The 2nd Ukrainian Front’s Iasi (Tirgu-Frumos) Offensive (2-8 May 1944)-The Battle on 2 May-The Battle on 3 May-The Battle on 4 May-The Battles during 5-7 May-The LVII Panzer Corps’ Counterstroke (17 May)-Conclusions7. The 3rd Ukrainian Front’s Plans and the German Sixth Army’s Counterstrokes along the Dnestr River (2-30 May 1944)-Malinovsky’s Planning and Regrouping (2-8 May)-German Sixth Army’s Counterstrokes along the Dnestr River (8-30 May)-Conclusions8. Denouement (30 May - 6 June 1944)-Soviet Planning to 26 May-Army Group Wohler’s Iasi Counterstroke (30 May - 5 June)-Conclusions9. Conclusions-The “Discovery”-Strategic Implications-Lessons Learned-The Human CostAppendix: Soviet DocumentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"For more than a quarter of a century, Col. David Glantz has been the most productive American scholar of the Eastern Front. A co-founder of the U.S. Army’s Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Glantz was one of the first westerners to gain access to the Soviet military archives. Since then he has turned out an impressive number of works on the Eastern Front focused on the Red Army’s operations. This is the latest tome. . . . In this particular book, Glantz covers a little known episode of the Eastern Front, a Red Army attempt to overrun Romania in the early spring of 1944."— Strategy Page.com "With this publication, David M. Glantz has easily established himself as the doyen of military historians of the Eastern Front in World War II. The book breaks new ground in several important areas, one of the most significant being the number of historiographical issues that are confronted and resolved. . . . Glantz’s detailed and engrossing account is a lasting and overdue tribute to the men of both armies who fought in this long-forgotten campaign. It deserves a place on every military historian’s bookshelf."— Slavic Review"For those with a specialist interest in the Eastern Front, this authoritative book is required reading."— Journal of Military History"A must read for any serious student of the Eastern front."— NYMAS Review"Glantz’s study corrects a sixty-year misinterpretation of Soviet Army operations along the Romanian approaches to the Balkans in 1944 and adds tremendously to our understanding of the war's conduct in the east."— Roger Reese, author of Red Commanders: A Social History of the Soviet Army Officer Corps, 1918–1991"With his usual command of the sources and devotion to detail, Glantz once again brings to light a little-known episode of the struggle on the Eastern Front. . . . Essential reading for students of World War II."— Richard L. DiNardo, author of Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse"Glantz is once again at the top of his form."— Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century