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Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943-April 1944 . By David Glantz with Mary Elizabeth Glantz . Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas , 2016. xxv, 758 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $39.95, hard cover.
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The Glantzes' twin goals for this book are to fill in a gap in the history of the Eastern Front of World War II by presenting, in pain-staking detail, the course of the Soviet failure to liberate Belorussia in a campaign that lasted from October 1943 to April 1944, and to restore the reputation of Soviet General Konstantin Rokossovsky who they feel was robbed of glory because of his Polish origins. In the first they admirably succeed, though in the second they fall short simply because they never establish that Rokossovsky's reputation was in any way tarnished by the absence of this battle from the history books. The Glantzes accuse Soviet historians of "erasing" the campaign from history, (xix) and having covered it up (xxi) but then go on to label it a...