title: Confronting Case Blue: Briansk Front's Attempt To Derail The German Drive To The Caucasus, July 1942
author: Igor' Sdvizhkov
description: <span style="">An extraordinary work of seminal historical scholarship, "Confronting Case Blue: Briansk Front's Attempt To Derail The German Drive To The Caucasus, July 1942" should be considered as a core and impressively informative addition to the growing library of World War II military studies Highly recommended for both academics and military history buffs, "Confronting Case Blue" is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library World War II Military History collections in general, and World War II European Theatre supplemental studies reading lists in particular.</span> (<i>Midwest Book Review</i>)<br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 12px;">Helions publishing quality is excellent and the translation by Britton of top quality. The writing style of the Russian historians is quite different from Western authors but does not detract from the content. An interesting book worth the time. </span> (<i>War History Online</i>)
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  On the Road to Calabria
  
  Blume found the Class A Mercedes 160 he had stolen a disappointingly boxy
  little car, though it ran smoothly, and, half an hour later, he had to admit
  it handled quite well as he engaged in the nifty steering needed to negotiate
  the alternating one-way lane of the A3 autostrada, in construction since 1964
  and still unfinished.
  
  He was not likely to make up the two-hour headstart Konrad had and stop him
  from doing something stupid, but he saw no harm in trying. He directed the
  Mercedes into the narrow lane demarcated on one side by traffic cones and on
  the other by orange plastic road studs that slapped against the wheels in a
  satisfyingly rhythmic way as he drove over them, then negotiated a hairpin
  bend formed by concrete blocks.
  
  A faded warning sign with two arrows indicated that the traffic was now two-
  way, which, in view of the trucks now bearing down on him, was self-evident.
  The effect was so like a video game that he found it hard to take the t