Recently I started to read Brian Taylor's book, "Barbarossa to Berlin", which follows the Russo-German war day by day in detail. I really want to follow the events on the map as well, but so far I could not find a very good, high resolution, detailed map on the Eastern front. I searched the web, but either I find overview maps, or maps of a particular section of the front. Does anyone know a good, high resolution, detailed map of the Eastern front, available for download? P.S. I managed to come up with a "backup" solution: I made a jpg file from TOAW (The Operational Art of War) Barbarossa scenario, which is fairly detailed, although "only" a computer game map.
Welcome to the forum Mikeeboy. I too have both Volumes of that work. I found it a good introduction to that war. I concluded that the Eastern Front is so huge that one map isn't good enough. After all that would be like having NW Europe , the Italian campaign & Desert War on one map too. It's just too big.
What a tall order! Start at Operation Barbarossa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and follow the links, for instance.
Try this link. Maps from the West Point Atlas of American Wars are among the best "generalist" maps of the war. ww2 europe index Regards, Marc
Recently I started to read Brian Taylor's book, "Barbarossa to Berlin", which follows the Russo-German war day by day in detail. I really want to follow the events on the map as well, but so far I could not find a very good, high resolution, detailed map on the Eastern front. I searched the web, but either I find overview maps, or maps of a particular section of the front. Does anyone know a good, high resolution, detailed map of the Eastern front, available for download? Hmm.. I think we have different point of view on the term "detailed" map. for me "detailed" map is topographic map of 1:100,000, or preferrably 1:50,000 scale. both of those, represented in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (TsAMO) are both VERY expensive, or even secret. you can take a look at some general battle schemes of operations on the site RKKA.RU Also my site RKKA in World War II contains a pack of more detailed battle schemes Also you may draw attention to the FLASH-animated map here POBEDITELI — Soldiers of the Great War regards Alex
Also you may draw attention to the FLASH-animated map here POBEDITELI — Soldiers of the Great War Yes, yes and yes, this is top site where I can point everyone to start learning Eastern Front.
Try this link. Maps from the West Point Atlas of American Wars are among the best "generalist" maps of the war. ww2 europe index Regards, Marc Only just seen this thread. Excellent link - many thanks.
I get this when I click on a link on that web page ..... Is it broke or is it me? http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/ww2%20europe/ww2%20europe%20pages/ww2%20europe%20map%2011.htm
A Google site-search (Query site:dean.usma.edu - replace 'query' with the phrase you are after, and the green text with an appropriate url to be searched) reveals these pages with map-links. They seem to work better: AtlasesTableOfContents WWIIEuropeWarAtlasIndex ww2 asia index
A Google site-search (Query site:dean.usma.edu - replace 'query' with the phrase you are after, and the green text with an appropriate url to be searched) reveals these pages with map-links. They seem to work better: AtlasesTableOfContents WWIIEuropeWarAtlasIndex ww2 asia index Well done, Adam. Thanks!
Hi: The most detailed strategic maps (and they are very detailed) are the German 'Lage Ost' maps which were issued every day and in many cases twice a day. One map detailed unit movements and the other end-of-day positions. They are separated in two sections, South and Center-North. The best tactical maps are found in the corps and division daily maps. In most cases these included artillery positions, unit positions (both German and Russian) and lines of attack or retreat. In some cases these maps are not available due to loss of unit records during combat and to two major fires in main records repositories. The worst case, of course, was the A.O.K. 6 at Stalingrad. John
I get this when I click on a link on that web page ..... Is it broke or is it me? http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/ww2%20europe/ww2%20europe%20pages/ww2%20europe%20map%2011.htm I get a 'This Page Could Not Be Found' when I click on the link. I am using Firefox server so I wonder if that is why?????
Hello Mikeeboy, I'm new here, but here is a Link to German Maps of the Summer/Fall Offensive on the Eastern Front from June 21st to December 6th 1941 Der Feldzug gegen Sowjet-Russland : Band I. Operationen Sommer-Herbst 1941 vom 21. Juni-6. Dezember 1941
