Barbarossa Derailed The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 4: Atlas

Smolensk reshaped the Barbarossa campaign as Soviet counterstrikes halted the German advance and altered strategic priorities.

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union.

Less than three week...