Campaign 189 - Sevastopol 1942: Von Manstein's Triumph

In late July 1941, Hitler ordered Army Group South to seize the Crimea as part of its operations to secure the Ukraine and the Donets Basin, in order to protect the vital Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti from Soviet air attack. After weeks of heavy fighting, the Germans breached the Soviet defences and overran most of the Crimea. By November 1941 the only remaining Soviet foothold in the area was the heavily fortified naval base at Sevastopol. Operation Sturgeon Haul, the final assault on Sevastopol, was one of the very few joint service German operations of World War II, with two German corps and a Romanian corps supported by a huge artillery siege train, the Luftwaffe's crack VIII Flieger Korps and a flotilla of S-Boats provided by the Kriegsmarine. This volume closely examines the impact of logistics, weather and joint operational planning upon the last major German victory of World War II.

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This book is written by Robert Forczyk. It looks at the Campaign to take the Ketch Peninsular between September 1941 and May 1942 and then the Seige of Sevastapol from 2nd June - 4th July 1942. Interestingly this Campaign earned von Manstein his Field Marshall's baton and it was the last major German victory of World War II.