Author: Ian Baxter.
Softcover (6.7×9.3 inches). 128 pages. 2025.
Subtitle: The Russian Battle for the Crimea
Half of this Casemate Illustrated volume has little to do with the Crimea — it starts with 1941 and the initiation of Operation Barbarossa. A four-page timeline covers from Oct 1943 to May 1944.
The 1944 Soviet attack starts on page 58 with the Kerch-Eltigen offensive and the bare-bones overview continues all the way to the fall of Sevastopol. Lots of commander mini-biographies and first-person accounts are included.
The booklet contains 144 marvelous black and white photos, one color photo, 16 color uniform illustrations, three fairly useless color maps, and four color camouflage tank profiles.
Casemate has the illustration aspect down pat, but the text is skimpy in regards to matching the book title.
–Reviewed by Russ Lockwood
