With total casualties of over 1.1 million, Operation Bagration was one of the worst military disasters in history. The Allied forces seized a strip of land just 20 miles wide and 6 miles long from German possession at the cost of a huge number of casualties. On the other hand, the German Empire suffered about 680,000 casualties. The Battle of the Somme remains one of the bloodiest fights in history having caused approximately 57,000 casualties for the British Army on the very first day of the battle, blamed on the inexperience and patchy training of the British soldiers.Ībout 420,000 soldiers of British and Commonwealth forces died, were wounded or went missing during the fight, while French losses were more than 204,000. Fought from July to November 1918 near the Somme River in France, it was one of the biggest conflicts of World War I. The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, caused the loss of more than 1.2 million lives from both the British-French empires and German Empire. The defence of Moscow marked the success of Soviet resistance against the Axis forces and an operational and tactical failure for the Germans. The battle ended in January 1942, leaving estimated casualties of 174,000 to 400,000 for Germany and 650,000 to 1.2 million casualties for the Red Army. The Red Army counter-attacked against the Germans to enable them to withdraw from Moscow when the offensive ceased. The battle, which commenced in October 1941, was largely a defensive effort by the Soviets against the German attack on Moscow. The Battle of Moscow, code-named ‘Operation Typhoon’ by the Germans, occurred during World War II and witnessed about 1.6 million casualties. Most of the civilians residing in the city also died during the combat. The death toll at Stalingrad was huge, leaving about 850,000 Axis soldiers dead, missing or wounded in the battle, and more than a million Soviet soldiers downed, missing or wounded. The Axis forces were heavily defeated by the Red Army at Stalingrad, resulting in the withdrawal of their vast military force from the West to reinforce the losses in the East.
The Germans were surprised by the troop strength of the Red Army at Stalingrad (now Volgograd) as the Soviet Union deployed over a million soldiers in Operation Uranus to thwart the German Army inside the city.
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