Trans-Dnepr Operation:

General Baron Wrangel's Last Operation in the RCW

by Tom Hillman

Table of contents

Introduction   –     5
Why the Trans-Dnepr Operation?   –     6
Notes   –     7
Trans-Dnepr   –     8
Wrangel's Last Offensive   –     14
Marshal Blucher   –     18
Liquidation of Wrangel's Trans-Dnepr Operation   –     25
Battle of Kakhovka   –     48
War Diary of a Horse Artilleryman   –     54
Alekseevskis – Last Battles   –     57
Kornilovskis in the Trans-Dnepr Operation   –     63
Drozdovskis in the Trans-Dnepr Operation 72
Markovskis – on the Right Bank of the Dnepr   –     77
Life-Grenadier – Last Battles   –     85
The Budenny Myth   –     91
Armored Trains   –     94
About the Armored Trains of the Volunteer Army   –     95
The Air War over the Dnepr   –     98
Orders of the Red Army Supreme Command and South Front   –     101
Leaders   –     123
Photos   –     134
Order Of Battle   –     141
Bibliography   –     151
Scenarios   –     152