Glantz, David M. Barbarossa Derailed. The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941. Volume 3: The Documentary Companion. Tables Orders and Reports prepared by participating Red Army Forces

Volume 3 contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. In addition to key "Führer" Directives issued by Adolf Hitler to provide direction to his forces during the Barbarossa Campaign, as well as vital orders issued by German Army Group Center, this book includes the daily operational summaries of the participating Soviet fronts, armies, and some divisions and many if not most of the orders and reports issued by the struggling Soviet armies. Precise translations illustrate not only the capabilities and states-of-mind of key Soviet commanders as they dealt with crisis after crisis but also the characteristics (such as aggressiveness, passivity, brutality, and despair) of their varied styles of command. They also demonstrate how an army, which lost the bulk of its experienced troops during the first several months of the campaign, attempted to use its operational directives and tactical orders to educate its soldiers and officers in the basics of waging war in the midst of active and bloody operations.

The accurate translations illustrate not only the skills and states of mind of the key Soviet commanders as they dealt with one crisis after another, but also the characteristics (such as aggressiveness, passivity, brutality and desperation) of their different leadership styles. They also show how an army that had lost most of its experienced troops in the first months of the campaign attempted to retrain its soldiers and officers in the fundamentals of warfare through its operational directives and tactical orders in the midst of active and bloody operations.