Boj pri Lipovci

The Battle at Lipovec

Autor: KLUBERT Tomáš

KLUBERT, Tomáš: Boj pri Lipovci.

KLUBERT, Tomáš: The Battle at Lipovec.

Vojenská história, 7, 1, 2003, pp. 15 — 35.

The author, in this treatise, tries to evaluate in more details the fight activities of the Slovak Rapid Brigade at Lipovec, which was the most significant combat operation of the Brigade at Ukraine in the summer 1941. He describes minutely the development of the Brigade since its genesis on 22 June 1941. Considering the fact that in the current Slovak historiography the detailed analysis of this issue absents, the author's attempt is even more important. The author drew information from the specialised literature (also the Russian and Ukraine one from the Soviet and post-Soviet age) as well as from the historical Slovak — more or less — propagandistic literature and from the after war memories of the Slovak participants in the Battle at Lipovec. Gained knowledge revised in many aspects the existing picture about the fights at Lipovec. Published contribution is a good springboard to the possible further elaboration of the information about the activities of the Slovak Army in this field. In the conclusion the author points out that the Lipovec events reveals serious flaws in the training and organisation of the Slovak army and they manifested disability of unsupported combat deployment. It brought about extensive changes in the structure of the Slovak military at the East front.

Keywords: Military history. Ukraine. World War II. The Slovak Army.

Ročník: 7 | Číslo: 1/2003 | Stránky: 15 — 35