It is a common misunderstanding that the Red army, on Stalin's order, halted outside Warsaw in August 1944 to let the German troops suppress the Polish uprising in the capital. Joseph Stalin of course didn't want to let a pro-British Polish government get a foothold in Warsaw. The fact is that on the last day of July (the night before the start of the uprising) the Red Army was on their way into Praga (the east part of Warsaw on the east bank of Vistula) when the German troops put in a violent counterattack. This started the bitter fight that came to be called The Battle for Praga, which is virtually unknown in Western military history publishing.
1 : 1 • The Situation at the Centre of the Eastern Front, Early summer, 1944.
1 : 2 • The Battles on Warsaw’s distant outskirts, July 18-28, 1944.
1 : 3 • Tank warfare outside Praga, July 29 – August 6, 1944.
1 : 4 • The Battle for Warsaw’s Suburbs, August 7 – September 9, 1944.
1 : 5 • THE STORMING OF PRAGA, September 18 – 19, 1944.
1 : 6 • The Front at the Wisla
2 : 3 • Vehicle facts appendix with pictures
2 : 4 • War Correspondent, Gösta Borg, By Martin Månsson