Summer 1941 and Army Group North drives relentlessly through the Russian countryside towards Leningrad. By the 13th of July the lead elements of the 41st Panzer Corp sit only 110km from the great city and are preparing for the final drive towards its capture.
Standing in their path is a series of four fortified lines hastily thrown up since the invasion began the previous month. The first and most significant of these runs from the coast at Narva to Lake Ilmen near Novgorod. Anchored upon the river Luga it becomes known as the Luga River Line and is manned by a scratch force of army, militia and training school units known as the Luga Operational Group (LOG).
August. 1944. The German 7th Army finds itself in a critical position. With General Patton swinging to their south, racing past their positions, a renewed push by the Canadian Army from the north threatens to cut of the entire army, spelling certain destruction.
Von Kluge fails to answer the Führer’s demands for an immediate attack, and on the 17th August is replaced with Model. Model wastes no time in refusing Hitlers order and ordering an immediate, and speedy, retreat. The writing is on the wall, if 7th army does not get our now, it never will.
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