This work chronicles the Soviet Army's efforts to further exploit their post-Kursk gains and accelerate a counteroffensive that would eventually take them all the way to Berlin.

Part I. The struggle for Belorussia, October-December 1943 -- Context: the Summer-Fall Campaign (1 July-23 December) -- The Kalinin and Baltic fronts' Vitebsk and Nevel' offensives (3-30 October) -- The western front's Orsha offensives (3-28 October) -- The central front's Gomel'-Rechitsa offensive (30 September-30 October) -- The 1st and 2nd Baltic fronts' Polotsk-Vitebsk and Pustoshka-Idritsa offensives (2-21 November) -- The western front's Orsha offensives (14 November-5 December) -- The Belorussian front's Gomel'-Rechitsa and Novyi Bykhov-Propoisk offensives (10-30 November) -- The 1st Baltic and western fronts' Vitebsk (Gorodok) offensive (13-23 December) and 2nd Baltic front's Idritsa-Opochka offensive (16-25 December) -- The Belorussian front's Kalinkovichi (Bobruisk) offensive (8-12 December) and the German counterstroke (20-27 December) -- Part II. The struggle for Belorussia, December 1943-April 1944 -- Context: the Winter Campaign (24 December 1943-April 1944) -- The 1st Baltic and western fronts' Vitebsk offensive (24 December 1943-5 January 1944) -- The 1st Baltic and western fronts' Vitebsk-Bogushevsk offensive (6-24 January) -- The 1st Baltic and western fronts' Vitebsk offensive (3-16 February) -- The western front's Babinovichi and Vitebsk offensives (22 February-5 March) -- The western front's Orsha and Bogushevsk offensives (5-29 March) -- The Belorussian front's situation on 1 January 1944 and preliminary operations -- The Belorussian front's Kalinkovichi and Mozyr' offensive (8-14 January) -- The Belorussian front's Ozarichi-Ptich' offensive (16-30 January) -- The Belorussian front's Parichi-Bobruisk (Marmovichi-Dubrova) offensive (16 January-23 February) -- The Belorussian front's Rogachev-Zhlobin and Mormal'-Parichi offensives (21-29 February) -- The liquidation of German bridgeheads on the Dnepr River's eastern bank (25-31 March) -- Investigations, recriminations, and Sokolovsky's relief -- Conclusions.