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Soldiers of Barbarossa
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- Book Synopsis
- In June 1941, the jaws of the German war machine clamped onto the Soviet Union, with German soldiers-the Third Reich's teeth-slicing through the Red Army, encircling and killing and capturing. Before the end of the year, the Red Army halted the German blitzkrieg and saved the Soviet Union. It was a defining moment of World War II and a defining moment of military history-a defining moment of what it meant to go to war in the twentieth century, with an army designed to devastate, to kill, to enslave butting heads with an army decapitated by Stalin's purges. For the next six months, German armies fought toward Moscow but ultimately failed to seize that objective, from the Black Sea in the south to Leningrad in the north. More than just a pivotal moment of World War II, more than just the beginning of the Eastern Front, the campaign toward Moscow-Germans versus Soviets in a no-holds-barred battle for the soul of Europe-speaks to what it meant to be a soldier in World War II. (Far more soldiers, German and Russian, fought and died on the Eastern Front than the entire U.S. war effort.) In a book drawing from hundreds of soldiers' accounts, and thousands of letter and diaries, Stahel and Luther tell the story of Operation Barbarossa but also the story of men at war in the twentieth century.
- About The Author
- David Stahel is the world's leading authority on the first six months on the Eastern Front of World War II. He teaches European history at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia. His previous books include Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941 (Cambridge University Press, 2013). His fellow historians have called Stahel's work "remarkable" - "brilliant" - "impressive" - "refreshing" - "the best kind of revisionism" - "must read." He lives in Australia. Craig Luther is a former Fulbright Scholar and a retired U.S. Air Force historian. He is author of The First Day on the Eastern Front: German Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 (Stackpole, 2018) and Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow (Schiffer, 2014). He lives near Bakersfield, California.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780811738798
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books, (15 November 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 440
- Weight
- 925.33 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 262.13 x 189.48 x 26.92 mm
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