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David Stahel, Craig Luther, California Bakersfield, Craig W.H. Luther, David Stahel - Soldiers of Barbarossa, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Soldiers of Barbarossa

Combat on the Eastern Front

Av David Stahel, Craig Luther, California Bakersfield, Craig W.H. Luther, David Stahel

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-11-15
  • Mått: 180 x 257 x 33 mm
  • Vikt: 931 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Stackpole Books GPQ
  • Antal sidor: 440
  • Förlag: Stackpole Books
  • Medarbetare: R. L. DiNardo
  • ISBN: 9780811738798
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David Stahel teaches at the University of New South Wales and the Australian Defence Force Academy. His books include Joining Hitler Crusade (ed., Cambridge, 2017), Mass Violence in Nazi Occupied Europe (ed. with Alex J. Kay, Bloomington, 2018) and Retreat from Moscow (New York, 2019). Stahel lives in Canberra, 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: Germany Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 and Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow. He lives near Bakersfield, California.

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  1. 4/5 Roland J

    Fyra stjärnor pga att jag har läst så många böcker om Barbarossafältåget och tyskarnas upplevelser där, och denna fortsätter i den traditionen. Bygger på brev från tyska soldater till familj, fästmöer, hustrur etc. För mig blev den lite "seg." Kan också vara att den upprepar sig en aning.

    Bra är att i början av varje kapitel, dvs varje månad 1941 - juni, juli, aug, sept, okt, nov och december - ges på ett par sidor en sammanfattning av 'the bigger picture av vad som händer på fronten. Antar om man ej läst så mycket om Brabarossa så kan den ev vara värd 5 stjärnor.

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