14 Bock, War Diary, 21 October 1941. 15 Hürter, Letters and Diaries of Gotthard Heinrici, 23 October 1941, p. 93. ... 36 Ibid., 27 October 1941. 37 Ibid., 28 October 1941. 38 See David M. Glantz and Jonathan House, When Titans Notes 549.
Fully illustrated with unique Osprey artwork, new maps, and contemporary photographs, Operation Barbarossa tells the story of one of the definitive campaigns of World War II and examines how the failure of the invasion contributed to the ...
David Glantz challenges the time-honoured explanation that poor weather, bad terrain and Hitler's faulty strategic judgement produced German defeat, and reveals how the Red Army thwarted the German Army's dramatic and apparently inexorable ...
Operation Barbarossa: The History of Nazi Germany's Invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II analyzes the beginning of the war along the Eastern Front.
Hitler's decision to renege on his alliance with Stalin and invade Russia in June 1941 was to have the most far reaching consequences for the world. Indeed, if there was...
The work employs a unique military simulation methodology, extending from the tactical to the strategic level, and applies this methodology to each of the belligerents.
... Karabiner 98K from Mauser. The Karabiner 98K's origins date back to the Gewehr 98 rifle introduced by Mauser in 1898. With Britain's adoption of the Short Lee-Enfield in 1903 and the American introduction of their 'short' Springfield ...
Presents the war in the East between 1941 and 1945 from both the German and the Soviet perspectives, covering the crimes of both sides.
This book purports that, given Operation Barbarossa’s concept and scope, it would have been impossible without Nazi ideology, that we cannot understand it in the absence of its reference to the Holocaust.
Once the invasion began to falter, it all but guaranteed the Germans would eventually lose the war. Operation Barbarossa has been much written about in histories of World War Two.
The latest book in the Images of War series uses over 300 rare contemporary photographs to capture the scale, intensity and brutality of the fighting that was unleashed on 22 June 1941.