On June 22; 1941; before dawn; German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa; one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later; the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives. Alan Clark's incisive analysis succeeds in explaining how a fighting force that in one two-month period lost two million men was nevertheless able to rally to defeat the Wehrmacht. The Barbarossa campaign included some of the greatest episodes in military history: the futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941-42; the siege of Stalingrad; the great Russian offensive beginning in 1944 that would lead the Red Army to the historic meeting with the Americans at the Elbe and on to victory in Berlin.Barbarossa is a classic of miltary history. This paperback edition contains a new preface by the author.
#14182 in Books Free Press 1998-12-01 1998-12-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x 1.10 x 6.12l; 1.08 #File Name: 0684854716464 pagesFree Press
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