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Before Stalingrad - Barbarossa, Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941

By: Tempus Publishing

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Tempus Publishing)


Product Info

Title
Before Stalingrad - Barbarossa, Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941
Publisher
Category
Author
David M. Glantz
Publish Year
2003
Pages
320
Dimensions
5x8x1"
NKG Part #
2148182329
Type
Softcover

Description

Operation Barbarossa—as this campaign is famously called—was arguably the greatest land campaign mankind has ever fought. Hitler named his assault after the 12th-century Frederick I Barbarossa, an emperor of the First Reich. Although he succeeded in capturing almost 40 percent of European Russia, Hitler was defeated there. Exploiting newly available Soviet archives, David M. Glantz challenges the time-honored explanation that poor weather, bad terrain, and Hitler’s faulty strategic judgement produced the German defeat. He reveals how and why the Red Army thwarted Hitler’s seemingly inexorable progress.