David Stahel

Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fundamental reassessment of Germany's 1941 campaign against the Soviet Union - a key turning point of the Second World War. This book highlights the enormous internal problems of the vital Panzer forces and reveals that their demise in the earliest phase of the war undermined the whole German invasion.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Military Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780521170154
• ISBN-10: 052117015X
• Artikelnr.: 33261488

Autorenporträt

David Stahel is an independent researcher based in Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Strategic Plans and Theoretical Conceptions for War against the Soviet Union: 1. Fighting the bear; 2. The gathering storm; 3. Barbarossa's sword - Hitler's armed forces in 1941; 4. The advent of war; Part II. The Military Campaign and the July/August Crisis of 1941: 5. Awakening the bear; 6. The perilous advance to the east; 7. The Battle of Smolensk; 8. The attrition of Army Group Centre; 9. In search of resurgence; 10. Showdown; Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'... thought-provoking and valuable. It dispels any illusions that the first months of Operation Barbarossa were a pushover for the Wehrmacht; Stahel documents in detail, from German war diaries and letters, the heavy fighting and the high casualties.' Evan Mawdsley, The English Historical Review