num_pages: 256
description: From a world expert on Hitler's war in Russia's western borders to the immediate outskirts of Leningrad, Moscow and Rostov in the shockingly brief period of less than six months. The sudden, deep, relentless German advance virtually destroyed the entire peacetime Red Army and captured almost 40 percent of European Russia before expiring inexplicably at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad. An invasion designed to achieve victory in three to six weeks failed and, four years later, resulted in unprecedented and total German defeat.
title: Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941
publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited