Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East
""Stephen Fritz has made a major statement. There are many books dealing with military operations in the East and many others that highlight the atrocities, the murders, and the Holocaust. Not until now has a single volume attempted to incorporate both, seeking the nexus between military operations and mass murder. The result is as complete a history of the German-Soviet war as one could desire, and it is an achievement that is likely to be unequaled for some time to come."--Robert M. Citino, author of Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942" --""Fritz has written a top-flight strategic/operational level analysis of the Russo-German War. His text is solid and impeccably supported."--Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare" --""Of all the hundreds of books on the Russian campaign, Mr. Fritz's is the first I have seen that demonstrates the nexus between mass murder and military operations."--Washington Times" --""Stephen Fritz brought to his sources his considerable analytical skills and clarity of expression. The product is a very readable consideration of the European war's most important front, and one that expresses a new understanding of it scauses and effects."--New York Journal of Books" --""Fritz seeks to synthesize and build upon earlier scholarship while exclusively focusing on the struggle as seen from Berlin.... Ostkrieg will be a significant addition to any academic library."--Choice" --""It is truly a magnificent work of military history integrating ideological, economic, political, and military dimensions of this theater of war."--Waterline" --""Perfect for instructors and students."--Teaching History" --""An ambitious and impressive synthesis of two vast and often mutually exclusive fields of scholarship: the historiography of the Holocaust and that of the war on the Eastern Front.... [it] should serve as the starting point for all historians and students of World War II interested in the relationship of war and genocide."--Journal of Military History" --"Winner of the innaugural U.S. Commission on Military History's Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book Prize in Military History" --"We are given a superb vantage point from which to view how the Nazi regime's obsessions trapped Germany into ultimately fatal dilemmas. -- Historian" -- Geoff Haywood, Historian""I found Ostkreig to be one of the most informative and spellbinding reads that I have experienced in a long time. This is a real page turner as I felt myself cheering for the Russian people in their struggle to just survive from day to day." -- The Lone Star Book Review" --"We now have a comprehensive, clearly written and affordable study incorporating recent research on the Eastern front. European History Quarterly" -- European History Quarterly