Germany and the Second World War Volume IX/II: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion
REVIEW OF OTHER VOLUMES IN SERIES"A meticulous, scholarly perspective on the conflict from Germany's side"  --Max Hastings, Evening Standard"Brilliant analysis of how Germany fought its war"  --Max Hastings, Evening Standard"authoritative and lavishly produced set of studies, co-authored in the present case by a half-dozen of the Federal Republic's leading military historians...Klink's over two-hundred-page summary of the actual conduct of operations...is a model of its kind. The translation reads flawlessly."  --International History Review"monumental study of Germany and the Second World War"  --Victor Rothwell, History"It is a monumental work that provides extensive, copiously annotated, and cartographically illustrated coverage of the background, planning, and execution of the German attack and the Soviet response...a volume that almost certainly is the closest thing there ever will be to a definitively authoritative history of the opening phase of the German campaign that represented a turning point in the history of the war and of the world in the twentieth century."  --World War Two Studies Association"An indispensable new dimension is added to our understanding of the conflict...describes events in ruthless detail from the view point of the Third Reich"  --The Evening Standard"I assure you all that it is worth every penny! This one volume seems to be destined to become THE definitive study on the German planning and invasion of the Societ Union for decades to come. The wealth of detail and information included in this work is simply staggering...I wholeheartedly recommend this book."  --Axis Europa"Should leave no doubt that the world's most distinguished company of military historians is to be found in the Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt."  --American Historical Review"the latest volume of Germany and the Second World War slices open the German war effort and examines the inner workings of war administration, economy, and manpower resources...every page is packed with a dense compilation of information and analysis...a rigorous, academic analysis packed with information impossible to find elsewhere in English, and it also forms an integral part of an exceedingly important series of books about Germany's role in the world conflict. We can't recommend it to the casual reader, but it certainly belongs on the shelf of every serious historian of World War II as part of the ultimate autopsy of the German war effort."  --Stone and Stone