Operation Barbarossa
Subtitle: Nazi Germany's war in the East, 1941-1945
By: Christian Hartmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780199660780
Subjects: Campaigns; World War, 1939-1945
Work titles: Unternehmen Barbarossa
Description: "The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep scars that it left behind. The invasion of the Soviet Union was the conflict that Hitler had always ultimately planned for in his dream of creating a 'Thousand Year Reich'. From the beginning it was a struggle for survival, conducted with great bitterness and savagery by opponents who knew that defeat meant the destruction of everything they stood for. ... Enriched by a wealth of eye-witness testimony from both the Soviet and the German sides, Operation Barbarossa paints a masterly overview of these momentous four years and their human consequences - one that is both gripping and deeply moving." -- Publisher website.
Notes: Translation of: Unternehmen Barbarossa.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-178) and index.