Barbarossa unleashed
Subtitle: the German Blitzkrieg through central Russia to the gates of Moscow June-December 1941
By: Craig W. H. Luther
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Atglen, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780764343766
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Campaigns; History
Other titles: German Blitzkrieg through central Russia to the gates of Moscow June-December 1941
Description: "This book examines in unprecedented detail the advance of Germany's Army Group Center through central Russia, toward Moscow, in the summer of 1941, followed by brief accounts of the Battle of Moscow and subsequent winter battles into early 1942. Based on hundreds of veterans accounts, archival documents, and exhaustive study of the pertinent primary and secondary literature, the book offers new insights into Operation Barbarossa, Adolf Hitler s attack on Soviet Russia in June 1941. While the book meticulously explores the experiences of the German soldier in Russia, in the cauldron battles along the Minsk-Smolensk-Moscow axis, it places their experiences squarely within the strategic and operational context of the Barbarossa campaign. Controversial subjects, such as the culpability of the German eastern armies in war crimes against the Russian people, are also examined in detail. This book is the most detailed account to date of virtually all aspects of the German soldiers experiences in Russia in 1941"--Front cover flap.
Notes: Ten folded maps in back pocket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 686-704) and index.
Table of contents: title: Initial planning & preparations (July-Dec. 1940); title: Trains, planes, trucks and horses : Aufmarsch for the offensive (January-May 1941); title: The adversaries I : the state of the Wehrmacht; title: The adversaries II : the state of the Red Army; title: The eve of the war : final preparations for the Russian camaign (May-June 1941); title: Barbarossa unleashed : Army Group Center goes to war (Sunday, 22 June 1941); title: Vormarsch I : the frontier battles (the encirclement battles of Belostok; title: Minsk) (23 June; title: 9 July 1941); title: The German soldiers' initial experiences in the East; title: Panzermaenner, Infanterie, Luftwaffe; title: Cultural collisions & crimes of war on the eastern front; title: Vormarsch II : the encirclement battle of Smolensk & transition to positional warfare (10 July; title: 5 August 1941); title: Barbarossa denied; title: The collapse of the eastern Blitzkrieg (August-December 1941).