Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

Informationen zum Autor David Stahel is an independent researcher based in Berlin. Klappentext This book is an important reassessment of the failure of Germany's 1941 campaign against the Soviet Union. Zusammenfassung A fundamental reassessment of Germany's 1941 campaign against the Soviet Union - a key turning point of the Second World War. This book highlights the enormous internal problems of the vital Panzer forces and reveals that their demise in the earliest phase of the war undermined the whole German invasion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Strategic Plans and Theoretical Conceptions for War against the Soviet Union: 1. Fighting the bear; 2. The gathering storm; 3. Barbarossa's sword - Hitler's armed forces in 1941; 4. The advent of war; Part II. The Military Campaign and the July/August Crisis of 1941: 5. Awakening the bear; 6. The perilous advance to the east; 7. The Battle of Smolensk; 8. The attrition of Army Group Centre; 9. In search of resurgence; 10. Showdown; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: David Stahel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521768474
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76847-4
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Cambridge Military Histories; Cambridge Military Histories
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, USSR, Soviet Union