Barbarossa : the Russian-German conflict 1941-45

Clark, Alan1991

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"When Barbarossa begins the whole world will hold its breath" (Adolf Hitler). At dawn on Midsummer Day 1941, the Wehrmacht crashed across the Soviet frontier. Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany, had begun: a head-on conflict between two totalitarian systems and two tyrants that was to lead to the fiercest, most protracted and bloodiest fighting of the Second World War. Alan Clark has written what is widely recognised as a classic account of the Russian-German conflict. He describes in absorbing detail the momentous battles of the Eastern Front as, for four years, the Russian and German forces were locked in a desperate and merciless struggle. And it was in this epic conflict, the author contends, that the outcome of the Second World War was decided. Drawing on Soviet and German sources, 'Barbarossa' covers a vast and dramatic canvas. As the fighting progresses from the initial catastrophic Russian defeats to the turning point of Stalingrad and the advance on Berlin by the Red Army, we follow Hitler, Stalin and their generals in the conference rooms, and the ordeals of the soldiers on the battlefield, in the greatest clash of arms history has yet seen.