Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion Of Russia 1941 - Couverture souple

Glantz, David M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0752460706 ISBN 13 : 9780752460703

Editeur : The History Press, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Glantz David M

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

On 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed his forces on the Soviet Union. Spearheaded by four powerful Panzer groups and protected by an impenetrable curtain of air support, the seemingly invincible Wehrmacht advanced from the Soviet Union's western borders to the immeidate outskirts of Leningrad, Moscow and Rostov in the shockingly brief period of less than six months. The sudden, deep, relentless German advance virtually destroyed the entire peacetime Red Army and captured almost 40 percent of European Russia before expiring inexplicably at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad. An invasion designed to achieve victory in three to six weeks failed and, four years later, resulted in unprecedented and total German defeat. David Glantz challenges the time-honoured explanation that poor weather, bad terrain and Hitler's faulty strategic judgement produced German defeat, and reveals how the Red Army thwarted the German Army's dramatic and apparently inexorable invasion before it achieved its ambitious goals.

Biographie de l'auteur :

David M Glantz is the world's leading expert on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He has written many acclaimed works on the Red Army, Kursk and Barbarossa. He was historical advisor with Professor Ian Kershaw for BBC TV's War of the Century. He served in Vietnam with the US Army and holds degrees from Virginia Military Institute and University of North Carolina. He has served as Chief of Research for the US Combat Studies Institute. He is Editor of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The History Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0752460706
• ISBN 13: 9780752460703
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336