The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers - Couverture souple

Muller, Rolf-Dieter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780768907 ISBN 13 : 9781780768908

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa with his attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Wehrmacht deployed 600,000 troops to the Eastern Front. Their numbers were later swelled by a range of foreign volunteers so that, at the height of World War II, astonishingly one in three men fighting for the Germans in the East was not a native German. For the first time, this book tells the story of these men. Vilified by Hitler for their supposed failures, condemned and forgotten by their homelands for treason and collaboration, their involvement in the war has been largely ignored or swept aside by historians. Rolf-Dieter Muller here offers a fascinating new perspective on a little-known aspect of World War II.

Revue de presse :

A concise yet comprehensive treatment of the military operations of Hitler's foreign helpers in the war against the Soviet Union ... A very readable account that effectively dismantles myths and legends that have grown up around an important and neglected subject.

Jeff Rutherford, H-German

Definitive Die Welt

Persuasive and readable Westdeutsche Zeitung

Rarely is so much historical knowledge presented in such little space. --Deutschlandfunk

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1780768907
• ISBN 13: 9781780768908
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320