History Of the Second World War: Part 22 - Barbarossa! Hitler Launches the Greatest military invasion in history

Hart, Sir Basil Liddell; Barrie Pitt [eds.]

Edité par Marshall Cavendish, 1973

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HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: PART 22 - BARBAROSSA! HITLER LAUNCHES THE GREATEST MILITARY INVASION IN HISTORY, edited by Sir Basil Liddell Hart and Barrie Pitt, softcover, illustrated with B/W and color photos, 1973. ITEM CONDITION: very good. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no dogears, tears, or marks, but the top portion is wrinkled. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. The wraps are in very good condition but for that wrinkling at top. Very good 3-staple binding. 10 ¾ x 8 ¼, 28 pages, 3 ounces XX Part 22 of THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR looks at the beginning of Germany?s massive invasion of the Soviet Union in ?Operation Barbarossa.? This issue?s articles are Barbarossa: The Shock (?June 22, 1941: the Eastern Front is opened. The German Blitzkrieg stunned the Russian frontier armies with the brutal realities of invasion. General Popel, at the time an officer with the Red Army, recalls the nagging suspicion and apprehension which accompanied the last hours of peace in eastern Europe), Barbarossa: Drive to Smolensk (The waiting was over. Bock?s Army Group Centre plunged into White Russia, with Moscow as its key Objective. The Russians fought and lost the ?battle of the frontiers,? as the Germans had hoped; and the German victories of encirclement at Minsk and Smolensk netted vast numbers of prisoners. But it was a long way to Moscow?and Russia?s reserves seemed inexhaustible), Barbarossa: Drive to Kiev (As Rundstedt?s Army Group South thrust deep into the Ukraine, Hitler halted the central drive on Moscow and decreed?in defiance of his generals? advice?that the Russian capital was not to be the prime military target. Economic factors obsessed Hitler; the wheatlands and industries of the Ukraine were of more importance than the fall of the Soviet capital. The result was the battle of Kiev, the greatest military disaster in the Red Army?s history, but the Red Army was still in being as autumn approached). In this issue are numerous photographs, both B/W and color, including German infantry waiting for artillery barrage to lift before attacking, Stukas bombing Russian town, Bock?s Panzergruppen passing Brest Litovsk and Bialystok, German infantry in four-day fight for Brest Litovsk, German infantrymen springing from armored troop-carrier, Germans attacking Soviet transport train, German 50-mm gun crew, Marshal Budenny, Field-Marshal Bock, German horse-drawn guns, various images of German soldiers advancing, burning houses in Zhitomar, house-to-house fighting, surrender of Russian militiamen, Russian tank knocked out. There are also various maps of the invasion routes.

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• Titre: History Of the Second World War: Part 22 - Barbarossa! Hitler Launches the Greatest military invasion in history
• Éditeur: Marshall Cavendish
• Date de parution: 1973
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Poids: 3 onces
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • History
  • Military
  • World War II