Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

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Автор: David Stahel

Название: Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

Издательство: Cambridge University Press

Series: Cambridge Military Histories

ISBN: 0521768470

Год: 2010

Формат: pdf (e-book)

Страниц: 502

Размер: 8 Mb

Язык: English

Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the East, and the summer of 1941 is well-known for the German army's unprecedented victories and advances. Yet the German Blitzkrieg depended almost entirely upon the motorised Panzer groups, particularly those of Army Group Centre. Using previously unpublished archival records, David Stahel presents a new history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front.