Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

by David Stahel

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052117015X
• ISBN13: 9780521170154
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"