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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East (Cambridge Military Histories) Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition

by David Stahel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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 archival records, in this book David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front. Stahel's research provides a fundamental reassessment of Germany's war against the Soviet Union, highlighting the prodigious internal problems of the vital Panzer forces and revealing that their demise in the earliest phase of the war undermined the whole German invasion.
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-1107316812
  2. Edition
    Illustrated
  3. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
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  5. Publication date
    September 10, 2009
  6. Part of series
    Cambridge Military Histories
  7. Language
    English
  8. File size
    7.0 MB
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Editorial Reviews

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"… a thoroughly researched, comprehensive, and convincing analysis of Barbarossa … Any still-lingering notions of a German 'genius for war', as opposed to skill in some aspects of warmaking, is unlikely to survive this intellectually disciplined, archivally documented analysis of one of history’s most misbegotten, mistakenly executed campaigns."
Dennis Showalter, Journal of Military History

"The author’s research is impressive … Stahel’s clearly written and accessible account convincingly questions the competency of the German planning for Barbarossa … all will profit from reading this fine work."
Howard D. Grier, The Journal of Modern History

"… a thrilling book that no military historian can afford to ignore …"
German History

"… interesting and well researched."
Michael Jabara Carley, Canadian Journal of History

"Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East will undoubtedly stand as a standard work on the first phase of Operation Barbarossa for a long time to come … The staggering amount of detail offered ensures this is an invaluable addition to Eastern Front literature and Operation Barbarossa in particular."
Yan Mann, Global War Studies

"… thought-provoking and valuable. It dispels any illusions that the first months of Operation Barbarossa were a pushover for the Wehrmacht; Stahel documents in detail, from German war diaries and letters, the heavy fighting and the high casualties."
Evan Mawdsley, The English Historical Review

"Stahel paints a convincing portrait of a Germany army whose shape edge was already well into the process of being blunted during the first weeks of the fighting … This is a serious book and a welcome contribution to the military debate over Operation Barbarossa."
Robert M. Citino, Central European History

About the Author

David Stahel is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia. His books include Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East, Operation Typhoon, and The Battle for Moscow.

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David Stahel was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1975. He completed an honours degree in history at Monash University in Melbourne, an MA in War Studies at King's College London and a PhD at the Humboldt University in Berlin. His research focus has centered primarily on German military history and particularly the Wehrmacht's war against the Soviet Union.

Dr. Stahel is a Senior Lecturer in European history at the University of New South Wales in Canberra.

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