Hitler s War on RussiaAn examination of the German campaign on the Eastern Front, from their first significant defeat at the gates of Moscow in 1941 to the defeat at Stalingrad and the Russian capture of Berlin marking the end of the war in Europe. The Russian Front was the decisive theatre of World War II, with the great mass of the German Army and Luftwaffe locked in battle with the Red Army in the largest land campaign in history. On a 1,200 mile front, from the Arctic Circle to the Caspian Sea, in baking summer heat and freezing winter temperatures, millions of men and women fought the most vital battle of the war. Had the Germans won in the East, a Nazi victory would have been almost inevitable. Hitler's War on Russia explores how Hitler's flawed dream of conquest in the East brought about the end of the Thousand Year Reich in little over a thousand days. This is the non-illustrated edition of Ostfront with about 20,000 words of new material from the author. |
Contents
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THE RED ARMY | 27 |
TO THE GATES OF MOSCOW | 41 |
ATTACK AND COUNTERATTACK | 68 |
THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD | 91 |
THE CORRELATION OF FORCES | 116 |
THE LAST BLITZKRIEG | 149 |
THE WRITING ON THE WALL | 171 |
PRUSSIAN ROULETTE | 181 |
GOODBYE TO BERLIN | 192 |
NOTES | 205 |
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4th Panzer 6th Army advance Air Force aircraft Allied ammunition Army Group Centre Army Group South Army’s artillery assault guns attack Baltic battalions battle battle of Kursk Berlin bombers bombing bridgehead British bunker campaign captured casualties Colonel-General counter-attack defeat defences Dnepr east Eastern Front encirclement factories Field Marshal fighters fighting front line German Army German forces German tank Germany’s Guderian headquarters heavy Hitler industrial infantry divisions invasion July Kharkov Kiev killed Kursk Leningrad London losses Luftwaffe Manstein miles military million Moscow Nazi NKVD numbers officers operations ordered Orel Ostheer Panzer Army Panzer Corps Panzer divisions Panzer III Panzer IVs Panzergrenadier partisans Paulus Poland prisoners prisoners-of-war production Red Army regiments River Romanian Russian front Russian tank Rzhev salient Sebastopol Second World Soviet forces SS Panzer staff Stalin Stalingrad Stavka strength supply Tank Corps Timoshenko troops Ukraine Ukranian Front units USAF USSR vehicles victory Volga weapons Wehrmacht western winter Zhukov