Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45

World War II Eastern Front military history

Hardcover

1st

1st

Third Person

Non-Fiction

522

2018-06-26 18:26:59

Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45 is Alan Clark’s detailed and highly readable history of the war on the Eastern Front between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II, the largest and bloodiest campaign in military history. Beginning with Hitler’s launch of Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, when German tanks and artillery opened fire across the Russian border, Clark traces the rapid advances and overextended ambitions of the Wehrmacht as it drives deep into Soviet territory toward Leningrad, Moscow, and the Ukraine. He analyzes the German command decisions, logistical overreach, ideological fanaticism, and underestimation of Soviet strength that shaped the campaign. At the same time, Clark examines the Soviet response under Stalin, the reorganization and hardening of the Red Army, and the immense human cost paid by Soviet soldiers and civilians—millions of lives lost in defensive battles, sieges, scorched-earth retreats, and partisan warfare. The book covers the disastrous German failure before Moscow in the winter of 1941–42, the titanic struggle and turning point at Stalingrad, the monumental tank battle at Kursk, and the subsequent sequence of Soviet offensives that steadily pushed the Germans back across Eastern Europe. Clark follows the Red Army’s relentless advance all the way to the capture of Berlin and the final collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. Drawing on operational records, commanders’ memoirs, and a wide range of sources, he blends strategic analysis with vivid descriptions of combat, weather, terrain, and morale on both sides. The work emphasizes how, despite suffering catastrophic losses that in some periods reached millions of men within months, the Soviet Union managed to absorb the initial blows, adapt, and ultimately crush the German invasion. Widely regarded as a classic of military history, the book offers a comprehensive narrative of the Russian-German conflict that illuminates both high command decision-making and the brutal conditions endured by ordinary soldiers on the Eastern Front.

William Morrow

9780688042684

United States

New York

1965-01-01

1965

1965

1

English

New York

Times New Roman

Yes

~$15.99

2026-01-30

2018-06-26 18:26:59