Stalingrad - DVD

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Absolute War

Barbarossa to Berlin - Volume 1

The long drive East 22nd June 1941 to 18 November 1942

A comprehensive 330 Page Hardcover Book

About the Book

Between June 1941 and May 1945 the largest conflict the world has ever seen was fought across Eastern europe, culminating in the absolute defeat not only of a new ideology, but of an entire nation.

This, The Long Drive East, is the first of two volumes and looks at the German advance from the Soviet frontier, their crushing victories at Minsk, Smolensk and Kiev, and subsequent drive for Moscow. However, in the depths of the Russian winter, the Soviet commanders marshalled their meagre reserves before their capital and inflicted a crippling counter-blow on the Ostheer, pushing the Germans back hundreds of miles. With the onset of the campaigning weather of spring 1942, the Stavka planned to finish the Germans off, launching a crushing blow in the Ukraine. Devastatingly, the Soviet offensive upon Kharkov ended in complete and total failure and heralded the next German drive east, the long march to the Volga, and a new kind of warfare. In the ruins of Stalingrad the Ostheer was bled white, Paulus's 6th Army battling to overcome Chuikov's redoubtable 62nd Army. Amid the carnage though, the emerging marshals of the Soviet Union had developed a plan to destroy the Germans and once again begin their drive west, a drive that would force the Germans out of Russia and into absolute defeat.

Writing in clear chronological style, Brian Taylor covers the main areas of activity on the extensive combat front. He includes details of the armies involved, their strengths, orders of battle and casualties which serve to give a complete picture of the scale of the conflict. Studying each of the combatants and their allies's in equal detail, the Barbarossa to Berlin sreies gives the reader a unique insight into the sheer scale of this titanic struggle.

MAIN PRODUCT FEATURES

-Over 330 pages following the campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941-42

-USED Hardcover Book (Very Good Condition)