
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.00 for first 30 days
Buy for $25.79
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Stewart Crank
-
By:
-
David Stahel
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.
©2009 David Stahel (P)2021 Upfront BooksListeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...


















Interesting and thorough
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very detailed and specific
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great Overarching and Detailed Analysis
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Full of details, for advanced listeners only
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great story
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great book
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Critical analysis of Germany's 1941 campaign
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great listen.
Nothing the Germans could have done on the field would have mattered
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Too many books gloss over the planning and preparation phase. A lesson we all should remember is too many efforts fail from a lack of proper planning or no planning at all. Operation Barbarossa was domed to fail from the beginning.
Best book on Operation Barbarossa so far
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A brilliant book for study of military operations
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.