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1 online resource (308 pages) |
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Seminar Studies In History |
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Seminar studies in history
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Maps; List of Plates; Chronology; Who's Who; Glossary; Maps; Part One: Analysis; Introduction; 1. The Background; The Origins of the War on the Eastern Front; Planning 'Operation Barbarossa'; Soviet Preparations for War; 2. 22 June 1941: The Invasion; The Border Battles; The Battle for Leningrad; The Battle for Kiev; The First Major German Defeat: Rostov; Mass Murder in the USSR; The Battle for Moscow; 3. The War Turns Against the Germans, 1942-43; 'Operation Blue'; The Battle for Stalingrad |
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German Efforts to Halt the Red ArmyThe Partisans; 'Operation Citadel'; 4. The Soviet Union on the Offensive; Battles for the Ukraine; The Relief of Leningrad; 'Operation Bagration'; The Destruction of Army Groups North and South; The Battle for Berlin; 5. Assessment; Part Two: Documents; 1 Nazi-Soviet Pact, 23 August 1939; 2 Hitler letter to Mussolini, 21 June 1941; 3 Directive for 'Operation Barbarossa'; 4 Directive for Special Areas during 'Operation Barbarossa, ' 13 March 1941; 5 Decree for the Conduct of Courts-Martial in the East, 13 May 1941; 6 'Commissar Decree, ' 6 June 1941 |
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7 Stalin's speech on 3 July 19418 Decree on the Treatment of Civilians, 23 July 1941; 9 Halder's Diary, 3 July 1941; 10 Halder's Diary, 11 August 1941; 11 Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau's order, 10 October 1941; 12 Hitler comments on motorization, 29 October 1941; 13 Order for German forces to go on the defensive, 8 December 1941; 14 Hitler comments on the winter 1941-42, 12 and 17 January 1942; 15 Order for 'Operation Blue, ' 5 April 1942; 16 Soviet order concerning discipline in the Red Army, 28 July 1942; 17 A German witness to a mass shooting, 5-6 October 1942 |
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18 A German soldier describes the retreat in the Ukraine, Summer 194319 'Fortified Areas' Order, 8 March 1944; 20 A Soviet soldier reports on combat during 'Operation Bagration, ' 29 June 1944; 21 A German soldier reports on fighting on the Eastern Front, 14 January 1945; 22 Decree for the destruction of German industry, 30 March 1945; 23 Hitler's Last Proclamation to the Eastern Front, 15 April 1945; Further Reading; References; Index |
| Summary |
Russia's engagement with Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II was ferocious, unprecedented and bloody, costing millions of civilian and military lives. In this challenging new book, Lee Baker distinguishes myth from reality and deflates the idea that this war, while gargantuan in scale, was in essence a war like any other |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317865049 |
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1317865049 |
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