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Totalitarian clash: Barbarossa’s brutal fight for survival and world-altering consequences.

Operation Barbarossa

Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945

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    202 pages

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    11 July 2018

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Summary

The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century. Unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep historical scars that it left behind, it was a gargantuan conflict in every sense of the term: in the vast territories over which it ranged, its intensity and duration, the huge numbers of people involved– and last but by no means …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198701705
ISBN-10:0198701705
Author:Christian Hartmann
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:202
Release Date:11 July 2018
Weight:196g
Dimensions:16mm x 129mm x 197mm
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Operation Barbarossa by Christian Hartmann - ISBN: 9780198701705
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Critics Review

”[A] superbly written survey of a seminal conflict…“–Booklist “A masterly feat of compression”–Richard J. Evans, author of the Third Reich trilogy

“There are a lot of little gems…If you want a swift overview of the war in this theatre and its wider impacts this book is definitely worth a look.” * James Hunwicke, Battlefield *
a superbly written survey of a seminal conflict * Booklist *
A masterly feat of compression * Richard J. Evans, author of the Third Reich trilogy *

About The Author

Christian Hartmann

Christian Hartmann works as a historian at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, and is Senior Lecturer at the Staff College of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg. A board member of the German Committee for the History of the Second World War, he is also a historical adviser to the History Channel in Germany. He has published widely on the history of Germany in the Second World War, including a biography of General Halder, head of the Wehrmacht GeneralStaff in the opening years of the war, and is the editor of four volumes in the German Documents on Foreign Policy series.

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