Format:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 483 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521768470
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9780521768474
Series Statement:
Cambridge military histories
Content:
An important reassessment of the failure of Germany's 1941 campaign against the Soviet Union, first published in 2009
Note:
First paperback edition 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 452-473) and index
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Cover; Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East; Cambridge Military Histories; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Acknowledgements; Glossary of terms; Tables of military ranks and army structures; Introduction; Part I: Strategic plans and theoretical conceptions for war against the Soviet Union; 1 Fighting the bear; The evolution of early strategic planning; Two ways to skin a bear - the Marcks and Lossberg plans; Crisis postponed - from war games to Directive No. 21; 2 The gathering storm; The army deployment directive
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The dysfunctional order - delusion as operative discourseBarbarossa - the zenith of war; 3 Barbarossa's sword - Hitler's armed forces in 1941; Carrying fear before them and expectation behind - Hitler's panzer arm; Standing before the precipice - the infantry and Luftwaffe on the eve of Barbarossa; The impossible equation - the logistics and supply of Barbarossa; 4 The advent of war; 'Welcome to hell on earth'; Part II: The military campaign and the July/August crisis of 1941; 5 Awakening the bear; Indecisive border battles and the surfacing of strategic dissent
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The Belostok-Minsk pocket - anatomy of a hollow victoryStraining the limits - Bock's race to the rivers; 6 The perilous advance to the east; Forging across the Dvina and Dnepr - the threshold to demise; 'The Russian is a colossus and strong' (Adolf Hitler); Caught in the hinterlands; 7 The battle of Smolensk; The end of blitzkrieg; Crisis rising - the German command at war; 'I am on the brink of despair' (Franz Halder); 8 The attrition of Army Group Centre; The killing fields at Yel'nya; Sealing the Smolensk pocket and Army Group Centre's fate; Victory at Smolensk? The paradox of a battle
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9 In search of resurgenceThe arduous road to renewal; 'Today is the beginning of positional warfare!' (Fedor von Bock); Embracing world war and apocalypse - Hitler reaches resolution; 10 Showdown; Hitler's triumph in defeat; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521768474
Additional Edition:
Print version Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Language:
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