Format:
1 online resource (600 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780700621460
Series Statement:
Modern War Studies
Content:
"An impressive and highly informative read . . . provides a fresh, realistic, and objective look at the war and adds significantly to the topic's growing historiography."--Army History "This volume is much more than a mere history of the Barbarossa operation, and among other perspectives includes a detailed account of NKVD operations during the battle, a never-before published diary account of a German soldier fighting on the Eastern front, how the German invasion has been portrayed post war literature, and a thorough examination of Suvarov's thesis regarding Stalin's alleged plan to attack Nazi Germany. All in all, these many angles give the reader a much fuller understanding of this momentous battle."--Russian Review.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Unternehmen Barbarossa: Conception, Planning, and Execution -- 2. The Commissar Order: Reflections on an Enduring Controversy -- 3. Dance of the Snakes: Soviet and German Diplomacy, August 1939-June 1941 -- 4. The Soviet Intelligence Assessment of German Military Intentions, 1939-1941 -- 5. NKVD Operations during Barbarossa, 1941-1942 -- 6. 20th Panzer Division and the Diary of Gefreiter H. C. von Wiedebach-Nostitz -- 7. The German Invasion in Soviet-Russian War Literature -- 8. Viktor Suvorov, the Stalin Attack Thesis, and the Start of World War II -- 9. The Legacy of Unternehmen Barbarossa -- Appendix A: Translation of Lavrentii Beria's Memorandum to Stalin, 5 March 1940 -- Appendix B: Translation of Stalin's Speech in the Kremlin to Graduates of the Academies of the RKKA, 5 May 1941 -- Appendix C: Translation of TASS Communiqué, 13 June 1941 -- Appendix D: Translation of the Formal Interrogation Record of General Dmitrii Grigor'evich Pavlov, 7 July 1941 -- Appendix E: Translation of Polozhenie o voennykh komissarakh Raboche-Krest'ianskoi Krasnoi Armii (Statute Concerning Military Commissars of the Worker-Peasant Red Army), 16 July 1941 -- Appendix F: Translation of Erlaß über die Ausübung der Kriegsgerichtsbarkeit im Gebiet „Barbarossa" und über besondere Maßnahmen der Truppe (Decree Concerning the Implementation of Military Jurisdiction in the Barbarossa Zone and Concerning Special Measures for the Troops), 13 May 1941 -- Appendix G: Translation of Richtlinien für die Behandlung politischer Kommissare (Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars), 6 June 1941 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780700621453
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780700621453
Language:
English
