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Hitler Versus Stalin : the Eastern Front 1941-1942 / Nik Cornish.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornish, Nik, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Images of war.
- Images of War Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front--Pictorial works.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Military campaigns.
- Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945)).
- World War (1939-1945).
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, England : Pen & Sword Books Ltd, [2016]
- Summary:
- "The world was not prepared for the massive onslaught launched by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 - the scale of the invasion, the speed of the German advance, the hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers taken prisoner, the chaotic, headlong retreat of Stalin's forces eastwards, towards Leningrad and Moscow. But equally it was not prepared for the Soviet fight back. For, despite all the predictions, the Red Army stemmed the Wehrmacht's advance, held the lines before Leningrad and Moscow, and mounted a counter-offensive that changed the course of the campaign and the outcome of the Second World War. These are the historic events that Nik Cornish portrays in the slection of rare wartime images he has selected for this graphic history of the war on the Eastern Front. The key aspects of the opening year of the war are vividly recorded - Operation Barbarossa; the German and Soviet forces as they marched and fought their way across the countryside and through the villages and towns of the Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states; the clashes at Brest, Smolensk, Kiev; the failure of Operation Typhoon, the turning point in this phase of the war which denied to Hitler the anticipated quick victory in the East."--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Into the great beyond
- Many rivers to cross
- Herding people
- Murmansk and Sevastopol
- Spoilt for choice
- Panic in the streets
- Stretched to the limit
- Retaliation
- Lend-Lease.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4738-8143-9
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