Barbarossa 1941 : Reframing Hitler's Invasion of Stalin's Soviet Empire / Frank Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Frank, 1953- author.

Series:

Modern war studies.

Modern war studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.

Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At first light on Sunday, 22nd June 1941, the charade maintained by both Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet empire that all was well between them finally ended in brutal and spectacular fashion when Germany and its allies attacked the Soviet Union. Codenamed Barbarossa, the scale and summer successes of the operation's initial phase justified Hitler's boast that it would cause the world to stop and hold its breath.

Contents:

Unternehmen Barbarossa: conception, planning, and execution

The Commissar Order: reflections on an enduring controversy

Dance of the snakes: Soviet and German diplomacy, August 1939-June 1941

The Soviet intelligence assessment of German military intentions, 1939-1941

NKVD operations during Barbarossa, 1941-1942

20th Panzer Division and the diary of Gefreiter H.C. Von Wiedebach-Nostitz

The German invasion in Soviet-Russian war literature

Viktor Suvorov, the Stalin attack thesis, and the start of World War II

The legacy of Unternehmen Barbarossa.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7006-2146-6

OCLC:

929784535