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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

By: David Stahel
Narrated by: Stewart Crank
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Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is well-known for the German army's unprecedented victories and advances. Yet the German Blitzkrieg depended almost entirely upon the motorised Panzer groups, particularly those of Army Group Centre. 

Using archival records, in this book, David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front. Stahel's research provides a fundamental reassessment of Germany's war against the Soviet Union, highlighting the prodigious internal problems of the vital Panzer forces and revealing that their demise in the earliest phase of the war undermined the whole German invasion.

©2009 David Stahel (P)2021 Upfront Books Europe Germany Military Russia War Soviet Union East Germany
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A view that the campaign was doomed before it started. Too little credit for the Germans who were brutal and evil but also effective.

The forensic detail and analysis of the resources available for both sides.

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Nice narration, marred by the narrators inability to come even close to an acceptable pronunciation of german names.
The book is fantastic.

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There are dozens of books about Fall Barbarossa, written by the authors from many countries. It is another one but I found it quite fresh in its approach to the first months of the war on the Eastern Front. I was genuinely surprised that such innovative but well supported theory about the decisive moment when Hitler lost the war apeared from New Zealander historician but I grabbed another books written by Mr. Stahel and they were equally good.

Interesting and well written

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I’d heard for years how good and how detailed this study was. It doesn’t disappoint at all. For anyone who thinks they now the history of the largest offensive in history, this will re-write it.

Brilliant

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Well detailed rendition that does not disappoint on any level
Narrator excellent,concise and keeps your interest

Great updated version of Barbarossa

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