Full name: Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa, Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941

Author: David M. Glantz Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780752426921 0752426923

Operation Barbarossa--as this campaign is famously called--was arguably the greatest land campaign mankind has ever fought. Hitler named his assault after the 12th-century Frederick I Barbarossa, an emperor of the First Reich. Although he succeeded in capturing almost 40 percent of European Russia, Hitler was defeated there. Exploiting newly available Soviet archives, David M. Glantz challenges the time-honored explanation that poor weather, bad terrain, and Hitler's faulty strategic judgement produced the German defeat. He reveals how and why the Red Army thwarted Hitler's seemingly inexorable progress. Similar books: Zhukov's Greatest Defeat by David M. Glantz In Deadly Combat by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann Citadel: The Battle of Kursk by Robin Cross Voices from Stalingrad by Jonathan Bastable With Our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier When Titans Clashed by David M. Glantz Panzer Aces by Franz Kurowski The Road to Stalingrad by John Erickson Fire and Fury by Randall Hansen Panzer Battles by F. W. Mellenthin The Battle of Kursk by David M. Glantz Barbarossa by Alan Clark Colossus Reborn by David M. Glantz The Ultimate Battle by Bill Sloan Hitler's Generals by Correlli Barnett 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose