Spring 1941 ¿ the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had withstood the Nazis, but even it was battered and bruised and close to defeat. Then, on 22 June 1941 ¿ in the most momentous decision of the war ¿ the Nazi dictator turned East and flung his victorious armies into the vastness of the Soviet Union.Having signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler back in 1939, Stalin was taken completely by surprise by the German attack. Hitler¿s Wehrmacht ¿ buoyed by years of untrammelled success and led by some of the greatest commanders Nazi Germany had to offer ¿ crashed across the border and sent the Red Army reeling.The German plan was simple and its scale staggering; over three million men, armed with over three thousand panzers, the same number of aircraft, more than seven thousand guns and carried by ov
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New B-format paperback - 'We weren't afraid of the Allies as soldiers, but we were afraid of their materiel - it was going to be men versus machines.' Written from the 'other side' and told through the words of the veterans, this...
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Starting with leaflet drops in 1940 the aerial offensive against the Nazis'' homeland grew into a huge armada that pulverised much of Germany, seriously damaging her ability to make war and killing hundreds of thousands. By day the Flying Fortresses...
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¿If Germany stays united and marches to the rhythm of its revolutionary socialist outlook, it will be unbeatable. Our indestructible will to life, and the driving force of the F¿hrer¿s personality guarantee this.¿ (Joseph Goebbels, 4 June 1943.) It...
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Jonathan Trigg reveals the human agony behind such statistics through the words of the Germans who were there: 'You'll regret this insulting, provocative and thoroughly predatory attack on the Soviet Union! You'll pay dearly for it!'...
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