Barbarossa

by Clark, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780688042684
• ISBN10: 0688042686
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-21
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives. Alan Clark's incisive analysis succeeds in explaining how a fighting force that in one two-month period lost two million men was nevertheless able to rally to defeat the Wehrmacht. The Barbarossa campaign included some of the greatest episodes in military history: the futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941-42, the siege of Stalingrad, the great Russian offensive beginning in 1944 that would lead the Red Army to the historic meeting with the Americans at the Elbe and on to victory in Berlin. Barbarossa is a classic of miltary history. This paperback edition contains a new preface by the author.

Author Biography

Alan Clark, the noted historian, entered politics in 1972. He is currently Secretary of State in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Charts	p. xv
Author's Note	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
The "Eastern Marshals"
The State of the Wehrmacht	p. 3
Mother Russia	p. 28
The Clash of Arms	p. 44
The First Crisis	p. 77
The Lotzen Decision	p. 98
Leningrad: Hypothesis and Reality	p. 114
Slaughter in the Ukraine	p. 129
The Start of the Moscow Offensive	p. 145
The Battle of Moscow	p. 158
Stalingrad
Planning and Preliminaries	p. 187
The Wehrmacht at High Tide	p. 204
Verdun on the Volga	p. 220
The Entombment of the 6th Army	p. 239
The Advent of General von Manstein	p. 249
Zitadelle
Crisis and Recovery	p. 277
The "Consolidation Period"	p. 303
The Greatest Tank Battle in History	p. 322
The Aftermath	p. 339
Nemesis
"The Floodgates Are Creaking"	p. 369
Eastern Europe Changes Hands	p. 384
Black January	p. 415
The Fall of Berlin	p. 440
Epilogue	p. 463
Appendices
Facts about the Russian and German Leaders	p. 467
Chronology	p. 481
Waffen SS Rank Conversion Table	p. 482
Glossary of Abbreviations	p. 483
Text of Fuhrer Directive #34	p. 484
Bibliography	p. 485
Note on Sources	p. 491
Index	p. 499
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