What is included with this book?
List of illustrations | p. vii |
List of maps | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Glossary of terms | p. xiii |
Tables of military ranks and army structures | p. xv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Strategic plans and theoretical conceptions for war against the Soviet Union | |
Fighting the bear | p. 33 |
The evolution of early strategic planning | p. 33 |
Two ways to skin a bear - the Marcks and Lossberg plans | p. 39 |
Crisis postponed - from war games to Directive No. 21 | p. 54 |
The gathering storm | p. 70 |
The army deployment directive | p. 70 |
The dysfunctional order - delusion as operative discourse | p. 84 |
Barbarossa - the zenith of war | p. 95 |
Barbarossa's sword - Hitler's armed forces in 1941 | p. 105 |
Carrying fear before them and expectation behind - Hitler's panzer arm | p. 105 |
Standing before the precipice - the infantry and Luftwaffe on the eve of Barbarossa | p. 117 |
The impossible equation - the logistics and supply of Barbarossa | p. 127 |
The advent of war | p. 139 |
'Welcome to hell on earth' | p. 139 |
The military campaign and the July/August crisis of 1941 | |
Awakening the bear | p. 153 |
Indecisive border battles and the surfacing of strategic dissent | p. 153 |
The Belostok-Minsk pocket - anatomy of a hollow victory | p. 170 |
Straining the limits - Bock's race to the rivers | p. 186 |
The perilous advance to the east | p. 209 |
Forging across the Dvina and Dnepr - the threshold to demise | p. 209 |
'The Russian is a colossus and strong' (Adolf Hitler) | p. 228 |
Caught in the hinterlands | p. 245 |
The battle of Smolensk | p. 260 |
The end of blitzkrieg | p. 260 |
Crisis rising - the German command at war | p. 273 |
'I am on the brink of despair' (Franz Halder) | p. 290 |
The attrition of Army Group Centre | p. 306 |
The killing fields at Yel'nya | p. 306 |
Sealing the Smolensk pocket and Army Group Centre's fate | p. 324 |
Victory at Smolensk? The paradox of a battle | p. 344 |
In search of resurgence | p. 361 |
The arduous road to renewal | p. 361 |
Today is the beginning of positional warfare!'(Fedor von Bock) | p. 380 |
Embracing world war and apocalypse - Hitler reaches resolution | p. 400 |
Showdown | p. 423 |
Hitler's triumph in defeat | p. 423 |
Conclusion | p. 439 |
Bibliography | p. 452 |
Index | p. 474 |
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