Synopses & Reviews
This long-awaited addition to the Campaign series begins Osprey's coverage of the mammoth Operation Barbarossa - Germany's bid to annihilate the Soviet Union and to establish 'Lebensraum' for German people in the East. Prior to Barbarossa, Soviet intelligence had warned of an impending attack on the Ukraine and the area had been fortified accordingly. When the German assault came. Hitler's troops faced the best equipped, trained and commanded units in the Soviet order of battle - yet the superiority of the German war machine soon began to tell. This book describes how the Red Army was encircled and destroyed at Uman, so that by October 1941 it seemed that Soviet Union troops could hold out no longer and that nothing could stop the German juggernaut.
Review:
"It does an excellent job in presenting the fighting between German Army Group South and its Russian foes during the six-month campaign from June to December 1941." - Andrew Nguyen, ww2db.com (August 2009)
Synopsis:
Operation Barbarossa was one of the key campaigns of World War II, using the classic "Blitzkrieg" tactics. This is a detailed analysis of the campaign by the German Army Group South from the battles on the frontier to the German high-water mark at Rostov.
Synopsis:
Operation Barbarossa, Germanys surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than the complete destruction of Communist Russia. This book focuses on Field Marshal von Rundstedt and Army Group South, tasked with the capture of the Ukraine and Crimea. Von Rundstedts 46 divisions and single Panzer Group faced fierce resistance from the best equipped, trained and commanded units in the Red Army, but ultimately succeeded in destroying the Soviet 6th and 12th Armies at Uman before inflicting a further 600,000 casualties at Kiev. Here, von Rundstedts five-month advance to Rostov is examined in detail.
Synopsis:
Short Synopsis Germany's surprise assault on the Soviet Union in 1941, Operation Barbarossa, aimed at nothing less than complete destruction. Hitler saw this as the answer to establishing 'Lebensraum' for the German people in the East. The Soviets believed that a German attack would take place in the Ukraine. As such, Germany faced the Soviet Southwestern and Southern Fronts, containing many of the best equipped, trained and commanded units in the Soviet order, Nevertheless German superiority began to tell and the Soviet Army was encircled and destroyed at Uman. By the beginning of October 1941 it appeared that the Red Army was in the final stages of collapse and nothing could stop the German juggernaut.
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