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Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the biggest military campaign in history on June 22, 1941, this unprecedented book illuminates the brutality, horror, and heroism of war.
Synopsis
Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the biggest military campaign in history on June 22, 1941, this unprecedented book illuminates the brutality, horror, and heroism of war. Over 300 previously unpublished photographs, recently released from the Russian archives in Moscow and supplemented by German sources, illustrate every phase and aspect of the Eastern Front campaigns, from the Nazis' early Blitzkrieg successes, the battle for Moscow and the terrible siege of Leningrad, the turning-point street fighting for Stalingrad and the subsequent Soviet successes at Kursk and Operation Bagration to the climactic fall of Berlin and the link-up between Soviet and Western armies amid the ruins of the "1000-year Reich".