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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

By: David Stahel
Narrated by: Stewart Crank
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Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is well-known for the German army's unprecedented victories and advances. Yet the German Blitzkrieg depended almost entirely upon the motorised Panzer groups, particularly those of Army Group Centre. 

Using archival records, in this book, David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front. Stahel's research provides a fundamental reassessment of Germany's war against the Soviet Union, highlighting the prodigious internal problems of the vital Panzer forces and revealing that their demise in the earliest phase of the war undermined the whole German invasion.

©2009 David Stahel (P)2021 Upfront Books Europe Germany World War II Soviet Union Wars & Conflicts Military Russia War Thought-Provoking East Germany
Revisionist Perspective • Detailed Analysis • Great Narration • Informative Content • Fresh Insights • Good Extracts

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very well done, good narrator, good extracts from diaries and other sources. highly recommend for those interested

Great Overarching and Detailed Analysis

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Mr Stahel has very obviously sympathetic to the SU and acts like the Red Army was never in danger and didn’t really need any help,but that usually shows in his other books and not as bad in this one. All in all a good book but if you’ve been studying the eastern front for years then unless it’s free you better pass. If you’re somewhat new to the subject then absolutely,very well worth it

Nothing in particular new but for the newly interested in the eastern front it’s good

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This is a very fine-grained view. The author is perhaps the top expert on this, and makes his case well that Barbarossa was doomed from an early stage. It really fleshes out the story. I can imagine the disquiet and sinking feelings of the generals as this unfolded.

Full of details, for advanced listeners only

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A good world war two history story about Russia and Germany and how Germany lost

Great story

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Convincing argument that Germany lost their advantage in the east within 2 or 3 months and the debated "turning point " of the war was 1941. I have read at least 50 books about WW2 and yet learned a great deal from this book.

Very informative and Compelling

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