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Men Of Barbarossa (Hardback)

Battles and Leaders of the German Invasion of Russia, 1941

WWII

By Samuel W Mitcham
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Pages: 256
Illustrations: 16 pages b/w photos
ISBN: 9781935149156
Published: 19th December 2009

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History’s greatest military operation and the commanders who nearly led it to success . . .This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it. The result is an illuminating look at the personalities behind the carnage, as summer triumph turned to winter crisis, including new insights into the invasion’s many tactical successes, as well as its ultimate failure. This objective is massive in scope, because Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, was massive in scale, arguably the largest military operation of all time. The campaign also changed the world forever. Before Barbarossa, Hitler’s Wehrmacht seemed invincible, like an unstoppable force of nature. No one, it seemed, could check the Führer’s ambitions, much less defeat him. Barbarossa changed all of that. Pitting Germany in total war against the Soviet Union on a 1,000-mile front, Operation Barbarossa was truly staggering in its magnitude. Wars, however, are not fought by numbers, they are fought by men. Very often, writers stereotype German officers into two categories: Prussian gentlemen or Nazi monsters. There were, of course, both—but there were also varying shades of gray. In this book we learn of the famous commanders and undersung leaders, about those who were willing to stand up to the Führer and those who subordinated themselves to his will. The result casts a fresh perspective on one of history’s most crucial campaigns.About the AuthorSamuel W. Mitcham Jr., is an internationally recognized authority on Nazi Germany and the Second World War and is the author of over thirty books on the subject, including The Desert Fox in Normandy (Praeger, 1997).

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About Samuel W Mitcham

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., is a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot and holds a doctorate from the University of Tennessee. An internationally recognized authority on the ‘Wehrmacht’ and Nazi Germany, he has written numerous books, including, German Order of Battle, Panzers in Winter, Rommel's Desert War, Retreat to the Reich, and The German Defeat in the East.

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