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War without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942 Paperback – 5 Jun. 2008

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In the Spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's Soviet Russia. The German army quickly advanced far into Russia as the Soviet forces suffered defeat after defeat. With brutality and savagery displayed by both sides, this was literally a campaign in which no prisoners were taken and no quarter given. As time wore on, the Eastern Front became, for the Germans, a byword for death - to be transferred to the front was a fate that was most feared by any member of the German forces.

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640 pages
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English
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Ian Allan Ltd
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5 Jun. 2008
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12.7 x 4.78 x 20.02 cm
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0711033242
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978-0711033245
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ian Allan Ltd (5 Jun. 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0711033242
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0711033245
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 4.78 x 20.02 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 594,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 260 in History of Eastern Front in World War II
- 1,218 in Historic Origins of World War II
- 1,962 in War & Defence Operations

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vincent GUERARD

Excellent and vivid account of the Barbarossa campaign

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 March 2019

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The book offers a vivid account of the 1941 Barbarossa Campaign against the Soviet Union. The story is told from the eyers of the German soldiers fighting on the ground. It is not about strategies and tactics, but rather on the soldiers lived this campaign, the fighting, the morale, the logistics, their hopes and their fears, etc. From this perspective, one understand better the geographical and human challenge of invading Russia. The author has succeeded in gibing a different perspective and provide a "live" atmosphere. I strongly recommend the book to those who want to have a "realistic" view of the Campaign from the ground. After the easy Campaign of Poland and France, Russia was definitely not a war with garlands...

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Nicholas Walton

Staggering - the best I've found on the Ostfront

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2010

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This is a staggeringly good book, and a vital piece of the jigsaw when it comes to understanding the Eastern Front in the Second World War.

I have read widely on this subject, from war diaries to accounts of individual battles and to more general overviews. They are, of course, all bits of the jigsaw, and some are more vital than others. Despite its focus on both the initial Barbarossa end of the Eastern Front, and a heavy emphasis on the German experience, this book transformed my understanding.

Nowhere else did I gain such a vivid picture of the size of Russia. It's not just a simple case of maps, war diaries or figures for re-supply - it's the glueing together of all of this into a narrative that suddenly makes the great pushes and the kessels come alive - the strain on the German soldiers and the simple human scale of involvement in these actions.

In other accounts, of course, these first weeks and months seem to be a golden period for the Wehrmacht, as they plunge deeper and deeper into the Soviet Union, gaining stunning success after stunning success. The strain on and misery of the soldiers enjoying this apparent success comes out through Kershaw's knitting together of the narratives at various levels. This then helps feed into the reasons why the campaign spluttered out at the gates of Moscow, and provide a real, tangible picture of the overstretch that is often talked about in other accounts, without ever fully coming alive.

So, again, a piece in the jigsaw, but the most vital that I have read to date. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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German ideology refuted by the reality of the battlefield

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 November 2013

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This book is extraordinarily successful in capturing the ethos of German troops as they invaded the USSR in 1941. For the most part, their great successes--on a huge scale--seemed to confirm what they had been told, that the Soviet Union would soon collapse under the weight of their ideological, aggressive and courageous attack. But Robert Kershaw, with an insight that only a former serving soldier can muster, registers the shifting mood as the vastness of Russia and the ferocity of much of the resistance becomes clear. And this is where Robert Kershaw sweeps away a widely held myth. The Russian soldiers frequently hurled themselves against the invader, and though badly led, their bravery and numbers gradually used up German ammunition and knocked out more and more of its armour and troops. It was a war of attrition which in the long run the Germans could not win, especially given the appalling winter weather for which Hitler's stupidity failed to prepare them.

Robert Kershaw's translated primary sources--diaries, letters, regimental reports, etc.,--are skilfully woven into the narrative and create a vivid impression of the battlefield and of soldier's correspondence with their loved ones on the home front. This book is a monument to Hitlerian madness and Wehrmacht over-optimism. Kershaw brings the tragedy of this pointless and costly campaign to an evocative narrative which draws the reader into consideration of the biggest land battles of all time. All in all, the folly and the carnage would support a pacifist viewpoint as well as a very tempered version of what armies should and should not attempt.

On a personal note, my father who was in the LRDG in the western desert, told me that when radio news came that Germany had invaded Russia, the men of his unit debated what this portended. He himself thought the Germans would steamroller the Russians, but the weight of opinion on that day was that Hitler had made a fatal error. My father was wrong and the other soldiers were right. Kershaw's account explains how Operation Barbarossa went from extraordinary success for the Germans to the greatest German military disaster of all time.

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