Barbarroja 1941: La guerra absoluta: 103

The story of the greatest campaign of the Second World War. On June 22, 1941, more than three million German soldiers crossed the Soviet border in the largest military offensive of all time. Within months, Axis forces had advanced to the gates of Moscow, while millions of people were caught in an unprecedented spiral of destruction. Battles such as Minsk, Kiev, Moscow, and the siege of Leningrad turned the front into a scene of death and devastation on a scale never seen before: total war had begun. With masterful narrative skill, historians Jean Lopez and Lasha Otkhmezuri--two of the world's leading specialists on the Eastern Front--reconstruct every level of the campaign: from political decisions in Berlin and Moscow to propaganda, command rivalries, the rear, and the hell of the front lines and occupation. To do so, they have drawn on a monumental array of sources, many previously unpublished (Russian, German, and Western archives, correspondence, memoirs, and declassified Soviet studies), which reveal an astonishing wealth of information unknown until now. The result of fifteen years of research, Barbarossa 1941 is the definitive work on the German invasion of the Soviet Union--a total history of the most brutal campaign of the Second World War. Winner of the Chateaubriand Prize. Winner of the Livre d'Histoire de l'Europe Prize. Winner of the Guesclin Prize. Named History Book of the Year by Lire

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