Slaughter on the Eastern Front (eBook)

Hitler and Stalin's War 1941-1945

Anthony Tucker-Jones (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
320 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-8313-6 (ISBN)

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In the summer of 1941, a collective madness overtook Adolf Hitler and his senior generals. They convinced themselves that they could take on and defeat a superpower in the making - the Soviet Union. Foolishly, they thought in a swift campaign they could smash the Red Army and force Stalin to sue for peace, despite dire warnings that Stalin was amassing a reserve army of more than 1 million men on the Volga. The end result would be such carnage that it would tear the German forces apart. In his major reassessment of the war on the Eastern Front, Anthony Tucker-Jones casts new light on the brutal fighting, including such astounding German defeats as at Stalingrad, Kursk, Minsk and, finally, Berlin. He controversially contends that from the very start intelligence officers on both sides failed to influence their leadership resulting in untold slaughter. He also reveals the shocking blunders by Hitler, Stalin and even Churchill that led to the appalling, needless destruction of Hitler's armed forces as early as the winter of 1941-42. Step by step, Tucker-Jones describes how the German war machine fought to its very last against a relentless enemy, fully aware that defeat was inevitable.

ANTHONY TUCKER-JONES spent nearly twenty years in the British Intelligence Community before establishing himself as a defence writer and military historian. He has written extensively on aspects of Second World War warfare, including Hitler's Great Panzer Heist and Stalin's Revenge: Operation Bagration.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Berlin • Churchill • Eastern Front • Germany • Hitler • hitler & stalin's war 1941-1945 • hitler and stalin's war 1941-1945 • Kursk • Minsk • Nazi Germany • Operation Barbarossa • Red Army • Russia • Second World War • Soviet Union • Stalin • Stalingrad • USSR • USSR, Russia, Nazi Germany, Germany, Eastern Front, WW2, World War II, wwii, world war 2, world war two, second, world war, Operation Barbarossa, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, hitler and stalin's war 1941-1945, hitler & stalin's war 1941-1945, soviet union, red army, stalingrad, kursk • World War 2 • World War II • World War Two • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-8313-2 / 0750983132
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-8313-6 / 9780750983136