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# War Without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942

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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent and vivid account of the Barbarossa campaign
  

*by V***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 March 2019*

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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    Updated and wholly convincing study on Barbarossa early stages
  

*by V***I on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2011*

Operation Barbarossa is universally considered as the defining event and the turning point of land operations in the European Theatre of Operations. After the German Angriff nach Osten the war was no longer a matter of a European struggle  for supremacy  but took intercontinental dimensions and after less than 6 months sealed the fate of Nazi Germany and her allies. This book describes the German Army operations ranging from the start of Barbarossa till its standstill and its reversals in front of Moscow of early december 1941. There is no doubt that Barbarossa was not an option born of Hitler's lunacy but a well thought operation whose success was to be the zenith of Hitler's regime, the realisation of what was first described in Mein Kampf ,and finally an event capable of finally forcing England to accept a peace treaty to sanction German power on the European mainland. This did not happen and from December 1941 German showed clearly her weaknesses and in spite of local successes was no longer able to mount attacks of the same scale of earlier ones. The reasons of this abject failure resides not just in the unexpected resiliance of the  Soviet regime but mostly in the inability of the Nazi ierarchy  to grasp the realities of the scale of their enterprise. Blinded by their ideology based on racial prejudices the Nazi regime showed their ignorance and lack of planning, that comdemned their finest troops to a gruesome struggle for survival against a cruel and determined enemy. An excellent book strongly recommended not just  because of the remarkable coverage of military events but especially for the author's oustanding ability to provide a wider picture of the story including also political, strategic and human factors.

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    Staggering - the best I've found on the Ostfront
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2010*

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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