History Of Russia In WW2 Invasion And Freedom Dunkirk World War Ii History

On 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Over 3,000,000 men, more than 3,000 tanks, and over 2,000 aircraft advanced east to begin the Nazi Party's crusade to destroy Bolshevism and carve out "living space" for the Thousand Year Reich. During the first few weeks of the invasion, the Germans achieved staggering results, as whole Soviet armies were annihilated, thousands of aircraft were destroyed on the ground, and hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers were captured. Yet as the Wehrmacht advanced deeper into Mother Russia, the tables began to turn.

This history book describes the experience of war on the Eastern Front: the choking dust and endless steppes of Ukraine, the mud that made movement by wheeled and tracked vehicles all but impossible, and the numbing Russian winter, which killed thousands of ill-equipped German soldiers. Well-written overview about Germany's attempt to defeat Russia in 1941. At the time perhaps it might have seemed feasible, but Hitler assumed too much about his gigantic adversary--and Germany paid for it in the end. In hindsight, the reader might wonder what would have happened if Germany had waited to invade Russia?