Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I have read extensively on World War II and have recently been reading on the Eastern and Western front very good book I recommend it to anyone requiring knowledge on the subject. One person found this helpful. Very detailed and fascinating account of war on the Eastern Front. I have a new appreciation for the resilency and tenacity of the Soviet forces. Excellent book gives a detailed view of the Eastern Front almost phase line by phase line.

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But the eastern front we know little about being from the USA. This book is helping me understand what happen and the numbers that fought on this front. Its so hard to understand the numbers and the miles that was the make up this front. As a armchair General I will never understand why the Germanys ever attacked what was he thinking?

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AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. The capture of Rzhev , the city that connects all railroads in Western Russia , is imperative. It will cost the lives of some 3 million Soviet soldiers and German soldiers.

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It will take the Soviets a total of 3 years to throw the Germans firmly out of the city. These bloodbaths will become known by the veterans and historians as " The Rzhev Meat-Grinder ". Ewald von Kleist has broken through to the Terek river , slap in front of the vital oil fields of Grozny and Baku. The Soviets launch a desperate counter-attack that holds the Germans back.

After the winter, Hitler makes a series of strategic blunders with von Kleist's forces, and he is forced to withdraw all his troops in the Caucasus to the Kuban bridge-head. Hours before the start of Operation Barbarossa , the Germans, along with their Finnish allies, begin mining the Gulf of Finland to prevent any naval evacuation of Soviet troops and ships. This turns out to be the start of a five year sea war against the Soviet Union's Baltic Navy and the German and Finnish navies.

On 22 June , German pilots were the first to see the sun rise. Before the day was over, the Soviet Air Forces had lost almost 2 aircraft. The early German air superiority gave a significant boost to German confidence, and severely damaged Soviet military capability and morale.

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By , as the Germans are desperately struggling to hold their ground, they are increasingly hindered by the Soviet partisans , which contain many former Red Army soldiers that had been cut off behind enemy lines. The Germans responded with intensive counter-insurgency campaigns and brutal reprisals against the civilian population. The Germans will, because of this, fight a war against both the Soviet army and the Soviet population.

Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , the Polish and British have succeeded in de-coding the top secret German military codes known as "Enigma. To the end of the war, the Germans were unaware that their top secret codes were being read, often in real-time, in London.


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