Hitler Versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1941 - 1942

Hitler Versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1941 - 1942 Barbarossa to Moscow Author:Nik Cornish Language:English Format:Softcover Dimensions:7.5" x 9.75" Pages:128 Photos:175 photographs Publisher:Pen and Sword Military ISBN:9781783463985 Item No. 9781783463985 The world was not prepared for the massive onslaught launched by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 – the scale of the invasion, the speed of the German advance, the hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers taken prisoner, the chaotic, headlong retreat of Stalin’s forces eastwards, towards Leningrad and Moscow. But equally it was not prepared for the Soviet fight back. For, despite all the predictions, the Red Army stemmed the Wehrmacht’s advance, held the lines before Leningrad and Moscow, and mounted a counter-offensive that changed the course of the campaign and the outcome of the Second World War. These are the historic events that Nik Cor