Research Catalog

Title

Operation Barbarossa : the history of a cataclysm / Jonathan Dimbleby.

Author

Dimbleby, Jonathan

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xliii, 595 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Soviet Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history. Hitler's fatal gamble, Barbarossa was a cataclysmic mistake. By the time Hitler's armies reached the gates of Moscow six months later, any prospect of his realizing his vision of a Thousand Year Reich had vanished. Drawing on hitherto unseen archival material, including previously untranslated German sources, Johnathan Dimbleby puts the bloodbath that was Barbarossa in its proper place in history, from its origins in the First World War to its impact on post-war Europe. Dimbleby covers the military, political, and diplomatic story from all sides. Using diaries and letters, dispatches and orders, this book provides vivid accounts of the men and women who fought on the front lines. Written with authority and humanity, Operation Barbarossa captures the monumental scale of the cataclysm, transforming our understanding of the Second World War and of the twentieth century. -- Adapted from book jacket.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Soviet Union
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Eastern Front
• Military campaigns
• Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945))
• Soviet Union

Note

• "Published in the United Kingdom by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, under the title Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [565]-575) and index.

Contents

Illustrations -- Maps -- Preface -- Part one: The slide to war. Paving the way -- Dictators and democrats -- Shuttle diplomacy -- Self-delusion and bad faith -- A pact with Satan -- Thieves fall out -- Stalin ignores the warnings -- Part two: invasion. The blitzkrieg -- Hatred and horrors -- Watching on -- Stalin's rallying cry -- A shaky alliance -- Hideous realities -- America makes a move -- Disarray on the Soviet front -- Hitler's hiatus -- Part three: counterstrike. Between the lines -- The carnage of Kiev -- Leningrad -- Wars of words -- Operation Typhoon -- The Great Panic -- General Mud -- The Jewish question -- Allied preoccupations -- Mood changes -- Part four: retreat. The final assault -- The fateful terminus -- A global war -- The retreat -- Eden meets Stalin -- The fatal gamble -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements.

Call Number

JFE 22-3401

ISBN

• 9780197547212
• 0197547214

OCLC

1198017551

Author

Dimbleby, Jonathan, author.

Title

Operation Barbarossa : the history of a cataclysm / Jonathan Dimbleby.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [565]-575) and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3401