Compact and illustrated throughout, this book explains the background and outbreak of the war, then follows the course of the fighting at Yalu River, Sha-ho and Mukden.
Details Operation Barbarossa and the four years of campaigning that followed it. Hitler expected to conquer Russia in just four months, but the Russians fought back and finally emerged from the war as victor, and as a communist superpower to be reckoned with.
The first of four volumes that together provide an account of World War I, this text unravels the complicated and tragic events of the war's Eastern... Læs mere
In this volume Geoffrey Jukes explains what led to Hitler's decision to instigate the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and offers a concise account of the campaign that followed.
In this compact volume, Geoffrey Jukes describes the downfall of the Russian army, paving the way for the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917.