The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A., 2011. Hard Cover. Book Condition: As New, Unread. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good apart from some grubbiness. First Edition. There are 640 pages that are clean, bright and tight, and contain 24 pages of half-page and full-page photographs of the war and its destruction. There are also sections for maps, abbreviations and foreign terms.Size: 235 x 155 mm. In violation of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of 1939, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, inaugurating the largest land war in history. Adolf Hitler believed this surprise attack was crucial for German success in World War II. It aimed to destroy what Hitler perceived as a Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy and to ensure German economic, political and cultural prosperity. A huge percentage of German resources were allocated to the campaign against the Soviet Union, and the total percentage of German casualities on the eastern front was a staggering seventy percent. Despite the significance of this campaign to Germany and to the war as a whole, there has been little published on it in the last thirty-five years. The majority of work is either in German or focuses strictly on military strategy and ignores other aspects of the campaign. In Barbarossa: Hitler's War of Extermination in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945, Stephen G. Fritz fills the gap in scholarship by incorporating historical research from the last several decades into an accessible, comprehensive, and coherent narrative. He covers all aspects of the campaign, including economic policy, resource exploitation, military involvement, and the racial policy that first motivated the invasion. Fritz's thorough research and in-depth account will generate greateter understanding of a topic that has been neglected by historians for too long. In Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East, Stephen G. Fritz bridges the gap in scholarship by incorporating historical research from the last several decades into an accessible, comprehensive, and coherent narrative. His analysis of the Russo-German War from a German perspective covers all aspects of the eastern front, demonstrating the interrelation of military events, economic policy, resource exploitation, and racial policy that first motivated the invasion. This in-depth account challenges accepted notions about World War II and promotes greater understanding of a topic that has been neglected by historians.
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