Barbarossa; The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45
New York: Quill, 1985. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xxii, 522 p. Footnotes. Maps and Charts. Chronology. Note on Sources. Bibliography. Index. Format 5.75 by 8.5 inches. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Barbarossa was the code name for the German drive against Russia. It was a battle waged at heights and depths hitherto unknown, a battle with deeds of bravery, cruelty, and madness. It continued for four years. The author studied official histories, memoirs, and other sources and produced what some called "a living history, one that puts the generals at the conference table, the soldiers in the field. " Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 – 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence, and became a privy counsellor in 1991. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961. Clark became known for his flamboyance, wit and irreverence. Norman Lamont called him "the most politically incorrect, outspoken, iconoclastic and reckless politician of our times". He is particularly remembered for his three-volume diary, a candid account of political life under Thatcher and a moving description of the weeks preceding his death, when he continued to write until he could no longer focus on the page. On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives. Alan Clark's incisive analysis succeeds in explaining how a fighting force that in one two-month period lost two million men was nevertheless able to rally to defeat the Wehrmacht. The Barbarossa campaign included some of the greatest episodes in military history: the futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941-42, the siege of Stalingrad, the great Russian offensive beginning in 1944 that would lead the Red Army to the historic meeting with the Americans at the Elbe and on to victory in Berlin. Barbarossa is a classic of military history. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Fedor von Bock, Brauchitsch, Budenny, Guderian, Erich Hoepner, Hermann Hoth, Koniev, Keitel, Guenther Kluge, Ewald von Kleist, Manstein, Walther Model, OKH, OKW, Paulus, Rokossovski, Stavka, Timoshenko, Weichs, Zhukov, Zeitzler, Chuikov, Franz Halder
ISBN: 1568657129
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