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Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost the War (Paperback)
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Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost the War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R324
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You Save R81 (20%)
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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'With his customary literary
flair and capacity to master and mobilize very many and varied
sources, Jonathan Dimbleby gives us the best single-volume account
of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of
Churchill: Walking with Destiny 'Like a fast-moving juggernaut of
horror, Dimbleby's Barbarossa is a page-turning descent into Hell
and back. Part warning, part fable, but all too true, this fresh
and compelling account of Hitler's failed invasion of the Soviet
Union should be on everyone's reading list for 2021' Dr Amanda
Foreman, author of A World on Fire _______________________________
Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941,
aimed at nothing less than a war of extermination to annihilate
Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create Lebensraum for the
German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Third
Reich, and was cataclysmic for Germany with millions of men killed,
wounded or registered as missing in action. It was this colossal
mistake -- rather than any action in Western Europe -- that lost
Hitler the Second World War. Drawing on hitherto unseen archival
material, including previously untranslated Russian sources,
Jonathan Dimbleby puts Barbarossa in its proper place in history
for the first time. From its origins in the ashes of the First
World War to its impact on post-war Europe, and covering the
military, political and diplomatic story from all sides, he paints
a full and vivid picture of this monumental campaign whose full
nature and impact has remained unexplored. At the heart of the
narrative, written in Dimbleby's usual gripping style, are
compelling descriptions of the leaders who made the crucial
decisions, of the men and women who fought on the front lines, of
the soldiers who committed heinous crimes on an unparalleled scale
and of those who were killed when the Holocaust began. Hitler's
fatal gamble had the most terrifying of consequences. Written with
authority and humanity, Barbarossa is a masterwork that transforms
our understanding of the Second World War and of the twentieth
century. _______________________________ 'Superb. . . stays with
you long after you have finished' Henry Hemming, bestselling author
of Our Man in New York 'A chilling account of war at its worst'
Bear Grylls
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