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In June 1941, the jaws of the German war machine clamped onto the
Soviet Union, with German soldiers - the Third Reich's teeth -
slicing through the Red Army, encircling and killing and capturing.
Before the end of the year, the Red Army halted the German
blitzkrieg and saved the Soviet Union. It was a defining moment of
World War II and a defining moment of military history - a defining
moment of what it meant to go to war in the twentieth century, with
an army designed to devastate, to kill, to enslave butting heads
with an army decapitated by Stalin's purges. For the next six
months, German armies fought toward Moscow but ultimately failed to
seize that objective, from the Black Sea in the south to Leningrad
in the north. More than just a pivotal moment of World War II, more
than just the beginning of the Eastern Front, the campaign toward
Moscow - Germans versus Soviets in a no-holds-barred battle for the
soul of Europe - speaks to what it meant to be a soldier in World
War II. (Far more soldiers, German and Russian, fought and died on
the Eastern Front than the entire U.S. war effort.) In a book
drawing from hundreds of soldiers' accounts, and thousands of
letter and diaries, Stahel and Luther tell the story of Operation
Barbarossa but also the story of men at war in the twentieth
century.
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