This book takes us in detail fronm the inept command structures and strategic delusions of the pre-invasion Soviet Union, through the humiliations as her armies fell back on all fronts before the Babarossa onslaught, until the tide finally turned at Stalingrad.The first of 2 volumes in John Erickson's monumental history of the Soviet-German war.
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This book takes us in detail fronm the inept command structures and strategic delusions of the pre-invasion Soviet Union, through the humiliations as her armies fell back on all fronts before the Babarossa onslaught, until the tide finally turned at Stalingrad.The first of 2 volumes in John Erickson's monumental history of the Soviet-German war.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. 594 p. Cass Canfield Book. Audience: General/trade. A very good plus copy in a very good, mylar protected DJ; Stated 1st edition; Bookplate on front pastedown; top back corner of spine end has some bumping; Light wear and a small closed tear to DJ; illustrated; 8vo., 594 pages.
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Fair, ex-lib, good. 594, illus., sources and references, index, usual library markings, large rough spot on rear flylf, top corner rear flyleaf cut off. Rear board quite weak and reinforced with tape, library stamps on edges, edges spotted, plastic coating on DJ (small portion of plastic peeled off).
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Very Good jacket. A good hardcover in a very good mylar wrapped dust jacket. Book has scattered staining/foxing to text block edges but no markings. Binding is tight.
This is a classic text and indispensable for any library on World War Two in Europe. It was a groundbreaking study of the war on the Eastern Front. With its companion volume, The Road to Berlin, it gives phenomenal detail of the operational history on this decisive theatre of the Second World War. Written and researched as it was, at a time of very difficult access to Soviet sources, it is a massive achievement. No other overall history of the war on the Eastern Front rivals it for detail, I believe, to this day. It gives detailed, high quality descriptions of the German invasion, the battle for Moscow and the early phases of the Battle of Stalingrad.
I must express some reservations. This volume/edition has NO maps. This is a serious disadvantage and makes some of the accounts of operational manoeuvres very hard to follow.
Sometimes the sheer level of detail is bewildering, as in Chaper One on the political background. In places, less detail and more explanatory overview would have helped me.
It is these reservations that make me give 4 stars, not the 5 the book deserves for the magnificent effort which went into it. 4 stars+ would probably be fairer.
This is definitely a book not to be missed by anyone interested in this subject. It takes considerable effort and concentration to read but it rewards this handsomely.
David S
CLima
Feb 10, 2011
Reference Library on the Eastern Front
The Road to Stalingrad and The Road to Berlin are indispensable in any reference library on the WWII Eastern Front.
