Barbarossa : : The Axis and the Allies / / John Erickson, David Dilks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Erickson, John,; Dilks, David,
• MitwirkendeR: Biber, Dusan,; Chapman, John,; Dilks, David,; Erickson, John,; Gorodetsky, Gabriel,; Hinsley, H. F.,; Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri,; Kudryashov, Sergei,; Mertsalov, Andrei,; Mikoyan, Stepan A.,; Müller, Klaus-Jürgen,; Reinhardt, Klaus,; Volkogonov, Dmitri,; Waddington, Geoffrey T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

On 22 June 1941, German tanks rolled into the Soviet Union in an offensive which was to claim the lives of nearly 49 million people. Until the opening of Soviet archives, however, and the easing of their ideological grip, 'Operation Barbarossa' remained a mystery.Now, through the distinguished contributions of people like President Yeltsin's adviser, Colonel-General Dmitri Volkogonov, and the German historian Professor Klaus-Jurgen Muller, comes a book which for the first time challenges the official Soviet historiography and offers the first truly global picture of the war in Russia.From Nazi-Soviet relations at the start of the war, and the Soviet Union's response to the German attack, Barbarossa moves to the little examined subject of the invasion's aftermath. And offering dramatic new evidence on Hitler's objectives, Stalin's strategy and readiness for war, the Battle of Moscow, and Japan's wartime policy towards the Soviet Union, this book also deals with the previously taboo subjects of the personalities and politics of collaboration and the massive human toll of the invasion.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Part 1 Germany Turns East, 1939-1941 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Ribbentrop and the Soviet Union, 1937-1941 -- Chapter 2 The Yugoslav Coup D'État, 27 March 1941 -- Chapter 3 British Intelligence and Barbarossa -- Chapter 4 The German Attack, the Soviet Response, Sunday, 22 June 1941 -- Part 2 Strained Alliances, Flawed Strategies -- Introduction -- Chapter 5 An Alliance of Sorts -- Chapter 6 Barbarossa and the Soviet Leadership -- Chapter 7 The Collapse of Stalin's Diplomacy and Strategy -- Chapter 8 The Imperial Japanese Navy and the North- South Dilemma -- Chapter 9 Moscow 1941 -- Part 3 Conflict, Compromise, Cost -- Introduction -- Chapter 10 The Brutalisation of Warfare, Nazi Crimes and the Wehrmacht -- Chapter 11 The Hidden Dimension -- Chapter 12 Soviet War Losses -- Notes on the Contributors -- INDEX