Barbarroja 1941 : La guerra absoluta

The story of the greatest campaign of World War II. On June 22, 1941, more than three million German soldiers crossed the Soviet border in the largest military offensive of all time. Within a few months, the Axis forces advanced to the gates of Moscow, while millions of people were caught in a spiral of unprecedented destruction. Battles such as Minsk, kyiv, Moscow, and the Siege of Leningrad transformed the front into a scene of death and devastation on an unprecedented scale: total war had begun. With masterful narrative skill, historians Jean Lopez and Lasha Otkhmezuri, two of the world's leading experts on the Eastern Front, reconstruct every level of the campaign: from the political decisions in Berlin and Moscow to the propaganda, the power struggles between commanders, the home front, the hell of the front lines, and the occupation. To achieve this, they have drawn upon a monumental database of sources, many previously unpublished (Russian, German, and Western archives, correspondence, memoirs, and declassified Soviet studies), which reveal an astonishing amount of previously unknown information. The result of fifteen years of research, Barbarossa 1941 is the definitive work on the German invasion of the Soviet Union. A comprehensive history of the most brutal campaign of the Second World War.