{"product_id":"barbarossa-9781472276292","title":"Barbarossa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched - an attack on the Soviet Union by almost four million men of Nazi Germany''s brutal war machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOperation Barbarossa\u003c\/i\u003e led to the bloodiest military campaign mankind has ever known. The statistics of death and destruction are almost impossible to believe. The cruelty, suffering and destitution it wrought are unimaginable . . . over forty million people lost their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet, the real story of the Eastern Front is still not truly understood outside of Germany and Eastern Europe. Little is known of those who suffered in the horror of Hitler''s ''War of Annihilation'' - the soldiers and civilians of Eastern Europe who fought and died trying to save their homelands and their loved ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBarbarossa\u003c\/i\u003e, Stewart \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a truly astounding book, packed with searing  hitherto-unpublished testimony about what it was like to endure, and ultimately defeat, the most formidable invasion in the history of Mankind. The sheer endurance of the Russian people between 1941 and 1945 will leave readers utterly staggered. It is a debt that we in the West should do more to acknowledge. * Andrew Roberts,  author of CHURCHILL: WALKING WITH DESTINY *\u003cbr\u003eA masterful narrative, deeply enriched by extraordinary research and a profound analysis of the soul of Russia.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e * Nick Hewer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbarossa \u003c\/i\u003ereads wonderfully well\u003c\/p\u003e * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compact and well-written account clearly demonstrates the close links between the military events at the front, the suffering of the civilian population and the genocide of the Jews.\u003c\/p\u003e * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis subject is dramatic, of course, but nonetheless his writing is vivid, personal and adds to the impact of the narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an admirable book. How can anyone write an all-encompassing narrative of these times in a mere 305-pages? Binns has managed to do it beautifully, capturing the story, the rationale for the response by the Soviet people in general to mobilise willingly against the invader, whatever their view of their own dictator and his murderous cronies, and the sheer military, industrial and human enormity of the subject. That he's also done so through the lens of a wide range of voices of those who experienced the war adds to the scale of his achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e * Aspects of History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbarossa \u003c\/i\u003econtains an even wide fund of harrowing testimonies, drawn from diaries and letters in Russian archives, and sources such as Svetlana Alexievich's superlative oral history\u003ci\u003e The Unwomanly Face of War\u003c\/i\u003e. We are always the richer for hearing ordinary voices at war, reclaiming the human from the military, the barbaric, the statistics.\u003c\/p\u003e * Saturday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is very little that happened in Operation Barbarossa that does not still have an effect on our lives today. . . A sobering but vital read\u003c\/p\u003e * The Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compact and well-written account clearly demonstrates the close links between the military events at the front, the suffering of the civilian population and the genocide of the Jews. This is important because accessible English-language books on the war in the East, written in an engaging style and directed to a wider public, still rarely point out these crucial connections\u003c\/p\u003e * TLS *","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084001386839,"sku":"9781472276292","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472276292.jpg?v=1725550726","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/barbarossa-9781472276292","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}