{"product_id":"ostkrieg-9780813134161","title":"Ostkrieg","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Fritz has made a major statement. There are many books dealing with military operations in the East and many others that highlight the atrocities, the murders, and the Holocaust. Not until now has a single volume attempted to incorporate both, seeking the nexus between military operations and mass murder. The result is as complete a history of the GermanSoviet war as one could desire, and it is an achievement that is likely to be unequaled for some time to come.\" Robert M. Citino, - author of \u003cem\u003eDeath of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fritz has written a topflight strategic\/operational level analysis of the RussoGerman War. His text is solid and impeccably supported.\" – Dennis Showalter, author of \u003cem\u003eHitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Of all the hundreds of books on the Russian campaign, Mr. Fritz's is the first I have seen that demonstrates the nexus between mass murder and military operations.\" - \u003cem\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen Fritz brought to his sources his considerable analytical skills and clarity of expression. The product is a very readable consideration of the European war's most important front, and one that expresses a new understanding of its causes and effects.\" - \u003cem\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fritz seeks to synthesize and build upon earlier scholarship while exclusively focusing on the struggle as seen from Berlin.... Ostkrieg will be a significant addition to any academic library.\" - \u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is truly a magnificent work of military history integrating ideological, economic, political, and military dimensions of this theater of war.\" - \u003cem\u003eWaterline\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perfect for instructors and students.\" - \u003cem\u003eTeaching History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An ambitious and impressive synthesis of two vast and often mutually exclusive fields of scholarship: the historiography of the Holocaust and that of the war on the Eastern Front.... [it] should serve as the starting point for all historians and students of World War II interested in the relationship of war and genocide.\" - \u003cem\u003eJournal of Military History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We are given a superb vantage point from which to view how the Nazi regime's obsessions trapped Germany into ultimately fatal dilemmas.” - \u003cem\u003eHistorian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We now have a comprehensive, clearly written and affordable study incorporating recent research on the Eastern Front.” - \u003cem\u003eEuropean History Quartterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaps vii\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbbreviations and Foreign Terms xv\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface xix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Dilemma 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Decision 31\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Onslaught 77\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Whirlwind 135\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Reckoning 199\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. All or Nothing 241\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Total War 303\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Scorched Earth 359\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Disintegration 405\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Death Throes 439\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion 473\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments 489\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: Supplementary Data 491\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes 499\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography 555\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex 609\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotographs follow page 234\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018459349335,"sku":"9780813134161","price":51.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813134161.jpg?v=1750776966","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ostkrieg-9780813134161","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}