IMAGES OF BARBAROSSA

Author: Chris Ailsby

Publisher: Ian Allan

Year published: 2001

Pagination: 224pp, circa 300 photos

Condition: Mint in d/w

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On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched the invasion of the Soviet Union - Operation Barbarossa. Three million men, 3.000 tanks and 2,000 aircraft moved east to destroy Bolshevism and carve out 'living space' for the 'Thousand Year Reich'. This extensively illustrated volume portrays the battles in the Ukraine, the advance on Leningrad and the attempt to capture Moscow before 'Mother Winter' defeated the Germans - just as it had defeated Napoleon nearly 130 years earlier