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9781842222607
Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the biggest military campaign in history on June 22, 1941, this unprecedented book illuminates the brutality, horror, & heroism of war. Over 300 previously unpublished photographs, recently released from the Russian archives in Moscow & supplemented by German sources, illustrate every phase & aspect of the Eastern Front campaigns, from the Nazis' early Blitzkrieg successes, the battle for Moscow & the terrible siege of Leningrad, the turning-point street fighting for Stalingrad & the subsequent Soviet successes at Kursk & Operation Bagration to the climactic fall of Berlin & the link-up between Soviet & Western armies amid the ruins of the "1000-year Reich."Erickson, John is the author of 'Eastern Front Photos', published 1901 under ISBN 9781842222607 and ISBN 1842222600.
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