Barbarossa Through Soviet Eyes: The First Twenty-Four Hours

Drabkin, Artem; Summerville, Christopher; Isaev, Alexei

ISBN 10: 184415923X / ISBN 13: 9781844159239

Published by Pen and Sword Military, 2012

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No obvious markings on pages. Pages yellowed. Binding still tight. Minor surface and edge-wear on dust jacket. Published 2012. Hardcover. (1h).

Seller Inventory # D28515

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Barbarossa Through Soviet Eyes: The First Twenty-Four Hours
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184415923X
• ISBN 13: 9781844159239
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 21 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • World War II

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Synopsis

22 June 1941 changed the direction of the Second World War. It also changed the direction of human history. Unleashing a massive, three-pronged assault into Soviet territory, the German army unwittingly created its own nemesis, forging the modern Russian state in the process. Thus, for most Russians, 22 June 1941 was a critical point in their nation's history. After the first day of ‘Barbarossa’ nothing would be the same again – for anyone. Now, for the first time in English, Russians speak of their experiences on that fatal Sunday. Apparently caught off guard by Hitler’s initiative, the Soviets struggled to make sense of a disaster that had seemingly struck from nowhere. Here are generals scrambling to mobilize ill-prepared divisions, pilots defying orders not to grapple with the mighty Luftwaffe, bewildered soldiers showing individual acts of blind courage, and civilians dumbstruck by air raid sirens and radio broadcasts telling of German treachery.

About the Author

Artem Drabkin is an author and historian.



Aleksei Isaev was born in 1974. Since the year 2004 up to the present date, he has written approximately 20 books on the history of the Eastern Front in the Second World War, with a particular emphasis on the events of 1941 and Stalingrad. His particular research interest today is the war’s final period. In the years 2007-2010, he worked as an academic scholar in the Russian Ministry of Defense’s Institute of Military History. He was a contributor to the new 12-volume official Russian history of the war. Thanks to the opening of the previously classified military archives in Russia, since then he has done a lot of work with the war’s documents as an independent scholar.