The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June-August 1941: Proceedings of the Fourth Art of War Symposium, Garmisch, October, 1987

xv, 511, [1] p. Maps. Figures. Index. This is one of the Cass Series on Soviet Military Experience, Vol. 2. This volume contains the edited version of the transcript of proceedings of the 1987 Art of War Symposium. This was the fourth, and last, in a series of symposia which had been held at the US Army War College beginning in 1984. This transcript volume is organized in the same fashion as the symposium, and virtually all materials presented in the four days of symposium sessions are included. This volume begins with an investigation of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. It draws upon eye-witness German accounts of what occurred, and supplements these with German archival and detailed Soviet materials. The Soviet government has released extensive amounts of formerly classified archival materials from the period. This material has been incorporated into the maps and text. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.