2002, ISBN: 9780415968492

Routledge, 2002. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, 95 pages, glossy paper, numerous (primarily b&w but also some colour) photographs and 12 colour maps in text, further reading & inde… More...

Routledge, 2002. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, 95 pages, glossy paper, numerous (primarily b&w but also some colour) photographs and 12 colour maps in text, further reading & index, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright interior with unmarked text: no writing, no highlighting of any kind. A tiny crease/fold to very tip of upper outer corner of first pages (up to p.15), firm binding, clean outer page edges. Gently shelfworn boards with a couple of very tiny cosmetic edge-nicks, limited scuffing, some small indentations; creases to lower spine, mild short creases to upper spine corners. Published without a dust jacket. --- "In 1940, fresh from the success in France, Hitler turned his attention to the East. In this volume Geoffrey Jukes explains what led to Hitler's decision to instigate the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and offers a concise account of the campaign that followed. The Germans expected to conquer Russia in only four months, but at Stalingrad and then Kursk the Russians fought back. At a human cost of 27 million Soviet lives Hitler was forced into a humiliating retreat and Russia emerged from the war as a super power ready to take on the capitalist world." -- Contents: Introduction; Chronology; Background to War: A Dictators' Deal and a Double-Cross; Warring Sides: Germany Gambles on a Quick Win; Outbreak: Germany Achieves Surprise; The Fighting: Red Army Battered but Not Beaten; Portrait of a Soldier: the German and the Russian View; The World Around War: Propoganda, Lend-lease and Land Grabs; Portrait of a Civilian: 'We Were as Mobilised as the Soldiers'; How the War Ended: Germany Surrenders, Stalin Joins the War on Japan; Conclusion and Consequences: From Alliance to Cold War; Bibliography, Routledge, 2002, 2.5<

2002, ISBN: 0415968496

[EAN: 9780415968492], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Routledge], Hardcover, 95 pages, glossy paper, numerous (primarily b&w but also some colour) photographs and 12 colour maps in text, f… More...

[EAN: 9780415968492], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Routledge], Hardcover, 95 pages, glossy paper, numerous (primarily b&w but also some colour) photographs and 12 colour maps in text, further reading & index, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright interior with unmarked text: no writing, no highlighting of any kind. A tiny crease/fold to very tip of upper outer corner of first pages (up to p.15), firm binding, clean outer page edges. Gently shelfworn boards with a couple of very tiny cosmetic edge-nicks, limited scuffing, some small indentations; creases to lower spine, mild short creases to upper spine corners. Published without a dust jacket. --- "In 1940, fresh from the success in France, Hitler turned his attention to the East. In this volume Geoffrey Jukes explains what led to Hitler's decision to instigate the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and offers a concise account of the campaign that followed. The Germans expected to conquer Russia in only four months, but at Stalingrad and then Kursk the Russians fought back. At a human cost of 27 million Soviet lives Hitler was forced into a humiliating retreat and Russia emerged from the war as a super power ready to take on the capitalist world." -- Contents: Introduction; Chronology; Background to War: A Dictators' Deal and a Double-Cross; Warring Sides: Germany Gambles on a Quick Win; Outbreak: Germany Achieves Surprise; The Fighting: Red Army Battered but Not Beaten; Portrait of a Soldier: the German and the Russian View; The World Around War: Propoganda, Lend-lease and Land Grabs; Portrait of a Civilian: 'We Were as Mobilised as the Soldiers'; How the War Ended: Germany Surrenders, Stalin Joins the War on Japan; Conclusion and Consequences: From Alliance to Cold War; Bibliography, Books<