Blood-Soaked East Front: Barbarossa. Stalingrad. Kursk. Leningrad. Berlin: Previously Unseen Historical Photos (1941-1945) (Includes CD-ROM)

Author: (English) Fuller
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The fighting on the Eastern Front (i.e., the Soviet-German Front) during World War II was incredibly bloody. Over the course of a four-year war, the warring parties lost as many as 30 million military personnel and civilians. After the war, the entire Poland, European part of Russia, and Germany were reduced to ruins. Blood on the Eastern Front is a photographic record of this terrible war. This book uses previously unpublished photographs from an archive in the former Soviet Union to narrate this long-forgotten history from the perspective of the ordinary men and women who fought in the war, recreating the most brutal conflict in history with a unique visual impact. It provides in-depth introductions and summaries of major battles such as the Stalingrad showdown, the Kursk battle, and the capture of Berlin, but emphasizes interpreting each battle, campaign, and even the entire war based on the experiences and perspectives of individual soldiers. At the same time, the book also details the heroic and tenacious battles of irregular forces, particularly guerrillas, who were active on the Eastern Front.