BEFORE STALINGRAD

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941. Exploiting newly available Russian archives, the author now challenges the time-honoured explanation that poor weather, bad terrain and Hitler's faulty strategic judgement produced German defeat and reveals how the Red Army thwarted Hitler's dramatic, inexorable and apparently seamless German invasion before it achieved its ambitious goals. Previously published as "Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941". David M Glantz is one of the world's leading experts on the Eastern Front. His other books include "The Battle for Kursk 1943", "The Battle of Leningrad 1941-1944" and "When Titans Clashed", also available from Barbarossa Books.