The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45: A Photographic Chronology

by Steve Crawford

Book Overview

On June 22, 1941, preceded by a massive artillery and aerial bombardment along the entire 2,000-mile border, three million Axis troops and 3,330 tanks smashed into the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler believed the campaign would be over in four months. Four years later, thirty-five million Soviets and five million Germans had been killed in a campaign that had ripped the heart out of the western USSR and Eastern Europe. It left the land gutted, the infrastructure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597970115
• ISBN13: 9781597970112
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 11.0"