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02595aam a2200325 4500 001 4A8833DC789511EA8FAC8C5897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200407010129 008 170403s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2015490751 020 $a 1783463988 020 $a 9781783463985 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Cornish, Nik, $d 1954- 245 1 $a Hitler versus Stalin : $b the Eastern Front 1941-1942: Barbarossa to Moscow / $c by Nik Cornish. 264 1 $a Barnsley, South Yorkshire : $b Pen & Sword Military, $c 2016. 300 $a 127 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 490 1 $a Images of war 500 $a Includes frontispiece. 500 $a "Barbarossa to Moscow, Rare photographs from wartime archives.". 505 $a Into the great beyond -- Many rivers to cross -- Herding people -- Murmansk and Sevastopol -- Spoilt for choice -- Panic in the streets -- Stretched to the limit -- Retaliation -- Lend-Lease. 506 $a Access restricted to subscribing institutions. 520 $a "The world was not prepared for the massive onslaught launched by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 - the scale of the invasion, the speed of the German advance, the hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers taken prisoner, the chaotic, headlong retreat of Stalin's forces eastwards, towards Leningrad and Moscow. But equally it was not prepared for the Soviet fight back. For, despite all the predictions, the Red Army stemmed the Wehrmacht's advance, held the lines before Leningrad and Moscow, and mounted a counter-offensive that changed the course of the campaign and the outcome of the Second World War. These are the historic events that Nik Cornish portrays in the slection of rare wartime images he has selected for this graphic history of the war on the Eastern Front. The key aspects of the opening year of the war are vividly recorded - Operation Barbarossa; the German and Soviet forces as they marched and fought their way across the countryside and through the villages and towns of the Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states; the clashes at Brest, Smolensk, Kiev; the failure of Operation Typhoon, the turning point in this phase of the war which denied to Hitler the anticipated quick victory in the East."--Page 4 of cover. 541 $d 20190916. 611 27 $a World War (1939-1945.) 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Eastern Front $v Pictorial works. 830 $a Images of war. 941 $a 1 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20200407012320.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4A8833DC789511EA8FAC8C5897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search