The German Campaign in Russia: 1940-1942
Operation Barbarossa, Strategic Miscalculation, and the Limits of Wehrmacht Power on the Eastern FrontBy U.S. Department of Defense
Length8h 22m
About this audiobook
The German Campaign in Russia: 1940–1942 is a sober, operationally focused study of the Wehrmacht's Eastern Front experience, tracing the conflict from the strategic conditions preceding Operation Barbarossa through the German advance, encirclement battles, logistical crises, and the reversal of momentum before and during the winter of 1941–42. Its style is documentary rather than literary: analytical, chronological, and attentive to orders of battle, terrain, supply, command decisions, and the interaction between military plans and political objectives. Situated within the postwar tradition of official military histories, the work is valuable both as a reconstruction of events and as an institutional examination of modern mechanized warfare under extreme geographic and climatic conditions. Produced by the U.S. Department of Defense, the volume reflects the practical and scholarly concerns of an American military establishment seeking to preserve, assess, and interpret the operational lessons of the Second World War. Its perspective is consequently shaped by professional analysis: it emphasizes planning, intelligence, transportation, command structure, and battlefield adaptation while placing German actions within the broader strategic contest against the Soviet Union. The study also belongs to the early Cold War effort to organize wartime experience into usable historical knowledge. This book is recommended to readers of military history, strategic studies, and twentieth-century European history who want a disciplined account of the campaign rather than a purely narrative treatment. It is especially useful for students examining why early German successes failed to produce victory, and how distance, resources, Soviet resilience, and strategic overreach transformed the war.
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GenreHistory
Length8 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 19, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The German Campaign in Russia: 1940-1942
2FOREWORD
3PART ONE PLANNING
4Chapter 1 Strategic Planning
5Initial Discussions (July 1940)
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6The Marcks Plan (5 August 1940)
7Staff Work (August-September 1940)
8Admiral Raeder's Suggestions (26 September 1940)
9Strategic Survey (October 1940)
10The Preliminary Plan (November-5 December 1940)
11General Staff and Command Post Exercises (November-December 1940)
12Economic Survey
13Directive BARBAROSSA (18 December 1940)
14Chapter 2 Operational Planning
15The Army's Operation Order (3 February 1941)
16Initiation of Subordinate Staffs (February-March 1941)
17Changes in Plans (March-April 1941)
18Army Group South
19Far North
20Delay in the Start
21The Draft of Directive No. 32 (11 June 1947)
22Strategic Concentration (21 June 1941)
23Air Support
24Other Factors
25Estimate of Soviet Strength (June 1941)
26Sources of Information
27Estimate of Red Army Dispositions
28Estimate of Soviet Air Force Strength
29PART TWO OPERATIONS IN 1941
30Chapter 3 The Initial Operations (22 June-31 July 1941)
31D Day
32The Situation on 30 June 1941
33Developments in Early July 1941
34The Mid-July Estimate
35Directive No. 33 (19 July 1941)
36The Army's Letter to the Armed Forces High Command
37The Situation Toward the End of July 1947
38Chapter 4 Planning for Future Operations
39The Army's Order of 28 July 1941
40Directive No. 34 (30 July 1941)
41Hitler's Vacillation Over Strategy
42The Supplement to Directive No. 34 (12 August 1941)
43Developments to Mid-August 1941
44The Army Memorandum of 18 August 1941
45Hitler's Decision (20 August 1941)
46Chapter 5 The Diversion and Reassembly
47The Personnel Situation (End of August 1941)
48Increasing Logistical Difficulties (Early September 1941)
49POL
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