Leningrad "Blitzkrieg" 1941-1942
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Leningrad "Blitzkrieg" 1941-1942
14.99 €
Leningrad was not only an example of the greatest fortitude of its defenders, but it became a martyr city, where about 700,000 civilians died from lack of food alone. By the leadership of the Third Reich and the command of the German army it was doomed to a blockade, unprecedented in its duration and cruelty, and Leningraders - to deprivation, hunger and death. The huge grouping of Hitlerites near Leningrad performed the police functions of killing its inhabitants by starvation, which became the main weapon of the Wehrmacht. "Our ally is hunger," noted the commander of Army Group North, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.
This book, based on truly unique sources, opens the veil of mystery over the causes of the Leningrad blockade. It presents materials from the war diaries of two top German officers - von Leeb and Colonel General Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Army (OKH). Daily records of Hitler's commanders, starting with the attack on the USSR, and a description of the battles for Leningrad in 1941-1942 are carefully analyzed and supplemented with commentary by the famous St. Petersburg military historian Yuri Lebedev.
This book, based on truly unique sources, opens the veil of mystery over the causes of the Leningrad blockade. It presents materials from the war diaries of two top German officers - von Leeb and Colonel General Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Army (OKH). Daily records of Hitler's commanders, starting with the attack on the USSR, and a description of the battles for Leningrad in 1941-1942 are carefully analyzed and supplemented with commentary by the famous St. Petersburg military historian Yuri Lebedev.
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- All books in the series War diaries of top Wehrmacht officers