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Article: The Eastern Front.(The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Bookwatch
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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The Eastern Front
Steve Crawford
Potomac Books, Inc.
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1597970105, $19.95 www.potomacbooksinc.com 1-800-775-2518
On June 22, 1941, preceded by a massive artillery and aerial bombardment along the entire 2,000-mile border, three million German troops and their allies, along with 3,330 tanks, smashed into the Soviet Union in a military campaign that Adolph Hitler thought would be over in just four months. Four years later, thirty-five million Soviets and five million Germans had been killed in a campaign left the western USSR, Eastern Europe, and German itself, with a gutted ...