Richard Hargreaves

Opening the Gates of Hell

Operation Barbarossa, June-July 1941

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique account of the opening weeks of history's largest, most brutal conflict, told through the eyes of those who were there and based on original source material from across Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781472869463
• ISBN-10: 147286946X
• Artikelnr.: 70374638

Autorenporträt

Richard Hargreaves has been a journalist for 30 years, ten of them in regional newspapers. Since 2000 he has almost exclusively covered the Royal Navy and naval affairs and was an official UK war correspondent in Iraq, 2003. He currently works for the Royal Navy as a press officer/writer and sub editor of its monthly magazine Navy News. He has had three books published to date (Germans in Normandy, 2006; Blitzkrieg Unleashed, 2008; Hitler's Final Fortress, 2011) which are all still in print.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations and maps
Introduction
Chapter 1: One More Blitzkrieg
Chapter 2: The Gates of Hell Opened in Front of Us
Chapter 3: To Leningrad
Chapter 4: To Moscow
Chapter 5: To Kiev
Chapter 6: Victory Denied
Epilogue: Barbarossa's Long Shadow
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

The pace never lets up in this epic story, with its vast canvas. It is vividly told and finely detailed … plunging the reader into the spectacular but horrifying vortex of Operation Barbarossa.