Geoffrey P. Megargee

War of Annihilation

Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941

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Produktbeschreibung

In War of Annihilation, noted military historian Geoffrey P. Megargee provides a clear, concise history of the Germans' opening campaign of conquest and genocide in 1941. By drawing on the best of military and Holocaust scholarship, Megargee dispels the myths that have distorted the role of Germany's military leadership in both the military operations themselves and the unthinkable crimes that were part of them.

Produktdetails

• War and Society
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780742544826
• ISBN-10: 0742544826
• Artikelnr.: 22848249

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey P. Megargee is the author of Inside Hitler's High Command, which won a 2001 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History and was a Main Selection of the History Book Club. He is an applied research scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Roots of the War of Annihilation Chapter 2: Plans and Preparations
1940-1941 Chapter 3: Initial Victories and Atrocities
June to August Chapter 4: The Second Phase: Expanding Conquests and Genocide
August to October Chapter 5: The Final Drive on Moscow and Systematic Killing
October to December Chapter 6: Failure and Its Consequences
to Early 1942 Conclusion Bibliographic Essay Appendix 1: The Levels of Command Appendix 2: Principal German Army Commands and Staffs on June 22
1941