Barbarossa: The First 7 Days

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Summary: Meticulous, thorough, and simply amazing
Review: Maps and a wealth of black-and-white and color photographs extensively intersperse Will Fowler's Barbarossa: The First 7 Days, a coffee-table book describing Nazi Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. The straightforward text informatively narrates the bloody battles in exhaustive detail. Barbarossa: The First 7 Days is a meticulous, thorough, and simply amazing scrutiny of the first week of what became an horrific and hideous battle front of no quarter given or accepted. Barbarossa: The First 7 Days is a clearly appropriate and highly recommended contribution to personal, academic, and community library World War II history collections and reading lists.

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Summary: Nothing new, save your money
Review: Nothing new presented in the book, small bibliography, and when I came upon this "Army Group South and Luftflotte 4 consisted of 3 million men, 600,000 vehicles, 750,000 horses, 3580 tanks, 7184 guns and 1830 aircraft." (pg. 144) I didn't know if it was for the Germans or Soviets, it would be overkill for either side in terms of 'men' alone. Instead of this book consider buying Glantz's "Barbarossa" or Kershaw's "War without Garlands", MUCH better than this book in ALL categories.

Rating:
Summary: Nothing new, save your money
Review: Nothing new presented in the book, small bibliography, and when I came upon this "Army Group South and Luftflotte 4 consisted of 3 million men, 600,000 vehicles, 750,000 horses, 3580 tanks, 7184 guns and 1830 aircraft." (pg. 144) I didn't know if it was for the Germans or Soviets, it would be overkill for either side in terms of 'men' alone. Instead of this book consider buying Glantz's "Barbarossa" or Kershaw's "War without Garlands", MUCH better than this book in ALL categories.