Table of Contents

Part I: The Period of Soviet-German Partnership Part II: Operation Barbarossa: Political Preconditions, Strategic Planning and Military Consequences Part III: Politics and Experience of the War of Annihilation Part IV: Soviet Politics and War Strategy 1941 Part V: Germany and the Soviet Union in International Politics

About the Author

Bernd Wegner is Professor of Modern History at the University of Hamburg.

Reviews

"This collection provides a wealth of excellent research and insight. Students and specialists in the area will benefit greatly from this collaborative effort."  · Canadian Journal of History "... the greatest merit of this collection of essays is that with its help the reader can get acquainted with a great many major themes of this episode in German-Russian relations and, moreover, often see them addressed from different viewpoints and with different complementary conclusions."  · H-Net Reviews (H-German) "... an outstanding and most comprehensive work on the history and development of the Russian campaign."  · Die Zeit "... a work which marks an important direction in the study of this relationship and the war itself, which has hitherto been the subject of so much mythologising."  · John Erickson, University of Edinburgh