{"product_id":"barbarossa-through-german-eyes-the-biggest-invasion-in-history-9781398107229","title":"Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpring 1941  the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933  Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland  Denmark  Norway  France  the Low Countries  and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had withstood the Nazis  but even it was battered and bruised and close to defeat. Then  on 22 June 1941  in the most momentous decision of the war  the Nazi dictator turned East and flung his victorious armies into the vastness of the Soviet Union. Having signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler back in 1939  Stalin was taken completely by surprise by the German attack. Hitlers Wehrmacht  buoyed by years of untrammeled success and led by some of the greatest commanders Nazi Germany had to offer  crashed across the border and sent the Red Army reeling. The German plan was simple and its scale staggering; over three million men  armed with over three thousand panzers  the same number of aircraft  more than seven thousand guns and carried by over six hundred thousand vehicles and even more horses  would be joined by over half a million soldiers from allied countries  and together they would destroy the largest army in the world while advancing a thousand miles to the very borders of Asiatic Russia. There they would halt and what remained of the Soviet Union and the communist faith that spawned it would wither and die. In the newly conquered lebensraum  Hitler and the Nazis would then commence the biggest mass human extermination program in history. Barbarossa was huge  but it was fought by men; and on the German side  in particular  it would be fought by junior officers and simple soldiers as the Wehrmacht tried to win the war once and for all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495903125557,"sku":"ByrdShop_1398107220","price":28.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781398107229.jpg?v=1780902858","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/barbarossa-through-german-eyes-the-biggest-invasion-in-history-9781398107229","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}