The Atlas Of Eastern Front Battles

The first volume of the "Stalingrad Battle Atlas" series covers thirty days of urban warfare. It presents strategic and tactical information based upon newly released archival data, and features especially designed dayly situation maps. 432 pages.

The Eastern Front of World War II was a nightmarish episode of human history, on a scale the like of which the world had never seen, and most likely never will see again. This expansive collection of maps offers a visual guide to the theater that decided the fate of the war, spanning the thousands of miles from Berlin to the outskirts of Moscow, Stalingrad, East Prussia and all the way back. The accuracy and detail of the military cartography found in this volume illuminates the enormity of the campaign, revealing the staggering dimensions of distance covered and human losses suffered by both sides.

Written by three leading military historians, the Eastern Front is a superb history of the cataclysmic struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Prelude to disaster -- Barbarossa -- Ebb Tide -- Pause for breath -- Stalingrad -- The end of the beginning -- Deceptive calm -- The beginning of the end -- Return to the Stalin Line -- Out of Russia -- Berlin -- The butcher's bill

Features all the major battles and campaigns of World War II, from the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the defeat of Japan in 1945. Specially commissioned maps are accompanied by action photographs and detailed annotation.

Beginning with Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, this volume draws upon eye-witness German accounts supplemented with German archival and detailed Soviet materials. Formerly classified Soviet archival materials has been incorporated.

The warriors, the weapons, and the furious battles