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Barbarossa

Jan 1, 2025 7:37 AM

Author:Jonathan Dimbleby

Barbarossa

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

'The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

'A page-turning descent into Hell and back . . . this fresh and compelling account of Hitler's failed invasion of the Soviet Union should be on everyone's reading list for 2021' Dr Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire

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The largest military operation in history. The turning point of the Second World War. The most important year of the twentieth century.

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of extermination to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create Lebensraum for the German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Third Reich, and was cataclysmic for Germany with millions of men killed, wounded or registered as missing in action. It was this colossal mistake -- rather than any action in Western Europe -- that lost Hitler the Second World War.

Drawing on hitherto unseen archival material, including previously untranslated Russian sources, Jonathan Dimbleby puts Barbarossa in its proper place in history for the first time. From its origins in the ashes of the First World War to its impact on post-war Europe, and covering the military, political and diplomatic story from all sides, he paints a full and vivid picture of this monumental campaign whose full nature and impact has remained unexplored.

Written with authority and humanity, Barbarossa is a masterwork that transforms our understanding of the Second World War and of the twentieth century.

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'Superb. . . stays with you long after you have finished' Henry Hemming, bestselling author of Our Man in New York

'A chilling account of war at its worst' Bear Grylls

Reviews

The best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date

—— Andrew Roberts, author of 'Churchill: Walking with Destiny'

It's a vital story, one everyone should know, and Dimbleby tells it with verve and elan

—— Laurence Rees, author of 'Hitler and Stalin'

Should be on everyone's reading list for 2021

—— Dr Amanda Foreman, author of 'A World on Fire'

Masterly

—— General Sir Mike Jackson

Vivid and engrossing

—— Brendan Simms, author of 'Hitler: Only The World Was Enough'

An impressive achievement . . . a fast-paced, gripping read

—— Julia Boyd, author of 'Travellers in the Third Reich'

A great read . . . he brings Barbarossa very vividly to life, as if you are there

—— Robert Kershaw, author of 'War Without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942' and 'Borodino Field 1812/1941'

Thought-provoking . . . a captivating eye-opener

—— Prof Dr Gerhard Hirschfeld, University of Stuttgart, former President of the International Committee for the Study of the Second World War

Superbly well-written . . . the most comprehensive study of Hitler's invasion of the USSR in years

—— Keith Lowe, author of 'Savage Continent'

Expertly narrated and written with piercing clarity

—— Frederick Taylor, author of '1939: A People's History'

A chilling account of war at its worst

—— Bear Grylls

Superb . . . stays with you long after you have finished

—— Henry Hemming, bestselling author of 'Our Man in New York'

Brilliant . . . a wonderful piece of history

—— Robert Fox

Epic . . . captures all of Barbarossa's drama and magnitude

—— Martin Sixsmith

Brings to life the sheer, staggering scale of these events... with great skill, care and attention to detail

—— Keith Lowe , Sunday Times

[An] encyclopedic new account... a vivid, meticulous tapestry, densely weaving the threads of German and Soviet military strategy, political calculation from Washington and London to Moscow, and war's pitiless human cost

—— Julian Evans , The Telegraph

[Dimbleby] skilfully tracks the shifts and turns of the campaign, sparing no detail . . . a riveting account

—— Tony Rennell , Daily Mail, Book of the Week

Dimbleby tells the story of strategic miscalculation and (self-)deception on all sides, and then Hitler's 'war of extermination', magnificently

—— Allan Mallinson , The Spectator

Amazing . . . fascinating

—— Jeremy Vine

My best history book of 2021 -- a masterful account of maybe the biggest event ever . . . essential!

—— Lee Child

Subtle, perceptive and beautifully written

—— Wall Street Journal

Many consider the years before 1945 to be the most crucial in understanding Germany and the Germans. Wait until you have read this book.

—— Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Harald Jähner's deeply researched, panoramic account of how Germany rebuilt and discovered itself from 1945-1955 is an eye-opening, thrilling read

—— Bernhard Schlink, bestselling author of The Reader

A magnificent overview of the astonishing decade in Germany that followed the defeat of Nazism

—— Daily Telegraph (Best Summer Reading)

Eye-opening and often moving... a sobering look at how societies rebuild

—— BBC History Magazine

Highly readable... Counter-intuitive but thoughtful

—— Peter Fritzsche, New York Times

[A] thoughtful narrative... filling the yawning gap on bookshop shelves between a growing number of modern German history texts and the oversupply of Nazi studies that end in Hitler's bunker

—— Irish Times

Aftermath takes in the immediate postwar years where Germany was administered by the Allies... Jähner excels

—— Giles MacDonogh, Financial Times

Fascinating... Books about Word War II continue to spill out by the ton, but there has been less attention paid to how Germans coped with the country's shameful Nazi past after the conflict was over

—— Irish Independent (Summer Reads)

Rarely has a non-fiction book so skilfully combined vividness, drama and eloquence.

—— From the Jury's reasoning for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Non-Fiction 2019

Jähner's gripping 500-page X-ray-vision tale of an often overlooked and misperceived phase of German history reveals, like all great history books, as much about the first decade after the war as about today.

—— The German Times

Clearly written, full of empathy for everyday life, which is far too seldom taken into consideration... You devour it like a novel.

—— Welt am Sonntag

A popular work of non-fiction in the best sense.

—— Die Zeit

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