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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Plates | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Who's Who | |
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| Glossaryxxii | |
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| Maps | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Background | |
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| The Origins of the War on the Eastern Front | |
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| Planning 'Operation Barbarossa' | |
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| Soviet Preparations for War | |
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| 22 June 1941: The Invasion | |
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| The Border Battles | |
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| The Battle for Leningrad | |
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| The Battle for Kiev | |
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| The First Major German Defeat: Rostov | |
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| Mass Murder in the USSR | |
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| The Battle for Moscow | |
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| The War Turns Against The Germans, 1942-43 | |
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| 'Operation Blue' | |
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| The Battle for Stalingrad | |
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| German Efforts to Halt the Red Army | |
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| The Partisans | |
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| 'Operation Citadel' | |
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| The Soviet Union On The Offensive | |
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| Battles for the Ukraine | |
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| The Relief of Leningrad | |
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| 'Operation Bagration' | |
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| The Destruction of Army Groups North and South | |
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| The Battle for Berlin | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Documents | |
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| Nazi-Soviet Pact, 23 August 1939 | |
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| Hitler letter to Mussolini, 21 June 1941 | |
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| Directive for 'Operation Barbarossa' | |
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| Directive for Special Areas during 'Operation Barbarossa,'13 March 1941 | |
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| Decree for the Conduct of Courts-Martial in the East, 13 May 1941 | |
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| 'Commissar Decree,' 6 June 1941 | |
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| Stalin's speech on 3 July 1941 | |
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| Decree on the Treatment of Civilians, 23 July 1941 | |
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| Haider's Diary, 3 July 1941 | |
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| Haider's Diary, 11 August 1941 | |
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| Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau's order, 10 October 1941 | |
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| Hitler comments on motorization, 29 October 1941 | |
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| Order for German forces to go on the defensive, 8 December 1941 | |
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| Hitler comments on the winter 1941-42, 12 and 17 January 1942 | |
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| Order for 'Operation Blue,' 5 April 1942 | |
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| Soviet order concerning discipline in the Red Army, 28 July 1942 | |
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| A German witness to a mass shooting, 5-6 October 1942 | |
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| A German soldier describes the retreat in the Ukraine, Summer 1943 | |
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| 'Fortified Areas' Order, 8 March 1944 | |
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| A Soviet soldier reports on combat during 'Operation Bagration,' 29 June 1944 | |
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| A German soldier reports on fighting on the Eastern Front,14January 1945 | |
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| Decree for the destruction of German industry, 30 March 1945 | |
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| Hitler's Last Proclamation to the Eastern Front, 15 April 1945 | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |