German Infantryman Vs Soviet Rifleman Barbarossa 1941 David Campbell by David Campbell instant download after payment.

Featuring full-color artwork, specially drawn maps and archive
photographs, this study offers key insights into the tactics,
leadership, combat performance and subsequent reputations of six
representative German and Soviet infantry battalions pitched into three
pivotal actions that determined the course of the Barbarossa campaign at
the height of World War II.
The Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 pitted Nazi
Germany and her allies against Stalin's forces in a mighty struggle for
survival. Three German army groups - North, Center and South - advanced
into Soviet-held territory; Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock's Army
Group Center, the largest of these three, was tasked with defeating
General of the Army Dmitry Pavlov's Western Front in Belarus, and was
assigned two Panzer Groups to achieve this. Bock's command would
complete the encirclement and destruction of vast numbers of Soviet
personnel and matériel at battles such as Bialystok-Minsk in June-July
and Smolensk in July-August before being halted as German efforts
centered on the conquest of the Ukraine, only to resume the offensive at
the end of September. As the dust of summer gave way to the mud of
autumn, the ensuing German drive on Moscow was slowed and then halted by
a Soviet counteroffensive mounted by Konev's Kalinin and Timoshenko's
Southwestern Fronts in December amid unusually harsh winter conditions,
marking the failure of the German Blitzkrieg; Army Group Centre was
forced back and Moscow remained in Soviet hands.
At the forefront of the German advance, fighting alongside the spearhead
Panzer divisions, were the lorry-borne infantrymen of the motorized
infantry divisions. Unlike the Schützen, the specialist armored infantry
integral to the Panzer divisions, these highly trained motorized
formations were organized, armed and equipped as per their footslogging
counterparts in the standard infantry divisions; together, these two
troop types were the
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