Author: KEEGAN, JOHN
Title: Barbarossa Invasion of Russia, 1941
Description: New York, NY: Balantine Books, 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0345021118. This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping, rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. "The operation, code-named after Frederick I "Barbarossa" ("red beard") , a 12th-century Holy Roman Emperor and Crusader, put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goals of eradicating communism, and conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it with Germans. The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered people as forced labour for the Axis war effort while acquiring the oil reserves of the Caucasus as well as the agricultural resources of various Soviet territories, including Ukraine and Byelorussia. Their ultimate goal was to create more Lebensraum (living space) for Germany, and the eventual extermination of the native Slavic peoples by mass deportation to Siberia, Germanisation, enslavement, and genocide." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

Keywords: 0345021118 World War II John Keegan Russian Front Operation Barbarossa


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