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Hitler's Invasion of Russia in World War Two

By Laurence Rees
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War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin by Laurence Rees (BBC Publications)

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Wolfgang Horn, a junior NCO with the German Army's 10th Panzer Division describes his unit's brutal destruction of Russian villages.

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Adolf Hitler - Der Führer Medium-depth biography of Hitler.

Nazi-Soviet relations, 1931-1941 Documents from the German Foreign Office, published in 1948.

Map A map of the Eastern Front, July 1943.

Ukraine's war An extremely extensive and in-depth history of Ukraine's war.

Stalingrad Mamaev Kurgan: The battle itself, Volgograd today and much more.

The bombing of Berlin In 1941 Germany pushed deep into Soviet territory, when the Soviet air-force hit back.

Einsatz Disturbing eyewitness account of an Einsatz execution.

Katyn An account of the execution of Polish POWs in 1940, by the NKVD.

About the author

Laurence Rees, writer and producer of the six part BBC/PBS series 'World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West' is an award winning historian of World War Two and the Third Reich. His previous book 'Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ''Final Solution'' won the British Book Award for History Book of the Year in 2006 and the television series of the same name won him a Grierson Documentary Award. He has written five other history books including, 'Nazis: A Warning from History', 'War of the Century', 'Horror in the East' and 'Their Darkest Hour'. 'Nazis a Warning from History', 'War of the Century' and 'Horror in the East' were also successful television documentary series - all written and produced by Laurence Rees.

Published: 2001-08-01

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