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Enduring the Whirlwind
- The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Summary
Despite the best efforts of a number of historians, many aspects of the ferocious struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War remain obscure or shrouded in myth. One of the most persistent of these is the notion - largely created by many former members of its own officer corps in the immediate postwar period - that the German Army was a paragon of military professionalism and operational proficiency whose defeat on the Eastern Front was solely attributable to the amateurish meddling of a crazed former Corporal and the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Red Army.
A key pillar upon which the argument of German numerical-weakness vis-à-vis the Red Army has been constructed is the assertion that Germany was simply incapable of providing its army with the necessary quantities of men and equipment needed to replace its losses. In consequence, as their losses outstripped the availability of replacements, German field formations became progressively weaker until they were incapable of securing their objectives.
This work seeks to address the notion of German numerical-weakness in terms of Germany's ability to replace its losses and regenerate its military strength, and assess just how accurate this argument was during the crucial first half of the Russo-German War.
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- JFT
- 03-07-21
well worth effort to read
lots n lots of stats even so gives brilliant insights into Ostheers balancing supply/demand problems
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- Mariush
- 31-05-23
Another approach to the subject
There are dozens of similar books, analysing "why the Germans didn't win the war" yet I found this one interesting enough, as the author presents a new, a bit different approach, and supports it with the detailed data from the German Army archives.
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- paul hadfeild
- 02-09-18
whose idea was it to make this am audio book ?
This book should be read phisically with a notepad by your side and the first 5 chapters are a cross between listening to the shipping forcast and the football scores being read out .
Around chapter 5 a story starts to come out but i think most people would have stopped reading long before that .
This is a reference statisticle book that just completely bogs down in numbers .
The book gets better and better from chapter 5 onwards but that's a very strange way to write a book .
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- jules
- 16-09-18
chewing thick grass
if ou like numbers and stats this one's for you. for m it was like chewing thick grass. extremely boring narrative. wasted money on that one.
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