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Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia, 1941. By David M. Glantz. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2001. ISBN 0-7524-1979-X. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 256. $27.99.
In this work, the author postulates and then wrestles with perhaps the greatest question of warfare in the twentieth century. his impressive query: How is it possible that the premier army of the twentieth century, after inflicting fatal damage on the Red Army in the opening weeks of the surprise attack against Soviet Russia, allowed it to resurrect itself from operational death? lie argues that the question has been pondered by many but ineffectively researched because of one-sided dependence on German sources. Now, based on the greater availability of Russian records, he presents the following thesis: the Red Army possessed a combination of Red organizing capabilities and Russian stubborn resistance that was responsible...