Hitler Versus Stalin: The Second World War on the Eastern Front in photographs

by John Erickson, Ljubica Erickson

This book covers every phase of the Eastern Front campaigns, from the Nazis' early Blitzkrieg successes, the battle for Moscow, the terrible siege of Leningrad, the turning point street fighting for Stalingrad and the subsequent Soviet successes at Kursk and Operation Bagration to the climatic fall of Berlin and the link--up between Soviet and Western armies amid the ruins of the 1000 year Reich

Genres: History, Photography, Nonfiction, Soviet Union

256 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

About the author

John Erickson was a British historian of World War II.

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Reviews

[Tom Schulte · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a chapter for each year of the war. After a couple of pages of text highlighting the year in the chronology the rest is pictures, generally B&W and two to a page. This is a concise overview of the Eastern Front in Europe with many affecting, memorable photographs.

[pallav mishra · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book written from the Soviet side. The only thing against it is that it goes a bit zig zag chronologically at times. Explains Unternehmen Barbarossa very well.

[Julian · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book has tons of photos from the Eastern Front, starting with the URSS-Germany non-aggression pact, all the way to the victory parades in Moscow. Each section begins with a short summary of the event they will cover (Winter War, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Berlin, etc) that will give the casual reader the relevant context. It's not deep, but good enough for someone like me. The book is mostly focused on the Soviet side of the conflict and biased in their favor, mostly by omitting the horrors the Soviets inflicted on their own troops and on civilian populations.