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    Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943
    Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943
    Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943
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    Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943

    Written by Gregory Liedtke

    Narrated by James Anderson Foster

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 31, 2017
    ISBN9781541486225
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    Gregory Liedtke

    Gregory Liedtke is a military historian and doctoral graduate of the War Studies Program at the Royal Military College of Canada. An enthusiast of Military History in general, his particular research interests reside in both the study of the German Army during the Second World War and the Russo-German War of 1941-45.

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    • 4/5
      A more scientific look at the Eastern front. Contains endless lists of numbers of tanks, men and material produced and devoured by the bottomless hunger called the Eastern front. These are sometimes difficult to follow, especially in audiobook format. Valuable in providing new perspectives to why Germany lost the war. Not a gripping account of battles viewed from the trenches, but more a top down view on the war. This differing perspective is valuable and interesting if you are not simply looking for exciting stories about ww2. Recommended.
    • 3/5
      I like it. I agree with a critic I read in Goodreads that there are too many numbers presented, which for an audiobook is no simple task to concentrate on the detail they represent. Still, I got a better idea about the situation and the central argument of the book. It is an interesting point and the numbers presented do support the idea. It is not a romance. It is an exercise of sociology doctrine.