Death on the Don: The Destruction of Germany's Allies on the Eastern Front, 1941-44

Operation Barbarossa was the largest invasion in history. Almost 3.5 million men smashed into Stalin’s Red Army, reaching the gates of Leningrad, Moscow, and Sevastopol. But not all of this vast army was German; by the summer of 1942, over 500,000 were Romanians, Italians, Hungarians, Slovaks, and Croatians—Hitler’s Axis allies. As part of the German offensive that year, more than four allied armies advanced to the Don, only to be annihilated in the Red Army’s Saturn and Uranus winter offen...