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

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...