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Although the name of the Army Group could not be disclosed at the time of publication of this book for security reasons, this is the story of the German attack from June to November 1941 through the Stalin Line and across Russia to a point south of Kharkov near the Donets River during Operation Barbarossa in words, maps, large clear photogravures, and excellent captions.
After capturing tens of thousands of Russian prisoners and destroying hundreds of Soviet tanks, Army Group "South," the Sixth and Seventeenth Armies, overcame Russian resistance at Lviv in late June 1941 and advanced into Ukraine via Tarnopol, Alexandriya, Uman, Krasnograd, and as far as Panjutino, southwest of Isjum.
No book gives a better account of the hard-fought campaign of the Wehrmacht's Army Group South (including the Romanian armies) than this one. It shows the immensity of the battlefield, the enormous amount of men and machines thrown onto it, and the quagmire that was the doom of a large number of German soldiers.
Further pictures show Zakopane, Reichshof, Generalfeldmarschall von Brauchitsch, Przemysl, von Rundstedt, Jaworow, Proskurow, Winniza, Zmerynka, Gaissin, Podwyssokoje, Kirowograd, Dnjepr, Loschkani, Krementschug, Worskla, Poltawa, Generaloberst Hoth, Ssachnowschtschina, General of Infantery von Briesen, Artemowsk.
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