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On 22 June 1941, the German army invaded the Soviet Union, onehundred fifty divisions advancing on three axes in a surpriseattack that overwhelmed and destroyed whatever opposition theRussians were able to muster. The German High Command was under theimpression that the Red Army could be destroyed west of the DneprRiver and that there would be no need for conducting operations incold, snow, and mud. They were wrong. In reality, the extreme conditions of the German war in Russiawere so brutal that past experiences simply paled before them.Everything in Russia--the land, the weather, the distances, andabove all the people--was harder, harsher, more unforgiving, andmore deadly than anything the German soldier had ever facedbefore. Based on the recollections of four veteran German commanders ofthose battles, FIGHTING IN HELL describes in detail what happenedwhen the world's best-publicized "supermen" met the world's mostbrutal fighting. It is not a tale for the squeamish.
For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new accountof the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that preventeda quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of twowars and the world. With exclusive information based on newlyunearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramaticbattle and reinterprets Germany’s aggressive “Schlieffen Plan” as acarefully crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superiorcoalitions. He paints a fresh portrait of the run-up to the Marneand puts in dazzling relief the Battle of the Marne itself: theFrench resolve to win, and the crucial lack of coordination betweenGermany’s First and Second Armies. Herwig also provides stunningcameos of all the important players, from Germany’s Chief ofGeneral Staff Helmuth von Moltke to his rival, France’s JosephJoffre. Revelatory and riveting, this is the source on thisseminal event.
I Wish I’d Been There brings together twenty of ourmost distinguished historians’ responses to the question “Whatscene or incident in American history would you most liked to havewitnessed—and why?” The answers illuminate crucial moments in ourpast and give readers a front-row seat at some of Americanhistory’s most dramatic events.The Salem witch trials, the raid onHarper’s Ferry, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the votingrights march on Selma, the beginnings of the Vietnam War—all ofthese and more are vividly recreated here by a stellar list ofcontributors, including Mary Beth Norton, Joseph Ellis, CarolBerkin, Geoffrey Ward, Robert Dallek, Jay Winik, Robert Cowley,Carolyn Gilman, and William Leuchtenburg, among other luminaries ofthe profession. With imagination, insight, and vivid detail, IWish I’d Been There is an engaging tour through key events inAmerican history. If she could be a fly on the wall at a pivotal moment inAmerican history, Mary Beth Norton would ha
