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Summary: Ausgezeichnet!
Review: Okay, I was looking at reviews and after looking at those done by others, I just HAD to write something! Operation Barbarossa in Photographs is absolutely great!! Paul Carell is a famous German author and is a vet of the Wehrmacht too. Yes, the book has a German bent--it was written by a German who was THERE--of course he will have a different perspective than someone sitting at home in America in the 21st century. This is a MSUT-HAVE book and is chock full of SO many good pictures you can't read in one or even two sittings, it just has to be broken up to absorb it all. I HIGHLY suggest this book for any student of the Eastern Front and/or the German Military of the Second World War.
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Summary: not a history work...but a great war photo records!
Review: This is a massive collection of photographic records of battlefield,soldiers and civilians at nazi-russia war times. It seems that most of the photos may never have been introduced or published before.They're very vivid,captions are accurate and to the point. But I think all photo captions are too brief to understand the whole process of war.Scarcely any other explanatory texts are. It makes this book not a history work but only a kind of war photo album. It may leave serious readers something to be desired,I sure. But if you have had carell's other works,this book can be a useful pictorial guide to them. Even if main text is very poor,all photos match well with military history are worth seeing.
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Summary: not a history work...but a great war photo records!
Review: This is a massive collection of photographic records of battlefield,soldiers and civilians at nazi-russia war times. It seems that most of the photos may never have been introduced or published before.They're very vivid,captions are accurate and to the point. But I think all photo captions are too brief to understand the whole process of war.Scarcely any other explanatory texts are. It makes this book not a history work but only a kind of war photo album. It may leave serious readers something to be desired,I sure. But if you have had carell's other works,this book can be a useful pictorial guide to them. Even if main text is very poor,all photos match well with military history are worth seeing.
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Summary: When they fought for their fatherland...history remember.
Review: This is another great book written by Paul Carell. Main subject of this book is also the German-Russian war as his famous works. This is a massive collection of vivid photographic records of battlefield,soldiers and civilians. It seems to me that most of the photos may never have been introduced or published before. Even if 60 years have passed since 'barbarossa',the photos are full of reality as though they are this times' . All photo captions are brief and to the point.Graphic quality is also good.Explanations match well with military history. I think this book will be a good pictorial guide to author's definitive works(for example,Hitler moves east,The scorched earth...etc)on the war in Russia.
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Summary: Great photo collection from Paul Carell
Review: This is by far the largest collection of eastern front photos I've ever seen. Most of the photos are never before seen snapshots taken by ordinary soldiers and this is also one of two weakest points of this book: they (photos) are not of best quality. Other weak point is captions. They are very short and mostly un-informative (caption might read for example "German soldier in trench" and nothing about where the photo was taken etc.). This is definately not a book for eastern front enthusiast who is looking for facts about war fought in Russia, but for one who is tired of seeing same old photos we have seen during last 30 years. Quantity of photos alone makes this book worth buying.
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Summary: Great collection of photos, but......
Review: Wow,the photos in the book were great but I have a bone to pick. The author says these were photographed by the soldiers. Then what about all the inhumane crimes committed by the Wehrmacht and all the photographs taken by its sadistic soldiers. Look no further than the book "German Army and Genocide" for them. Also, the author obviously has a pro-German bias. He describes the Russian soldiers as "Reds"- this is not the Russian civil war! One of the pictures describes the 'fanatic' resistance at Brest-Litvosk while always describing the 'heroics' of the Germans. Also he uses the German spelling for Soviet cities: Lemberg, Moskau, etc. There are also several errors by labeling General Vassili Chuikov (the hero of Stalingrad) as General Zhukov. Still the book is a great collection of photos.
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