The largest military campaign in history has remained poorly understood for more than eight decades. The excuses offered by Adolf Hitler and his generals for the German armys defeat continue to predominate in even the most recent accounts of Operation Barbarossa. Harvard Law School graduate and Wall Street lawyer Timothy Manion shatters the historical consensus in his groundbreaking new book, Why Barbarossa Failed. Manion has uncovered the archival accounts of officers at the front whose objections to their superiors planning and execution of the campaign have gone overlooked by historians. These previously unpublished accounts overturn the past eight decades of dogma on Operation Barbarossa and shed an entirely new light on the most important event of the twentieth century.
The largest military campaign in history has remained poorly understood for the past 80 years. The excuses offered by Adolf Hitler and his generals still predominate in contemporary narratives. The reasons for Operation Barbarossas failure as observed by officers at the front line are published here for the first time.
