Germany’s 1941 Campaign in the Ukraine and Southern Russia: How Germany Lost on the Eastern Front

How Germany lost the Second World War is a topic that remains hotly debated to this day.On the one hand, conventional wisdom still explains Germany’s defeat during the War as inevitable chiefly because of the brute force economic and military power the Soviet Union and Allies wielded against Germany.Yet there is a growing community of historians, military analysts, and defense experts alike challenging such long-standing beliefs. The three volumes of _How Germany Lost: An Analysis of Germany’s 1941-1942 Campaigns in the Ukraine and Southern Russia_ aims to be the flagship of those challengers.These books build off the general outline provided by the author’s previous work, and advance those arguments in several new and interesting directions.Not least of which via getting granular in defeating a dated conventional wisdom ill-equipped to not only explain Germany’s defeat in Eastern Europe, but also help us understand the course of the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict. This first volum