Operation Barbarossa in Photographs

Combat photos by the soldiers themselves. The very concept is strange to me, if i was in the middle of a fire fight taking a photo would be the last thing on my mind, but this guys did, and most of them a great. War in it's most simple a gritty form, death staring at you straight. Many photos are shocking, like the masses of dead civilians, combat casualties, the russian bomb dogs, an one particular photo of a corpse, squashed flat by armored vehicles like it was a cartoon character. A very good book over all.

There are a lot of good pictures in this book, I think it's worth for the price. If you are a WWII book collector, then you should have this book.

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 MUST-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.

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.