Osprey\'s third and final volume in the Barbarossa trilogy, this title completes the account of the strategic intricacies of the German campaign against Russia....

Osprey\'s first title that examines the events of Operation Barbarossa - Germany\'s surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than the complete destruction of Communist Russia. This book focuses on Field Marshal von Rundstedt and Army Group South, tasked with the capture of the Ukraine and Crimea....

Of the German Army Groups that attacked Soviet Russia, Von Leeb\'s Army Group North, tasked with seizing the Baltic States and Leningrad, was the smallest and weakest. Fortunately, General Kuznetzov\'s Northwestern Front was in an even weaker state....