Download or read book The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June - August 1941 written by David M. Glantz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, this volume draws upon eye-witness German accounts supplemented with German archival and detailed Soviet materials. Formerly classified Soviet archival materials has been incorporated.