World War II May 2001 Volume 16 Issue 1

World War II May 2001 Volume 16 Issue 1

Cover Story: 60th Anniversary: Barbarossa: Hitler’s Greatest Gambit

Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Greatest Gambit by Dennis E. Showalter

Although it has been 60 years since Adolf Hitler ordered his panzers east, there are still lessons to be learned about the Fuhrer’s bid to conquer the Soviet Union.

Feature Articles

26        Leclerc’s Long March

Paul E. Bove

In the summer of 1940 Colonel Philippe Leclerc was sent to Africa to drive Axis forces from Libya and to ensure the legitimacy of General Charles de Gaulle’s Free French movement.

34        Combat Photographer at Sea

Brian J. Whetstine

Art Green’s decision to enlist in the Coast Guard resulted in some of the most memorable photographs of World War II.

42        Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Greatest Gambit

Dennis E. Showalter

Although it has been 60 years since Adolf Hitler ordered his panzers east, there are still lessons to be learned about the Fuhrer’s bid to conquer the Soviet Union.

50        The Chindits’ Heroic Sacrifice at Blackpool

Robert Barr Smith

The price that the 111th Brigade paid for the failure of its leaders to embrace the tenets of Chindit founder Orde Wingate was nearly its own destruction.

 

Condition: Used Like New

 

Pages are clean and tight.  Address label on front cover.