Stephen G. Fritz, professor of history at East Tennessee State University, is the author of Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II and Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich. He lives in Johnson City, Tennessee.
Stephen Fritz has made a major statement. There are many books
dealing with military operations in the East and many others that
highlight the atrocities, the murders, and the Holocaust. Not until
now has a single volume attempted to incorporate both, seeking the
nexus between military operations and mass murder. The result is as
complete a history of the GermanSoviet war as one could desire, and
it is an achievement that is likely to be unequaled for some time
to come." Robert M. Citino, - author of Death of the Wehrmacht: The
German Campaigns of 1942
"Fritz has written a topflight strategic/operational level analysis
of the RussoGerman War. His text is solid and impeccably
supported." – Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers: The
Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare
"Of all the hundreds of books on the Russian campaign, Mr. Fritz's
is the first I have seen that demonstrates the nexus between mass
murder and military operations." - Washington Times
"Stephen Fritz brought to his sources his considerable analytical
skills and clarity of expression. The product is a very readable
consideration of the European war's most important front, and one
that expresses a new understanding of its causes and effects." -
New York Journal of Books
"Fritz seeks to synthesize and build upon earlier scholarship while
exclusively focusing on the struggle as seen from Berlin....
Ostkrieg will be a significant addition to any academic library." -
Choice
"It is truly a magnificent work of military history integrating
ideological, economic, political, and military dimensions of this
theater of war." - Waterline
"Perfect for instructors and students." - Teaching History
"An ambitious and impressive synthesis of two vast and often
mutually exclusive fields of scholarship: the historiography of the
Holocaust and that of the war on the Eastern Front.... [it] should
serve as the starting point for all historians and students of
World War II interested in the relationship of war and genocide." -
Journal of Military History
"We are given a superb vantage point from which to view how the
Nazi regime's obsessions trapped Germany into ultimately fatal
dilemmas.” - Historian
"We now have a comprehensive, clearly written and affordable study
incorporating recent research on the Eastern Front.” - European
History Quartterly
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