Barbarossa 1941

Barbarossa 1941 by Kevin Boylan is an exquisitely presented atlas, featuring original 1:2,500,000-scale German military maps from the 1941 Operation Barbarossa campaign.

Operation Barbarossa, Germany’s surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than the complete destruction of Communist Russia in a matter of months. It was the one period when the Germans had a chance of achieving victory, but the events of the campaign ultimately reversed the fortunes of the Third Reich.

This atlas utilises contemporary daily situation maps produced by the German Army’s General Staff to provide a clear historical and geographical picture of one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. These maps show the configuration of the front line and the locations of major Axis combat formations, as well as the deployments and movements of Soviet combat units as the German military intelligence understood them.

The maps are supported by a detailed commentary summarising and analysing the operations depicted, tracing the day-to-day progress of the fighting on the Eastern Front.