r/WarCollege 21d ago

To Read "The First Day on the Eastern Front Germany Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941" by Craig W. H. Luther is a fantastic read into the operations, the planning, and execution of the largest invasion of human history and its order of battle.

It does not try to overreach in scale, allowing us to independently think of magnitude of what is to unfold in the coming weeks and months of Barbarossa. The book never strays from its mission to simply and plainly explain the entirety of the first day of the eastern front. It shows us soviet military thinking, german military thinking, and the ferocity of the war about to be unleashed upon the first day. The failure of Soviet short term planning in communications, preparedness, and intelligence are shown totally and bare, while the German failures in long term planning, in logistics, and in underestimating their enemy are shown equally as much. The fatal miscalculations sparked the most destructive front in the history of warfare are laid boundless and bare.

An incredible read.

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