Reviews
""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 German-Soviet 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 " --, 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., Winner of the inaugural US Commission on Military History's Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book Prize in Military History, ""It is truly a magnificent work of military history integrating ideological, economic, political, and military dimensions of this theater of war."-- Waterline " --, "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, "Fritz has written a top-flight strategic/operational level analysis of the Russo-German War. His text is solid and impeccably supported." -- Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare, "Winner of the inaugural US Commission on Military History's Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book Prize in Military History" --, ""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 " --, 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., "[...] [A]n 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.... [...] [H]e does an admirable job of detailing the operational level of warfare with excellent insights into the strategic and tactical aspects of the war. [...] Fritz provides an outstanding contribution to the fields of military and Holocaust historiography. [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 now have a comprehensive, clearly written and affordable study incorporating recent research on the Eastern front. European History Quarterly " -- European History Quarterly, "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., "[T]he best work yet produced to convey the complexity and scale of Hitler's war in the east." -- War in History, "We now have a comprehensive, clearly written and affordable study incorporating recent research on the Eastern front." -- European History Quarterly, ""Fritz has written a top-flight strategic/operational level analysis of the Russo-German War. His text is solid and impeccably supported."--Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare " --, 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. He does an admirable job of detailing the operational level of warfare with excellent insights into the strategic and tactical aspects of the war. Fritz provides an outstanding contribution to the fields of military and Holocaust historiography. [It] should serve as the starting point for all historians and students of World War II interested in the relationship of war and genocide., We are given a superb vantage point from which to view how the Nazi regime's obsessions trapped Germany into ultimately fatal dilemmas., "I found Ostkreig to be one of the most informative and spellbinding reads that I have experienced in a long time. This is a real page turner as I felt myself cheering for the Russian people in their struggle to just survive from day to day." -- The Lone Star Book Review, It is truly a magnificent work of military history integrating ideological, economic, political, and military dimensions of this theater of war., "It is truly a magnificent work of military history integrating ideological, economic, political, and military dimensions of this theater of war." -- Waterline, ""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 " --, ""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 " --, 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., "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 German-Soviet 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, ""I found Ostkreig to be one of the most informative and spellbinding reads that I have experienced in a long time. This is a real page turner as I felt myself cheering for the Russian people in their struggle to just survive from day to day." -- The Lone Star Book Review" --, "We are given a superb vantage point from which to view how the Nazi regime's obsessions trapped Germany into ultimately fatal dilemmas. -- Historian" -- Geoff Haywood, Historian, "Winner of the inaugural U.S. Commission on Military History's Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book Prize in Military History" --, "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, 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 German-Soviet war as one could desire, and it is an achievement that is likely to be unequaled for some time to come., Fritz has written a top-flight strategic/operational level analysis of the Russo-German War. His text is solid and impeccably supported., "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, "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. He does an admirable job of detailing the operational level of warfare with excellent insights into the strategic and tactical aspects of the war. Fritz provides an outstanding contribution to the fields of military and Holocaust historiography. [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, I found Ostkreig to be one of the most informative and spellbinding reads that I have experienced in a long time. This is a real page turner as I felt myself cheering for the Russian people in their struggle to just survive from day to day.
