The Eastern Front: in Photographs 1941-1945

by John Erickson, Ljubica Erickson

Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the biggest military campaign in history on June 22, 1941, this unprecedented book illuminates the brutality, horror, and heroism of war.

Genres: History, Photography, Nonfiction, War, Soviet Union, World War II, Germany

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2001

About the author

John Erickson was a British historian of World War II.

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Reviews

[Tom Schulte · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a chapter for each year of the war. After a couple of pages of text highlighting the year in the chronology the rest is pictures, generally B&W and two to a page. This is a concise overview of the Eastern Front in Europe with many affecting, memorable photographs.

[pallav mishra · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book written from the Soviet side. The only thing against it is that it goes a bit zig zag chronologically at times. Explains Unternehmen Barbarossa very well.

[Julian · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book has tons of photos from the Eastern Front, starting with the URSS-Germany non-aggression pact, all the way to the victory parades in Moscow. Each section begins with a short summary of the event they will cover (Winter War, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Berlin, etc) that will give the casual reader the relevant context. It's not deep, but good enough for someone like me. The book is mostly focused on the Soviet side of the conflict and biased in their favor, mostly by omitting the horrors the Soviets inflicted on their own troops and on civilian populations.