The Eastern Front was the decisive theater of World War II in Europe. German premier Adolf Hitler’s disastrous 1941 order to invade the vast Soviet Union mired Nazi Germany in a bloody, grinding ...

In this gritty book, Stephen G. Fritz, a professor of history at East Tennessee State University, shows the Eastern Front from the German perspective. 2 LENINGRAD : The Epic Siege of World War II ...

World War II Facts: ... Around 80 percent of the more than five million German military deaths in World War II occurred on the Eastern Front.