THE RETREAT: HITLERS FIRST DEFEAT by MICHAEL JONES

Brilliant historian Michael Jones supreme quality is to bring an intimate profound Human quality to harrowing events from some of the most startlingly unsettling periods during the last century.Not only is he a master of the strategic macro-events and the dry statistical academic research that goes with it , he weaves individual experiences of some of those there allowing them to tell their story and speak to future generations.
The Book details the arrogance of one side believing they are superior to the other , therefore creating a culture in which treating the other as sub-humans was an accepted given.

The same attitude led to defeat as the opponents of the German advance were not considered as being able to last out to winter.Subsequently it was the Winter that killed most of the Germans who became a begraddled pathetic feeble tottering mass resembling Napoleons Army many years before.

Alas , Stalin was also to suffer from Hitlers disease as he pulled away vital units of the counter-offensive Army thinking the Germans were a spent force.This catastrophic decision maybe added at least two more destructive years onto the war in the east as the Soviets were unable to press the advantage handed to them by German High Command mistakes.