Eastern Front: the Vast Southern Land

The "Eastern Front" series of books is written by the famous military writer Mr. Zhu Shiwei. It comprehensively and in detail tells the entire process of the Soviet-German war in World War II. The book uses rich maps, tables and pictures, as well as concise and clean text expressions, to show the shocking bloody battles and the great transformation of offensive and defensive forces on the Soviet-German battlefield. "Eastern Front: The Vast Southern Land" follows the previous part "Eastern Front: Barbarossa and the Battle of the Eighteen Heavenly Borders". It mainly tells the story of the German army's invasion of the Soviet Union after the end of the border war. Faced with the tenacious resistance of the Soviet army and the war situation in various places, the German high command held a fierce debate on the next step of the war. Finally, the focus of the decisive battles in the summer and autumn campaigns shifted from the center to the south, and the huge Smolensk and Kiev battles broke out one after another. Although the Germans won, they lost valuable time to attack Moscow. The pros and cons of this change in the direction of the battle are still debated in historians.