"War and genocide on the Eastern Front is one of the most important books on the Wehrmacht of the past twenty years, and must be read to understand both the German military campaign and the war of annihilation that they carried out."

David Stahel, historian.

By early 1944, almost the entire German army had participated in the war of annihilation that took place in the Soviet Union. Even today we are debating the reasons for the extreme violence that broke out there.

Jeff Rutherford, one of the most brilliant historians of the period, brings a new and momentous insight into the fighting and policies of occupation in the Soviet Union, from the brutal clashes of 1941 to the fighting in Leningrad, the Demiansk Stock Exchange or the Volkhóv, and the lesser known of the 1943 and 1944 years. A book that intensely reflects the brutality of the German war on the Eastern Front.