Napoleon, Charles XII and Hitler Challenge and Calamity in Russia

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Overview

This tries to provide an account of Napoleon's, Charles XII's, and Hitler's invasions of Russia. It compares the three efforts, indicates why the author thinks they all failed, evaluates whether anyone could have succeeded and if they made any sense from the point of view of the aggressor.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158731075
Publisher:	Page Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	07/17/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
Sales rank:	1,280,543
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Adolf Jochnick is an American with dual American-Swedish citizenship. He grew up in Sweden during the Second World War, which stimulated an early interest in military history. He subsequently studied this subject while in the Swedish military, in which he has held a commission as an officer, and at the University of Stockholm. In 1958 he graduated from the Harvard Law School and has practiced law for most of his career. In 2014, he completed a book about the battles between Russia, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire in the early eighteenth century. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife Liz.