Stephen Fritz has made a major statement. There are many books dealing with military operations in the East and many others that highlight the atrocities, the murders, and the Holocaust. Not until now has a single volume attempted to incorporate both, seeking the nexus between military operations and mass murder. The result is as complete a history of the German-Soviet war as one could desire, and it is an achievement that is likely to be unequaled for some time to come.
~Robert M. Citino, author of Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942
Fritz has written a top-flight strategic/operational level analysis of the Russo-German War. His text is solid and impeccably supported.
~Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare
Of all the hundreds of books on the Russian campaign, Mr. Fritz's is the first I have seen that demonstrates the nexus between mass murder and military operations.
~Washington Times
Stephen Fritz brought to his sources his considerable analytical skills and clarity of expression. The product is a very readable consideration of the European war's most important front, and one that expresses a new understanding of its causes and effects.
~New York Journal of Books
Fritz seeks to synthesize and build upon earlier scholarship while exclusively focusing on the struggle as seen from Berlin.... Ostkrieg will be a significant addition to any academic library.
~Choice
It is truly a magnificent work of military history integrating ideological, economic, political, and military dimensions of this theater of war.
~Waterline
Perfect for instructors and students.
~Teaching History
An ambitious and impressive synthesis of two vast and often mutually exclusive fields of scholarship: the historiography of the Holocaust and that of the war on the Eastern Front. He does an admirable job of detailing the operational level of warfare with excellent insights into the strategic and tactical aspects of the war. Fritz provides an outstanding contribution to the fields of military and Holocaust historiography. [It] should serve as the starting point for all historians and students of World War II interested in the relationship of war and genocide.
~Journal of Military History
Winner of the inaugural US Commission on Military History's Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book Prize in Military History
We are given a superb vantage point from which to view how the Nazi regime's obsessions trapped Germany into ultimately fatal dilemmas.
~Historian
I found Ostkreig to be one of the most informative and spellbinding reads that I have experienced in a long time. This is a real page turner as I felt myself cheering for the Russian people in their struggle to just survive from day to day.
~The Lone Star Book Review
We now have a comprehensive, clearly written and affordable study incorporating recent research on the Eastern front.
~European History Quarterly
An achievement that is likely to be unequaled for some time to come.
~McCormick Messenger
The best work yet produced to convey the complexity and scale of Hitler's war in the east.
~War in History