Antony James Beevor- The Eastern Front and the Military Context, 1941-1942 

he writes amazing books. i read his berlin and stalingrad books. simply great writing.

Audio is broken. It's too bad.

Beevor is a knowledgable historian; he's worthy of attention!

Excellent historian and speaker.

great historian i like that hes not afraid to be blunt about all sides

There seemed to have people in the audience talking throughout Beevor's speech. Why? Translators?

I’m reading ‘Stalingrad’ right now but I seem to read it in fits and starts.

Audio is indecipherable

It uis blatantly untrue that it was Göring who promised to supply Paulus. One of the persistent myths of WW2. IOt was not; it was either Milch or Jeschonnek (I forgot which).

Someone has done something with The voice so you cant hear it

Can't hear anything

Has CBS censored this too????????

Of all their principal enemies' soldiers, that is, the soldiers of the principal anti-Hitler belligerents of the United States, Gt. Britain, and the Soviet Union, the Germans most respected, and most hated, the Russian, i.e., the Soviet soldier, for the courage and ferocity that he fought with on the battlefield. The Soviets were ruthless with the lives of their own men and fought relentlessly taking enormous losses to gain an objective without flinching or balking. (Many embittered Red Army soldiers came out of the war hating their own generals as much as the German enemy.) The Soviets bore the brunt of the war against Nazi Germany and fought by far the larger proportion of the Wehrmacht's land forces; and the Wehrmacht's and Waffen-SS's best land forces were in the East: From the mid-war period onward, the _Westfrontkämpfer_ was considered a second-rate soldier in Germany who had got soft performing only occupation duties in Western Europe and for not being in continual action against the enemy as he was in the East against the Red Army. The Germans' Eastern Front was the principal theater of their land war and the Soviet soldier was a much tougher proposition for the German soldier than either the British or American soldier. And the German veterans that fought both the Soviets and the Western Allies concede this themselves.

Am I the only one hearing garbled speech? Something seriously wrong with the sound.

WW2 was arranged or ended up being a land war(Russia, with Allied aid, vs. Germany), an air war(RAF and USAAF vs. Germany; US vs. Japan), a Uboat war (RN and USN vs. Germany), a surface fleet war (RN and USN vs. Germany; USN vs. Japan), and finally, an atomic war (USAAF vs. Japan). The costs were so staggering that the world has never recovered...

The audio is so bad you can't listen to this

Great historical overview, covering an impressive breadth. But I cannot understand why someone as widely read as Beevor continues to spread myths about certain details of WWII campaigns. For example the idea that Paulus never saw Sixth Army's encirclement coming, and was entirely shocked after Operation Uranus. In fact Paulus and his staff were well aware of the danger on their flanks, and placed little value on the dreadfully equipped and outgunned Romanian and Italian armies stationed there. The discussions at Sixth Army headquarters in early November were consumed by constant worry about the precariousness of their salient, despair at the attrition their forces were suffering in the urban fight in Stalingrad, and frustration with the German high command's refusal to countenance that the Soviets had any remaining reserves. OKW was convinced that the Red Army was on its dying days, and arrogantly dismissed the idea that the Soviets were even capable of carrying out a vast encirclement of the Wehrmacht's best units. Kesselschlacht for them was the exclusive purview of the superior Prussian military tradition. On November 19th, 1942 upon learning that Soviet mechanized forces were advancing deep into Sixth Army's rear, Paulus' initial reaction was as follows: "Now has happened what I have been forecasting for weeks. Hitler does not want to accept as true what every simple soldier can see. Keitel and Jodl have supported him in this. For weeks we have had nothing but empty words. Now we have to dish out the soup. We have no idea if it is possible to stop the Russian counteroffensive."

Good lecturer, horrible audio

Um can't hear

Could anyone understand a word of this?

Did nobody seriously notice this audio sounds lime it was recorded underwater using a potato from 100 yards away ?????????

No Mention of the Italians in relation to N Africa??

11:52. Not outgunned. The UK tanks where comparable to the panzers in most aspects (except for the lack of HE shells) but their constant idea of charging like balaclava to the nazi AT guns was a stupid tactic that caused a lot of casualties.

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Ever given it a thought how similar *"Führer"* and *"furor"* sound?

the narrative starts in 44 jumps around that was not decided before mid at the Wahnnee konferance

Wtf??

Most of military historians have very narrow battle centric perspective and especially focusing mainly just those slow and quite meaningless land battles. The fact that even Germany gave 55-58% of its munition production to air war is remarkable poorly understood by these apostles of WW2. That fact that USA was in warfare 20 times more combat effective than Stalin's backward armed forces led by incompetent mostly WW1 like commanders is also poorly recognized.

This is to promote his new book that covers the entire war. came out 2012, The reason this is very Jew heavy is the location Yad Vashem Shoa Memorial . He has written 11 books about different battles

It just pours out of Beevor like dung out of a cow's backside...plop, plop, plop.

It just pours out of Beevor like dung out of a cows backside...plop, plop, plop.