Jeff Rutherford is Teaching Professor of History at Xavier University. He has written extensively on Germany's war against the Soviet Union, including the book Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front.

Robert von Maier is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Brécourt Academic.

Contributors: Ian Garner, Travis Gray, Ilya Grinberg, Susan C. I. Grunewald, Keith Hann, David A. Harrisville, Nina Janz, Dallas Michelbacher, Jennifer Lauren Popowycz, Valeriy Romanenko, Maris Rowe-McCulloch, David Stahel, Nicolas G. Virtue, Edward B. Westermann, Adrian E. Wettstein, and Bastiaan Willems

1. Introduction: War on the Eastern Front-Combat, Occupation, and Legacies

1. Subverting Hitler's War: Initiativein the German Army, Winter 1941/42

2. The Road from Berlin to a Beachside Massacre: The Jews of Liepajaand the Final Solution

3. Terror with a Human Face: Morality, Propaganda, and Image in theWehrmacht

4. Experiencing and Witnessing Captivity: Soviet Prisoners of War in German Custody on Soviet Soil

5. Fascist Italy and the Vernichtungskrieg: The Italian Expeditionary Corps in the Donets Basin, 1941-1942

6. The Lesser of Two Evils? Soviet Prisoners of War in Romania,1941-1944

7. Fighting for a Foreign Power: The Personal Experiences of Luxembourgers in the German Army at the Eastern Front, 1942-1945

8. "Taking into Account Its Special Characteristics": Identity andAutonomy in the Polish People'sArmy, 1943-1945

9. Lend-Lease Aircraft on the Soviet- German Front: The Test Case of the Air Battles over Ukraine in 1944

10. The Nazi Occupation of Ukraine: Ukrainians in Germany's War

11. The Evolution of Vernichtungskrieg: Army Group North's Scorched-Earth Retreats, 1943-1944

12. "Transformed into an Economically and Militarily Worthless Debris Field": The Two German Evacuations of Kharkiv in 1943

13. A War Continues: Eastern-Front Behavior on German Soil

14. Soviet Policy toward German Prisoners of War

15. Rebuildilng Utopia: The Reconstruction of Smolensk Oblast