About the Author

Jeff Rutherford is Associate Professor of History at Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia. In addition to publishing many articles on the German army and the war on the Eastern Front, he is co-editor, with Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, of Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide and Radicalization and the author of Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantrys War, 1941-1944.

Adrian Wettstein is Senior Academic Adviser at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich (MILAK). He has published a number of articles on the German army in the Second World War, focusing in particular on urban warfare, and he has also written on the French military mind before the First World War. He is the author of Die Wehrmacht im Stadtkampf 1939-1942.