The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi–Soviet War in American Popular Culture by Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies, is a historical analysis of the post-war myth of the "Clean Wehrmacht", the negat
Book cover of The Myth of the Eastern Front; image adopted from cover art of the 1987 wargame The Last Victory: Von Manstein's Backhand Blow, February–March 1943, which depicts the Third Battle of Kharkov
US propaganda poster, 1942: Photo of smiling Russian soldier. US media also played a key role in shaping a positive image of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Nazi propaganda poster in Ukrainian; the headline reads: "German soldier is fighting for Europe". According to the introduction, the book examines, in part, the "romantic heroicization of the German army fighting to save Europe from a rapacious Communism".
Robert M. Citino
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Robert M. Citino is an American military historian and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National WWII Museum. He is an authority on modern German military history, with an emphasis on
The Myth of the Eastern Front
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Citino in 2009