Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not worth it

I picked this book up looking for a good overview of Barbarossa with a lot of pictures. Well, there are a lot of pictures. However, if you want a good overview of the Operation, look elsewhere. There are almost no maps, so the author's narrative of events becomes very abstract for those who haven't memorized Russian geography. The narrative itself is not bad, but is rather dry. As for the pictures, which should be the crowning jewel of this book, there are almost none from the Russian perspective. The author's personal collection was used, and appears to be entirely German. The few pictures he inserts of Russians who are not not captured, shot, or blown up, come from elsewhere. The book should more appropriately be called "German Images of Barabarossa." I recommend Osprey's Ostfront for a more well-rounded, better written and visually appealing introduction to Barbarossa.