The completion of this work is the result of the author's utilization of all available German and Russian literature, as well as those combat diaries and documents of the committed troop units, that are available in German archives. Includes the siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and the Battle at Narva, Estonia as well as other battles engaged in the attack of and retreat from the Eastern Front. -- From the publisher.

Translated from the German by Joseph G. Welsh. Originally published as Herregruppe Nord : Friedberg : Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1966.

Preface -- The theater of war -- The deployment -- The attack -- The defense -- The retreat -- The sea -- The interior -- The surrender -- Appendixes. 1. German commanders -- 2. Organization of Army Group North -- 3. Rear area services of the Army Group North -- 4. Organization of Air Fleet 1 -- 5. Organization of the Navy in the Ost Sea area -- 6. Organization of the Red Army in the Northern sector -- 7. Organization of the Baltic Red Banner fleet on 22/6/1941 -- 8. Statistical data -- 9. The Reich Commissariat Ostland.