All-Time Classic Battle Records: The Attack on the Soviet Union

Author: Elena D'Errico (Original), Lin Ding (Translated)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The fog of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact obscured Stalin's vision, as Hitler's million-strong army advanced menacingly towards Soviet territory. The Red Army was caught off guard and suffered a full-scale collapse.
"I have a real great mission in life—to settle accounts with Bolshevism." — Adolf Hitler, Germany
"You see how they are trying to scare us with the Germans; and how we are made into monsters to scare the Germans. This is obviously an attempt to incite us to fight each other." — Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union
"In 1940, when Adolf Hitler decided to remove the Soviet Union as a political and military factor from Europe, this decisive battle rapidly spread from Europe to become a world war, becoming the most brutal and savage in modern warfare history." — Albert Seaton, British Historian
"The 'Barbarossa' Plan, the biggest deception in the history of world war. The largest 'blitzkrieg' of World War II. The biggest blow the German army has ever faced since World War II. Stalin should have known that Hitler was a person he could never do business with. Although he made what seemed like the only wise choice at the time, and knew that war was inevitable, he did not expect that Hitler was so skilled at feigning one path while secretly taking another. In a short time, he successfully directed the biggest strategic deception in history and carried out one after another near-perfect annihilation campaigns.
Time and space shift, let us dispel the mists of history. That largest, most brutal, and savage 'blitzkrieg' is unfolding with heart-stopping intensity. Why did the side that frequently won gradually lose the favor of the goddess of victory? Why did the immense power of steel fail to change the fate of the Third Reich's military edifice collapsing from within? These questions will be answered one by one in this book.