22 June 1941 changed the direction of the Second World War. It also changed the direction of human history. Unleashing a massive, three-pronged assault into Sov

The story of the world’s largest ever invasion through the voices of the men – and women – who witnessed it first-hand.

In the spring of 1941, having abandoned his plans to invade Great Britain, Hitler turned the might of his military forces on to Stalin's Soviet Russia. The Germ

America's foremost expert on Russian military history has written the first book in English on one of the great battles on the Eastern front during World War II

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan for invading the Soviet Union, has by now become a familiar tale of overreach, with the Germans blinded to their coming defe