In the summer of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his senior generals convinced themselves that they could take on and defeat the Soviet Union. Foolishly, they thought in a swift campaign they could smash the Red Army and force Stalin to sue for peace, despite dire warnings that Stalin was amassing a reserve army of more than 1 million men on the Volga. The end result would tear the German forces apart. This major reassessment casts new light on the brutal...
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