Название: Operation Barbarossa: The History of Nazi Germany's Invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1539836525
Год: 2016
Формат: MOBI/EPUB/PDF (conv)
Страниц: 94
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 6,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
Bibliography for further reading In the warm predawn darkness of June 22, 1941, 3 million men waited along a front hundreds of miles long, stretching from the Baltic coast of Poland to the Balkans. Ahead of them in the darkness lay the Soviet Union, its border guarded by millions of Red Army troops echeloned deep throughout the huge spaces of Russia. This massive gathering of Wehrmacht soldiers from Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and his allied states – notably Hungary and Romania – stood poised to carry out Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise attack against the country of his putative ally, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. At precisely 1:00 a.m. that morning, the radios of command and headquarter units all along the line crackled to life.