Enemy in the East

ISBN: 9781780768298 出版年：2014 页码：338 Rolf-Dieter Muller Bloomsbury Publishing

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to one of tcampaigns of World War II: of the estimated 70 million people who died in World War II, over 30 milliEastern Front. Although it has previousthat the campaign was a pre-emptive strike, in fact, Hitler had been planning a war of intervention against the USSR ever since he came to power in 1933. Using previously unseen sources, acclaimed military historian Rolf-Dieter Muller shoand the Wehrmacht had begun to negotiaand had even considered an alliance with Japan soon after taking power. Despite the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, at the declaration of war in September 1939, military engagement with the Red Army was still a very real and imminent possibility. In this book, Muller takes us behind the scenes of the Wehrmacht High Command, providing a fascinating insight into an unknown story of World War II.