Barbarossa: The Russian German Conflict 1941-45 - Alan Clark

'At dawn on Midsummer's Day, 1941, the Wehrmacht rolled forward across the Soviet frontier. Barbarossa - the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany - had begun: a head-on conflict between two totalitarian systems, two tyrants, that was to lead to the fiercest, most potracted and bloodiest fighting of the Second World War.' Before Alan Clark became best known for his political diaries and stint as a Tory MP, he was a military historian and wrote, amongst other other works, 'Barbarossa', an epic account of the 1941-1945 conflict between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. Written in 1965, my copy is 464 pages long and includes a preface by Clark ...  Read the complete review