Reprint. Originally published: New York : Morrow, 1965. With new introduction

"On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army had suffered a loss of seven million lives. Alan Clark's incisive analysis succeeds in explaining how a fighting force that in one two-month period lost two million men was nevertheless able to rally to defeat the Wehrmacht."--Page 4 of cover

Book 1. The "Eastern marshals." --

1.

State of the Wehrmacht. --

2.

Mother Russia. --

3.

Clash of arms. --

4.

First crisis. --

5.

Lötzen decision. --

6.

Leningrad: hypothesis and reality. --

7.

Slaughter in the Ukraine. --

8.

Start of the Moscow offensive. --

9.

Battle of Moscow. -- Book 2. Stalingrad. --

10.

Planning and preliminaries. --

11.

Wehrmacht at high tide. --

12.

Verdun on the Volga. --

13.

Entombment of the 6th army. --

14.

Advent of General von Manstein. -- Book 3. Zitadelle. --

15.

Crisis and recovery. --

16.

The "consolidation period." --

17.

Greatest tank battle in history. --

18.

Aftermath. -- Book 4. Nemesis. --

19.

"The floodgates are creaking." --

20.

Eastern Europe changes hands. --

21.

Black January. --

22.

Fall of Berlin