Аннотация
Brian Garfield
The Romanov succession
Few events occur at the right time, and many do not occur at all; it is the proper function of the historian to correct these faults.
— Herodotus
PART ONE:
July-August 1941
HITLER ATTACKS RUSSIA
Moscow, June 22, 1941-Germany today invaded Soviet Russia.
Just after midnight this morning, Nazi bombers attacked Soviet defense installations along a 2,000-mile front from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Veteran German armies, estimated at over 3,000,000 men, rolled through the “Polish Corridor,” spearheaded by a blitz of German armor and dive-bomber destruction.
Preliminary reports from the field are fragmentary but it appears the Russians have been caught napping, lulled by the Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact signed 21 months ago. Resistance to the Nazi invasio...
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