Volume 54, Number 16 · October 25, 2007
How Hitler Could Have Won
By Anne Applebaum
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
by Andrew Nagorski
Simon and Schuster, 366 pp., $27.00
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War
by Rodric Braithwaite
Knopf, 398 pp., $30.00
Hitler invaded the Soviet Union at 0400 hours on June 22, 1941. By June 23, the Wehrmacht had destroyed the entire Soviet air force. By June 26, the Soviet commander of the Western front had lost radio contact with Moscow. By June 28, German troops had entered Minsk, the capital of Soviet Belarus. And on the morning of June 29—just a week into the invasion—Stalin failed to appear in the Kremlin.
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