![]() ![]() No one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France and Poland. ![]() Antony Beevor's thoughtfully researched compendium recalls this epic struggle for Stalingrad. The second was the ill-conceived Operation Barbarossa-an invasion of Russia that was supposed to take the German army to the gates of Moscow. ![]() Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War: The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision to launch a major invasion of Britain, whose army was unprepared for the force of blitzkrieg warfare. ![]()
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