Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-549) and index.
Contents
Unternehmen Barbarossa: conception, planning, and execution -- The Commissar Order: reflections on an enduring controversy -- Dance of the snakes: Soviet and German diplomacy, August 1939-June 1941 -- The Soviet intelligence assessment of German military intentions, 1939-1941 -- NKVD operations during Barbarossa, 1941-1942 -- 20th Panzer Division and the diary of Gefreiter H.C. Von Wiedebach-Nostitz -- The German invasion in Soviet-Russian war literature -- Viktor Suvorov, the Stalin attack thesis, and the start of World War II -- The legacy of Unternehmen Barbarossa.
