Alan Clark vividly narrates the course of the dramatic and brutal war between the German and Russians on the Eastern Front during World War II. From the invasion of Russia mounted on Midsummer's Day 1941 and the German Army's advance to Moscow, to the terrible turning point of Stalingrad and the eventual defeat of the Nazis at the fall of Berlin after the hard years of fighting and advance by the Red Army, this is epic history narrated by a militray historian, diarist and politician.