On Sunday morning June 22, 1941, Hitler launched the greatest land campaign in world history: Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. This began a period of conflict without match: total war, stupefying in its dimension, horrendous in its cruelty and harrowing in its degradation. This book illustrates every aspect of the Eastern Front campaigns,. from the early Blitzkrieg successes of the Nazis through the turning point of Stalingrad to the climactic fall of Berlin. It presents a panoramic view of of this war using previously unpublished photos from Russian collections, augmented by images from German archives. Not posed propaganda pictures but the viscera of life, death, survival, battle, homefront, friend and foe...