Germany in Stalin's Crosshairs: The Red Army's Entry into the Second World War, and the Wehrmacht's Actions in 1941
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Book Overview For generations, Operation Barbarossa has been understood as a unilateral act of German aggression: a surprise invasion driven by ideolog...
For generations, Operation Barbarossa has been understood as a unilateral act of German aggression: a surprise invasion driven by ideology, unleashed against an unprepared Soviet Union. But this narrative leaves critical questions unanswered-and ignores a growing body of evidence pointing in another direction.
Building upon the controversial thesis first advanced by Viktor Suvorov in Icebreaker in 1989, Germany in Stalin's Crosshairs takes the argument even further. Drawing on thousands of Soviet military documents, operational plans, and archival sources, the book presents a stark and unsettling conclusion: Since 1940 at the latest, Stalin was not preparing for defense, but for a massive offensive aimed at Germany and Western Europe.
Through a systematic examination of Red Army mobilization, forward deployment, war production, and strategic planning, the author - General Bernd Schwipper, a former East German career officer, who is fluent in Russian - reveals a pattern that challenges decades of historical consensus. What emerges is not a passive Soviet Union caught off guard, but a state poised for war, and on the verge of striking first.
Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to present Bernd Schwipper's groundbreaking book, Germany in Stalin's Crosshairs, for the first time in English. Bold, meticulously documented, and impossible to ignore, this book is a direct challenge to the foundations of mainstream World War II historiography.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Publisher: INDEPENDENT CAT | ISBN: 9798892520
FormatPaperback
ISBN9798892520
EAN9798892520676
PublisherINDEPENDENT CAT
Publication Date2026-04-20
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.81 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height1.38 Inches
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