I still remember the day the temperature dropped to minus 40, and our tanks wouldn’t start. We had marched all the way to the gates of Moscow, believing we would be home for Christmas, but the mud…
The war had been going badly for the Allies. Germany had swept through Western Europe with terrifying speed, and by the summer of 1941, Hitler’s attention turned east—not because of any real threat, but because he had always planned to destroy the Soviet Union. A non-aggression pact signed in 1939 meant nothing to him; it … Read more