Stalin's Secret War
Subtitle: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-1945 (Modern War Studies)
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780700612796
Subjects: Espionage & secret services; European history: Second World War; Military intelligence; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; History; History - Military / War; Soviet Union; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Germany; Russia; Military - Strategy; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Military - World War II; Deception; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: At 0330 hours on Sunday morning, 22 June 1941, the "world held its breath" as the Nazis began their bloody 1,200 mile march into European Russia, only hours after the last freight trains delivered the final load of raw materials to Germany, the last vestiges of the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed in 1939.