The story of the world’s largest ever invasion through the voices of the men – and women – who witnessed it first-hand.

The story of the world's largest ever invasion through the voices of the men - and women - who witnessed it first-hand.

‘We weren’t afraid of the Allies as soldiers, but we were afraid of their materiel – it was going to be men versus machines.’

Nazi Germany’s assault on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Operation Barbarossa, was the largest invasion in history. Almost 3.5 million men smashed in

22 June 1941 changed the direction of the Second World War. It also changed the direction of human history. Unleashing a massive, three-pronged assault into Sov