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Copyright 2021 Stewart Binns

The right of Stewart Binns to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Apart from any use permitted under UK copyright law, this publication may only be reproduced, stored, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, with prior permission in writing of the publishers or, in the case of reprographic production, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency.

First published in 2021 by WILDFIRE

an imprint of HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP

First published as an Ebook in Great Britain by WILDFIRE

an imprint of HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP in 2021

Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library

Cover photograph: Vladimir Grebnev/RIA Novosti/Topfoto. Colourist: Marina Amaral. Cover design by Jack Storey for Headline Publishing Group.

eISBN: 978 1 4722 7627 8

Map Illustrations Tim Peters

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CONTENTS

Stewart Binns began his professional life as an academic before becoming a teacher and a soldier. Later in life, he trained at the BBC and began a successful career in television, during which he won many awards including a BAFTA for his in-colour documentary series, Britain at War. Stewart has since published several fiction and non-fiction books. Barbarossa is his thirteenth book and sixth work of non-fiction.

This is a truly astounding book, packed with searing hitherto-unpublished testimony about what it was like to endure, and ultimately defeat, the most formidable invasion in the history of mankind
Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

My grandfather was a great admirer of the courage and resolve of the Red Army and the people of Eastern Europe. This extraordinary book, with its harrowing detail and inspirational stories, explains why
Celia Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill

You can feel the authors passion for the period and the people on every page; an original and deeply moving perspective
Alastair Campbell

Stewart Binns graphic account of the Eastern Front is a haunting reminder that war is both murderous and destructive and that it is always civilians who will suffer the most
General Sir Michael Rose

A masterful narrative, deeply enriched by extraordinary research and a profound analysis of the soul of Russia
Nick Hewer

NON-FICTION

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The Second World War in Colour

Britain at War in Colour

America at War in Colour

British Empire in Colour

FICTION

Conquest The Making of England I

Crusade The Making of England II

Anarchy The Making of England III

Lionheart The Making of England IV

1914 The Shadow of War Great War I

1915 The Darkness and the Thunder Great War II

Betrayal

On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched an attack on the Soviet Union by almost four million men of Nazi Germanys brutal war machine.

Operation Barbarossa led to the bloodiest military campaign mankind has ever known. The statistics of death and destruction are almost impossible to believe. The cruelty, suffering and destitution it wrought are unimaginable... over forty million people lost their lives.

Yet, the real story of the Eastern Front is still not truly understood outside of Germany and Eastern Europe. Little is known of those who suffered in the horror of Hitlers War of Annihilation the soldiers and civilians of Eastern Europe who fought and died trying to save their homelands and their loved ones.

In Barbarossa , Stewart Binns tells the story of how they lived and survived, and how, once the tide had turned, they exacted an appalling revenge on the Nazi aggressors. This is the story of the bloodiest war in history.

To the millions of East Europeans of many nationalities who stood in the way of the most brutal assault in modern history.

With thanks:

I would like to thank Cathie Arrington of Headline for her invaluable expertise in gathering the photographic imagery for Barbarossa, and my friend Alex Kalinin, who unearthed many important routes to discovering outstanding images in the Russian archives.

With Joseph Stalin looking over his shoulder, Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, signs the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Moscow, 23 August 1939. (Niday Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo)

The horrific devastation of Barbarossa. Countless villages are destroyed as the Wehrmacht advances into the Soviet Union in the summer and autumn of 1941. (Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo)

With men of the German Einsatzgruppe A looking on, an unnamed Lithuanian nationalist uses a club to beat to death his fellow Jewish citizens in Kaunas, Lithuania, June 1941. The identity of the murderer has never been established definitively, or whether he was the infamous Death Dealer of Kaunas. The image is thought to have been captured by Wehrmacht photographer, Wilhelm Gunsilius. It may well be a scene from the notorious Lietkis Garage Massacre. (Bundesarkiv. B 162 Bild-04145)

Red Army soldiers captured by the Wehrmacht are burying their dead, Bialystok, Belarus, July 1941. (INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo)

The ravine of Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine, where 33,771 Jews are murdered in a single operation by Einsatzgruppe C and Ukrainian collaborators, 2930 September 1941. (CPA Media Pte Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

The execution of partisan HERO of the Soviet Union, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, in the village of Petrishchevo, 55 miles west of Moscow, 29 November 1941. Before her execution she was brutally tortured, but never revealed any information. After her death, her body was put on public display and mutilated. (ITAR-TASS News Agency / Alamy Stock Photo)

A German victim of the Red Armys General Winter, frozen in the snow, January 1942. (mccool/ Alamy Stock Photo)

Burying the dead, the shocking reality of the Siege of Leningrad, the Volkovo Cemetery, 3 February 1942. (ITAR-TASS News Agency / Alamy Stock Photo)

A child dead from starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland. There is no date for the image, but it is likely to have been taken in early 1942. (ITAR-TASS News Agency / Alamy Stock Photo)

Red Army riflemen of Colonel General Alexander Rodimtsevs 13th Guards Rifle Division advance through the rubble of Stalingrad, 1618 September 1942. (akg-images / Alamy Stock Photo)

Under the cover of Soviet Air Force Ilyushin II-2 ground attack aircraft, T34 tanks advance during the Battle of Kursk, July 1943. (ITAR-TASS News Agency / Alamy Stock Photo)

A Red Army nurse helps a wounded soldier at the front. Neither a date nor place are recorded. (dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo)

Citizens of Odessa greet a Red Army cavalryman of General Vasili Chuikovs Eighth Guards Army after the citys liberation, 10 April 1944. (SPUTNIK / Alamy Stock Photo)

A Red Army tank commander leans over the barbed wire of a German concentration camp to greet a prisoner. The camp is not named, and the only date given, is April 1945. However, the date suggests that it is Ravensbrck, 56 miles north of Berlin, which was liberated on 30 April. Although the camp was a womens camp, there were a number of male inmates. (akg-images / Alamy Stock Photo)

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