The Barbarossa Secret

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In August 1939, Germany signed a mutual non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, then led by Joseph Stalin, in which the two nations agreed not to take military action against each other for a period of 10 years. Rich, Norman (1973). Hitler's War Aims: Ideology, the Nazi State, and the Course of Expansion. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0233964768.

It follows a period of history that has been at best not explained and at worst covered up. It traces the attempts by Nazi Germany to infiltrate British society before the war and the influence that they managed to establish during the war. Adolf Hitler never wanted to go war with Britain - he considered Germany and Britain natural allies. His ambition was to destroy the “barbarians” in the Russian regime, which resulted in the biggest land-based operation in history: the invasion of Russia or Operation Barbarossa. After Kiev, the Red Army no longer outnumbered the Germans and there were no more trained reserves directly available. To defend Moscow, Stalin could field 800,000 men in 83 divisions, but no more than 25 divisions were fully effective. Operation Typhoon, the drive to Moscow, began on 30 September 1941. [290] [291] In front of Army Group Centre was a series of elaborate defence lines, the first centred on Vyazma and the second on Mozhaysk. [265] Russian peasants began fleeing ahead of the advancing German units, burning their harvested crops, driving their cattle away, and destroying buildings in their villages as part of a scorched-earth policy designed to deny to the Nazi war machine needed supplies and foodstuffs. [292] Baudot, Marcel; Bernard, Henri; Foot, Michael R.D.; Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf, eds. (1989). The Historical Encyclopedia of World War II. New York and Oxford: Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-671-24277-0.Roberts, Geoffrey (2006). Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11204-7. As a result of this sort of propaganda, the majority of the Wehrmacht Heer officers and soldiers tended to regard the war less strategically and more in Nazi terms, seeing their Soviet opponents as nothing but sub-human trash deserving to be trampled upon. [10] One German soldier wrote home to his father on August 4, 1941 that:

Chapoutot, Johann (2018). The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi. Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-67466-043-4. Germany was unfairly treated by the Treaty of Versaille which left space for the Nazi party to seize hold.a b c Evans, Richard J. (1989). In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape the Nazi Past. New York: Pantheon. p. 59. ISBN 0-394-57686-1. One book I found incredibly useful for my book was the biography of Lord Louis Mountbatten. Do you have any more historical novels in the works? Wette, Wolfram (2007). The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674025776.

Hitler received the final military plans for the invasion on 5 December 1940, which the German High Command had been working on since July 1940 under the codename "Operation Otto". Upon reviewing the plans, Hitler formally committed Germany to the invasion when he issued Führer Directive 21 on 18 December 1940, where he outlined the precise manner in which the operation was to be carried out. [81] Hitler also renamed the operation to Barbarossa in honor of medieval Emperor Friedrich I of the Holy Roman Empire, a leader of the Third Crusade in the 12th century. [82] The Barbarossa Decree, issued by Hitler on 30 March 1941, supplemented the Directive by decreeing that the war against the Soviet Union would be one of annihilation and legally sanctioned the eradication of all Communist political leaders and intellectual elites in Eastern Europe. [83] The invasion was tentatively set for May 1941, but it was delayed for over a month to allow for further preparations and possibly better weather. [84] Citino, Robert (2021). "Operation Barbarossa: The Biggest of All Time (June 18, 2021)". The National WWII Museum . Retrieved 29 December 2022. Glantz, David; House, Jonathan (2015). When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. Vol.Revised and Expanded Edition. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-70062-121-7. Roberts, Andrew (2011). The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06122-860-5.

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Murray, Williamson; Millett, Allan R. (2000). A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00163-3. Glantz, David (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700617890. Christopher’s debut novel, ‘The Covenant’ was published in 2021. This tells an epic story, spanning half a century of political and historical turmoil, of a promise given in love, and tested by life. Is success worthy of the price it exacts? Weeks, Albert (2002). Stalin's Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939–1941. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-2191-9.