Table of Contents

Part 1 Germany turns east 1939-1941: Ribbentrop, the Wilhemstrasse and the Nazi-Soviet Rapprochement, Chris Waddington; the Yugoslav coup d'etat and Barbarossa, Dusan Biber; British intelligence and Barbarossa, Sir Harry Hinsley; the 22nd June, 1941 - the German attack, the Soviet response, Col Gen Dmitri Volkogonev. Part 2 Strained alliances, flawed strategies: Allied strategy in the wake of Barbarossa, Gabriel Gorodetsky; Barbarossa and Soviet leadership - a recollection, Lieut-Gen Stephan Mikoyan; Barbarossa - the collapse of Stalin's diplomacy and strategy, A.N. Mertsalov; the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Soviet Union and Germany, John Chapman; Moscow 1941 - the turning point, Klaus Reinhardt. Part 3 Conflict, compromise, cost: Nazi crimes, Klaus Muller; wartime collaboration in the Soviet Union, Sergei Kudryashov; the cost - calculations and controversies, John Erickson.