Richard Hargreaves has been a journalist for 30 years, ten of them in regional newspapers. Since 2000 he has almost exclusively covered the Royal Navy and naval affairs and was an official UK war correspondent in Iraq, 2003. He currently works for the Royal Navy as a press officer/writer and sub editor of its monthly magazine Navy News. He has had three books published to date (Germans in Normandy, 2006; Blitzkrieg Unleashed, 2008; Hitler’s Final Fortress, 2011) which are all still in print.

The pace never lets up in this epic story, with its vast canvas. It is vividly told and finely detailed … plunging the reader into the spectacular but horrifying vortex of Operation Barbarossa.

• List of illustrations and mapsIntroductionChapter 1: One More BlitzkriegChapter 2: The Gates of Hell Opened in Front of UsChapter 3: To LeningradChapter 4: To MoscowChapter 5: To KievChapter 6: Victory DeniedEpilogue: Barbarossa’s Long ShadowNotesBibliographyIndex

Richard Hargreaves has been a journalist for 30 years, ten of them in regional newspapers. Since 2000 he has almost exclusively covered the Royal Navy and naval affairs and was an official UK war correspondent in Iraq, 2003. He currently works for the Royal Navy as a press officer/writer and sub editor of its monthly magazine Navy News. He has had three books published to date (Germans in Normandy, 2006; Blitzkrieg Unleashed, 2008; Hitler’s Final Fortress, 2011) which are all still in print.

The pace never lets up in this epic story, with its vast canvas. It is vividly told and finely detailed … plunging the reader into the spectacular but horrifying vortex of Operation Barbarossa.

• List of illustrations and mapsIntroductionChapter 1: One More BlitzkriegChapter 2: The Gates of Hell Opened in Front of UsChapter 3: To LeningradChapter 4: To MoscowChapter 5: To KievChapter 6: Victory DeniedEpilogue: Barbarossa’s Long ShadowNotesBibliographyIndex

Richard Hargreaves has been a journalist for 30 years, ten of them in regional newspapers. Since 2000 he has almost exclusively covered the Royal Navy and naval affairs and was an official UK war correspondent in Iraq, 2003. He currently works for the Royal Navy as a press officer/writer and sub editor of its monthly magazine Navy News. He has had three books published to date (Germans in Normandy, 2006; Blitzkrieg Unleashed, 2008; Hitler’s Final Fortress, 2011) which are all still in print.

The pace never lets up in this epic story, with its vast canvas. It is vividly told and finely detailed … plunging the reader into the spectacular but horrifying vortex of Operation Barbarossa.

• List of illustrations and mapsIntroductionChapter 1: One More BlitzkriegChapter 2: The Gates of Hell Opened in Front of UsChapter 3: To LeningradChapter 4: To MoscowChapter 5: To KievChapter 6: Victory DeniedEpilogue: Barbarossa’s Long ShadowNotesBibliographyIndex