Operation Barbarossa: Countdown (Part 4)
WWII historian, author of Normandy '44, Sicily '43 and The Savage Storm
Essential · Edition 2026-07-03
Holland and Murray reach the final countdown to 22 June 1941 — Hitler's shift from conquest to extermination as the operational aim, the intelligence warnings Stalin received and ignored, and the sheer scale of panzer mobilisation for the invasion. Holland is particularly good on how the ideological radicalisation of Barbarossa's war aims reshaped the operational planning, and Murray keeps pushing on the logistics and mechanisation gaps that would haunt the Wehrmacht within weeks. Part 4 of a series that's building into one of We Have Ways' strongest runs.
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