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Article: Hitler's fatal blunders; BOOKS.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2009
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Byline: Simon Griffith
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Between September 1939 and June 1940, the German army won a series of spectacular victories unparalleled since the era of Napoleon. When, the next year, the order was given for the invasion of the Soviet Union, it looked as if Hitler would go one better than Napoleon and bring Russia to her knees.
Most Western observers privately agreed with Hitler's assertion that he had 'only to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come tumbling down', but in the event the Soviets held on, and it was ...