Bring History to Life Collections Magazine

26 September 2024

History’s largest campaign When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, he opened the longest front in history as 3.7 million soldiers advanced east along a 1,800-kilometre line. The Luftwaffe and Panzer tanks spearheaded Operation Barbarossa, which at first provided another textbook example of the effectiveness of the German blitzkrieg. But just ahead of Leningrad and Moscow, the advance stopped. At the same time, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor prompted the United States to join what was now an all-out world war. Follow the greatest dramas of WWII from start to finish.