"Unappreciated by most Western readers is the fact that World War II was decided in the east... in the Soviet Union... in the most titanic military campaign ever waged in the history of the world. By every measure of scale and intensity, the War in the East was the grandest and most horrible theater of the global war against the Axis. With this volume, the reader has (for the first time) a complete overview of this conflict accompanied by an extensive array of hard data available in no other single source."--Book Jacket.