In the third segment of Ken Weiler's discussion of his book, he describes the first year of the German 22 June 1941 invasion of Soviet Russia. He describes the German Blitzkrieg advances into Belorussia, Ukraine and the occupied Baltic States and the immense quantities of captured Red Army soldiers and equipment. The unprecedented speed of the German advance brings their now exhausted armies to the gates of Moscow when the feared Russian winter descends upon the invader and defender alike. The weather, Red Army reinforcements from Siberia, from far eastern Soviet Russia, launch a counter-attack against the stretched logistical supply lines and German exhaustion, throw the German army back some 100 to 150 miles and stuns the heretofore undefeated German army handing it its first defeat.

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