Hello everyone welcome back to warfare I'm your host James Rogers and in this episode we're looking at

Operation Barbarossa after all it is 80 years this year since Hitler double crosses Stalin tears up the Molotov Ribantrop

packed and sends six million Nazi troops towards the gates of Moscow. On their way

they commit their brutal scorched earth tactics that saw millions of

Soviet citizens massacred. That is a level of brutality that really is only paralleled

by Stalin's regrouping of the Red Army and sending a red tidal wave back at

Hitler driving them off the eastern front and of course through towards Berlin. To tell us all about this we have the Bafter Award winning

Stuart bins. He is responsible for those landmark documentaries that brought the

Second World War back to our TVs back to life.

Those in-color series like America at War, the Second World War in color, and Britain at war. That's the one that he got the

Bafter for. He's also the author of several fiction and non-fiction books, the

latest of which is Barbarossa, the bloodiest war in history. It is a remarkable book. I've had the

absolute pleasure of reading it. I would say it's one of the first that really

takes us into the personal stories behind that war on the Eastern Front, a story that's

told predominantly from the Soviet side, so a really important addition to the history.

So here he is, Stuart Binz on Operation Barbarossa. Hi Stuart, thanks so much for taking the time to come on the warfare podcast.

How you doing today?

I'm good, James.

Delighted to be on your podcast.

Well, thanks so much.

We're delighted to have you on.

I've been reading your new book and I find it absolutely fascinating but I've got to ask

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