Russia reveals secrets from World War II Archives material throws new light on

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: February 22, 2004| Author: Benjamin Schwarz - THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY | Copyright information

A plucky Britain refusing to bow to the Luftwaffe's blitz, Patton and Rommel dueling in the North African desert, theD-Day invasion and the Battle of the Bulge -- these tend to dominate American's conception of the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany.

But as important as the episodes were, military historians have always known that the main scene of the Nazis' downfall was the Eastern Front, which claimed 80 percent of all German military casualties in the war.

The four-year conflict...

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