Fantastic listen. It will change everything that you've thought about the Eastern Front of WWII. It sheds great insight into the minds of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the war of annihilation that they fought against one another. It takes an extremely complicated subject and distills it into an understandable narrative. John Mosier leaves no stone unturned—from the wicked mindsets of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin to the socio-political parameters of National Socialism and Bolshevik Communism, from the perspectives of Wehrmacht Generals to Red Army Generals, from the soldiers in the field to a bird's eye view from above. It seamlessly transitions between macroscopic and microscopic perspectives of the whole Eastern Front. You can almost hear Leo Tolstoy—War and Peace—whispering through the narrative. The voice of Michael Prichard is great, but the audio quality leaves a little to be desired. If you're looking for a cleaner audio, Audible.com had a better quality edition, but you will have to pay more. Overall, very good. I would definitely recommend it to WWII nerds.

Without a doubt, John Mosier's books reveal a depth of knowledge and detail that most histories overlook. The conclusions he reaches are better than almost all books I've read. This is really an informative book. You may end up saying, "Where has this information been before?"

Awesome listen and well researched. Clearly the narrative has been driven by Stalinist propaganda and only now is history being right sized and corrected. The Soviet's were teetering on the brink for much of 1942 and 1943 and the fallacy of their unlimited resources is finally revealed for the lie it was.The narrator has one of those voices - one that is mellow yet carries an informed and interesting tone.WW2 history buffs must read this!