The German Army’s Chief of Staff Franz Halder’s Diary of the 1941 Russia Campaign

This revealing book has presented the most important and illuminating exerts from the diary of German Army Chief of Staff Franz Halder during Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941, Operation Barbarossa.

The highly-detailed Halder diary has revealed aspects of the war in Russia that are little-known to many historians to this day. Even more, the Halder diary has shown the extent of how German Army operations were incessantly interfered and meddled with by Adolf Hitler to the point that this was one of the forgotten reasons why the Wehrmacht failed in the all-important Russian Campaign of 1941.