Along the entire Soviet frontier, eighteen hundred miles in length, the greatest army in history was crouched in the shadows. Infantry, gunners, drivers, mechanics; all were watching and waiting. More than three million battle-hardened troops of the German Wehrmacht were on the highest alert, having just received news that Operation Barbarossa was to be launched that very night. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union was poised to begin.
- From The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War by Giles Milton
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