MATTHEW COOPERAnti-Communist feeling was widespread in the Soviet Union at the outbreak of World War II, and it is more than possible that Germany could have destroyed Soviet power and won the war if it had pacified the occupied eastern territories and harnessed that discontent for its own purposes. But Nazism contained within itself the seeds of its own defeat when the intransigence and brutality of its racial dogma unleashed against the German forces the largest scale guerrilla activity in the history of warfare.Set largely in the endless swamps and forests of Eastern Europe, this is the definitive history of one of the pivotal struggles of World War II — a story of action, counter-action, retaliation, and reprisal that involved some two million people. Witnessed from both sides of the rifle sights, it is a story of high heroism, cunning, bold leadership, endurance, and brutal butchery.[soviet World War II, Soviet WWII, Russia World war II, Soviet Union War, Germany war, history war, Nazi, Guerrilla warfare]