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The statistics of death and destruction are almost impossible to believe. The cruelty, suffering, and destitution it wrought are unimaginable... over forty million people lost their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet, the real story of the Eastern Front is still not truly understood outside of Germany and Eastern Europe. Little is known of those who suffered in the horror of Hitler's 'War of Annihilation' — the soldiers and civilians of Eastern Europe who fought and died trying to save their homelands and their loved ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBarbarossa\u003c\/i\u003e, Stewart Binns tells the story of how they lived and survived, and how, once the tide had turned, they exacted an appalling revenge on the Nazi aggressors. 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