Stalin in the summer of forty -first

The novel shows the activities of Stalin, forced to take command of the Red Army, and then the supreme main command, in the most difficult and dramatic period of the history of our Motherland - the first months since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Despite the fact that it was possible to accurately establish the day and even the hour of the German invasion, as well as send to the border military districts the secret directive of the General Staff of June 18, 1941 on bringing troops to combat readiness, there was a disaster that led to general failures. The superiority in tanks, aviation, artillery, created thanks to the selfless work of the Soviet people, was lost due to the fault of a number of military leaders, and above all, the general of the army of Pavlov, under the command of which the Western Front collapsed within a week