Enemy in the East

Rolf-Dieter Muller is Professor of Military History at Humboldt University, Berlin; Scientific Director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Institute in Potsdam; and Coordinator of the 'The German Reich and the Second World War' project. He is the author of numerous publications on World War II including The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers (I.B.Tauris).

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionGermany and its Neighbours in the EastA War of Intervention against the Soviet Union?A Turning Point in German-Polish RelationsPreparations for War in the EastConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

The Unknown Eastern Front demonstrates that history - especially of a highly sensitive issue like this one - is rarely about neat binary categories of black and white, good and evil.' Roger Moorhouse, TLS 'In lifting the veil with which history has shrouded these men, Muller - has opened up a new vista on a largely forgotten, and sometimes deliberately neglected, but crucial aspect of recent history.' Nigel Jones, Spectator 'The Unknown Eastern Front demonstrates that history - especially of a highly sensitive issue like this one - is rarely about neat binary categories of black and white, good and evil.'Roger Moorhouse, TLS 'In lifting the veil with which history has shrouded these men, Muller - has opened up a new vista on a largely forgotten, and sometimes deliberately neglected, but crucial aspect of recent history.'Nigel Jones, Spectator ' - this is an important subject - [Muller] supplies full and useful detail on the contribution of all the different peoples who participated, with information on the numbers of soldiers and the tasks they were expected to fulfill.' Richard Overy, History Today 'A definitive work.' Die Welt; 'Mr. Muller's achievement is not only to explain Hitler's strategic thinking but also to debunk the myth of him as a master of Machiavellian deception' - Brendan Simms, The Wall Street Journal