The Eastern Front
The largest land war ever fought — four years, two thousand kilometres of front, and machines built in their tens of thousands to survive it.
On 22 June 1941 Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in military history, across a front that stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The panzers that had conquered Western Europe in weeks met something new within days: the T-34 and the KV, tanks their guns struggled to kill — and a country that would trade space, blood and machines on a scale no planner had imagined.
What followed was the war that decided the war: Moscow in the snow, Stalingrad street by street, the greatest tank battle in history at Kursk in July 1943, and the two-year drive that ended in Berlin. It was fought by the most-produced armoured vehicles and aircraft ever built, on both sides — and most of them are in this archive.
