The book offered to your attention is compiled on the basis of materials from the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper covering little-known pages of World War II, while a special place is paid to the defense of Moscow. Readers will learn - why Hitler did not attack the USSR in May 1941, whether the collapse of the German operation "Typhoon" was associated with the refusal to enter the war in Japan. Famous historians set out their vision of the events of the Great Patriotic War.