Open this book and read a few pages - and you will understand that you are not holding in your hands an "alternative" history of World War II, not another fantasy on the topic "but if...." Before you is a book about why the world catastrophe of 1939-1945 actually occurred, who really conceived and unleashed it, why the events of that Great War developed in this way and not otherwise. This book will answer most of the difficult questions about the history of World War II - and, most importantly, on its pages you will find the final answer to the most painful question for all of us, residents of the former Soviet Union,: "Why did Hitler attack the USSR?" History repeats itself, and the events of the past turn out to be very instructive for today's Russia.