About This Book
In June of 1941, two years after signing a on-Aggression Pact, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Within six months, the Russians lost a thousand miles and three million men--and in, 1942, the relentless German Wehrmacht swept into Stalin's namesake city, Stalingrad. Combat seethed in the city streets, ten thousand Soviet soldiers died in one day fighting for a single hill.
Now, in mid-September 1942, Hitler orders a final offensive' to capture Stalingrad. Yet on October 7t, the German army pauses. As General von Richthofen, commander of the Luftwaffe, writes in his diary: "Absolute quiet at Stalingrad."
After months of combat, a sudden silence rises on the eastern front.
But why?
tells the story of an American airman, a Russian major, and a Swiss journalist in a crucial race against time during this eerie quiet on the battlefield. In n unlikely alliance they have united to track down the one document that could stop negotiations between Germany and Russia for another Non-Aggression Pact--a truce that would open the floodgates for German domination of the Western world.
Unfortunately, they're not the only ones aware of the document's importance, and time is running out.
