A unique testimony from one of the great authors of the post-war period. The attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, marked the beginning of the end of the Hitler regime. More people died between Berlin and Moscow than on all other fronts of World War II. Walter Kempowski has woven documents from both Russian and German sides from that time into a moving collage in his single-volume work "Das Echolot - Barbarossa 41." The book thus creates a timeless mosaic of war, and its intensity is both touching and shocking at the same time.