V sensatsionnoy i skandal'noy knige Marka Solonina po-novomu rassmatrivayetsya nachal'nyy period voyny mezhdu gitlerovskoy Germaniyey i stalinskim Sovetskim Soyuzom. Na osnove dannykh, izvlechennykh iz raneye zasekrechennykh dokumentov i materialov, a takzhe analiza nauchno-istoricheskoy i memuarnoy literatury avtor oprovergayet uzhe ustoyavshiyesya i novyye mify o prichinakh katastroficheskikh porazheniy Krasnoy Armii v pervyye mesyatsy voyny, dayet ob"yektivnuyu, glubokuyu argumentirovannuyu traktovku khoda voyennykh sobytiy. Pervostepennoye vnimaniye udeleno vliyaniyu "chelovecheskogo faktora". Kniga prednaznachena istorikam i vsem, kto interesuyetsya vtoroy mirovoy voynoy.