The Raging Bear

For two days, in excess of 4 million Axis soldiers and 600,000 motor vehicles had amassed themselves within the dark woods along a two-thousand mile stretch of the Soviet Union frontier. They had begun to arrive during the night of June 19 to the twentieth, 1941. Tanks lay silent within the cover of the forest, jerrycans lining their hulls and turrets, even carrying whole trailers full of gasoline for the long battle that would be signaled to begin in exactly two days...