James Edwards hosts Taylor Young and Hans Vogel to dissect Bernd Schwipper's "Germany and Stalin's Crosshairs," a 571-page work arguing Operation Barbarossa was a preemptive strike against Stalin's planned 1940 invasion of Europe. Citing definitive Russian archival sources, the trio challenges mainstream historiography by exposing alleged Soviet mobilization near borders and airfield placements, asserting this evidence surpasses Viktor Suvorov's earlier claims. Ultimately, this translation forces historians to confront or disqualify themselves regarding WWII origins, shifting the narrative from German aggression to Soviet strategic intent while correcting prior edition errors. [Automatically generated summary]
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Bringing Back Soviet Archival Sources00:15:07
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The last show of each month, we traditionally feature Antelope Hill Publishing and one of their contributors, or a member of their editorial board, or one of their books, something to do with the great work they are always doing there, and new stuff is happening all the time.
Now, I know you're asking, well, If you do that the last week of every month, then why are you doing it tonight, the first week in May?
Well, as I said, we have to get a little bit creative with our schedule during March and April, but we are settling back into business as usual.
And with that having been said, and summer coming up pretty soon, let's get some good books in your hand for that summertime reading.
And to help you do just that is our friend Taylor Young from Antelope Hill Publishing.
Taylor, been a few weeks since we last talked on the air.
How are you?
Well, hello.
I'm doing very well, and I hope you guys are.
All are as well, and great to be on here as always.
Well, it's great to have you, and I am particularly excited about the books we're going to be talking about this hour.
I mean, there is something timeless about World War II history that is just like catnip to me and to so many of our listeners, and undoubtedly, you're readers, or you wouldn't continue to put forth titles that deal with the subject.
But World War II history, particularly from Germany's perspective, is something that is always a hit.
On this program, and you've got a couple of selections.
The first one that we'll be talking about is Germany and Stalin's Crosshairs.
I'll read the synopsis of this book in just a moment, but I want to let you take the first crack at it.
Sure.
Well, you know, very often when I'm on the show here talking about a book, you'll ask me about the kind of history of us publishing it.
And usually I don't have too much to say, unfortunately, but for this one, I can give a little bit more of a background to.
The work and how we came to publish it.
So, it's written originally in German, I believe, by this man named Bernd Schwipper, who was an officer in the East German military, you know, back when East Germany was a thing.
Born in 1941, grew up in East Germany, became a career officer, earned two advanced degrees in military science and a doctorate.
And He was the youngest major general in the East German army.
And then East Germany ended, and East and West Germany were reunited, and he was let go.
That was, I believe, the end of his military career.
So, he started to investigate the German Russian War, as it's called in the book, which is to say, specifically, the part of World War II that deals with Operation Barbarossa and the war between National Socialist Germany and Stalin.
And yeah, so this is his analysis of it, which is maybe go into a little.
A bit later, but taken primarily from Russian archival sources and a lot of other sources.
And essentially, the thesis of the book is that the evidence from the actions of the Red Army and their military buildup and the general strategic posture that they were taking indicates that Stalin had long been planning to attack Hitler, to attack the Germans.
And so Germany's Operation Barbarossa was a preemptive attack.
Which, you know, at this point, this is something that's kind of getting a little bit more leeway, this idea, than it used to, certainly academically speaking.
But there's still a huge gap in terms of historical and academic works on this subject, and specifically ones that are making this argument.
Book specifically, or the author is specifically building off of a book called Icebreaker, which was written by a Russian in 1989, which also made the same argument and is one of the few kind of major works that's making this argument.
So that's where it fits into kind of the historical chronology and the historical material on World War II.
And we were.
Contacted for this by.
So there's two guys that we were working for on this, and they had done the work of translating this book into English.
And so they were looking around for what to do with the published English work, and they found our publishing house and essentially were happy to find it.
And so they contacted us about publishing the book, and that's kind of how we got here.
So that's it for me for this.
Well, that is again an example, and we talk about it all the time when we are featuring Antelope Hill titles.
Is this another book that was previously only available in another language?
But because of the work that Antelope Hill Publishing does, not only in bringing forth new works, but in bringing back to life old ones for English speaking readers, it's a great and wonderful.
Service that they provide.
Taylor had the chance to set the stage on that.
I will just reiterate much of what he already said by reading the promotional copy here just to give you a better understanding.
For generations, Operation Barbarossa has been understood as a unilateral act of German aggression, a surprise invasion driven by ideology unleashed against an unprepared Soviet Union.
But this narrative leaves critical questions unanswered and ignores a growing body of evidence pointing in another direction.
Building upon the controversial thesis first advanced by Viktor Suvorov in Icebreaker, as Taylor just mentioned, in 1989, Germany in Stalin's Crosshairs takes the argument further.
Drawing on thousands of Soviet military documents, operational plans, and archival sources, the book presents a stark and unsettling conclusion.
Since 1940 at the latest, Stalin was not preparing for defense, but for a massive Aimed at Germany and all of Western Europe.
Through a systematic examination of Red Army mobilization, forward deployment, war production, and strategic planning, the author of this original work, General Bernd Schweiper, a former East German career officer who is fluent in Russian, reveals a pattern that challenges decades of historical consensus.
What emerges is not a passive Soviet Union caught off guard, but rather a state.
Poised for war and on the verge of striking first.
AntelopePillPublishing.com is proud to present Bernd Schwiper's groundbreaking book for the first time in English.
Bold, meticulously documented, and impossible to ignore, this book is a direct challenge to the foundations of mainstream World War II historiography.
That is a compelling statement to read.
And no doubt, one that interests and excites the listeners tonight.
Taylor, I just have to thank you, just on a personal level, for bringing back works like this.
So very important, and just one of the many things that y'all are doing there.
But I could talk a little bit more about this book, and I want to share some personal anecdotes as we go into the next segment.
Yeah, certainly.
No, this is exactly the kind of thing that we're proud to be able to publish.
And this is kind of a.
A special case as well because you know, this is a more recently written historical work that's actually trying to kind of directly confront the narrative on this issue.
And so, you know, we're not just kind of bringing back something that was, you know, published in the past and that's important for people to know, but we're actually helping to, you know, make available and make people aware of this new, you know, Kind of this new dig into history.
And so that's very cool to me.
But yeah, I don't know what's the best way you want me to approach this.
I could talk a little bit about the sources of the book or the kind of general argument, or if you want to, if we have the translator available, just what you prefer.
We'll get to all of that.
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And I am looking at it, it is the top book there at the page right now in the upper left hand corner.
Picture of Adolf Hitler with crosshairs sighted on him.
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We have a special treat for everyone now as we continue to discuss this brand new, groundbreaking, for the first time ever in English, book by antelopehillpublishing.com Germany and Stalin's Acrosshairs.
We have the translator with us right now, and we're going to let Taylor Young introduce him.
He is joining us live from Germany.
Taylor, to you.
Yes, so we have with us, I believe, Hans Vogel, who's, like I mentioned on the previous segment, One of the translators of this book, and one of the people, I think it was, if I remember correctly from our email exchange, it was Hans actually who found Antelope Hill and suggested that we could be the ones to publish the book.
So, Hans, great to have you on here with us.
And if you want to, yeah, go ahead.
Thank you.
It was great, great fun to do the book.
And although I listened to a few words that you said before, And I heard that you mentioned Suvorov, the Ukrainian agent, former Soviet agent who went to Britain and who became an author and who wrote Icebreaker.
And he more or less said the same thing that Sripa has said in his book.
But he had no evidence.
And what Sripa has done, he has put together all the available evidence that Stalin was actually trying to invade Germany and Western Europe.
And so actually what Schipper's book is important for is that it sort of ends the argumentation.
It ends the debate right there.
So you cannot rewrite history of Second World War without using Schipper.
If you do that, you're a moron.
And I think many historians out there will have a very hard time accepting the fact that Schipper has unearthed all this evidence.
Ending the WWII Debate00:11:03
It's really, really very painful for the established academic historians all over the place.
But they have no choice.
Pardon?
I didn't mean to interrupt.
I thought you were concluding a point there.
I apologize for that, Hans.
And again, it's so great to have you from Germany as the translator of this book.
I mean, because it has been posited for so long.
I mean, it's an obvious question why would Germany decide to open up a two front war against a supposed ally?
Well, all the facts are laid bare here.
I mean, people have decided.
Dismissed it as, oh, well, Hitler was a maniac, Hitler was a drug addict.
I mean, you know, these reasons and opinions that don't hold up to any scrutiny with regards to his decision to go to Operation Barbarossa.
And, you know, that is a compelling turning point in all of history because before Barbarossa, you know, a victory was possible for Germany and certainly well into it.
And for people who think that the world would have been a better place if that war had turned out differently, this was certainly the pivotal point because after Barbarossa, it was just a matter of time.
And this is just, of all the battles and of all the decisions and of all the operations, I mean, this is one that people just really need to focus on with fact based material.
So, Hans, I would ask you, how labor intensive is it?
Well, I guess, you know, you're bilingual.
You speak German and English, so perhaps easier for you.
But what was the process of translating this for the English reader?
Well, basically, I'm Dutch and I learned German.
Dutch is really some sort of a dialect of German.
But.
Most people my age no longer speak German, and the younger generation doesn't at all.
Doesn't at all.
But the difficult thing about translating the book was the fact that the author is a general, a former general.
And, you know, in French they have this sort of expression for a difficult to understand language.
This is langue de bois, a wooden language.
And much of the book is in langue de bois, in a sort of very stiff, hermetic, hard to penetrate language, very wordy, very repetitive.
Not a master of style.
I think the way that most German officers would write reports, it's a military kind of language, jargon, and that made it very difficult to translate.
You had to pierce through the, to make it clear what actually has been said.
And if you were not used to German or to military jargon, military language, you cannot get into it.
That then was difficult.
You had a hard time.
As you just said, it was a hard time.
You put in a lot of work to make this happen.
And if I understand correctly from what Taylor was saying a moment ago, you were the one who approached Antelope Hill to begin with to sort of pitch this idea of making this work available for English readers and English speakers for the first time.
Why do you think that this book is so important in the current year?
Well, because as I said, it gives the final argument.
And it closes the entire debate on the issue or why Operation Barbarossa was started.
This book says it all.
And it will be impossible for historians out there to ignore this book.
And if they do, they disqualify themselves.
So that's why this book is.
And I compliment Antelope Hill for publishing it because it's very painful for the historical establishment.
This book is very unwelcome.
Hot off the press.
Yes.
Hot off the press.
Very unwelcome.
Right there at Antelope Pill.
Sorry.
Just came out.
No, no, no, no.
Please, by all means.
It just came out.
It's brand new.
Brand new at antelopepillpublishing.com.
And we have the luxury tonight and the privilege of speaking with Taylor Young, a member of the AHP editorial board, and the translator, the man who brought this book to life, actually did the work to birth it, Hans Vogel.
Taylor, I'd like to let you and Hans talk for a few minutes here.
Anything you want to discuss together here with the audience?
Yeah, so firstly, just a word on the translation as you guys were talking about.
I have not read most of the book yet, but I will say that I think Hans did a very, very good job with, again, kind of making the German military jargon very understandable and easy to read.
And the book, you know, it's a long book.
You know, if you like a lot of information, you know, if you want like a real history book, it's a great one for that.
And it's Very well organized.
There's a lot of clearly defined sections and subsections, a lot of numbers and diagrams and maps.
And so I think the organization of the book has also really played into making it a great translation, very accessible, very easy to read.
So, yeah, if I were to have a question for Hans, I suppose, you know, you're just to kind of, I guess, flesh out the idea of this book being the final argument and how, in comparison to Icebreaker, Schwipper actually has the sources here that kind of flesh out what the.
You know, industrial kind of argument was.
So we had an argument about this, but up until this book, it wasn't really well sourced.
So I don't know, could you say anything about the sources that Schweiper used for the book and again how they contribute to making it the definitive work on the topic?
Well, anything that was available in Russian, much has been published.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain.
And many things are available just in published form.
He also visited archives, but archival materials have also been published in book form.
So it wasn't really necessary to go to all the archives himself.
He did visit a lot.
But there was a lot being made available through publication.
And essentially, he still is not content with all the evidence he had.
He was looking for more, he would like to have more, had more.
But basically, what I found the most convincing is that the entire organization of the Red Army was that of an army on the verge of an attack.
Everything, like air bases, were built far into, very near the border.
And if you want to defend your borders, you built your airfields, your military airfields.
Deep behind the border to make them not better protected.
But if you put them right on the front line or very, very sort of close to the border of the neighboring country that you want to invade, that sort of information is very important.
And nobody had actually done it before.
So, this sort of thing, the entire organization of the Russian army, the Red Army, its lineup, Its structure, the allocation of funds, what the funds were spent on, this sort of thing.
Everything points to a buildup of an attack.
That's sort of unquestionable.
And that's what he did.
So you can no longer ignore this.
And Zuvorov just said that the Germans were about to be attacked by the Russians.
But he didn't have really many arguments, he didn't have proof.
And this guy has all the proof.
Well, he still thinks that he lacks some proof, but I think to me it's very convincing.
It's absolutely convincing.
It really is remarkable.
It is worth reiterating the fact that, I mean, again, a pivotal point, not just in the history of the war, but in world history, period Germany's defeat.
I mean, everything that has the domino effect of that across the West.
And for the first time in English, you know, for a shadow of a doubt about this battle, which to me is.
Or this operation going into Russia in June of 1941, the definitive reasons for it.
Germany in Stalin's Crosshairs by General Bernd Schreiber, translated for Antelope Publishing by Hans Vogel, who is with us right now.
We're going to take a break.
I'm going to talk with both Taylor and Hans in the break, and we will continue.
But get this book tonight at antelopepublishing.com.
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Okay, we are doing a comprehensive dive on this brand new release at antelopehillpublishing.com Germany and Stalin's Crosshairs by Bernd Schweiper.
And we have had one of the two translators, Hans Vogel, on with us tonight.
Taylor, one thing I want to talk to you about very quickly is the appetite for this content.
I touched on it earlier in the show this hour, but there really is a continued and voracious appetite.
For certainly people on our side in this era of history.
And I can go back and remember interviews we did, a couple of interviews we did with a Luftwaffe pilot.
And of course, you know, even after a quarter of a century on the air almost, those are two that are my most vivid memories as a radio host, being able to talk to this man about his experience in the war and then after the war.
And even more recently, I was working on a project for the Barnes Review.
Last summer, with a man who was born in Germany in 1933, which was a very interesting year in German history.
And of course, he didn't fight in the war.
He was 12 when the war ended.
But as everyone knows, some of your most vivid memories come during those childhood years.
And there's scientific and biological reasons why you commit things to memory more in those formative years than things begin to blur together later on in life because everything's just more repetitive.
But there was a time when Willis Cardo's wife, Elizabeth made a comment.
I mean, this was decades ago, I guess, but people wanting to do a book on their memories of living in Germany at the time of the war.
And, you know, going back some decades, you know, she said, I think her comment was, it wasn't dismissive, but she just said stories like that are a dime a dozen.
I mean, they were very interested in that kind of stuff, but, you know, you couldn't do a book on everybody who was alive in Germany in that time.
But now, in 2026, being able to talk to a guy who was there and has those memories, and he just told just some of the most incredible stories as a boy.
Well, I'll give you just one example, and I don't know.
I think the Barnes Review may be doing something with this.
We recorded it for his posterity, for his children.
It was an eight hour recording over the course of several days.
But on the night before the bombing of Dresden, his mom, they were fleeing the advancing Russian army, and they tried to board a train to Dresden, and they couldn't get on, and they went, ended up having to go somewhere else, and they would have died.
If they had gotten there.
So, anyway, just listening to that story, things like that, it's just, it's very interesting.
Why, Taylor, I probably took too long there setting that up, but why do you think there is such an appetite for books like this and stories like that even persisting to this day, perhaps even more so today than there were even in the years recently after the war?
Well, I think there's political reasons, obviously, and there's probably less political reasons.
I mean, history is just always interesting, and you have to.
At least I've always felt that way.
I always loved history.
And I feel like you kind of have to work hard to make history not interesting.
And that's part of the political scheme, essentially, that goes on is to make the history of Europe and of America seem less interesting than it is.
But kind of intuitively, especially if you're a young boy, you love reading about this stuff.
And especially when you have a conflict as.
Vast as World War II, and you know, so many different sides and ideas, and so you know, there's just an interest in history, and I think that that is something that just persists.
But you know, there's also an interest from a more political side in works like this and the history of World War II, and a lot of the stuff in our catalog because you know, these.
Remain relevant political issues, and these events are obviously relevant to us today.
And our whole political system is built on the back of Nuremberg and the end of the war in 1945.
And everybody kind of intuitively gets that at this point.
I think it was a little bit of a struggle to kind of get that into the Broader consciousness, but I think it's something that's much more accepted.
And so people naturally want to kind of look a little bit more closely and a little bit more critically at everything they were told and at what really happened.
You know, because again, we still live in this post war order that's very much defined by the defeat of the National Socialists, the victory of the Communists, as well as of the United States and Britain.
And yeah, and so for those reasons, I think, you know, Stuff like this is, and you know, our whole catalog generally in Antelope Hill has been doing very well, especially in kind of since very recently, like the last year and this year.
We've really been doing very well across our whole catalog, and I think that speaks to just like a general kind of political and popular consciousness about history and especially its relevance to our modern political situation.
I would be shocked.
And again, congratulations on that success and for allowing us to play a role in promoting some of these titles and the thing with Kevin McDonald last year and just everything that we talk about every time you're on all of these books.
But this one, especially this one, I just have a keen interest in.
I mean, even for trivial reasons, I was born on June 22nd.
That's my birthday, just not 1941.
But the same day as Operation Barbarossa first commenced, I mean, you wonder if they could have.
Kicked it off on May 22nd.
If that would have made all the difference in the world, it was the weather that stopped them andor at least caused them great hardship and not being able to punch through.
But it was not a foregone conclusion that they were going to not be able to sack Moscow.
I mean, they're very, very close.
This all came just very, very close.
There's so many instances like that in history.
We got disconnected from Mr. Vogel.
I wanted to ask him, though, I always like asking you these behind the scenes things.
Taylor, because they interest me.
I envision him and the other translator, Michael, just sort of living this monastic existence of toiling endlessly while they were working on this translation, because this is, to say comprehensive, perhaps wouldn't be the word.
Authoritative, maybe.
This is the book on Barbarossa and things related to it.
571 pages before you get to the index.
There is nothing.
That this book isn't going to explore related to that question and that particular operation and those battles associated with it and the lead up to it and everything else.
So, what was the timeline from the day that you first received the inquiry with the idea of doing this to today where we're promoting it and when it was published here recently?
Yeah, so we received the inquiry or the submission.
I don't remember in what stated was in at that point.
And I should also say, again, that there were, like Hans mentioned, there were two translators himself and Michael.
And Hans has a historical background.
So, you know, he's kind of, again, a subject matter expert, and they're both very good with the translation.
And it is true, like, it's a very well organized book internally, and it makes all of the information that's packed into those 500 plus pages very easy to follow along and to understand.
But, yeah, so they did the translation.
And we had to, of course, review the book on our end as we do with all the books.
So there wasn't really a whole lot of debate on this one.
We were pretty enthusiastic about it when we got it.
And so, you know, we didn't really have a problem accepting it.
Of course, we still have to do our proofreading and all that.
And sometimes you kind of have to go back and forth a little bit just to make sure everything's clear and all the information is there.
But yeah, it was a bit of a process, again, because of just the size of the book.
But I think, as far as I'm aware, it was a very smooth process to get this one out there.
And the translators were both very good to work with.
And yeah, we've been excited about this book for quite a while to be able to actually put it out.
We're going to go back to Hans in this final segment as we are doing a comprehensive discussion.
On the book that he brought back to life and brought to life for the first time for English readers, clocking in at nearly 600 pages.
We're going to walk you through some of the chapters and some of the topics that those chapters discuss with Hans.
We've been talking with Taylor Young and we'll continue to do that as well.
The book is Germany and Stalin's Crosshairs by Bernd Schweiper, and that's at antelopehillpublishing.com.
Speaking of World War II and World War II history and putting truth into accord with the facts, And all of that.
It was right around this time, some years ago, I believe it was in May, when Pat Buchanan was on the show to talk about Churchill Hitler and the unnecessary war.
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We are staggering segments this hour, alternating between Taylor Young and now again Hans Vogel, who was one of the two translators to bring this book to life.
Hans, I was just going to ask you just very quickly, and then I want to get to some of the chapters here and what parts of this book you find most compelling for a reader or things you would like to be sure to draw particular interest on.
But from the time you got the green light from Antelope Hill to proceed and move forward with this project, how long did it take you to translate?
Nearly 600 pages of German text.
Well, I think we did it.
The first translation was really very fast, a couple of months.
But we did it.
It took a long time to do editing and reviews and everything.
So to sort of wipe out or to eliminate all the doubts and little problems in the text, that's very laborious.
And we did it, I think.
And I was able to find, sort of, to correct many things that were not really good in the first, in the German edition.
So this one is actually better than the German edition.
Because sometimes the author, General Schieper, he's an older man, and I think he wrote it in several sort of moments, not in one stroke, not in one flow.
But it took years to write it, I think.
And some of the things that he, his references, were to sources that were not existent, or that were wrong page numbers, and we corrected them.
So we could find many documents online in Russia.
And since I can read Russian, it was sort of very helpful.
So we eliminated many of these little errors, typos, wrong page numbers, et cetera, et cetera.
Not to criticize the author, but there's an older man working alone as a retired general and running a camping site with his wife in northern Germany.
So, it's a lot of work.
I'm always so impressed when I talk to European guests who are multilingual and multiple, not just two, but multiple languages, as opposed to us American morons who can only speak English.
But let's talk about this book a little bit more in detail, these chapters.
I'm just going to read through them.
The strategic concentration area in the theater of war.
Yes.
Setting the course for a Red Army offensive, mobilization of the Red Army.
Continuing on, the Red Army's armored air and airborne forces in the pre war years, the switch to war production in the final pre war year, the strategic concentration and deployment of the Red Army.
And we'll keep going here, Justin.
Yes.
Go ahead.
Well, and there are others, but you get the Red Army's combat readiness at the outbreak of the war, the Red Army's operational plans in the pre war period, and it continues.
So, just to give folks an idea, and that's not even all the chapters, but just to give them an idea of what this book is going to entail, I mean, I think we've already done it, but now we're pinpointing it.
What do you think are the most important chapters?
I mean, you know, certainly read the whole book, but the most important chapters, the most compelling things that people will learn?
Well, I'm a military historian myself, sort of.
I've done a lot of military history, not the Second World War, but of earlier periods.
And I think to me the most convincing were the organization of the, as I said earlier, of the army and its deployment so close to the border with offensive units,
bombers, not fighters, but bombers, sort of fighter bombers, to support tactical movements of troops on the ground, the putting forward of Tank divisions, the construction of special railway lines to bring troops to the staging area, to the border.
That's what I found most important because that takes a long time to plan, a lot of investment in time and money.
And if you do that, it's obviously going to plan an invasion.
That's, to me, it was the most important thing.
Yes.
If anybody you mentioned being a military historian in your own right, and certainly we have many amateur historians, people who just love to read.
Content like this, you go into the training, the exercises, and the war games, and then some conclusions.
By the way, you have a say in this book as well.
There is a preface that you have written, so people will be able to hear from you too.
But, Taylor, as we were just sort of rattling off some of the elements of this book, did anything jump off the page at you?
Yeah, I would say that overall, in terms of the overall argument, I was kind of interested in the same thing that there's ways to demonstrate that not every military operation or military development is created equal.
And there's things that you do when you're planning an offensive posture versus a defensive posture.
And one of the points also made in the book is that if anything, the Red Army actually neglected, and I think Hans was saying this earlier, that neglected.
To develop defensive capabilities in many areas.
And they even had certain estimations of the potential of the Wehrmacht to attack or the potential damage that could be done by Wehrmacht attack and their resources.
And they would try to give this information to Stalin so that some attention would be given toward preparing like defensive.
Positions and defensive resources, and this was ignored.
And all the focus was put on solely developing an offensive capability.
And it's also interesting to kind of think about could there have been an alternative history where Stalin didn't decide on this, and instead there was either a Maintenance of neutrality or even like an alliance against the Western powers, especially England and the United States.
And, you know, if that could have turned out differently, but it seems like Stalin was very set on attacking Germany.
And, you know, I mean, he kind of just used the war to his advantage, at least from a geopolitical perspective.
So, the book focuses primarily on the kind of military diagnosis of the situation, but there's a lot of interesting, like, broader historical and geopolitical inferences to be drawn from it as well.
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Well, get it, folks.
Just get it at antelopeillpublishing.com.
Taylor, you know, there's never been a book that I haven't enjoyed promoting from the AHP catalog, but this one I have especially enjoyed this conversation, I can tell you, and it's Because of having this additional luxury of having one of the translators from Europe join us tonight as well in tandem with you.
And with that said, Hans, we've got about a minute before the end of the hour, and I'd like to give it to you, sir.
Final word.
Oh, well, to do this book, I enjoyed it very much.
It took a lot of time, but it was also very great to work with my friend Michael Palmer.
We had a great time doing it.
So, actually, it's all pluses for me, the book.
And especially happy that it's now in English and it's a very good version.
Very good, I think.
And it just goes to show what motivated men can do to bring something to life that no one else had done before in this language and collaborating.
I love collaborating, it's one of the things we're known for.
I love bringing people together.
I love to see other people coming together and doing things and doing projects and making things happen and creating something.
And, of course, it was Hans' vision along with his co host.
Translator Michael and Antelope Hill Publishing gave them the platform, and now we can all benefit.
So, reward this hard work that they have put into it by buying it.
This is just something that I know is going to be of great interest.
AntelopehillPublishing.com.
Taylor, we've got so much more to talk to you about in the coming months.
Always something delicious cooking in the AHP kitchen.
I'll give you a final word now as well, my friend.
Yeah.
Well, thank you as always for having both of us on.
And Letting us talk to people about this book.
And yeah, I would highly encourage people to get it.
You know, a lot of our books are historically related in one way or the other, but I personally find it particularly cool how we have occasionally books that are more of a history book in and of itself, and especially one that does original research that isn't just like a compilation of other people's thoughts or anything like that.
And this is one of the best ones of those that we have.
And again, if you're interested in the topic, you really need to, it's a must have.
So check it out, antelopehillpublishing.com.
And thank you as always, James.
Well, thank you both, gentlemen.
And be sure to get it.
Just goes to show where the minds of our people are right now.
I guess there was a half hearted assassination attempt of Trump last week.
It actually happened, Taylor, when we were live on the air.
Michael Hill was on.
I said, I'm getting the text and I'm seeing something that looks like there might have been another assassination attempt.
Michael said, Oh, yeah, I saw that.
And just continued on with his conversation on Southern nationalism.
We had.
Greg Johnson and Lydia Bremolo on earlier tonight, and I didn't even have time to even ask them about it.
Well, anyway, he survived, and I don't know what was going on there, but I know this is a lot going on in our ranks, and be a part of it, won't you?