[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Fighting the Soviet Union was inevitable.
[/ QUOTE ]
No, it wasn't. Or, at least, it shouldn't have been. Why re-stage the Napoleonic catastrophy?
[/ QUOTE ]
You need to study the war a little more deeply and understand the idea of Lebensraum. All of the Western European campaign was just to clear the decks to fight the Soviet Union and claim Lebensraum. The fact that Germany didn't finish the job meant that the Russian campaign was probably doomed from the start, but nearly succeeded anyway.
Still the definitive single-volume book on WWII:
Any serious student of the war needs to read this book, or you aren't a serious student. Not an easy read, it's a very dense 920 pages plus another 250 pages of bibliography, endnotes and index, it looks at the war from a strategic level and contains a lot of new research.