This is the story of Germany's war on the Eastern Front during World War II as seen through the eyes of the war's most decorated combatant, Hans Ulrich Rudel. An accurate historical account of this war, this book adds novel-like and realistic dialogue and personal information, accountings virtually never found in even the best historical accounts. Rudel's account from the skies and on the ground details the life of combatants during this brutal conflict and does much to demonstrate why the German military came to be defeated.