On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched a massive three-pronged attack on the Soviet Union, and in days his troops were within reach of Moscow. The attack was stunning, but Stalin's response was even more astonishing: during the invasion, the mighty Soviet military stood in place while its soldiers were slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands. The Red Army's effort to regain the territory lost in those first ten days cost more than ten million Soviet lives. Drawing on a wealth of newly available documents, the Russian historian Constantine Pleshakov paints a startling portrait of Stalin, one of history's most feared despots, as a vulnerable and paralyzed leader. A fascinating hour-by-hour account, Stalin's Folly illuminates an enigmatic and ruthless figure while providing a new and far deeper understanding of Russian history.

康斯坦丁·普列沙科夫(Constantine Pleshakov)，曆史學傢和暢銷書作傢，重點研究二戰史和俄國史。近年來，作者充分利用大量解密的蘇聯檔案和資料，對蘇聯曆史問題作瞭深入的研究，著有《沙皇的最後一支艦隊》《斯大林的失誤：蘇德戰爭前十天的悲劇》《羅曼諾夫王朝的覆滅：一個傢族的曆史》《剋裏姆林宮的冷戰：從斯大林到赫魯曉夫》等。作品齣版後，頗受讀者歡迎。且被譯成中文、法文等多種文字。