About the book: 2000 / Professor A.V. Torkunov’s book is dedicated to the military conflict of the mid-20th century, the causes and course of which took a long time time remained truly mysterious. It was only in the 1990s that the opportunity for an impartial study of the history of the conflict arose. The author studied in detail top-secret and previously closed documentation from Soviet archives, presented not only a detailed and in-depth analysis of them, but also carried out the first publication of the most significant documents.