V knige na bol'shom istoricheskom materiale issleduetsya motivatsiya prinyatiya Iosifom Stalinym vazhneyshikh resheniy v oblasti voennoy politiki SSSR v 1937-1945 godakh. Voennaya politika Stalina analiziruetsya kak al'ternativa voennoy strategii Adol'fa Gitlera, ego general'nogo shtaba, blizhayshego okruzheniya.Provoditsya sravnenie teoreticheskogo obosnovaniya i prakticheskoy realizatsii voennoy strategii Stalina i Gitlera, issleduyutsya faktory, povliyavshie na prinyatie imi voenno-politicheskikh resheniy. Rassmatrivayutsya problemy, voznikavshie vo vzaimodeystvii fashistskoy Germanii i ee soyuznikov, a takzhe Stalina s liderami stran antigitlerovskoy koalitsii.