On June 24, 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte and his Grande Armée crossed the Neman River beginning what was soon to be a fateful — if not cataclysmic — invasion of Russia. Almost 129 years to the day, Germany began its own campaign into the Motherland, finding, like so many others before it, that the road to Moscow was, and almost always is, paved with frostbite, starvation and skulls. Both sides fought with a “ demonic fury ,”according to The National WWII Museum , that resulted in the death of over 2 million German soldiers and over 24 million Soviet soldiers and...