Hitler's Forgotten Ally

This book is the first complete study, in English, of Antonescu's part in the Second World War. Ion Antonescu was Romania's ruler from September 1940 to August 1944 and a major ally of Hitler. Romania fielded the third largest Axis army of the war, joined the Tripartite Pact in November 1940 as a sovereign state, participated in the attack on the Soviet Union of 22 June 1941 as an equal partner of Germany, and was never occupied by the Wehrmacht.