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Absolute war : Soviet Russia in the Second World War
Published 2007. by Alfred A. Knopf, New York
ISBN 9780375410864
Bib Id 1167271
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description xxix, 813 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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02092cam a2200349Ia 4500
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2007-28309
ISBN
0375410864 (hbk.) : $40.00
9780375410864
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940.5347 B
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Absolute war : Soviet Russia in the Second World War
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Soviet Russia in the Second World War
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
xxix, 813 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Note
Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-788) and index.
Contents
Flight of the rabid wolf: the long-term impact of the war in the east -- Absolute and total war -- 'A cruel romance': the Nazi-Soviet alliance and Soviet expansion, August to November 1939 -- Further Soviet expansion and cooperation with Germany, November 1939 to June 1941 -- Who planned to attack whom, and how? -- The war's worst-kept secret -- Iron road east: the country, the forces -- Barbarossa unleashed, and the battles of the frontiers -- Kremlin at war -- Winning oneself to death -- Midnight in Moscow -- Black snow -- White night: Leningrad, September 1941 to February 1944 -- The 'Grand Alliance' -- To the edge of the abyss: the worst year - 1942 -- From defence to attack: the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Mars -- Kursk, and a new professionalism -- Destroying the Wehrmacht. Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic: reasserting Soviet control -- Victory -- New world order.
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