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Absolute war : Soviet Russia in the Second World War / Chris Bellamy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellamy, Chris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Soviet Union.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 813 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Other Title:
- Soviet Russia in the Second World War
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
- Summary:
- Drawing on sources newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union, historian and journalist Bellamy gives readers a comprehensive account of the decisive battles on the Eastern Front during World War II. Illustrated.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-788) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780375410864
- 0375410864
- OCLC:
- 154678367
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