The Red Army and the Second World War / Alexander Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Alexander, 1974- author.

Series:

Armies of the Second World War (Cambridge (England))

Armies of the Second World War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡--History--World War, 1939-1945.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.

World War, 1939-1945.

Military campaigns.

Local Subjects:

Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi͡anskai͡a Krasnai͡a Armii͡.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 738 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.

Contents:

Introduction

Of Horses and Men: The Red Army of the Late 1920s

Tanks, Aircraft and 'Deep Battle': The Red Army Transformed 1928-1936

The 'Enemy' within: The Red Army during and in the Aftermath of the Great Purges, 1937-1940

More than Manoueuvres: Red Army Experience in Spain and at Lake Khasan

Khalkin Gol

Keeping up with the Schmidts and the Suzukis: Soviet Military Equipment and the Small Wars of the 1930s

Voroshilov's 'Lightning' War: The Soviet Invasion of Poland

The Finnish Debacle

Reform and the Road to War

'Barbarossa': From Minsk to Smolensk

'Barbarossa': From Smolensk to Moscow

The End of 'Typhoon'

Lost Opportunity

More Men, Women and Machines

"Not a step back!"

Change at the Top

Stalingrad and 'Uranus'

The Wrath of the Gods

The Defence of the Kursk Salient and the Battle for Prokhorovka

To the Dnepr and Beyond

The Ten 'Stalinist' Blows of 1944

The End in Sight

The Fall of Berlin and the End of the Reich

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107020795

1107020794

9781107688155

1107688159

OCLC:

944957747