The Red Army and the Second World War / Alexander Hill, University of Calgary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Alexander, 1974- author.

Series:

Armies of the Second World War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡--History--World War, 1939-1945.

Soviet Union.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 738 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : 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:

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-71871-9

1-316-72231-7

1-316-72291-0

1-139-10778-X

1-316-72351-8

1-316-72591-X

1-316-72411-5