RUSSIA'S WAR is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history. In a vivid, often shocking narrative, Richard Overy describes the astounding events of 1941-45 in which the Soviet Union, after initial catastrophes, destroyed Hitler's Third Reich and shaped European history for the next half Century.
By:
Richard Overy
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 310g
ISBN: 9780140271690
ISBN 10: 0140271694
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 29 July 1999
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
The darkness descends - 1917-1937; the hour before midnight -1937-1941; the goths ride east - Barbarossa, 1941; between life and death - Leningrad and Moscow; the fight from within -collaboration, terror and resistance; the cauldron boils -Stalingrad, 1942-43; the citadel - Kursk, 1943; false dawn - 1943-44; fall of the swastika - 1945; the cult of personality - Stalin and the legacy of war; epilogue - Russia's war - myth and reality.
Richard Overy is Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. He is also the author of The Road to War .
Reviews for Russia's War
This turns the long-received Stalinist myths about how the war between Stalin and Hitler was fought on its head. It establishes that Stalin, after a catastrophic start, handed the conduct of operations over to the generals, Zhukov above all. It also explains how very much harsher the war in the east was than anything the British, or still less the Americans, had to go through. A most admirable book that makes an excellent foil to Beevor's bestselling Stalingrad for it puts the titanic struggle in its full strategic context. (Kirkus UK)