Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World WarKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008/11/26 - 880 ページ In Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history. The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war, and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the two dictators was unceremoniously broken, and examines its far-reaching consequences, arguing that the cost of victory was ultimately too much for the Soviet Union to bear. With breadth of scope and a surfeit of new information, this is the definitive history of a conflict whose reverberations are still felt today. |
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... Beria, People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, head of the NKVD and NKGB and member of the State Defence Council. (GKO) 9 Aleksandra Kollontai, writer and Soviet ambassador to Sweden. 10 Timoshenko (left) and Zhukov {right) on pre-war ...
... Beria, rather than Beriya; Konicv rather than Konev or Konyev. Place names are challenging, too. The frontier changes ot twentieth- century history, ending with the break-up of the Soviet Union into fifteen independent states at the end ...
... Beria, the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, had ordered exercises involving NKVD personnel and border guards in the Ukrainian and Belorussian Republics to begin the following evening. Some 50 Ukrainian NKVD agents and 150 ...
... Beria issued orders for NKVD operations in the 'liberated regions of the western districts of Ukraine and Belarus1 on 1 5 September, two days before the Soviet forces, initially the army, moved in,58 Now referred to, less ...
... Beria's intent. There were several thousand prisoners, and it soon emerged that the Red Army, having captured the prison, had smashed it up, let all the prisoners go and destroyed a lot of the documents. Some of the escaped prisoners ...