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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... Timoshenko (left) and Zhukov {right) on pre-war manoeuvres. (Rodina) 11 Russian soldier taken prisoner in the frontier battles, 1941, (BA-MA Koblenz ) 12 Bewildered Soviet soldiers surrender 1941. (BA-MA Koblenz) 13 The moral and ...
... Timoshenko, and Army Commander Second Rank Kovalev, commanding the Belorussian, to form front (army group) commands, a higher formation introduced by the Imperial Russian Army in the First World War. (In passing, it is easy to see why ...
... Timoshenko, commanding the Ukrainian Front, they had come over to the Red Army voluntarily, and should be treated as friends. But the Soviet press and NKVD reasoned that if there was no longer a Polish state, they were no longer ...
... Timoshenko, who had directed the Ukrainian front into Poland. The new front, unlike a combined-arms army, was responsible not just for coordinating infantry, tanks, artillery, engineers and other forces, but for coordinating the ...
... Timoshenko's view that what really worked was a 'wall of fire'. 'In previous years', Stalin said, 'we paid too much attention to ostentatious manoeuvres,' an allusion to the grand 1935 and 1936 summer manoeuvres, which attracted much ...