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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... April 1944, and (inset) the Crimea, 8 April to 12 May 1944. 18.3 Operation 'Ragratiorf - the Belorussian Offensive Operation, 23 fune to 29 August 1944 and Soviet deception plan. 18.4 Outline ol major Russian offensive operations, 1943 ...
... April 1944 the Foreign Office assessed, rightly, that the Soviet Union would emerge from the war 'as the strongest land power in the world and one of the three strongest air powers'. But, even more importantly, it would be 'the very ...
... April 1943. Zinaida Fytkina, formerly a woman officer in Sttiersh, interviewed for a television documentary in 1999, told how she had shot a young German major whose interrogation had heen completed. A grave had been dug outside the ...
... April 1922 the victorious Allies called a conference at Rapallo, Italy, to discuss economic and political collaboration between all nations, including Germany, defeated in 1918, and the newly formed Union of four Soviet republics. The ...
... April, he reportedly told the commander-in-chief of the Lithuanian armed forces that Britain was about to suffer a diplomatic and political defeat 'such as she had never before experienced in her history'.29 This could well have been a ...