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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... Hitler, 5 December 1940. 5.4 Final plan, Hitler's Directive No. 21, Case Barbarossa, 18 December 1940. 7.1 The Eurasian 'funnel' and other key geo- strategic features. 7.2 Range of Soviet and German aircraft, 1941. 8.1 German and Soviet ...
... Hitler, Stalin and Churchill - naturally also attract attention. However, such an approach has its limitations. Focusing on the Red Army, for example, excludes even more of the picture than would an account of the German side from the ...
... Hitler's delusions were compounded by a perverted and superstitious logic. With so many Aryans being killed on the eastern front, extermination of the Jews and other 'undesirables' had to be stepped up to balance the books. The Red Army ...
... Hitler needed the natural resources, manpower and living space of the Soviet Union to secure Germany's position as a world power. But Nazism had also grown as a response to the perceived threat from communism, and that conflict, too ...
... Hitler's unwise insistence that Sixth Army should continue chewing their way into Stalingrad as the Soviet command remorselessly built up forces for the counter-attacking pincer movement, which they sprung on Absolute and total war.