Absolute war : Soviet Russia in the Second World War /
Bellamy, Chris.
Absolute war : Soviet Russia in the Second World War / Soviet Russia in the Second World War Chris Bellamy. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. - xxix, 813 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-788) and index.
Flight of the rabid wolf: the long-term impact of the war in the east -- Absolute and total war -- 'A cruel romance': the Nazi-Soviet alliance and Soviet expansion, August to November 1939 -- Further Soviet expansion and cooperation with Germany, November 1939 to June 1941 -- Who planned to attack whom, and how? -- The war's worst-kept secret -- Iron road east: the country, the forces -- Barbarossa unleashed, and the battles of the frontiers -- Kremlin at war -- Winning oneself to death -- Midnight in Moscow -- Black snow -- White night: Leningrad, September 1941 to February 1944 -- The 'Grand Alliance' -- To the edge of the abyss: the worst year - 1942 -- From defence to attack: the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Mars -- Kursk, and a new professionalism -- Destroying the Wehrmacht. Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic: reasserting Soviet control -- Victory -- New world order.
9780375410864 (alk. paper) 0375410864 (alk. paper)
2007028309
World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
D764 / .B2828 2007
940.53/47
Absolute war : Soviet Russia in the Second World War / Soviet Russia in the Second World War Chris Bellamy. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. - xxix, 813 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-788) and index.
Flight of the rabid wolf: the long-term impact of the war in the east -- Absolute and total war -- 'A cruel romance': the Nazi-Soviet alliance and Soviet expansion, August to November 1939 -- Further Soviet expansion and cooperation with Germany, November 1939 to June 1941 -- Who planned to attack whom, and how? -- The war's worst-kept secret -- Iron road east: the country, the forces -- Barbarossa unleashed, and the battles of the frontiers -- Kremlin at war -- Winning oneself to death -- Midnight in Moscow -- Black snow -- White night: Leningrad, September 1941 to February 1944 -- The 'Grand Alliance' -- To the edge of the abyss: the worst year - 1942 -- From defence to attack: the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Mars -- Kursk, and a new professionalism -- Destroying the Wehrmacht. Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic: reasserting Soviet control -- Victory -- New world order.
9780375410864 (alk. paper) 0375410864 (alk. paper)
2007028309
World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
D764 / .B2828 2007
940.53/47