TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellamy,Chris
TI  - Absolute war: Soviet Russia in the Second World War 
SN  - 9780375410864 (alk. paper)
AV  - D764 .B2828 2007
U1  - 940.53/47 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - German occupation, 1941-1944
N1  - 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
ER  -