Russia's War

Author: R.J. Overy

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Price : $28.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780140271690
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
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Publication date : 29 July 1999
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Presents an account of the greatest military encounter in human history. This title describes the events of 1941-45 in which the Soviet Union, after initial catastrophes, destroyed Hitler's Third Reich and shaped European history for the next half Century.

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Richard Overy is Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. He is also the author of "The Road to War".

The darkness descends - 1917-1937; the hour before midnight -1937-1941; the goths ride east - Barbarossa, 1941; between life and death - Leningrad and Moscow; the fight from within -collaboration, terror and resistance; the cauldron boils -Stalingrad, 1942-43; the citadel - Kursk, 1943; false dawn - 1943-44; fall of the swastika - 1945; the cult of personality - Stalin and the legacy of war; epilogue - Russia's war - myth and reality.

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