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Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris Bellamy: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2008-01-17
- Pages
- 813
- ISBN
- 9780375410864
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375410864
ISBN-13
9780375410864
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59069268
Product Key Features
Book Title
Absolute War : Soviet Russia in the Second World War
Number of Pages
848 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Military / World War II, International Relations / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
44.8 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-028309
Reviews
"Sobering. . . . A global view presented with remarkable clarity." -The Boston Globe "Probably the best account of the Eastern Front we shall see until President Putin relaxes his newly imposed restrictions on foreign access to the files. . . . Bellamy has made a tremendous contribution to the record of Russia's struggle, for which future historians will owe a debt." -The Sunday Times(London) "Bellamy's treatment is authoritative, his judgments thorough and exacting, and his prose robust." -TheDaily Telegraph(London) From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
940.53/47
Synopsis
The battle on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 was arguably the single most decisive factor of World War II, fixing the course of world history over the next half century. Now, drawing on sources newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany, historian and journalist Chris Bellamy presents the first full account of this deadly conflict. Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the warin which the fragile alliance between Hitler and Stalin was unceremoniously brokenand takes us headlong into the hostilities. He presents a shocking picture of battle in which the traditional restraints of "civilized" warfare were shed. He makes clear how the Soviets quickly rallied against Hitler, choosing homegrown despotism over foreign domination in a struggle that the Russian people call the Great Patriotic War. Bellamy charts the early gains of the German army, whose advances into Soviet territory were brought to a halt in Moscow in the winter of 1941, and whose defeat was sealed in the Battle of Stalingrad, the most merciless campaign of the bloodiest front. He shows how Soviet menand womenjoined to fight a war whose casualties were later steeply underestimated by their government, and how even the true death toll, at 27 million, does not take into account the millions of lives on both sides that lay shattered in the aftermath. Finally, Bellamy examines the far-reaching consequences of the battle's outcomethe reverberations of which are still felt todayand argues that the cost of victory was ultimately too much for the Soviet Union to bear. A magisterial study, and an essential addition to our understanding of contemporary world history.
LC Classification Number
D764
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