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100 1 $aBellamy, Chris.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85219578
245 10 $aAbsolute war :$bSoviet Russia in the Second World War /$cChris Bellamy.
246 10 $aSoviet Russia in the Second World War
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2007.
300 $axxix, 813 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 689-788) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tFlight of the rabid wolf: the long-term impact of the war in the East --$g2.$tAbsolute and total war --$g3.$t'A cruel romance': the Nazi-Soviet alliance and Soviet expansion, August to November 1939 --$g4.$tFurther Soviet expansion and cooperation with Germany, November 1939 to June 1941 --$g5.$tWho planned to attack whom, and how? --$g6.$tThe war's worst-kept secret --$g7.$tIron road east: the country, the forces --$g8.$tBarbarossa unleashed, and the battles of the frontiers --$g9.$tKremlin at war --$g10.$tWinning oneself to death --$g11.$tMidnight in Moscow --$g12.$tBlack snow --$g13.$tWhite night: Leningrad, September 1941 to February 1944 --$g14.$tThe 'Grand Alliance' --$g15.$tTo the edge of the abyss: the worst year - 1942 --$g16.$tFrom defence to attack: the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Mars --$g17.$tKursk, and a new professionalism --$g18.$tDestroying the Wehrmacht. Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic: reasserting Soviet control --$g19.$tVictory --$g20.$tNew world order.
520 1 $a"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 war - in which the fragile alliance between Hitler and Stalin was unceremoniously broken - and 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 men - and women - joined 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 outcome - the reverberations of which are still felt today - and argues that the cost of victory was ultimately too much for the Soviet Union to bear."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zSoviet Union.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$yGerman occupation, 1941-1944.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125816
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