Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945 - Brossura

Mawdsley, Evan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340613920 ISBN 13: 9780340613924

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2007

Riassunto

The battles in Russia played the decisive part in Hitler's defeat. Gigantic, prolonged, and bloody, they contrasted with the general nature of the fighting on other fronts. The Russians fought on their own in "their" theater of war and with an indepedent strategy. Stalinist Russia was a country radically different from its liberal democratic allies. Hitler and the German high command, for their part, conceived and carried out the Russian campaign as a singular "war of annihilation."

This riveting new book is a penetrating, broad-ranging, yet concise overview of this vast conflict. It investigates the Wehrmacht and the Red Army and the command and production systems that organized and sustained them. It considers a range of further themes concerning this most political of wars. Benefiting from a post-Communist, post-Cold War perspective, the book takes advantage of a wealth of new studies and source material that have become available over the last decade.

Readers from history buffs to scholars will find something new in this exciting new book.

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Recensione:

"Mawdsley is a Russian specialist, and much of his research is based on thousands of documents from the Soviet military archives published in the 1990s. These enable him, first, to avoid overreliance on self-serving Soviet military memoirs; second to provide an in-depth analysis of the Red Army's development into a highly effective military machine; and, third, to illuminate many neglected phases and episodes of the military campaign."

--Geoffrey Roberts, THES 20061124

'This is exceptionally precise and judicious work, now the authoritative general history...'

--The Atlantic 20061124

'This is a substantial contribution to the literature on the Soviet-German war...Mawdsley knows the material intimately. This is a high-class offering.'

--Robert Service, University of Oxford

L'autore:

Evan Mawdsley is Professor of International History at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0340613920
• ISBN 13: 9780340613924
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 502