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Absolute War - Soviet Russia in the Second World War

By: Vintage Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical & Reference Books (Vintage Books)

Last Stocked on 4/30/2020

Product Info

Title
Absolute War - Soviet Russia in the Second World War
Publisher
Category
Author
Christopher Bellamy
Publish Year
2008
Pages
880
Dimensions
5.25x8x2"
NKG Part #
2147569678
Type
Softcover

Description

In Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history.

The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war, and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the two dictators was unceremoniously broken, and examines its far-reaching consequences, arguing that the cost of victory was ultimately too much for the Soviet Union to bear. With breadth of scope and a surfeit of new information, this is the definitive history of a conflict whose reverberations are still felt today.