Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Overy, Richard

Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140271690)

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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Overy, Richard

Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945

$20.00
Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Overy, Richard

Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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"A penetrating and compassionate book on the most gigantic military struggle in world history."--The New York Times Book Review

"An extraordinary tale... Overy's engrossing book provides extensive details of teh slaughter, brutality, bitterness and destruction on the massive front from the White Sea to the flank of Asia."--Chicago Tribune

The Russian war effort to defeat invading Axis powers, an effort that assembled the largest military force in recorded history and that cost the lives of more than 25 million Soviet soldiers and civilians, was the decisive factor for securing an Allied victory. Now with access to the wealth of film archives and interview material from Russia used to produce the ten-hour television documentary Russia's War, Richard Overy tackles the many persuasive questions surrounding this conflict. Was Stalin a military genius? Was the defense of Mother Russia a product of something greater than numbers of tanks and planes--of something deep within the Russian soul?

Author: Richard Overy
ISBN-10: 0140271694
ISBN-13: 9780140271690
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1998
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.73h x 5.10w x 0.83d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/27/1998 pg. 32
By Richard Overy
By Richard Overy
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Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and one of Britain's most distinguished historians and an internationally renowned scholar of World War II. He is the recipient of the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize and is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. His many works include Blood and Ruins, The Bombing War, Dictators and The Morbid Age.

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