What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300119817)

This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stalin's thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder. "If, after the war, the Soviet Union had somehow been capable of producing an official inquiry into the catastrophe of 6/22-comparable in its mandate to the 9/11 commission here-its report might have read a little like [this book]. . . . Murphy brings to his subject both knowledge of Russian history and an insider's grasp of how intelligence is gathered, analyzed and used-or not."-Niall Ferguson, New York Times Book Review "A fascinating and meticulously researched account of mistaken assumptions and errors of judgment that culminated in Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941. Never before has this fateful period been so fully documented."-Henry A. Kissinger

Author: David E. Murphy
ISBN-10: 030011981X
ISBN-13: 9780300119817
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.62h x 6.08w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/14/2007 pg. 24