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Table of Contents:

• An unholy alliance
• The coming storm
• The German attack
• The first days of war
• Blitzkrieg
• Moscow
• The first fall guys
• The German advance
• Moscow counterattack
• Bitter spring
• Stalingrad
• Spring 1943
• The battle of Kursk
• From Kursk to Teheran
• Russia enters Eastern Europe
• Rumania
• Bulgarian adventure
• Spheres of influence
• Central Europe
• On to Berlin

• Twin juggernauts
• The race for Berlin
• The high cost of the Seelow Heights
• The bear's embrace
• Chinks in the alliance
• The iron curtain
• Stalin's death and the death of Stalinism.

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Author/Creator:

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Stalin's war: tragedy and triumph, 1941-1945 [by Hoyt, E.P.]

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 — Soviet Union

World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Eastern Front

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 — Military leadership

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953

World War (1939-1945)

1939-1945

Command of troops

Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945))

Soviet Union

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-284) and index.

Physical Description:

viii, 292 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

D764 .H697 2003

ISBNs:

0815410328 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2002013410

OCLC Numbers:

50476682