Title:
Russia's war / Richard Overy.
Author:
Overy, R. J.
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 1998.
Call Number:
D764 .O94 1998
Abstract:
Using previously unavailable information from the former KGB and presidential archives, provides an overview of Russia's critical role in World War II and Hitler's defeat.
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ISBN:
9780140271690
Physical Description:
xxi, 394 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
General Note:
"First published in the United States of America by TV Books, Inc., 1997"--Title page verso.
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Contents:
The darkness descends: 1917-1937 -- The hour before midnight: 1937-1941 -- The Goths ride east: Barbarossa, 1941 -- Between life and death: Leningrad and Moscow -- The fight from within: collaboration, terror and resistance -- The cauldron boils: Stalingrad, 1942-43 -- The citadel: Kursk, 1943 -- False dawn: 1943-44 -- Fall of the swastika: 1945 -- The cult of personality: Stalin and the legacy of war.
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