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

by Overy, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780140271690
• ISBN10: 0140271694
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101503188
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary

RUSSIA'S WAR is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history. In a vivid, often shocking narrative, Richard Overy describes the astounding events of 1941-45 in which the Soviet Union, after initial catastrophes, destroyed Hitler's Third Reich and shaped European history for the next half Century.

Author Biography

Richard Overy is Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. He has written extensively on modern German and European history, and is the author of Russia's War and The Penguin Atlas of the Third Reich.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii	(2)
List of Maps and Tables	ix	(2)
Preface	xi	(2)
Introduction	xiii
1 The Darkness Descends: 1917-1937	1	(33)
2 The Hour Before Midnight: 1937-1941	34	(39)
3 The Goths Ride East: Barbarossa, 1941	73	(26)
4 Between Life and Death: Leningrad and Moscow	99	(26)
5 The Fight from Within: Collaboration, Terror and Resistance	125	(29)
6 The Cauldron Boils: Stalingrad, 1942-43	154	(32)
7 The Citadel: Kursk, 1943	186	(37)
8 False Dawn: 1943-44	223	(32)
9 Fall of the Swastika: 1945	255	(35)
10 The Cult of Personality: Stalin and the Legacy of War	290	(33)
Epilogue: Russia's War: Myth and Reality	323	(8)
References	331	(37)
Bibliography	368	(17)
Index	385