THUNDER IN THE EAST: THE NAZI-SOVIET WAR 1941-1945

Author: Evan Mawdsley

Publisher: Hodder Arnold

Year published: 2007

Pagination: 502pp. 18 Illustrations, 11 maps, tables

Condition: Very good in card covers

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The Soviet Union's struggle with Nazi Germany played the decisive part in the Allied defeat of Hitler. Gigantic, prolonged, and bloody land battles, running continuously from 1941 to 1945, contrasted with the fighting on other fronts. The Russians largely fought on their own, with an independent strategy, and at a cost much higher than that borne by the other combatants. As for the Germans, Hitler and his high command conceived and carried out the Russian campaign as a singular 'war of annihilation'.