Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War - Softcover

Bellamy, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375724710 ISBN 13: 9780375724718

Publisher: Vintage, 2008

Synopsis

In Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history.

The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945, was the greatest, most costly, and most brutal conflict on land in human history. It was arguably the single most decisive factor of the war, and shaped the postwar world as we know it. In this magisterial work, Bellamy outlines the lead-up to the war, in which the fragile alliance between the two dictators was unceremoniously broken, and examines its far-reaching consequences, arguing that the cost of victory was ultimately too much for the Soviet Union to bear. With breadth of scope and a surfeit of new information, this is the definitive history of a conflict whose reverberations are still felt today.

About this title

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Unusual book

Review:

"Sobering. . . . A global view presented with remarkable clarity."
--The Boston Globe

"Probably the best account of the Eastern Front we shall see until President Putin relaxes his newly imposed restrictions on foreign access to the files. . . . Bellamy has made a tremendous contribution to the record of Russia's struggle, for which future historians will owe a debt."
--The Sunday Times (London)

"Bellamy's treatment is authoritative, his judgments thorough and exacting, and his prose robust."
--The Daily Telegraph (London)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0375724710
• ISBN 13: 9780375724718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 880